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Days honouring the lives of Gene Golub and Ron Mitchell
28th and 29th February 2008
Mathematical Sciences Institute,
Australian National University,
Canberra, A.C.T. 0200
Both Gene Golub and Ron Mitchell
passed away in recent weeks. They
were important not only as
significant
developers of
computational mathematics but also
as major community builders. Gene
did this by regularly
visiting major
centres in computational
mathematics. He visited Australia
many times and held, among many
other honours,
an honorary doctorate
degree from the ANU.
Unfortunately Ron visited Australia
only once. He was the driving force
behind the establishment of the
Dundee Biennial Conferences on
Numerical Analysis which were
inspirational for the
establishment
of the Australian CTAC meetings.
Both Ron and Gene provided
opportunity,
encouragement and inspiration
to
several generations of researchers
including many of the currently
active members of the Australian
computational mathematics community.
There will be a
meeting at MSI, ANU on February
28-29 to honour their contributions.
February 29 would have been Gene's
19'th
birthday -- he turned 75 last year. The event is part of the
Gene Golub Around the World Day
(29th February, Gene Golub's birthday).
We plan to have scientific talks on the 28th and 29th of
February and a dinner on the 28th.
It is expected that talks should
both reflect the interests of Gene
and Ron and look to further
development of computational
mathematics.
You are most welcome to attend this
meeting but please let us know
before February 15 by sending an
email to:
Richard.Brent@anu.edu.au
Markus.Hegland@anu.edu.au
Mike.Osborne@maths.anu.edu.au
Advance registration is necessary as
the event coincides with the first
teaching week at ANU . This has
meant that the available lecture
accommodation has strictly limited
seating.
At this time the following have
agreed to make contributions:
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Bob Anderssen
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DMS, CSIRO
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"Gene and Ron: Lebedev-Finogenov and Petrov-Galerkin" |
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Richard Brent
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MSI, ANU
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"Computing Ratings from
Eigenvectors" (it's
related to Google's page-rank
algorithm) |
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Eric Chu
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Maths., Monash
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"Numerical treatment of
palindromic eigenvalue problems" |
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Greg Doherty |
Maths., Wolongong |
"Network
Scheduling Algorithms" |
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Markus Hegland |
MSI, ANU |
"Speeding up
backfitting of large linear additive
models" (joint work with Gene and
Martin Gutnecht) |
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Mike Osborne |
MSI, ANU |
"Gene Golub, Jim Wilkinson, and the
least squares revolution" |
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Mike Powell |
DAMTP, Cambridge |
"The
unimportance of theory" |
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Steve Roberts
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MSI, ANU |
"Well balanced
Schemes for the Shallow Water
Wave Equations" |
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Ian Sloan |
Maths, UNSW |
"The
high-dimensional frontier -
theory and application" |
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Ian Turner |
Maths., QUT |
tba |
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Rob Womersley |
Maths., UNSW |
"Optimization, Determinants,
Interpolation and Cubature" |
Timetable
Photos:
Gene and Ron Meeting
Nature
Obituary of Gene Golub
Alistair Watson has written an
article
on
the development of Computational
Mathematics in Scotland. Both Ron Mitchell and Gene Golub
figure prominently.
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Early days
Dundee |
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