Daniel B. Szyld (born 1955 in

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) is an

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and

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who is a professor at

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in Philadelphia. He has made contributions to numerical and applied linear algebra as well as matrix theory.

Education

He was admitted without an undergraduate degree to the graduate school at

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,https://secureservercdn.net/72.167.241.46/31g.343.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/IMAGE/image61.pdf where he defended his PhD in 1983. While there, he worked as a research assistant for Wassily Leontief.

International awards and appointments

He was named as a

SIAM Fellow The SIAM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognizes outstanding members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The goal of the program is to: *honor SIAM members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished ...

and as a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

in 2017. In 2020, he was elected president of the

International Linear Algebra Society The International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) is a professional mathematical society organized to promote research and education in linear algebra, matrix theory and matrix computation. It serves the international community through conferences, ...

. He was

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for the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis from 2005 to 2013 and

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications The ''SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications'' (until 1989: ''SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods'') is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering matrix analysis and its applications. The relevant applications include signal ...

from 2015 to 2020 and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the

Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra The ''Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra'' is a peer-reviewed platinum open access scientific journal covering matrix analysis and linear algebra, together with their applications. It is published by the International Linear Algebra Society an ...

(ELA), the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA), Linear Algebra and its Applications,

Mathematics of Computation ''Mathematics of Computation'' is a bimonthly mathematics journal focused on computational mathematics. It was established in 1943 as ''Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation'', obtaining its current name in 1960. Articles older than fi ...

, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, and Journal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory. A conference in honor of his 65th birthday was held in 2022

Books and edited proceedings

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Selected papers

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References

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