Dianne Prost O'Leary (born 1951) is an American

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and

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whose research concerns

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, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing. She is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Computer Science at the

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,Curriculum vitae
accessed 2016-06-19. and is the author of the book ''Scientific Computing with Case Studies'' (SIAM, 2009).

Early life and education

O'Leary was born November 20, 1951, in

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. She majored in

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, graduating in 1972, and completed her Ph.D. in

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in 1976. Her dissertation, ''Hybrid Conjugate Gradient Algorithms'', was supervised by Gene H. Golub.

Career

After taking an assistant professorship in mathematics at the

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, she moved to Maryland in 1978, with a joint appointment in computer science and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. She also became affiliated with Maryland's applied mathematics program in 1979, and became a member of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies in 1985. She became Distinguished University Professor in 2014, the same year that she retired. From 2009 to 2015 she was editor in chief of the ''

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''.

Recognition

The

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gave O'Leary an honorary doctorate in 2005. She was named a

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in 2006, "for mentoring activities and contributions to numerical algorithms", and became one of the inaugural Fellows of the

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(SIAM) in 2009. In 2008 she was the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer of SIAM and the

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.Diane O'Leary and Rebecca Golden Will Give Key Lectures at Summer Meetings

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, June 6, 2008, accessed 2016-06-19.

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