Numerical mathematics
Numerical mathematics
A conference at the University of Cambridge, UK in July 1996, concentrated on the particular fields of Professor Mike Powell: approximation and optimisation. The ten invited presentations mainly fall into these two areas and are published in:
Approximation Theory and Optimisation - Tributes to M.J.D Powell
M.D. Buhmann and A. Iserles (Editors)Cambridge University Press1997220 + xiii pp.ISBN 0-521 58190-7Price: £35.00
Keywords: Publication, Approximation concepts, Optimization,Cybernetics
The presentations included:
MJDP-BCS industrial liaison: applications to defence science: Barrodale and Zale.
Meyer analysis of the spline interpolation error: de Boor.
Asymptotically optimal approximation and numerical solutions of differential equations: Buhmann, Micchelli and Ron.
Least squares fitting to univariate date subject to restrictions on the signs of the second differences: Demetriou and Powell.
Dense factors of sparse matrices: Fletcher.
Optimisation environments and the NEO Server: Gropp and Morè.
On adjusting parameters in homotopy methods for linear programming: Todd.
Also included is an 18-page review of Mike Powell's contributions to numerical mathematics which was compiled by Buhmann and Fletcher. A list of his publications is also given.
