Golub (February 8th, 2007)
Professor Gene Golub of the Computer Science department spoke about his personal voyage in developing numerical algorithms.
Pereyra (February 21st, 2007)
Dr. Victor Pereyra of Weidlinger Associates Inc. spoke about his experiences with numerical analysis at Stanford.
Gustafsson (February 28th, 2007)
Professor Bertil Gustafsson of Upssala University spoke about his experiences with numerical analysis and partial differential equations at Stanford along with discussing Joseph Oliger's work.
Ye (March 7th, 2007)
Professor Yinyu Ye of the Management Science and Engineering department spoke about Linear Programming at Stanford with an emphasis on George Dantzig's work and some applications.
Saunders (March 14, 2007)
Professor Michael Saunders of the Management Science and Engineering department spoke about the history of stable numerical optimization at Stanford. In his own words.
Lectures
About the lecture series
The History of Numerical Analysis at Stanford lecture series was a joint effort, organized in 2007, between the SIAM Student Chapter at Stanford and the Linear Algebra and Optimization seminar at the iCME to
- i) educate current students about who did what and when they did it at Stanford and increase awareness of the contributions of Stanford affiliates in the field
- ii) promote more student involvement and interest by removing some of the mystique of numerical analysis and computational mathematics through historical presentations, and
- iii) raise awareness of computational mathematics for the "50 Years of Computational Mathematics at Stanford" conference at the end of March 2007.
Appearing below are the original abstracts for the talks that were given as part of the series, as well as links to the videos of the talks.
