Some Current Activities

• Heisenberg-Professor (DFG's description of the Heisenberg Program).
  
  
• Project Head of Project C29, DFG Research Center MATHEON,
  Numerical methods for large-scale parameter-dependent systems.
  You can download the project poster or go to the project website.
  
  
• Editorial Board Member of SIMAX (SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and its Applications).

Some Previous Activities

• Managing Editor of ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis).
  
  
• Co-Organizer of the 15th Berlin Mathematical Day, May 8, 2010, at TU Berlin.
  
  
• Co-Organizer of the Grassmann Bicentennial Conference, September 16-19, 2009, Potsdam, Germany and Szczecin, Poland.
  In November 2010 this conference was awarded the 2010 Potsdam Conference Award (Potsdamer Konferenzpreis) in the category Innovative and/or exceptional events.
  
  
• Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the Householder Symposium XVII, June 1-6, 2008, Zeuthen, Germany.
  
  
• Gene Golub Day , February 29, 2008, at TU Berlin.
  
  
• Project Head of Project B17, DFG Research Center MATHEON,
  Improvement of the linear algebra kernel of Simplex-based LP- and MIP-solvers.
  Also see the project website and poster.
  
  
• Head of an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, sponsored by the DFG.
  
  
  You may download a poster containing a more detailed description of the group's projects (version of January 2006).
  
  Links to group members:

  • Petr Tichy (Postdoc)
  • Jurjen Duintjer Tebbens (Postdoc)
  • Robert Luce (Research Assistant)

• Links to other colleagues and collaborators:

  • Michele Benzi, Emory University
  • Anne Greenbaum, University of Washington
  • Nick Higham, The University of Manchester
  • Beresford Parlett, University of California, Berkeley
  • Paul Saylor, University of Illinois
  • Zdenek Strakos, Charles University of Prague
  • Eric de Sturler, Virginia Tech
  • Daniel Szyld, Temple University

''... in the arrogance of youth, I thought that linear algebra was for boys and girls and that real men and women worked in functional analysis. However, this is but one of many opinions that did not stand the test of time.''
(Harry Dym, author of Linear Algebra in Action, AMS, 2007).