Chebyshev Polynomials -- Not just for filters
Dr. Anne Elster
Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway
Friday, September 28th, 3:00 PM, ENS 637
elster@computer.org
Abstract
Chebyshev polynomials should be well known to the
Telecom community through Chebyshev filters.
In this talk several forms of the Chebyshev polynomial
will be presented, but the focus will be how these
polynomials can be used to speed up the solutions
of PDEs (Partial Differential Equations). This talk
will also include an overview of numerical PDE methods.
Biography
Anne C. Elster was born near the Arctic Circle in Mo i Rana, Norway.
After completing her secondary education in Porsgrunn she received
a one year scholarship to the Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Curious
to find out how computers really work, she then transferred to
the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst where she got a B.S. in
Computer Systems Engineering with cum laude as well as took
several courses in their honors math program. Anne also holds
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell
University where she had a lot of fun at their Supercomputer
Center. She is currently a tenured Associate Professor in
Computer Engineering and Information Science at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway
where she is enjoying a semester focusing on course development,
her research on algorithms for telecommunications and parallel
environments, as well as pedagogical training. In the past she
has served on the MPI standards committee, held summer jobs
at CMI, IBM TJ Watson and Xerox Research centers as well as
worked for Schlumberger and the Univ. of Texas at Austin.
Her husband, Lloyd D. Clark, is an "MIT-cubed" graduate who is
one of Schlumberger's primary experts on ADSL-based telemetry.
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