Velvel Kahan's informal name in Yiddish, װעלװעל, means "little wolf." If he needs a more formal name, Velvel uses William.... read more >>

Linocuts by Henk van der Vorst.... read more >>

Rob Schrieber is one of my very best friends.... read more >>

Nick Trethen is a world famous computational scientist and my good friend.... read more >>

Jack Dongarra is my student, colleague and friend.... read more >>

Pete Stewart is one of my closest colleagues.... read more >>

I was invited recently to give a virtual talk to the student chapter of SIAM at JUIT, the Jaycee Institute of Information Technology, in Wagnaghat, India.... read more >>

The twenty-second Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra was held June 8 - June 13 at Cornell. The local organizers were Anil Damle, Alex Townsend and David Bindel. Anil served as host and cheerleader.... read more >>

The twenty-second Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra is this week, June 8 - June 13, 2025 at Cornell. My talk on Wednesday had the provocative title "A Million-Dollar Matrix". A PDF of the slides available at link_1. The talk covers posts in the Cleve's Corner blog last fall. link_2, link_3, link_4.... read more >>

No, this is not the script for an episode of "Game of Thrones". It is a blog post about Lindenmayer grammars, growing plants, space-filling fractals, turtle graphics and dragon curves.... read more >>