Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Hong Kong 2008

This volume is a collection of articles based on the plenary talks presented at the 2008 Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics meeting in Hong Kong. The talks were given by some of the foremost world authorities in computational mathematics. The topics covered reflect the breadth of research within the area as well as the richness and fertility of interactions between seemingly unrelated branches of pure and applied mathematics. As a result, this volume will be of interest to researchers in the field of computational mathematics and also to non-experts who wish to gain some insight into the state of the art in this active and significant field.

Felipe Cucker is a Chair Professor of Mathematics at City University of Hong Kong. He is presently the Chairman of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics.

Allan Pinkus holds the Margaret Mosenfelder Harris Chair in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Michael J. Todd is the Leon C. Welch Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. He is a Fellow of INFORMS, and has received the George B. Dantzig Prize from MPS and SIAM, and the John von Neumann Theory Prize from INFORMS.