Professor of Computer Sciences and Mathematics (1967)
B.S., engineering physics, Cornell University, 1954; M.A., mathematics, Harvard University, 1961; Ph.D., applied mathematics, Harvard University, 1963.
Professor Lynch has held positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los
Alamos Laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the University of Texas, and General Motors Research Laboratories. Areas of his research include differential equations, linear algebra, software for solving elliptic partial differential equations, and computational biology. He and G. Birkhoff have written the monograph Numerical Solutions of Elliptic Problems, SIAM Publications, 1985.
Projects: Parallel Algorithms and Methods for Solving Macromolecular Structures, Parallel and Distributed Computing for Solving Very Large Structural Biology Problems, ELLPACK System