LA/Opt Seminars CS 531
Wednesday, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.
Gates Building, Room B12
Organized by Gene Golub

April 5

James Lambers
Stanford University

Eigenvalue Characterization and Computation for the Laplacian on General Domains, and its Application to Inverse Spectral Problems

April 12

James Demmel
UC Berkeley

The future of LAPACK and ScaLAPACK

April 19

Chris Paige
Computer Science, McGill University

Solving Large Sparse Ax=b: Stopping Criteria, and GMRES behaviour

April 26

Walter Gander
Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich

Derivation of Numerical Methods using Computer Algebra

May 3

Peter Glynn
Stanford University

Linear Algebra and Markov Chains

May 10

Ming Gu
UC Berkeley

Schur-monotonic Semi-separable Approximations of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices

May 17

Zhaojun Bai
UC Davis

Optimization of Multiscale Structured Matrix Computations

May 24

Raf Vandebril
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

A General Evinson-like Framework for Solving Systems of Equations

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