Background
Faber, Vance was born on December 1, 1944 in Buffalo. Son of Norman and Selma (Greenberg) Faber.
Faber, Vance was born on December 1, 1944 in Buffalo. Son of Norman and Selma (Greenberg) Faber.
Bachelor of Arts Washington University, 1966, AM, 1969, Doctor of Philosophy, 1971. Faculty, U. Colorado, Denver, 1970-1980. Staff member Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 1980-1992, group leader Computer Research Group, 1992.
His advisor was Franklin Tepper Haimo. Faber was a professor at University of Colorado at Denver during the 1970s. He spent parts of 3 years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder on a NASA postdoctoral fellowship where he wrote a second thesis on the numerical solution of the Shallow Water Equations under the direction of numerical analyst Paul Swarztrauber.
In the 1980s and 1990s he was on the staff of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was Group Leader from 1990 to 1995. From 1998 to 2003 Faber was CTO and Head of Research for three different small companies building imaging software: LizardTech, Mapping Science and Cytoprint.
He is currently a consultant. In 1981, Gene Golub offered a US$500 prize for "the construction of a 3-term conjugate gradient like descent method for non-symmetric real matrices or a proof that there can be no such method".
Member Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Achievements include:4 patents in image processing and computer networks.
Married Noni K. Soldo, August 30, 1979. Children: Casey Vanessa, SkyJustin.