From NA-Request@Score.Stanford.EDU Fri Apr 24 02:43:05 1987 Received: from Score.Stanford.EDU (score.stanford.edu.ARPA) by anl-mcs.ARPA (4.12/4.9) id AA16878; Fri, 24 Apr 87 02:42:28 cst Message-Id: <8704240842.AA16878@anl-mcs.ARPA> Date: Thu 23 Apr 87 22:29:58 PDT Subject: NA Digest V87 #36 From: NA Digest Errors-To: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU Maint-Path: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU To: NA.Distribution.List:; Reply-To: NA@Score.Stanford.edu Status: R NA Digest Thursday, April 23, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 36 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: History of NA Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail-From: GOLUB created at 23-Apr-87 22:17:34 Date: Thu 23 Apr 87 22:17:34-PDT From: Gene H. Golub Subject: History of NA Conference To: NA@Score.Stanford.EDU, This is a repeat announcement of the History of Numerical Analysis meeting at Princeton, New Jersey, May 13-15. The program is included below. Hope you can make it. Gene Golub HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC AND NUMERIC COMPUTING. 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 Chairperson: Gene Golub 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 Chairperson: Tony Chan 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 Chairperson: Bob Funderlic 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 Chairperson: Olof Widlund 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 Chairperson: John Tukey 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 Chairperson: Norm Schryer 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 Chairperson: Jack Herriot 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? ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------