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Alex Pothen

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Publications

56

Citations

4.8K

H-Index

29

Active since

1984

Affiliations

Purdue University West Lafayette(Current)

Old Dominion University

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

University of Waterloo

Alex Pothen is an author at Purdue University West Lafayette specializing in engineering, computer science, and parallel programming.

Top concepts

EngineeringComputer ScienceParallel ProgrammingGraph TheoryParallel ComputingComputer EngineeringCombinatorial OptimizationComputational ComplexityCluster ComputingInverse Problems

Publications per year

1984–2025

56

Publications

56

Partitioning Sparse Matrices with Eigenvectors of Graphs

Alex Pothen, Horst D. Simon, K. N. Liou · SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications · 1990 · 1.7K citations

Spectral Theory, Cluster Computing, Graph Sparsity +17

Computing the block triangular form of a sparse matrix

Alex Pothen, Chin-Ju Fan · ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software · 1990 · 383 citations · Full text

Numerical Analysis, Graph Sparsity, Graph Theory +10

What Color Is Your Jacobian? Graph Coloring for Computing Derivatives

Assefaw H. Gebremedhin, Fredrik Manne, Alex Pothen · SIAM Review · 2005 · 285 citations

Mathematical Programming, Sparse Jacobian, Computational Science +13

A spectral algorithm for envelope reduction of sparse matrices

Stephen T. Barnard, Alex Pothen, Horst D. Simon · Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications · 1995 · 156 citations

Spectral Theory, Numerical Analysis, Graph Sparsity +13

A Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Incomplete Factor Preconditioning

David Hysom, Alex Pothen · SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing · 2001 · 147 citations

Numerical Analysis, Cluster Computing, Engineering +16

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