Prof. Nick Gould

Professor of Numerical Optimisation
Oxford University Computing Laboratory

Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics
Exeter College, Oxford

CCLRC Fellow
Numerical Analysis Group,
Computational Science and EngineeringDepartment,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Visiting Professor
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
(contact info as above)

Biography
A short biography

Research Interests

• Numerical optimization
• Numerical analysis
• Linear algebra
• Large scale scientific computation
• High performance computation

Editorial responsibilities

• Editor in Chief SIAM Journal on Optimization
• Associate Editor ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
• Associate Editor IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
• Associate Editor Mathematical Programming

Books and Notes

• LANCELOT: a Fortran Package for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization (Release A) by Andrew R. Conn, Nicholas I. M. Gould and Philippe L. Toint. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, Volume 17, Springer Verlag (Heidelberg, New York), ISBN 3-540-55470-X, 1992.
• Trust-Region methods by Andrew R. Conn, Nicholas I. M. Gould and Philippe L. Toint. MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization, SIAM (Philadelphia), ISBN 0-89871-460-5, 2000.
• An introduction to algorithms for continuous optimization by Nicholas I. M. Gould and friends, 2006.

Publications (see attached publications.html)

Software

• LANCELOT
• GALAHAD
• CUTEr
• SifDec
• HSL

Links
My links to sources of external numerical analysis information; optimization information; linear algebra information and information about quadratic programming

Teaching
In Hilary Term 2007, I shall be lecturing the following courses. For details see OUCL course web pages: Numerical Analysis Continuous Optimization