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Virginia Torczon

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Before becoming dean of graduate studies and research at William & Mary, she was the first female chair of the computer science department there.
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Torczon's paper "On the Convergence of Pattern Search Algorithms" won the inaugural
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Multi-Directional Search: a Direct Search Algorithm for Parallel Machines
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American applied mathematician and computer scientist
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applied mathematician
computer scientist
nonlinear optimization
pattern search
College of William & Mary
Wesleyan University
Rice University
John E. Dennis
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
"Virginia Torczon"


"Virginia Torczon"


Virginia Torczon
Mathematics Genealogy Project
"Women in computer science: Taking the 'brogrammer' out of the algorithm"
The SIAM Outstanding Paper Prizes
Home page
Categories
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Wesleyan University alumni
Rice University alumni
College of William & Mary faculty
20th-century American women mathematicians

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