Ralph Byers Student Award

To honor Ralph and his long time commitment to numerical analysis, you can contribute in his name to the Ralph Byers Student Award for outstanding graduate students in numerical analysis. Any gift you can make will be greatly appreciated.

Checks can be sent to the Mathematics Department and should be made payable to the Department of Mathematics. Please note on your check that the gift is in honor of Ralph Byers.

If you have any question about this fund, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Jack Porter
Chair
Department of Mathematics
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-3651
porter@math.ku.edu

Ralph Byers, Professor of Mathematics, passed away on December 15, 2007 after a long battle with cancer. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from McGill University in 1977 and his doctorate in applied mathematics from Cornell University in 1983. The following year he received the Householder Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation in numerical algebra (shared with James Demmel). Ralph taught at Northern Illinois University and North Carolina State University before joining the faculty of the Mathematics Department at the University of Kansas in 1987. He held visiting appointments at Stanford University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Bielefeld, Technical University of Berlin, the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (Minneapolis), and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Along with coauthors Karen Braman and Roy Mathias, he received the SIAM Activity Group on Applied Linear Algebra Prize in 2003, and the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize in 2005.