Gene Golub Memorial Conference
UMass Dartmouth
February 29 and March 1, 2008

Gene Golub 1932 -2007

This conference is part of the Gene Golub Around the World celebration. Gene Golub's friends and colleagues will gather around the globe on Friday February 29, 2008, the date that would have been his "19th birthday", to mourn his passing and celebrate his life.  Other sites holding events on this day include Stanford, Adelaide, Auckland, Austin, Berlin, Delft, Chicago, Canberra, Caracas, Hong Kong, Kharagpur,  Leuven,  Linkoping, Oxford, Mexico, Moscow, Pisa, Porto, Rio de Janiero, San Diego, Shanghai, Singapore, State College PA, Stellenbosch, Tel Aviv, Toulouse, Tripolis, Tsukuba, Urbana-Champaign, and Waterloo.

The meeting will be a full day on Friday, February 29 and a half day on Saturday, March 1. There will be informal talks, discussions of Gene Golub's works and influence, and remembrances of Gene.  There will be a reception on Friday evening followed by a banquet where all will be invited to share their remembrances of Gene.The organizing committee invites you to join with us to remember Gene and celebrate his life and many accomplishments.

Logistics

• Conference Site: The UMass Dartmouth Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC) (8 miles from UMass Dartmouth main campus)
• Hotel: Hampton Inn - Special conference rate of $74 per night (plus 9.7% hotel tax).
  To book online and receive this rate use the Conference\Convention code:  AGG.
  The hotel is 1 mile from the ATMC. A shuttle service between hotel and ATMC will be scheduled.
• Banquet site:  White's of Westport (adjacent to the Hampton Inn)  
• Nearest Airport:  T. F. Green Airport, Providence, RI  (30 miles from ATMC)

Registration (Note we have extended the registration deadline to February 19 for both the conference and the banquet.)

Registration is free if you register by the deadline date: February 19, 2008.  After that date, the fee for late registration is $50.00. To register send the following information to sleon@umassd.edu

• Name and institutional affiliation
• Contact information including email address
• Indicate if you plan to attend the banquet  
• Indicate if you plan to stay at the hotel

Conference Program

Speakers

James Baglama
University of Rhode Island
Linda Kaufman
William Paterson  University Bob Plemmons
Wake Forest University
Misha Kilmer (cancelled due to illness)
Tufts University
Daniel Szyld
Temple University

Svante Littmarck
Comsol Homer Walker
WPI and US Dept of Energy

Michael Neumann
University of Connecticut Man-Chung Yeung
University of Wyoming
Alan Edelman
MIT
Vadim Olshevsky
University of Connecticut Pavel Zhlobich
University of Connecticut

Also, a talk by Haesun Park that had been scheduled was cancelled due to a family emergency.

Conference Schedule 
Schedule of Talks and Events
Abstracts and Presentations

Conference Sponsors

• COMSOL
• The MATHWORKS
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Organizing Committee: Steven Leon (UMass Dartmouth), Alan Edelman (MIT), Sigal Gottlieb (UMass Dartmouth)

For further information contact:   Steven Leon (sleon@umassd.edu)

The UMass Dartmouth campus (pictured below) is located on the South Coast of Massachusetts approximately 65 miles south of Boston and midway between Providence, Rhode Island and Cape Cod.

Relevant Links

• UMass Dartmouth tribute - Gene Golub Remembered
• Golub Around the World
• Golub Memorial Blog Site
• Gene H. Golub Biography by Chen Greif (PDF)
• The Golub Tree
• SIAM NEWS article Gene Golub Remembered by Mike Heath
• Gene Golub interview by Nick Higham
• Gene Golub homepage at Stanford
• ISI Highly Cited Researchers listing for Gene Golub
• New York Times Obituary
• Golub least squares lecture video
• UIIUC Golub Symposium page of Gene Golub links