GENE GOLUB DCSE SYMPOSIUM

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of EEMCS, Lecture Hall A
Mekelweg 4, Delft, The Netherlands
Friday February 29th, 2008: 13h30 - 17h00

The organization thanks the speakers for their talks (abstracts and slides can be found here) and the participants for attending the successful symposium! The pictures can be found here.

Request for attendees
Participants are invited to contribute photos of themselves to be included in a Gene Golub mosaic of photos being prepared at K.U. Leuven. Please send your passport-style photo in jpeg-format to mauricio.agudelo(at)esat.kuleuven.be with subject: "Gene Golub Commemoration - picture" and, in the body of the email:

Pictures
Some pictures can be found here, but they can also be downloaded, see below.

Zip-file. (30 pictures; 3.9 MB)

Zip-file. (35 pictures; 9.3 MB)

Speakers and chairmen: Jok Tang, Jan Brandts, Kees Vuik, Mike Botchev, Bernd Fischer, Marielba Rojas and Martin van Gijzen.

Dinner in Restaurant De Prinsenkelder: Kees Vuik, Bernd Fischer, Martin van Gijzen, Marielba Rojas, Jok Tang and Mike Botchev.

Poster announcement of the symposium.

This symposium is part of the Gene Golub Around the World Day. Gene Golub's friends and colleagues will gather around the globe on Friday February 29, 2008, the date that would have been his 19th birthday, to mourn his passing and celebrate his life. This event will be one of a series of similar events replicated around the world on the same day in (so far) Adelaide, Auckland, Berlin, Canberra, Dartmouth, Delft, Hong Kong, Leuven, Linköping, Mexico, Moscow, Oxford, Pisa, Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, State College, Stellenbosch, Stanford, Tel Aviv, Tripolis, Tsukuba, Urbana-Champaign and Waterloo.

Who was Gene Golub? From ETNA:
Everyone in the field of matrix computations has been affected by Gene, who has been famous since the 1960s for his contributions to many subjects. During his prolific career he has worked on least-squares and total least-squares, the singular value decomposition, quadrature, fast Poisson solvers, matrix iterations, preconditioners, factorizations, moment problems, Google-type matrices, and numerous other topics.

Gene's contributions to the profession of numerical analysis and applied mathematics have been equally outsized, including being one of the founders of NA-Net, NA Digest, the quadrennial ICIAM Congresses, the Fox Prize, and two highly successful SIAM journals. He has about 30 PhD students and 80 academic grandchildren. And then there is the book Matrix Computations by Golub and Van Loan, with its fourth edition in preparation, which has defined the scope of modern numerical linear algebra. A citation index lists about 16,000 citations to this extraordinary book.

Once you start looking at his citations, it is hard to stop. Besides the book, we find that Gene has around 20 other papers with 100 or more citations, and 100 papers with 20 or more citations! His next hundred papers after that each have between 6 and 20 citations; and on and on it goes. Even counting coauthors is not easy with Gene, but the number seems to be approximately 230, ranging from Alter, Anderssen, Andersson, Arbenz, and Atkins to Zenios, Zha, and Zhang!