prof. Ing. Miroslav Tůma, CSc.

(born in 1958 Jilemnice)

M. Tůma graduated in applied mathematics from the Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, in 1983. After the military service and a brief study stay at the Computing Centre of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he was a Ph.D. student of Prof. Ladislav Lukšan in the years 1986-1989. His Ph.D. thesis deals with solving large and sparse quadratic programming problems. Since 1989 he has been a research fellow of the Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (the ASCR).

Professor Tůma was the vice-director of the Institute in 1991-1992, later also head or vice-head of its Scientific Council, head of the department as well as the member of the Academy Assembly of the ASCR. He was elected to the Academy Council of ASCR in 2005. In the years 1999-2003 he was the research fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was involved in the ASCI Project of the Government of the United States.

Since his graduation he has been lecturer at the Czech Technical University and at the Technical University in Liberec. He became full professor at the Technical University in Liberec in 2005.

In 2001 he was awarded the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (awarded jointly with M. Benzi, Emory University, Georgia, USA). In 2006 he was awarded the Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for Important Scientific Contributions (member of the team lead by Zdeněk Strakoš).

His main research field is numerical linear algebra. In particular, he is interested in preconditioning iterative methods for solving large and sparse linear algebraic equations. He is the co-author of some new approaches for algebraic preconditioning which exploit properties of tha matrix inverse Further information can be found at http://www.cs.cas.cz/tuma.