Magolu monga Made

We have the sad news that Magolu monga Made passed away on the 15th July 2010,
at the age of 53. He is survived by his wife and their six children.

He was born in Congo, where he made his master studies, and was given
a grant in the late 80's to undertake a thesis at the Universite Libre de
Bruxelles. He made also several post-doc stays at Nijmegen, Utrecht and
CERFACS, and we anticipate that the unexpected news of his death will
be terribly sad for all his former colleagues, as it is for us.
Magolu was indeed universally appreciated as a kind person, and
the world has just lost one of the wisest man. His name, as he pleased
to tell, means: "springs of clear water issued from a lake of quietness";
and this indeed depicts him perfectly as all his friends will confirm.

From the scientific viewpoint, Magolu was an active researcher in the
field of (block) incomplete factorization algorithms, of the associated
iterative methods and of their parallelization. He also considered their
application to acoustic problems where his results represented a true
breakthrough, not yet appropriately acknowledged today (he was among
the first to consider adding imaginary perturbations before applying
preconditioning techniques, a methods nowadays better known under the name
of "shifted Laplacian preconditioning"). He planned to extend
his results to vibro-acoustic problems as you can still read on his webpage.


This obituary has been written by Robert Beauwens <rbeauwen@ulb.ac.be>
and Yvan Notay <ynotay@ulb.ac.be> and has been published in the NA Digest,
V. 10, # 30.