Subject: NA Digest V87 #24

From: NA Digest <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri 20 Mar 87 17:21:35 PST

NA Digest   Friday, March 20, 1987   Volume 87 : Issue 24

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

                       Program for Histiory of

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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  <[email-masked]>
Subject: Program for Histiory of 
To: [email-masked]

 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:
        
	[email-masked]

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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