Margaret H. Wright

Margaret H. Wright ( born February 18, 1944 in Hanford ( California)) is an American mathematician. It dealt with optimization, scientific computing (Scientific Computing) and numerical linear algebra.

Wright grew up in Hanford and Tucson and studied computer science at Stanford University. She did her doctorate in 1976 after several years as a programmer at GTE Sylvania with the dissertation Numerical methods for nonlinearly constrained optimization. Your doctor father was Gene H. Golub. After that, she did research on optimization over Stanford in the Systems Optimization Laboratory, Department of Operations Research before she went to Bell Laboratories in 1988, where she was finally in 1993 Distinguished Members and 1997 Bell Lab Fellow. 1997 to 2001 she headed the research in scientific computing. In 2001 she became a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

1995 to 1996 she was president of SIAM. In 1997, she was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, 2001, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2005 to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2002 she received the Award for Distinguished Public Service from the American Mathematical Society, Fellow whose it is. 1994-1998 she was on the Advisory Board for Mathematics and Physics of the National Science Foundation, which in 1997/98 as director. It is in the scientific council of the MSRI. She is the editor of the SIAM Review and co-editor of several other SIAM journals. In 2000, she held the Noether Lecture.

Writings

• Philip E. Gill, Walter Murray: Practical Optimization, Academic Press 1982
• Same: Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, Volume 1, Addison -Wesley 1990
• The interior -point revolution in optimization: history, recent developments, and lasting Consequences, Bulletin AMS, Volume 42, 2005, pp. 39-56