Jane Cullum

American applied mathematician

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Jane Grace Kehoe Cullum (born 1938)[1] is an American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory, who became president of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

## Education and career

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Cullum studied chemical engineering at Virginia Tech, graduating in 1960.[2][3] She continued at Virginia Tech for a master's degree in mathematics in 1962, with the master's thesis Applications of the analog computer to mathematical problems.[4] She completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. Her dissertation, Continuous Optimal Control Problems with Phase Space Constraints, concerned control theory, and was supervised by Stephen Diliberto.[5]

She worked for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1967 until 1998, when she moved to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[2]

She served as president of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 1989.[6]

## Books

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With Ralph A. Willoughby, Cullum is the coauthor of the books Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations: Vol. I, Theory and Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations: Vol. II, Programs (Birkhäuser, 1985).[7] The first volume was reprinted by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2002, as volume 41 of their Classics in Applied Mathematics book series.[8]

## Recognition

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The IEEE Control Systems Society gave Cullum their Distinguished Member Award in 1989.[6] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1990, "for contributions to practical numerical algorithms for large-scale systems".[9]

## References

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1. ^ Birth year from VIAF authority control record, retrieved 2020-07-27
2. ^ a b Brewer, Nathan (October 2009), "Jane Cullum", Engineering and Technology History Wiki, retrieved 2020-07-27
3. ^ Cullum, Jane Kehoe, The chemical conversion of calcium sucrate into formaldehyde, Bachelor's thesis, Virginia Tech, OCLC 26595652 - via WorldCat
4. ^ Jane K., Cullum (1962), Applications of the analog computer to mathematical problems (Thesis), Master's thesis, Virginia Tech, hdl:10919/52222
5. ^ Jane Cullum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. ^ a b "Jane K. Cullum", Contacts, IEEE Control Systems Society, retrieved 2020-07-27
7. ^ Reviews of Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations:
* Bunse-Gerstner, A., zbMATH, Zbl 0574.65028`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
* Andrew, Alan L. (1987), Mathematical Reviews, MR 0808962`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
* Chow, Joe H. (June 1987), SIAM Review, 29 (2): 307–309, doi:10.1137/1029055`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
8. ^ Zbl 1013.65033
9. ^ "CSS members promoted to IEEE Fellow in 1990", CSS IEEE Fellows Archive, IEEE Control Systems Society, retrieved 2020-07-27

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