Nature of this journal
This journal will contain a record of events, projects and collaborations organized on a monthly basis.
In addition it will contain entries for future items in anticipation of their actual occurrence.
January 2011
Visit of Pavla Sehnalová January - March
Pavla's visit is to work on her thesis and a paper on Obreshkov predictor-corrector methods
Visit of Niall Madden January - February
Niall and his wife Rachel Quinlan (who works in group theory and mathematics education) were in
Auckland mainly in the time I was in Amsterdam but we had some conversations which were
interesting to me at least.
My visit to Amsterdam 14 January - 14 February
The first reason for the trip was to take part in
the Verwer65 workshop to celebrate the career of
Jan Werver who retired this month after 37 years
Collaboration meetings in Amsterdam
Helmut Podhaisky (Halle), Adrian Hill (Bath) and Daniel Weiss (Tübingen) each spent a few days with
me in Amsterdam during my four week visit to the CWI
February 2011
CWI65 Soirée, Amsterdam 9 February
van Wijngaarden awards were presented to Éva Tardos and myself
Death of colleagues
Two long-standing colleagues died within a few days of each other
Mike Delves, a student in Auckland in the 1950s
and later Professor of Computational Mathematics
at the University of Liverpool, died on 13 February 2011 from prostate cancer.
Jan Verwer, whose career at the CWI was celebrated the previous month, died unexpectedly
on 16 February 2011.
March 2011
Visit of Jae Heon Yun 1 - 6 March
April 2011
May 2011
June 2011
July 2011
Participated in SciCADE 2011 11 - 15 July
This took place in Toronto and was hosted by the Fields Institute
August 2011
September 2011
CR Reviewer of the month
I have been named as Reviewer of September for Computing Reviews
http://www.reviews.com/todaysissue/todaysissue_featured.cfm
October 2011
Visit to University of California Merced
For the two weeks starting 3 October, I will be the guest of Mayya
Tokman at UC Merced. I will give four lectures to her Numerical
differential equations class. I also gave a seminar and carry out research with Mayya
on exponential integrators.
November 2011
December 2011
January 2012
Visit to Germany and Italy
+ Halle 8 - 14 January
+ Oberwolfach 13-20
+ Salerno 21 - 28