Colloquium
Department of Mathematical Sciences

Speaker:  	Cleve Moler
		The MathWorks, Inc.
Date:		Friday, September 15, 2000
Time:		4:30 p.m.
Location:	WeH 7500

Title:		"How Math Might Save Your Life"

Abstract:	The mathematical techniques underlying MATLAB are being used
in a wide range of industrial settings, often by people who are not even
aware they are employing mathematics.  We will show examples including
safety systems in automobiles, compact disc drives and financial
instruments.  The mathematical techniques include matrix computation and
numerical solution of ordinary differential equations.	

Bio:  	Cleve Moler is Chairman and Chief Scientist at The MathWorks,
Inc., the Natick, Massachusetts company that develops and markets
MATLAB.  Before abandoning academic life for the computer industry,
Moler was a professor for almost 20 years, in Math and in Computer
Science, at Michigan, Stanford and New Mexico.  He then spent five years
with two computer hardware manufacturers, the Intel Hypercube
organization and Ardent Computer.  His professional interests center on
numerical analysis and mathematical software.  In addition to being the
author of the first version of MATLAB, he is one of the authors of the
LINPACK and EISPACK scientific subroutine libraries.  He is also
co-author of three textbooks on numerical methods.


Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. in WeH 6220.


NOTE:  Dr. Moler will be available for individual appointments from
1:00-3:00 p.m. on Friday, September 15.  To schedule an appointment,
please contact Patsy McCarthy, 8-2545, pj@andrew.cmu.edu.



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