Mary Wheeler
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Mary Fanett Wheeler is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

, noted for her work on numerical methods for partial differential equations, including domain decomposition method
Domain decomposition method
In mathematics, the additive Schwarz method, named after Hermann Schwarz, solves a boundary value problem for a partial differential equation approximately by splitting it into boundary value problems on smaller domains and adding the results.- Overview :...

s. She worked at the Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

 and she is currently the director of the Center for Subsurface Modeling at the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

's Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences was created at the University of Texas at Austin to provide the infrastructure and intellectual leadership for strong interdisciplinary programs in computational engineering and sciences....

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External links

  • http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=120
  • http://www.siam.org/prizes/archived.php?id=1571
  • http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRiddle/women/mwheeler.htm
  • http://www.crpc.rice.edu/newsletters/jan94/pp.wheeler.html
  • Noether Brochure
  • Home page at the University of Texas
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