Profs. Nick Trefethen and Warwick Tucker, 15-19 January 2018

This year, ENS-Lyon is hosting visiting professors who are leading experts in two aspects of numerical computing.
Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford) is a well-known numerical analyst and the inventor of Chebfun, a MATLAB-based tool that solves all kinds of problems of rootfinding, integration, and differential equations fast and typically to 15 digits of accuracy.
Warwick Tucker (Uppsala University) is a leader in the area of rigorous numerical computing, where instead of computing numbers with no guarantees, one applies interval analysis and other methods to obtain guaranteed results — and even to rigorously prove mathematical theorems with the aid of the computer.
In this week, using a mixture of lectures and hand-on computer laboratories, the two professors will showcase some of the highlights of these two sides of numerical computing.

Schedule for ER02

8h15-10h 10h15-12h 14h15-16h 16h15-18h
Monday Chebyshev (amphi B) Chebyshev (lab rooms E001 and 125) Validated numerics (amphi B)
Tuesday Validated numerics (amphi B) Validated numerics (amphi B) Chebyshev (amphi B) Chebyshev (lab rooms E001 and 125)
Wednesday Chebyshev (amphi B) Validated numerics (amphi B) Validated numerics (amphi B)
Thursday Validated numerics (amphi B) Validated numerics (amphi B)
Friday Chebyshev (lab rooms E001 and 125) Chebyshev (amphi B) Exam (amphi B)

For the part on Chebyshev:

For the part on Validated Numerics: