Michael L. Overton

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

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Education

• B.Sc.(honors), Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 1974
• M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1977
• Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1979

Activities

• Research: Papers
• Teaching: Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
• Software: Control, Optimization and Linear Algebra Software
• Graduate Student Advising: PhD Students, MS Students
• Honors: Fellow of SIAM, Fellow of IMA
• Book: Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic
  
• Book Translation: Cómputo Numérico con Aritmética de punto flotante IEEE
  
• Current Journal Editorial Boards: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Numerische Mathematik, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Calcolo
• Boards of Organizations : SIAM (Council 1991-1996, Board of Trustees 1997-2005, Chair of Board 2004-2005), FoCM (Council), Fields Institute (Scientific Advisory Board 2001-2004), CMS (Board of Directors 2001-2005), PIMS (Scientific Advisory Board 2010-2014), Simons Foundation (MPS Scientific Advisory Board 2019-2022)
• Selected Lectures: MSRI (Berkeley, 2002), SIAM Appl. Lin. Alg. (Williamsburg, 2003), MODE (Le Havre, 2004), MTNS (Leuven, 2004), Wisconsin (2004), Singapore (2006), Berlin (2006), Beijing (2006), IMA (Birmingham, 2007), Seattle (2007), Simon Stevin Lecture (Leuven, 2008), Warwick (2009), Louvain-La-Neuve (2010), FoCM (Budapest, 2011), XIX Householder Symposium (Spa, Belgium, 2014), SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (Atlanta, 2015).
• Conference Organizing Committees: FoCM'02 Optimization Workshop, Householder Symposium XV, IMA Workshop on Semidefinite Programming, Householder Symposium XVI, Stanford 50, Householder Symposium XVII, IPAM Workshop on Numerical Methods for Continuous Optimization, Householder Symposium XVIII (Chair), Workshop on Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms and Industrial Applications.
• Tribute: To Margaret Wright, on the Occasion of her Election to the National Academy of Sciences
• Remembrance:Gene Golub Around the World
• Workshop: Modern Nonsmooth Optimization, in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Adrian Lewis