LA/Opt Seminars CS 531
Winter Quarter 2006
Monday, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.
Gates Building, Room 100
Organized by Gene Golub

January 11

Linda Kaufman
William Paterson University

The Retraction Algorithm for Factoring Banded Symmetric Indefinite matrices

January 18

Markus Hegland
Australian National University, Canberra

Solving the Stochastic Master Equations for Gene Regulatory Networks with Sparse Grids

January 20

Note: Room is Gates B12 and time is 12:30 pm for this Seminar.

Alan Edelman
MIT

Parallel Computing with Interactive's Supercomputing Star-P for use with MATLAB(r)

January 25

James Lambers
Stanford University

Two Fun (and Challenging!) Problems Involving Variable-Coefficient Differential Operators

February 1

Jon Dattorro
Stanford University

Convex Optimization & Euclidean Distance Geometry

February 8

Michael Saunders
Stanford University

LUSOL: A Basis Package for Constrained Optimization

February 15

Christian Mehl
Technical University of Berlin

Numerical Solution of Palindromic Eigenvalue Problems

February 22

Robert Orsi
The Australian National University

Numerical Methods for Solving Inverse Eigenvalue Problems for Nonnegative Matrices

March 1

Philip Knight
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

The Sinkhorn-Knopp Algorithm: Convergence and Applications

March 8

Dr. Oscar Chinellato
ETH Zurich

The Complex-Symmetric Jacobi-Davidson Algorithm - Its Application to the Computation of some Resonance Frequencies of Anisotropic Lossy Axisymmetric Cavities

To be added to the seminar email list send an email to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the subject line subscribe linear_algebra_optimization .

Seminar Webmaster: Sharad Khanal