NA Digest Friday, March 20, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 24
This weeks Editor: Gene Golub
Today's Topics:
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Mail-From: GOLUB created at 20-Mar-87 15:41:36
Date: Fri 20 Mar 87 15:41:35-PST
From: Gene H. Golub <GOLUB@Score.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Program for Histiory of
To: NA@Score.Stanford.EDU
I am attaching the updated program for the meeting on the
HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC AND NUMERIC COMPUTING.
The meeting will take place at the Hyatt House in Princeton, New
Jersey. The cut-off date for advanced registration is April 20. If
you have not received an application form and want one, write ACM
Conference Dept, 11 W. 42nd St. New York, New York 10036.
There is some funding available for doctoral students. Enquiries can
be made to Frank Friedman at the following e-mail address:
friedman%temple@csnet-relay.arpa
Hope to see you,
Gene
May 13 - 15, 1987
HYATT REGENCY
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
Please note that all sessions will take place at the HYATT REGENCY,
rather than at the Sarnoff Center as originally planned.
ADVANCE PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, May 13, 1987
Opening Session 8:30-10:15
Conference Welcome
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Remembrance of Things Past
Herman H. Goldstine
American Philosophical Society
Reminiscence of Howard Aiken
I. E. Cohen
Harvard University
BREAK
Session 2 10:45-12:30
The Los Alamos Experience, 1943-
N. Metropolis
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Early Numerical Analysis in the United Kingdom
Leslie Fox
Oxford University
Discussion of A.S. Householder's Work and Influence
G. W. Stewart
University of Maryland
LUNCH 12:30-2:00
Session 3 2:00-3:45
Reactor Computations; Surface Representation; Fluid Dynamics
Garrett Birkhoff
Harvard University
A. Personal Retrospection of Reservoir Simulation
D. W. Peaceman
Consultant
Origins of the Mathematics of Computation
Eugene Isaacson
Courant Institute
BREAK
Session 4 4:15-6:00
The Prehistory and Ancient History of Computation at the
U. S. National Bureau of Standards
John Todd
California Institute of Technology
Programmed Computing at the Universities of Cambridge
and Illinois in the Early Fifties
David J. Wheeler
University of Cambridge
Mathematical Software and ACM Publications
John R. Rice
Purdue University
THURSDAY, May 14, 1987
Session 5 8:30-10:15
The Early Contributions to Numerical Analysis by
E. Stiefel and H. Rutishauser
M. Gutknecht
ETH
Conjugacy and Gradients in Variational Theory and
Analysis
Magnus R. Hestenes
BIT-A Child of the Computer
Carl-Erik Froberg
Institute of Computer Science, Solvegatan
BREAK
Session 6 10:45-12:30
Comments on Postwar Development of Computational
Mathematics in Some Countries of Eastern Europe
Ivo Babauska
University of Maryland
Particles in Self-Consistent Fields From Hartree's
Differential Analyzer to Cray-Machines
Oscar Buneman
Stanford University
How the FFT Gained Acceptance
James W. Cooley
IBM Watson Research Center
LUNCH 12:30-2:00
Session 7 2:00-3:45
Linear Programming's Contribution to the History of
Scientific Computation
G. B. Dantzig
Stanford University
Early Contributions to Numerical Analysis
J. Barkley Rosser
Univeristy of Wisconsin
Topic Area: Origins of Numerische Matematik, the Gatlin-
burg Mettings, and the University of Michigan Summer
School
R. S. Varga
Kent State University
BREAK
Session 8 3:45-5:35
The Development of ODE Methods: A Symbiosis Between
Hardware and Numerical Analysis
C. W. Gear and R. Skeel
University of Illinois
An Historical Review of Iterative Methods
David M. Young
University of Texas
Evening Banquet
H. B. Keller
California Institute of Technology
Friday, May 15, 1987
Session 9 8:30-10:15
Some Historical Comments on Finite Elements
Tinsley Oden
Texas Institute for Computationall Mechanics
Experience and Observations on Early Computing Days at
the Ballistics Research Laboratory
M.L. Juncosa
The RAND Corporation
Shaping the Evolution of Numerical Analysis in the Com-
puter Age-The SIAM Thrust
I. E. Block
SIAM
BREAK
Session 10 10:45-12:30
J. H. Wilkinson's Work and Influence on Matrix
Computations
B. N. Parlett
University of California, Berkley
The Work of George Forsythe and His Students
James Varah
University of British Columbia
Discussion: What Have We Missed Before 1965?
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