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Daniel W. Lozier

Daniel W. Lozier is Group leader of the Mathematical Software Group in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division of NIST. He is also the General Editor for the DLMF project.

After receiving a degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1962, Lozier worked until 1970 as an applied mathematician at the U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory in Virginia on finite-difference solutions of differential equations associated with nuclear weapons effects. Then he transferred to NBS/NIST in Gaithersburg, where he collaborated for several years with the Building and Fire Research Laboratory in developing and applying finite-difference and spectral methods to differential equation models of fire growth. While working he took courses in mathematics and received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1979 at the University of Maryland under the direction of Frank Olver. His subsequent research has centered on numerical analysis, special functions, computer arithmetic, and mathematical software construction and testing.

Lozier has been a frequent speaker at conferences, and has published numerous papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has served 9 years as an associate editor of Mathematics of Computation, and several terms as an officer of the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions.