NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, LINEAR ALGEBRA AND COMPUTATIONS
A Celebration of the 90th Birthday of John Todd

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
May 16-17, 2001
New: See pictures from conference

Location: Ramo Auditorium [see map and directions]

Registration:   [ Registration Now Closed! ]  
      (ONLINE registration closed May 10 at 5.00pm)

Schedule at a Glance
                                             
                 16-May       17-May         
                                             
       08:00a    Breakfast    Breakfast      
       09:00a    Welcome      Lecture        
       09:15a    Lecture      Lecture        
       10:00a    Break        Break          
       10:30a    Lecture      Lecture        
       11:15a    Lecture      Lecture        
       12:00p    Lunch        Lunch          
       01:30p    Lecture                     
       02:15p    Lecture                     
       03:00p    Break                       
       03:30p    Lecture                     
       04:15p    Lecture                     
       05:00p    Adjourn                     
                                             
       05:30p    Reception                   
       06:30p    Dinner                      
                                             


D E T A I L E D   S C H E D U L E

       Wednesday May 16, 2001


08.00a 
 Breakfast
In front of Ramo Auditorium

09.00a 
 Welcome 
 David Baltimore 
 President. California Institute of Technology

09.15a 
 Jack Todd: Reminiscences and Appreciation 
 Philip Davis 
 Brown University

10.00a 
 Break

10.30a 
 Early work on condition numbers 
 Morris Newman 
 University of California at Santa Barbara

11.15a 
 Gorsgorin variations 
 Alan Hoffman. IBM

12.00p 
 Lunch
Winnett Center, 2nd Floor (#51)

01.30p 
 A career in mathematical software 
Lawrence Shampine 
 Southern Methodist University
 [ view presentation ]

02.15p 
 Secure outsourcing of scientific computations 
 John R. Rice 
 Purdue University
 [ view presentation ]

03.00p 
 Break

 3.30p 
 Block orderings for matrices 
 Gene Golub 
 Stanford University

 4.15p 
 Reflections on my first numerical analysis course and its effects on my life 
 Cleve Moler 
 MathWorks

 5.00p 
 Adjourn


 5.30p 
 Reception
Chandler Dining Hall (#52)

 6.30p 
 Banquet
Chandler Dining Hall (#52)



       Thursday May 17, 2001


08.00a 
 Breakfast
In front of Ramo Auditorium

 9.00a 
 Applications of Perron-Frobenius Theory to population demography 
 Hans Schneider 
 University of Wisconsin
 [ view presentation ]

 9.45a 
 ADI minimax theory for complex spectra 
 Eugene Wachspress 
 General Electric

10.30a 
 Break

11.00a 
 A rank theory of DAE 
 Herbert Keller 
 California Institute of Technology

11:45a  
Gerschgorin- Professor Todd's and my common love 
 Richard Varga 
 Kent State University

12:30p 
 Lunch
Ramo Auditorium (Outdoors) (#77)