[BANANA] [SIAM SSC] Event: NA History @ Stanford Lecture: Yinyu Ye (4:15pm, March 7th, Gates 104)

[Nick West]

The SIAM Student Chapter at Stanford presents the fourth in a five part
lecture series on the history of Numerical Analysis and Computational
Mathematics at Stanford.  Professor Yinyu Ye of MSandE
will speak about Linear Programming at Stanford with an emphasis on
George Dantzig's  work and some applications.

   Linear programming (LP) is becoming a more and more important and
   popular mathematical and numerical optimization model/tool in
   everyday and every field's decision making. Businesses, large and
   small, now use LP to control manufacture inventories, price
   commodities, design civil/communication networks, and plan
   investments. LP has also become a popular subject taught in
   under/graduate and MBA curricula, advancing human knowledge and
   promoting science education. We will present a few historical
   results of George Dantzig on LP and their impact on the field of
   computational mathematics and engineering. We will also present a
   few modern applications arisen from exchange market pricing and call
   auction mechanism designing. LP today is proven to be an extremely
   effective theory-proving machine as well. We will show a couple of
   such examples in coding theory and approximation algorithms for
   discrete optimization, together with some remaining open questions
   in LP.

Please join us for Yinyu's talk in Gates 104 at 4:15pm this
Wednesday, March 7th.

** There will be food 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 Michael Saunders on the 14th of
March at 4:15pm in Gates 104.