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 >>

Recently, I have made a series of blog posts about Redheffer matrices and the Mertens conjecture. After each of the posts, readers and colleagues offered suggestions to speed up the calculations. Here is a summary of what I have learned.... read more >>

I didn't know anything about these topics until a couple of weeks ago. Now I can't stop thinking about them.... read more >>

Nick Higham passed away last Saturday. Nick was a close friend of mine and a great friend of MATLAB. I will leave it to others to describe his research and teaching, his many honors, and his service to our community, especially SIAM. I have just a few, more personal, comments.... read more >>

The 2023 MATLAB Central Flipbook Mini Hack contest runs from November 6 until December 3. Over 200 entries have been submitted in the first two weeks.... read more >>

I have spent much of my career working to bring abstract linear algebra and practical matrix computation closer together. This project is my latest effort.... read more >>

I have just returned from a one-day workshop at U. C. Santa Barbara honoring John Gilbert on his 70th birthday and his official retirement after 20 years on the UCSB faculty.... read more >>