The special semester on Foundations of Computational
Mathematics at MSRI
brings together four mathematical cum computational subjects:
- Complexity in numerical computation
- Homotopy methods
- Optimization: interior-point methods and nonlinear
optimization
- Differential equations and discretized dynamical systems
However, the main goal of the special semester is not to
pursue research into any of these four subject areas but to
explore their interconnectedness, thereby laying the foundations to
computational mathematics.
Needless to say, the above four subject areas do not exhaust the
full range of disciplines with a relevance to FoCM, far from it! The
MSRI program is just a start and we are already planning
the next special semester, elsewhere.
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