Dr. Carol Woodward is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research interests include numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear and linear solvers, time integration methods, numerical software development, and parallel computing.
Dr. Woodward serves on the editorial board for ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and has served on numerous organizing committees for national and international meetings. She currently serves as the ICIAM (International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics) representative on the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science, an international committee of scientific professional unions formed to promote gender equality in sciences worldwide.
Dr. Woodward will start a term as President-Elect of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2024 and serve as its President in 2025-2026. She served as Vice President-at-Large of SIAM 2018–2021. In addition, she served as Numerical Methods Group Leader and Postdoctoral Program Manager in the LLNL Center for Applied Scientific Computing, four years as an At-Large Member of the Association for Women in Mathematics Executive Committee, and six years as an elected member of the SIAM Council. She has also held offices in the SIAM activity groups on Geosciences and Computational Science and Engineering and was the SIAM representative to the Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences for three years (two as Committee Chair).
Todd Arbogast earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1987 under the direction of the late Professor Jim Douglas, Jr. After stops at Purdue and Rice Universities, he has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1995. He holds the W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Computational Engineering and Sciences---Applied Mathematics. He is a core member of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and associate director of the Center for Subsurface Modeling. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has published over a hundred technical papers in areas including the numerical analysis of partial differential systems, mathematical modeling, and scientific computation.
Prof. Hongkai Zhao received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. In 1996-1999, he was on the faculty at Stanford University. He then joined the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and to Full Professor in 2007. He was the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at UCI in 2010-2013 and 2016-2019. He moved to Duke University in 2020 and is currently the Ruth F. DeVarney Distinguished Professor of Mathematics.
Prof. Zhao’s research interest is in computational and applied mathematics that includes modeling, analysis and developing numerical methods for problems arising from science and engineering. He serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Journal of Computational Mathematics, and Geometry, Imaging and Computing.
Prof. Zhao was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2022. He is also the recipient of the 2007 Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing and the 2002 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.