50 Years of Scientific Computation in Oxford

Thu, 16/10/2008
14:00
Dr David Mayers (University of Oxford) Computational Mathematics and Applications Add to calendar Comlab
This is not intended to be a systematic History, but a selection of highlights, with some digressions, including: The early days of the Computing Lab; How the coming of the Computer changed some of the ways we do Computation; A problem from the Study Groups; Influence of the computing environment (hardware and software); Convergence analysis for the heat equation, then and now.