Centre for Mathematics and its Applications

2005 Special Year on Computational Mathematics

Symposium on Optimisation and Data Analysis

In honour of Professor Mike Osborne's 70th birthday

21 – 23 September 2005

The symposium included a celebration of Professor Mike Osborne's 70th birthday and was thus aligned with Mike's interests over the years. Mike pioneered multiple shooting for the solution of boundary value problems and also made fundamental contributions in the areas of nonlinear optimisation, parallel numerical linear algebra and inverse problems, particularly the estimation of coefficients in ordinary differential equations. Mike is one of the key figures in the development of numerical methods in Australia during the second half of last century and the international impact of his work continues to this day.

The scope of the symposium included optimisation, the application of numerical techniques in statistics, numerical linear algebra and inverse problems. The symposium ran as three separate days, each covering a subject area in which Mike has worked, and each featuring three keynote speakers of international renown, as well as many distinguished national and international researchers.

Venue
National Europe Centre, 1 Liversidge Street, ANU (see map).

Wednesday, September 21 — Stochastic Modelling and Computation program
Convenor: Markus Hegland, Australian National University

Keynote Speakers:	Sergey Bakin, Suncorp
	Alex Smola, Australian National University
	Berwin Turlach, University of Western Australia

Thursday, September 22 — Optimisation program
Convenor: Rob Womersley, University of New South Wales

Keynote Speakers:	Andreas Griewank, Humboldt Universität Berlin (a member of the DFG research centre MATHEON)
	Jorge Moré, Argonne National Laboratory
	Michael Saunders, Stanford University

Friday, September 23 — Challenges in Computational Mathematics program
Convenors: Bob Anderssen and Frank de Hoog, CSIRO

Keynote Speakers:	Åke Björck, Linköping University
	Georg Bock, University of Heidelberg
	Gordon Smyth, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

In addition, there will be a number of invited and contributed talks.

Scientific committee

Richard Brent	Australian National University
Gene Golub	Stanford University
Markus Hegland	Australian National University
Frank de Hoog	CSIRO
Ian Sloan	University of New South Wales
Neil Trudinger	Australian National University
Alistair Watson	University of Dundee

Program
The symposium started on Wednesday at 8:30 am and concluded on Friday at 4:30 pm. For the abstracts and presentations, see the symposium program.

Symposium dinner
A dinner was held University House on Thursday evening, 18:30 for 19:00.

Social activities

Wednesday, 18:00	Civic Pub
Thursday, 19:00	Symposium dinner, University House
Friday, 16:30	Drinks, ANU bar
Saturday morning	Botanical gardens tour and lunch
Saturday afternoon	Football Grand Final
Sunday	Bushwalk in Mount Budawang National Park

Organising committee

Bob Anderssen	CSIRO
Matthew Hardy	Australian National University
Markus Hegland	Australian National Univeristy
Steve Roberts	Australian National University
David Ryan	University of Auckland
Ian Turner	Queensland University of Technology
Chris Wetherell	Australian National University

Financial support by
CMA Special Year on Computational Mathematics
AMSI Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute