About:
John Napier was born in Edinburgh and lived and worked there. Our meeting was part of a series of events in 2014 coordinated by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Napier's discovery of logarithms - Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (1614) - and follows on from the last celebration held in 1914!
Speakers:
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Martin Gander, University of Geneva - From Lagrangian Mechanics to Optimal Control and PDE Constraints
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Mike Giles, University of Oxford - Computing Logarithms and Other Special Functions
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Nick Higham, University of Manchester - The Matrix Logarithm: from Theory to Computation
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Hilary Weller, University of Reading - Numerics for Weather and Climate Forecasting on Modern Computers
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Jacek Gondzio, University of Edinburgh - The Logarithmic Barrier Function and Interior Point Methods for Optimization
Sponsors and Funders:
The meeting is sponsored by the Centre for Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software.