Carol Woodward

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Carol Woodward

Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Dr. Carol Woodward is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  She has been a computational mathematician in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) since June of 1996. Prior to that time, she attended Rice University where she received a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics and Louisiana State University where she graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics. 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 currently is the Director of the Frameworks, Algorithms, and Scalable Technologies (FASTMath) Department of Energy funded SciDAC Institute.  She also leads the development and deployment of the SUNDIALS package of time integrators and nonlinear solvers which is used worldwide to solve problems in science and engineering and garners over 100,000 downloads/clones each year. Dr. Woodward serves as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).  Dr. Woodward was named to the 2017 Class of Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics. In 2015 Dr. Woodward was one of 15 early- and mid-career scientists and engineers recognized by LLNL for exceptional technical achievement.