Author: Miroslav Tůma

​ Jennifer Scott is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Reading and an Individual Merit Research Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. She is a SIAM Fellow and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She is the author of many widely used sparse matrix packages that are available as part of the HSL Mathematical Software Library. Miroslav Tuma is a Professor and Head of the Department of Numerical Mathematics at Charles University and was formerly a Professor at the Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His research has included important contributions to the development of algebraic preconditioners for iterative solvers. He was the recipient of a SIAM outstanding paper prize for his work on sparse approximate inverse preconditioners.