[BANANA] [SIAM SSC] Event: NA History @ Stanford Lecture: Victor Pereyra (4:15pm, Feb 21th, Gates 104)

[David Gleich]

The SIAM Student Chapter at Stanford presents the second in a five part
lecture series on the history of Numerical Analysis and Computational
Mathematics at Stanford.  Dr. Victor Pereyra of Weidlinger Associates
Inc. will speak about his experiences with numerical analysis at
Stanford.

     I  have been  involved with  the Numerical  Analysis  group at
     Stanford since 1963, first as a student and later on as a frequent
     visitor, invited Faculty, Lecturer,  and friend. In this lecture I
     will  describe some of  the research  produced at  Stanford during
     these  years, from  pseudoinverses, through  deferred corrections,
     error estimators, equidistributed meshes, fast Vandermonde solvers
     with  generalizations  to  multiple  dimensions, and  seismic  ray
     tracing (whatever it fits in 45'!).

Please join us for Victor's talk in Gates 104 at 4:15pm this
Wednesday, February 21st.

** There will be pizza served following the talk. **

About the lecture series

The History of Numerical Analysis at Stanford lecture series is a
joint effort between the SIAM Student Chapter at Stanford and the
Linear Algebra and Optimization seminar at the iCME to
    i) educate current students about who did what and when they
       did it at Stanford and increase awareness of the
       contributions of Stanford affiliates in the field,
   ii) promote more student involvement and interest by removing
       some of the mystique of numerical analysis and computational
        mathematics through historical presentations, and
iii) raise awareness of computational mathematics for the "50
       Years of Computational Mathematics at Stanford" conference
       at the end of March.

Following each lecture, there will be a reception with food and drinks
provided by the SIAM student chapter.

The next lecture in the series will be Bertil Gustaffsen on the 28th of
February at 4:15pm in Gates 104.