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Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science
Ph.D. 1979 (computer science), M.S. 1977 (computer science), Stanford; B.Sc. (first class honors) 1974 (computer science), British Columbia.
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Personal Homepage: http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/overton/index.html
Research Interests: Numerical analysis, linear algebra, optimization
Affiliations: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 1997-present; Member of the Council of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 1991-1996; Editor-in-Chief, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 1995-present; Editorial Board, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 1995-present; Editorial Board, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 1991-1994; Editorial Board, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 1989-1992; Editorial Board, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1988-1989; Program Chair, SIAM Activity Group in Optimization, 1989-1991; SIAM Committee on Human Rights, 1988-present.
Fellowships/Honors: Governor-General's Gold Medal for Arts and Sciences, University of British Columbia, 1974.
Selected Works:
Limit Analysis for Collapse of Plastic Materials, with K. Andersen and E. Christiansen. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 1998.
Complementarity and Nondegeneracy in Semidefinite Programming, with F. Alizadeh and J. P. Haeberly. Mathematical Programming. 1997.
On the Lidskii-Vishik-Lyusternik Perturbation Theory for Eigenvalues of Matrices with Arbitrary Jordan Structure, with J. Moro and J. V. Burke. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 1997.
Eigenvalue Optimization, with A. S. Lewis. Acta Numerica, 5. 1996. 149-90.
Stability Theory for Dissipatively Perturbed Hamiltonian Systems, with J. H. Maddocks. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 48. 1995. 583-610.
Differential Properties of the Spectral Abscissa and the Spectral Radius for Analytic Matrix--Valued Mappings, with J. V. Burke. J. Nonl. Anal.: Theory, Methods, Appl., 23. 1994. 467-88.
The Optimal Design of Columns Against Buckling, with S. J. Cox. SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 23. 1992. 287-325.
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