Nick Higham from the University of Manchester will be visiting the CSC group from the 25th of April. Nick will give a presentation as part of the MPI colloquium series joint with the Department of Mathematics colloquium series. The title of his presentation is Recent Progress in Matrix Functions and the talk will be given on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 5 pm here at the MPI. Nick is the Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics and an expert on many things in Numerical Analysis with a particular focus on Numerical Linear Algebra as well as Numerical Software. He is the vice president of SIAM, a fellow of the Royal Society and SIAM fellow.

Catherine Powell from the University of Manchester will be visiting the CSC group after Easter. She will give a presentation titled Efficient solvers for saddle point problems with random data on Tuesday the 10th of April at 2pm. Catherine is an expert on Uncertainty Quantification with a particular focus on computational fluid dynamics.