Rio de Janeiro, January 5-12, 1997
The FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS'97 conference was held at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Jan 5-12 1997. There were 145 registered participants, most of them from abroad. One volume of Proceedings (CUCKER and SHUB, eds, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Springer, 1997, xv+441 pages) and one issue of the Journal of Complexity (Vol 12, Number 4, Dec 1996, pp 254-623) cover most of the 12 plenary talks and 113 ordinary talks given in 9 workshops.
Some of the topics of the conference were: systems of algebraic equations and computational algebraic geometry, homotopy methods, real machines, information-based complexity, numerical linear algebra, approximation and PDEs, optimization, differential equations and dynamical systems, relations to computer science, vision and related computational tools.
Plenary talks were given by Charles BENNETT, Ronald COIFMAN, Misha GROMOV, Laszlo LOVASZ, Robert MACKAY, David MUMFORD, Yuri NESTEROV, Jesus SANZ-SERNA, Steve SMALE, Nick TREFETHEN, Grzegorz WASILKOWSKI, and Andrei ZELEVINSKY.
The official social events during the conference included an excursion to the tropical islands, a welcome cocktail, an all-you-can-eat dinner at a churrascaria, and a barbecue with party and tropical rainstorm. Touristic excursions were arranged for relatives of participants. No security incident was reported.
This conference was funded by CNPq, FAPERJ, IBM, FINEP, NSF. We also thank the IMU and SIAM.
To contact the local committee: gregorio@lyric.labma.ufrj.br zubelli@impa.br
