FoCM95 Park City: Plenary speakers: WEEK 1 Marie-Francoise Roy, Universite de Rennes Shmuel Winograd, IBM Dima Y. Grigoriev, Pennsylvania State University Richard S. Varga, Kent State University Steve Smale, University of California, Berkeley John CannyUniversity of California, Berkeley Felipe Cucker, Universitat Pampeu Fabra, Spain Victor Pan, Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY Michael Shub, IBM Roger Brockett, Harvard University WEEK 2 Henryk Wozniakowski, University of Warsaw David Donoho, University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University Yosef Yomdin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Margaret H. Wright, AT&T Bell Laboratories N. Karmarker, AT&T Bell Laboratories Manuel Blum, University of California, Berkeley Roger Temam, Indiana University Arkadi Nemirovski, Israel Institute of Technology Hubertus Th.Jongen, Reinisch-Westf Tech Hochschule James M. Renegar, Cornell University WEEK 3 Herb Keller, California Institute of Technology Gene H. Golub, Stanford University Alexandre J. Chorin, University of California, Berkeley T. Y. Li, Michigan State University James Yorke, University of Maryland Lenore Blum, MSRI Eugene L. Allgower, Colorado State University Arieh Iserles, University of Cambridge, UK James W. Demmel, University of California, Berkeley W. Dahmen, Reinisch-Westf Tech Hochschule WEEK 4 Ronald A. DeVore, University of South Carolina, Columbia Ulrich Kulisch, University of Karlsruhe Victor A. V. Vassiliev, Institute for System Studies, Moscow Jacques Louis Lions, College de France Henryk Wozniakowski, University of Warsaw Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University and Columbia University Michael J. Powell, University of Cambridge, UK Gilbert Strang, MIT FoCM97 Rio de Janeiro: Plenary speakers Charles BENNETT, Ronald COIFMAN, Misha GROMOV, Laszlo LOVASZ, Robert MACKAY, David MUMFORD, Yuri NESTEROV, Jesus SANZ-SERNA, Steve SMALE, Nick TREFETHEN, Grzegorz WASILKOWSKI, Andrei ZELEVINSKY FoCM99 Oxford: Plenary speakers John BALL (Oxford University) Infinite-dimensional systems, partial differential equations Ingrid DAUBECHIES (Princeton University) Wavelets Jean Pierre DEDIEU (Université Toulouse) Complexity theory, homotopy methods and real machines Alan EDELMAN (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Numerical linear algebra David EPSTEIN (University of Warwick) Computational geometry and topology Joos HEINTZ (Universidad de Cantabria and Universidad de Buenos Aires) Algebraic complexity in elimination theory Nick HIGHAM (University of Manchester) Numerical linear algebra Arieh ISERLES (University of Cambridge) Lie-group methods Robert McLACHLAN (Massey University) Geometric integration and symplectic methods Jorge NOCEDAL (Northwestern University) Optimization Erich NOVAK (Universität Erlangen) Information-based complexity Peter OLVER (University of Minnesota) Symbolic analysis and computer vision Bjorn POONEN (University of California at Berkeley) Computational number theory Rolf RANNACHER (Universität Heidelberg) Partial differential equations and finite elements Guillermo SAPIRO (University of Minnesota) Computer vision and partial differential equations Andrew STUART (Stanford University) Computational dynamics Denis TALAY (INRIA Centre de Sophia Antipolis) Stochastic computation Leslie VALIANT (Harvard University) The relationship of computer sciences with real-number computations FoCM02 Minnesota: Plenary speakers Ian Anderson, Utah State University, "Classification problems in geometry and algebra" Albert Cohen, Université Paris VI, "Anisotropy and sparse image representations" Tony DeRose, Pixar Corporation, "How computer graphics is changing Hollywood" Ron DeVore, University of South Carolina, "What does `foundations of computational mathematics' mean?" Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University, "Algorithms in combinatorial Morse theory" Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research, "Quantum computation using anyonic systems" Wolfgang Hackbusch, Universität Kiel, "The technique of hierarchical matrices" Stefan Heinrich, Universität Kaiserslautern, "Quantum complexity of numerical problems" Pascal Koiran, ENS Lyon, "Generic curves, generic polynomials and Liouville functions" Teresa Krick, Universidad Buenos Aires, "Straight-line programs in polynomial equation solving" Dan Lozier NIST, "Development of a new handbook of properties of special functions" Volker Mehrmann, TU Berlin, "Numerical solution of large scale structured polynomial eigenvalue problems" Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, "Zeros of the Riemann zeta function: Conjectures and computations" Steve Smale, University of California, Berkeley, "What is learning theory? How does it relate to approximation theory, and to probability?" Edriss Titi, University of California, Irvine, "Postprocessing Galerkin methods and approximating dynamics" Mike Todd, Cornell University, "Detecting infeasibility in interior-point methods for optimization" Vladimir Vapnik, AT&T Research, "Problems of induction, empirical inference, and computer learning" Grace Wahba, University of Wisconsin, "Statistical model building and classification as optimization problems in RKHS - Polychotomous penalized likelihood and multicategory support vector machines" FoCM05 Santander: Plenary speakers Douglas Arnold IMA & University of Minnesota Numerical analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics James Demmel University of California, Berkeley Numerical linear algebra and high-performance computing Jan Denef Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Number theory and algorithms Michael Griebel Universität Bonn Numerical partial differential equations and scientific computing Ernst Hairer Université de Genève Numerical ordinary differential equations and geometric numerical integration Adrian Lewis Simon Fraser University Nonsmooth optimization and analysis; eigenvalue optimization Stephane Mallat Ecole Polytechnique Wavelets, signal processing, computational harmonic analysis Elizabeth Mansfield University of Kent at Canterbury Symbolic analysis, symmetry methods, geometric numerical integration Robert Meyerhoff Boston College Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and their computational aspects Konstantin Mischaikow Georgia Tech Computational proofs in dynamical systems, Conley index theory Luis Miguel Pardo Universidad Cantabria Complexity theory, algebraic geometry Ian Sloan University of New South Wales High dimensional numerical integration, complexity theory, approximation theory, numerical integral and differential equations Bernd Sturmfels University of California, Berkeley Computational algebra, combinatorics, algebraic geometry Endre Süli University of Oxford Numerical partial differential equations Eva Tardos Cornell University Combinatorial optimization, algorithmic game theory Vladimir Temlyakov University of South Carolina Approximation theory Shang-Hua Teng Boston University Smoothed analysis and complexity, combinatorial algorithms Enrique Zuazua Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Control theory and partial differential equations FoCM08 Hong Kong: Plenary speakers Franco Brezzi Universita degli studi Pavia Numerical analysis of partial differential equations Peter Bürgisser Universität Paderborn Algebraic complexity and algorithmic algebra Emmanuel Candes California Institute of Techology Computational harmonic analysis Percy Deift New York University Integrable systems, differential equations Luc Devroye Carleton University Probabilistic analysis of algorithms Alicia Dickenstein University of Buenos Aires Computational algebraic geometry Nira Dyn Tel Aviv University Geometric Modelling, Approximation Theory Philippe Flajolet INRIA Rocquencourt Analysis of algorithms, analytic combinatorics Gaston Gonnet ETH Zürich Symbolic and algebraic computation Alexander Its Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Integrable systems, the Riemann-Hilbert technique Peter Kloeden Universität Frankfurt Stochastic differential equations, computational dynamics Hendrik Lenstra Universiteit Leiden Computational number theory Pablo Parrilo Massachusetts Institute of Technology Optimization Christoph Schwab ETH Zürich Numerical analysis and computational partial differential equations Carles Simó Universidad Barcelona Computational dynamics Eitan Tadmor University of Maryland Computational PDEs, computational harmonic analysis Roderick Wong City University, Hong Kong Asymptotic analysis Henryk Wozniakowski Columbia and Warsaw Universities Information-based complexity theory FoCM11 Budapest: Plenary speakers: Noga Alon Tel Aviv University Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Theoretical Computer Science Talk abstract and slides Carlos Beltrán Universidad de Cantabria, Santander Numerical Analysis, Integration Theory on Manifolds Talk abstract and slides Gunnar Carlsson Stanford University Applied Topology, K-Theory, Computational Topology Talk abstract Dave Donoho Stanford University Statistical Inference, Computational Harmonic Analysis Talk abstract Rob Ghrist University of Pennsylvania Topological Methods in Applied Mathematics Talk abstract and slides Alberto Grünbaum UC Berkeley Medical Imaging Analysis, Probability, Integrable systems, Orthogonal Polynomials Talk abstract Olga Holtz UC Berkeley & Technical University of Berlin & Berlin Mathematical School Numerical Linear Algebra, Matrix and Operator Theory, Computational Harmonic Analysis, Approximation Theory Talk abstract Tom Hou California Institute of Technology Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Differential Equations, Multiscale Computation Talk abstract Evelyne Hubert INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Algebra and Algorithms for Differential Systems