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Alan Edelman

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Position: Professor
Office: 32-G606
Phone: +1 (617) 253-1355
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Areas of Study: Theory-Bio

Last Update: July 9, 2008
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Biography

Our group analyzes and develops numerical algorithms both mathematically and as software on the world's fastest supercomputers. We have interests in applications to physics, medicine, and graphics. Some of our accomplishments include the analysis of a Fourier transform that is non-exact but might be faster in parallel, as well as the development of a parallel MATLAB enhancement that exploits parallelism through polymorphism.

On the side, Professor Edelman likes to ponder the existence of a 4-dimensional (four spatial dimensions!) video game intuitive enough to be in everybody's living room.

Publications

"The mathematics of the Pentium division bug," SIAM Review, 39 (1997), 54-67.
"The Future Fast Fourier Transform?," SIAM J of Scientific Computing, 20 (1999) with P. McCorquodale and S. Toledo. 1094-1114.
"MITMatlab: A Tool for Interactive Supercomputing,'' SIAM conference on parallel processing and Supercomputing, March, 1999. with P. Husbands and C. Isbell.
"Multiscale computation with interpolating wavelets,'' with T.A. Arias and R. Lippert Journal of Computational Physics 140 (1998), 278.
"The geometry of algorithm with orthogonality constraints,'' with T.A. Arias and S.T. Smith SIAM J of Matrix Analysis and Applications 20 (1999) 303-353.

Awards

Mathematical Association of America: Lester R. Ford Award
MIT/50K: 1K Preliminary Award
SIAGLA prize: Best Paper