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Colloquia Archive
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In Celebration of Gene Golub's Life |
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Following this special colloquium, please
join us at SDSU campus pub, Monty's, to celebrate Gene's life and accomplishments.
This is a special place, as it is where we enjoyed spending time with
him when he visited SDSU.
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Gene Golub (February
29, 1932 – November 16, 2007)
Gene was a Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
He also served as a distinguished member of the Scientific Advisory Board
with the Computational Science Research Center at San Diego State University.
Born in Chicago, he was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
receiving his B.S. (1953), M.A. (1954) and Ph.D. (1959) all in the field
of Mathematics. His M.A. degree was more specifically in Mathematical
Statistics. His PhD dissertation was entitled
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in the Iterative Solution of Linear Equations Compared to the Method of
Successive Overrelaxation" and his thesis adviser was Abraham Taub.
He had been at Stanford since 1962 and became a professor there in 1970.
He had advised almost thirty doctoral students, many of whom have themselves
achieved distinction. Gene Golub was an important figure in numerical analysis
and pivotal to creating the NA-Net and the NA-Digest, as well as the International
Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
One of his best-known books is Matrix Computations, co-authored with
Charles F. Van Loan. He was a major contributor to algorithms for matrix
decompositions. In particular he published an algorithm together with
William Kahan in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value
decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today. A survey of
his work was published in 2007 by OUP as "Milestones in Matrix Computation".
Golub was awarded the B. Bolzano Gold Medal for Merits in the Field of
Mathematical Sciences and chosen as a Member of the National Academy of
Sciences (1993). He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher. He held
several honorary degrees and was destined to obtain an honorary degree
from ETH Zürich on November 17, 2007.
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Biography courtesy of Wikipedia.org
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| DATE: |
Friday, February 29th, 2008 |
| TITLE: |
NOISE REMOVAL AND STRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT FOR ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY
OF MITOCHONDRIA |
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3:30 PM |
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GMCS 214 |
| SPEAKER: |
Peter Blomgren
Deparment of Mathematics and Statistics
San Diego State University |
| ABSTRACT: |
We review some recent progress in image enchancement aimed
at
improving mitochondrial images obtained from electron tomography.
We propose:
(*) an iterative method, based on the well established
total variation (TV) approach to image processing, whereby we can
obtain a good approximation to the true image, with minimum human
intervention;
(*) a new image smoothing and edge detection
technique that employs a combination of nonlinear diffusion and bilateral
filtering.
Joint work with Carlos Bazan |
| HOST: |
Jose Castillo |
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February 21, 2008 8:38 AM
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