History of numerical analysis
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Curriculum Vitae
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Teaching, Fall 2008:
MATH/PHIL 270
History and Philosophy of Mathematics (jointly with
Ursula
Goldenbaum, Department of Philosophy)
MATH 561
Matrix Analysis and Applications
Editorial Boards, past and current:
Numerical
Linear Algebra with Applications (since 2008).
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (since 2004).
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (since 2003).
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (two terms, 2002-2007).
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) (since 2003).
Linear Algebra and its Applications (Guest Editor, Special Issue for NASC08).
Mathematical Modelling and Applied Computing (MMAC) (since 2006).
International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics
(IJCSM) (since 2006).
Recent and forthcoming conferences:
Matrix Analysis and Applications,
15-19 October 2007, CIRM, Luminy, France.
Symposium on Gene Golub's Legacy: Matrix Computations, Foundation
and Future,
1 March 2008, Stanford, California.
Tenth Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods,
6-11 April 2008, Copper Mountain, Colorado.
MIMS New Directions Workshop on Functions of Matrices,
15-16 May 2008, Manchester, England.
XVII Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra,
1-6 June 2008, Zeuthen, Germany.
Building Bridges Between Computational Mathematics and
Electronic Structure: A Workshop,
16-17 June 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Fifth European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008), 30 June - 5 July 2008, Venice,
Italy.
Computational Linear Algebra for Partial Differential Equations,
London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium, 14-24 July, 2008,
Durham, UK.
Structured Linear Algebra Problems: Analysis,
Algorithms, and Applications,
15-19 September 2008, Cortona, Italy.
The Second International Conference on Numerical Algebra and
Scientific Computing (NASC08), Nanjing Normal University,
Nanjing, China, November 2-5, 2008.
The Third International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential
Equations (SCPDE08), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, December 8-12, 2008.
Links to some friends and colleagues:
Mario
Arioli at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK.
Luca Bergamaschi
at the University of Padua, Italy.
Daniele Bertaccini
at the University of Rome II ("Tor Vergata"), Italy.
Dario Bini at the University of
Pisa, Italy.
Matthias Bollhoefer at the University of Braunschweig, Germany.
Robert Bridson
at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Rafael Bru
at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
Matt Challacombe
at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Ljiljana Cvetkovic
at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.
Tugrul
Dayar at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Iain Duff
at RAL (UK) and CERFACS, France.
Howard
Elman at the University of Maryland.
Martin Gander
at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Luc Giraud
at ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France.
Chen Greif
at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Nicola Guglielmi
at the University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Eldad Haber
at Emory University.
Bruce Hendrickson
at Sandia National Laboratories.
Nick Higham
at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Thomas Huckle
at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Misha Kilmer
at Tufts University.
Reijo Kouhia
at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Amy Langville
at The College of Charleston.
Rich Lehoucq
at Sandia National Laboratories.
Joerg Liesen
at TU Berlin in Germany.
Jia Liu
at the University of West Florida.
Jose' Marin
at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
Nicola Mastronardi
at IAC-CNR, Bari, Italy.
Gerard Meurant
at CEA, France.
Carl Meyer
at North Carolina State University.
Reinhard Nabben
at TU Berlin, Germany.
Jim Nagy
at Emory University.
Michael Ng
at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Maxim Olshanskii
at Moscow State University.
Bob Plemmons
at Wake Forest University.
Alex Pothen
at Old Dominion University.
Nader Razouk
at Emory University.
Yousef Saad
at the University of Minnesota
Valeria Simoncini
at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Eric de Sturler
at Virginia Tech.
Daniel Szyld
at Temple University.
Miroslav Tuma
at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, Prague, CZ.
Bora Ucar
at CERFACS.
Henk van der Vorst
at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Richard Varga
at Kent State University.
Alessandro
Veneziani at Emory University.
Andy Wathen
at Oxford University, UK.
Links to some family members:
Margherita
Benzi, my sister, an epistemologist at the
Universita` del
Piemonte Orientale, Italy
(photo).
Carlo
Penco, my brother-in-law, a philosopher of language
at the Universita` di Genova, Italy.
Useful/interesting links:
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
AMS (American Mathematical Society)
NSF (National Science Foundation)
The arXiv
The Parallel Algorithms Team
at CERFACS, France
The
Numerical Analysis Group
at at RAL, UK (Technical Reports Series)
Oxford University Numerical
Analysis Group Research Reports
.
MIMS Technical Reports Series
at The University of Manchester, UK
Acta Numerica
SIAM Electronic Journals
ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis)
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Mathematics of Computation
Springer-Verlag
Wiley-Interscience
Journals
The Mathematics
Genealogy Project
History of Math Archive
at St. Andrews University, Scotland
Sito PRISTEM
at Universita' Bocconi (in Italian)
Sito di Tobia Rava'
(in English and Italian)
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Last updated 5 August 2008.