krj@utcsri.UUCP (Ken Jackson) (03/26/87)
From score.stanford.edu!NA-Request Sat Mar 21 01:19:44 1987 Received: from ai.toronto.edu by csri.toronto.edu via ETHER with SMTP id AA12837; Sat, 21 Mar 87 01:19:23 EST Message-Id: <8703210619.AA12837@csri.toronto.edu> Received: from relay.cs.net by RELAY.CS.NET id ad26693; 20 Mar 87 21:38 EST Received: from score.stanford.edu by RELAY.CS.NET id aa13942; 20 Mar 87 21:38 EST Date: Fri 20 Mar 87 17:21:35 PST Subject: NA Digest V87 #24 From: NA Digest <NA@score.stanford.edu> Errors-To: NA-request@score.stanford.edu Maint-Path: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU To: NA Distribution List:; Reply-To: NA@score.stanford.edu Received: from CSNet-Relay by TORONTO; 21 Mar 87 1:15:19-EST (Sat) Status: R NA Digest Friday, March 20, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 24 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: Program for Histiory of ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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? ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------