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Lois Curfman McInnes is a Computational Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory. She received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1993. Her research focuses on numerical algorithms and software for the parallel solution of large-scale scientific applications involving nonlinear partial differential equations and related optimization problems. In particular, she develops such software tools within the PETSc and TAO libraries.

McInnes is a member of the Common Component Architecture (CCA) Forum and the Center for Technology for Advanced Scientific Component Software (TASCS), which are developing a component architecture for high-performance scientific computing. She is a member of the Towards Optimal Petascale Simulations (TOPS), Framework Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulations (FACETS), and Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation (COMPASS) projects funded by the Department of Energy’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC), and she coordinates the ‘Components Technology Initiatives’ thrust within the TASCS center.

Research Interests

• Parallel numerical software tools and interoperablity issues
• Numerical methods for nonlinear PDEs
• Scientific applications involving PDEs, including fusion and accelerator modeling

Address

Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439-4844

Phone: 630-252-5170

Email: curfman@mcs.anl.gov