Seminar by Prof. Charles Van Loan
Block Matrix Computations and the Singular Value Decomposition
Prof. Charles Van Loan
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Time: 5:15 PM
Venue: CS-101
Lecture Slides
The lecture slides for this seminar are available here. #### Abstract
It pays to think of matrices as arrays of blocks rather than as arrays of scalars. A broad, personal history of the matrix computation field will attempt to dramatize this point. The singular value decomposition will be featured throughout including its role in the development of block methods for sparse linear systems.
About the Speaker
Professor Van Loan has been in the faculty of the CS Dept. at Cornell since 1975, currently (since 1999) he's the Chairman of the Department. His research area is scientific computation, in particular, matrix computations especially arising out of signal processing and control theory.