Dr. Woodward’s research interests include numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations, time integration methods, numerical software development, and high performance computing. She leads the development and deployment of the SUNDIALS package of time integrators and nonlinear solvers for which Dr. Woodward was a co-winner of the ACM/SIAM Prize in Computational Science in 2023.
Dr. Woodward was inducted as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017 and a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2021. In 2015 Dr. Woodward was one of 15 early- and mid-career scientists and engineers recognized by LLNL for exceptional technical achievement. She will serve as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2025-2026.
Dr. Woodward 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 received a PhD from Rice University in Computational and Applied Mathematics and a B.S. degree from Louisiana State University in Mathematics.
This page was updated in February 2025.
