| 09:00 | Franklin Luk, Hong Kong Baptist University
Franklin Luk
Franklin Luk joined Hong Kong Baptist University as Vice-President (Academic) in June 2007. His responsibilities at the University cover all academic programmes and support services.
Professor Luk was born and raised in Hong Kong. He left the city in 1969 to study in the USA. His degrees include a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1972, an M.S. degree in Statistics from Stanford University in 1974, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1978.
Professor Luk taught at Cornell University from 1978 to 1992, where he was promoted to Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1988. He joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992 to become Chair of Computer Science, a position that he held until 2000. Professor Luk taught for three years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 1993 to 1994 and from 2000 to 2002. In 2004, he spent twelve months as a Legislative Fellow in the Office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington, DC, USA.
A student of Dr Gene Golub, Professor Luk works in matrix computations. He has chaired an annual SPIE Conference on signal processing for over twenty years.
Gene Golub: scientist, teacher, role model, mentor, friend
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| 09:30 | Richard Brent, Australian National University, Canberra
Richard Brent
In 1978, Richard Brent was appointed Foundation Professor of Computer Science at ANU, and in 1985, he became Professor and Head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory in the Research School of Physical Sciences at ANU. In 1998, he moved to Oxford as Statutory Professor of Computing Science and Fellow of St Hugh's College. In March 2005, he returned to ANU to take up a 5-year position as an ARC Federation Fellow in the Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI) and the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. In March 2010, he became a Distinguished Professor with a joint appointment in MSI and the School of Computer Science. Since Sept. 2011, he has been an Emeritus Professor at ANU and a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, SIAM, the Australian Academy of Science, and various other professional bodies.
Lower bounds for the Hadamard maximal determinant problem
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| 10:00 | Daniel Boley, University of Minnesota, USA
Daniel Boley
Daniel Boley received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981. Since then, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he is now a full professor. Dr. Boley is known for his past work on numerical linear algebra methods for control problems, parallel algorithms, iterative methods for matrix eigenproblems, inverse problems in linear algebra, as well as his more recent work on computational methods in statistical machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. His current interests include scalable algorithms for convex optimization in machine learning, the analysis of networks and graphs such as those arising from metabolic biochemical networks and networks of wireless devices. He is an associate editor for the SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and has chaired several technical symposia at major conferences.
My Journey in Linear Algebra all started with Gene
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Coffee Break
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| 11:00 | Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Maria Gini
Maria Gini is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Specifically she studies decision making for autonomous agents in a variety of applications and contexts, ranging from distributed methods for task allocation, robot exploration, and teamwork. She also works on agent-based economic predictions for supply-chain management, for which she won the 2012 INFORMS Design Science Award with her Ph.D. student Wolf Ketter and colleagues. She is a Fellow of AAAI, a Distinguished Professor of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and the winner of numerous University awards.
Knowing Gene as a non-numerical analyst
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| 11:30 | Felix Kwok, Hong Kong Baptist University
Time-parallel solution of parabolic control problems
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| 12:00 | Walter Gander, ETH, Zurich
Walter Gander
Walter Gander is Visiting Professor in Computer Science. He received his Diploma in mathematics from ETH Zürich in 1968. He received Ph.D. in mathematics in 1973, supervised by P. Henrici. He has been the Professor for numerical analysis and computer science at the engineering college Neu-Technikum Buchs; Visiting Scientist at Stanford University; Habilitation and Privatdozent for numerical analysis at ETHZ.
Prof. Gander was the head of the Institute of Scientific Computing from 1989 to 1997; the chairmen of the faculty of computer science from 1990-92; the head of the Swiss Supercomputer Initiative for acquiring the national supercomputer in Manno from 1989-1991 and also the chairman of the department and director of education of computer science Fall 1997 to Fall 2001.
SVD - the Swiss Army Knife of Linear Algebra
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| | Lunch (All Participants)
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| 14:00 | Xun Qian, Hong Kong Baptist University
A new interior point algorithm for convex quadratic programming
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| 14:30 | Haixia Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Geometric Tight Frame based Stylometry for art authentication of van Gogh Paintings
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| 15:00 | Chuan Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Block spectral clustering methods for multiple graphs
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| Coffee Break
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| 16:00 | Guojian Yin, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS.
Spectral projection methods based on contour integral for generalized eigenvalue problems
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| 16:30 | Zhi Li, Hong Kong Baptist University
Krylov solvers for linear systems with anti-symmetric structure
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| 17:00 | Ke Wei, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
CGIHT: Conjugate Gradient Iterative Hard Thresholding |
| | Dinner (Speakers and By Invitation Only)
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Photo Album