Michele Benzi's Homepage


Michele Benzi's Homepage


I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University, where I have been since August, 2000. I am also a consultant for Los Alamos National Laboratory and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Old Dominion University.

My address is:

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Emory University
Mathematics and Science Center, Room E428
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA

Phone: +1 (404) 727-3638
Fax : +1 (404) 727-5611

E-mail: benzi@mathcs.emory.edu


Research Interests:

Scientific computing
Numerical linear algebra
Sparse and structured matrix algorithms
Preconditioning techniques, iterative methods
Multilevel algorithms
Computational fluid dynamics
Numerical methods for Markov chains
History of numerical analysis and computing


Teaching Interests:

Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Numerical Analysis
History of Mathematics
Matrix Analysis
Functional Analysis


Publications

Citations (Google Scholar)

Author Profile (MathSciNet)

Curriculum Vitae

Bio

Photo gallery


Teaching (Fall 2009):

MATH 515 Numerical Analysis I

MATH 561 Matrix Analysis and Applications


Editorial Boards, past and current:

Numerical Algorithms (since 2009).

Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications (since 2008).

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (since 2004).

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (since 2003).

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (two terms, 2002-2007).

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) (since 2003).

Linear Algebra and its Applications (Guest Editor, Special Issues for NASC08 and for Pete Stewart's 70th Birthday).

Advances in Numerical Analysis (since 2008).

International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics (IJCSM) (since 2006).

Mathematical Modelling and Applied Computing (MMAC) (since 2006).


I am a member of the SIAM Council, and the vice-chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.


Recent and forthcoming conferences:

Methods and Algorithms for Solving Large Algebraic Systems on Modern High Performance Computing Systems, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Mediterranee, Nice, France, March 30 - 3 April 2009.
Advances and Perspectives on Numerical Methods for Saddle Point Problems, Banff International Research Station, Alberta, Canada, April 12-17, 2009.
Preconditioning 2009, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, August 24-26, 2009.
SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Monterey, California, October 26-29, 2009.
11th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 4-9, 2010.
16th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society, Pisa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010.
6th International Workshop on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, Williamsburg, Virginia, September 16-17, 2010.


Links to some friends and colleagues:

Mario Arioli at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK.
Luca Bergamaschi at the University of Padua, Italy.
Daniele Bertaccini at the University of Rome II ("Tor Vergata"), Italy.
Dario Bini at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Paola Boito at Emory University.
Matthias Bollhoefer at the University of Braunschweig, Germany.
Robert Bridson at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Rafael Bru at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
Matt Challacombe at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Ljiljana Cvetkovic at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.
Tugrul Dayar at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Iain Duff at RAL (UK) and CERFACS, France.
Howard Elman at the University of Maryland.
Andreas Frommer at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.
Martin Gander at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Luc Giraud at ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France.
Chen Greif at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Nicola Guglielmi at the University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Xueping Guo at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Eldad Haber at University of British Columbia, Canada, and Emory University.
Bruce Hendrickson at Sandia National Laboratories.
Nick Higham at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Thomas Huckle at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Misha Kilmer at Tufts University.
Reijo Kouhia at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Amy Langville at The College of Charleston.
Rich Lehoucq at Sandia National Laboratories.
Joerg Liesen at TU Berlin in Germany.
Jia Liu at the University of West Florida.
Jose' Marin at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
Nicola Mastronardi at IAC-CNR, Bari, Italy.
Gerard Meurant (formerly at CEA, France).
Carl Meyer at North Carolina State University.
Reinhard Nabben at TU Berlin, Germany.
Jim Nagy at Emory University.
Michael Ng at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Maxim Olshanskii at Moscow State University.
Micol Pennacchio at IMATI-CNR, Pavia, Italy.
Simona Perotto at MOX, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Bob Plemmons at Wake Forest University.
Yousef Saad at the University of Minnesota
Valeria Simoncini at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Eric de Sturler at Virginia Tech.
Daniel Szyld at Temple University.
Miroslav Tuma at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, CZ.
Bora Ucar at LIP-ENS, Lyon, France.
Henk van der Vorst at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Richard Varga at Kent State University.
Alessandro Veneziani at Emory University.
Zhen Wang at Emory University.
Andy Wathen at Oxford University, UK.


Links to some family members:

Carol Cox, my wife, a mathematics instructor at Agnes Scott College.
Margherita Benzi, my sister, an epistemologist at the Universita` del Piemonte Orientale, Italy (photo).
Carlo Penco, my brother-in-law, a philosopher of language at the Universita` di Genova, Italy.


Useful/interesting links:

SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
AMS (American Mathematical Society)
ILAS (International Linear Algebra Society)
UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana)
NSF (National Science Foundation)
The arXiv
The Parallel Algorithms Team at CERFACS, France
The Numerical Analysis Group at at RAL, UK (Technical Reports Series)
Oxford University Numerical Analysis Group Research Reports .
MIMS Technical Reports Series at The University of Manchester, UK
Institute of Computational Mathematics Research Reports, Hong Kong Baptist University
Acta Numerica
SIAM Electronic Journals
ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis)
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Mathematics of Computation
Springer-Verlag
Wiley-Interscience Journals
The Mathematics Genealogy Project
History of Math Archive at St. Andrews University, Scotland
Sito PRISTEM at Universita' Bocconi (in Italian)
Sito di Tobia Rava' (in English and Italian)
Edge
Last 9 November 2009.