Lois Virginia Curfman McInnes is an American applied mathematician who works as a senior computational scientist at

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, where she works on the numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications.

Education and career

McInnes graduated in 1988 from

Muhlenberg College Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Muhlenberg, the German patriarch of Luthera ...

, with a double major in mathematics and physics. She completed her doctorate in applied mathematics in 1993 at the

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; her dissertation, ''Solution of Convective-Diffusive Flow Problems with Newton-Like Methods'', was supervised by James McDonough Ortega. She was chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering for 2015–2016. In 2021, she will join the

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council as a Member-at-Large. In 2022, she was elected Chair of the

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Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAM SIAG/SC).

Recognition

She won the

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of the DOE

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in 2011. She and her co-developers of the

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were also honored in 2015 with the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering. She was elected as a fellow of the

(SIAM) in 2017, "for contributions to scalable numerical algorithms and software libraries for solving large-scale scientific and engineering problems".

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