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RESUME OF JESSE L. BARLOW
PRESENT POSITION
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6106 USA
E-mail:barlow@cse.psu.edu
URL: http://www.cse.psu.edu/$\sim$barlow
EDUCATION

Born: July 8, 1955, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. citizen.

EXPERIENCE

HONORS AND AWARDS INVITED LECTURES 

Invited lectures about over 50 institutions in nine countries including


    

Stanford-MIT-Cornell-Yale-NYU(Courant Institute)-Oxford(UK)- Cambridge(UK) 

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory(UK)- 
Consiglio Nazionale delle Recherche(Rome,Italy) 

Academia Sinica (Beijing,China)- Peking U. (China) 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Argonne National Laboratory. 

		  

Fifth SERC Summer School in Numerical Analysis. July 20-24, 1992.


University of Lancaster, England, Series of five lectures titled 

		 "Parallel solution of eigenvalue and singular value problems".
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
1.
(with E.H. Bareiss),``Roundoff Error Distribution in Fixed Point Multiplication,'' BIT 20,247-50 (1980).
2.
``On the Distribution of Accumulated Roundoff Error in Floating Point Arithmetic'',Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic,Ann Arbor, Michigan,1981.
3.
(with E.H. Bareiss),``On Roundoff Error Distributions in Floating Point and Logarithmic Arithmetic,'' Computing 34, 325-347 (1985).
4.
(with E.H. Bareiss),``Probabilistic Error Analysis of Gaussian Elimination in Floating Point and Logarithmic Arithmetic,'' Computing 34, 349-364 (1985).
5.
``Stability Analysis of the G-algorithm and a Note on its Application to Sparse Least Squares Problems,'' BIT 25 , pp.507-520, (October 1985).
6.
``A Note on Monitoring the Stability of Triangular Decomposition of Sparse Matrices,'' , SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Computing 7(1),pp.166-168,(January 1986).
7.
(with R.J. Zaccone),``Improved Normalization Results for Digit On-line Arithmetic,'' Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithetic, Urbana, IL, June 1985.
8.
(with S. Gupta),``Numerical Methods and Matrix Splittings for Higher Order Two-Point Boundary Value Problems,'' in Computers and Computing, P.Chernin, C. di Crescenzo, and F. Robert, ed., Wiley, Paris,pp.72-76. Proceedings of Future Trends in Computing Conference, Grenoble, France, (December 2-6,1985).
9.
``On the Smallest Positive Singular Value of a Singular M-matrix with Applications to Ergodic Markov chains'', SIAM J. Algebraic Dis. Meth., 7(3),pp.414-424, (July 1986).
10.
(with R.J. Zaccone), ``Eliminating the Normalization Problem in Digit On-line Arithmetic,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-36(1), pp.36-46,(January 1987).
11.
(with I.C.F. Ipsen), ``Parallel Scaled Givens Rotations for the Solution of Linear Least Squares Problems on a Systolic Array,'' SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Computing 8(5),pp.716-733, (September 1987).
12.
(with S.L. Handy) ``The Direct Solution of Weighted and Equality Constrained Least Squares Problems,'' SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Computing, 9(4),pp.704-716, (July 1988).
13.
(with N.K. Nichols and R.J. Plemmons),``A Conjugate Gradient Method for the Solution of Equality Constrained Least Squares Problems,'' Proc. SPIE Symposium-Matrix Computations IX, San Diego, pp.23-30,(August 1986), in different form, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Computing, 9(5),pp.892-906, (September 1988).
14.
``Error Analysis and Implementation Aspects of Deferred Correction for equality constrained least squares problems,'' SIAM J. Num. Anal.,25(6),pp.1340-1358, (December 1988).
15.
(with J.W. Demmel), ``Computing Accurate Eigensystems of Scaled Diagonally Dominant Matrices,'' SIAM J. Num. Anal.,27(3),pp.762-791, (June 1990).
16.
(with U.B. Vemulapati), ``An Improved Method for One-Way Dissection with Singular Diagonal Blocks,'' SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 11(4), pp.575-588, (October 1990).
17.
(with U.B. Vemulapati), ``Incremental Condition Estimators for Parallel Sparse Factorizations'', Proc. Fifth Distrubited Memory Computer Conference, D. Walker and Q. Stout, eds., IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alimitos, CA, pp.322-327, (April 1990).
18.
``On the use of structural zeroes in orthogonal factorization,'' SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Computing, 11(3),pp.600-601, (May 1990).
19.
``Error Analysis of a Pairwise Summation Algorithm to Compute the Sample Variance'', Numerische Mathematik, 58(6), pp.583-590, (1991).
20.
``Solution of Sparse Weighted and Equality Constrained Least Squares Problems'', Proc. Interface '90 Symposium, C. Page, ed., Lansing, Michigan (May 1990). (Invited Survey Paper)
21.
(with U.B. Vemulapati), ``A note on deferred correction for quality constrained least squares problems,'' SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 29(1), pp.249-256, (1992).
22.
(with U.B. Vemulapati), ``Rank detection methods for sparse matrices,'' SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 13(4), ppp.1279-1297,(1992).
23.
``Error analysis of update methods for the symmetric eigenvalue problem,'' SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 14(2), pp.598-618,(1993).
24.
``Error Bounds and condition estimates for the computation of null vectors with applications to Markov chains.'', SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 14(3), pp.798-812,(1993)
25.
(with S.L. Handy),``The Numerical Solution of Banded, Toeplitz Eigenvalue Problems,'' SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 15(1), pp.205-214,(1994).
26.
"Perturbation results for nearly uncoupled Markov chains with applications to iterative methods", Numerische Mathematik, 65(1), pp.51-62,(1993).
27.
(with S.-M. Lu) ``Parallel computation of orthogonal factors of sparse matrices,'' in Proceedings of the Sixth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, R.F. Sincovec, et al.,eds., Volume 1, pp.486-490, March 1993.
28.
Numerical Aspects of Solving Least Squares Problems(survey paper). In Handbook of Statistics, 9:303-376. Edited by C.R. Rao,(1993).
29.
Lecture Notes on Parallel Solution of the Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem(survey paper). in Large-Scale Matrix Problems and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations, J. Gilbert and D. Kershaw, eds. ,Oxford Science Publications, pp.3-53, 1994.
30.
(with L.N. Long, L.R. Constable, K. Morooney), Undergraduate Education and Research in High Performance Computing (educational material), International Journal on Engineering Education, to appear, 1994.
31.
(with G. Toraldo) The effect of diagonal scaling on projected gradient methods for bound constrained quadratic programming problems, Optimization Methods and Software 5(3) pp. 235-245 (1995).
32.
(with S.-M. Lu), Multifrontal Computation with the Orthogonal Factors of Sparse Matrices, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 17,pp.658-679, 1996.
33.
( with P.A. Yoon and H. Zha), An algorithm and a stability theory for downdating the ULV decomposition,BIT,36,pp.14-40,1996.
34.
(with P.A. Yoon), Solving Recursive TLS Problems using the rank-revealing ULV decomposition, in Recent Advances in Total Least Squares Techniques and Errors-In-Variables Modeling, S. Van Huffel ed., SIAM Publications, Philadelphia, pp.117-126, 1997.
35.
(with H. Zha) Growth in Gaussian Elimination, Orthogonal Matrices, and the Euclidean Norm, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl.,19(3) pp.807-815, 1998.
36.
(with P.A. Yoon) An Efficient Rank Detection Procedure for Modifying the ULV Decomposition, BIT 28(4),pp. 781-801 1998.
37.
(with H. Erbay and Z. Zhang), A modified Gram-Schmidt based downdating technique for the ULV decompositions with applications to recursive TLS problems, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures and Implementations IX, F.T. Luk, Editor, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 3807, Bellingham, WA, pp. 247-257,1999.
38.
(with I. Slapnicar) Optimal Perturbation Bounds for the Hermitian Eigenvalue Problem, to appear, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 2000. (at URL)
39.
Barlow, J. L., Computing the Fundamental Matrix of Markov Chain, to appear, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 2000. (at URL)
SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION
1.
Barlow, J. More Accurate Bidiagonal Reduction for Computing the Singular Value Decomposition (at URL).
IN PREPARATION
1.
Barlow, J. and I. Slapnicar, A more accurate method for computing the eigenvectors and singular vectors for rank-one update problems.
2.
H. Erbay and J. Barlow, A recursive method for computing the ULV decomposition.
3.
Computational Linear Least Squares (book), Chapters 1,2, and 3 at URL.
GRANTS
1.
``Probabilistic Error Analysis of Algorithms from Numerical Linear Algebra for Floating Point Computers'',National Science Foundation Grant No.MCS-8201065, NSF Algorithms, Amount of Award:$31,000, July 1982-December 1984. Principal Investigator: Jesse L. Barlow
2.
``Fundamental Research Initiatives, Digital Signal Processing,'' Office of Naval Research, Grant No. N0014-80-0517. Amount of Award: $63,813, July 1982-October 1985. Principal Investigators: Mary Jane Irwin and Robert M. Owens. Participating Faculty: Jesse L. Barlow, Don E. Heller, Joseph Ja'Ja', Janos Simon.
3.
``Probabilistic Error Analysis of Numerical Computations in Special Computer Arithmetic,'' National Science Foundation Grant No.DCR-8201065, NSF Algorithms, Amount of Award: $76,822, July 1984-December 1986. Principal Investigator: Jesse L. Barlow.
4.
``Fundamental Research Inititatives, Digital Signal Processing,'' Office of Naval Research. October 1985-October 1988. Principal Investigators: Georg Schnitger, Leon Sibul, and Jesse Barlow Amount of Award: $75,000
5.
``Adaptive Numerical Methods for Fluid Flow,'' NAVSEA (Applied Research Laboratory, PSU). October 1986-September 1988. Principal Investigators: Jesse Barlow and Suchitra Gupta. Amount of Award: $28,000.
6.
``Adaptive Numerical Methods,'' NAVSEA (Applied Research Laboratory, PSU). October 1988-September 1989. Principal Investigator: Jesse Barlow. Amount of Award: $14,000.
7.
``Large Sparse Stable Matrix Computations,'' National Science Foundation grant No.CCR-8701723. June 1987-December 1988. Principal Investigators: Jesse Barlow and Alex Pothen. Amount of Award: $22,615.
8.
``Large Sparse Stable Matrix Computations,'' Air Force Office of Scientific Rearch grant No.AFOSR-88-0161. April 1988-June 1990. Principal Investigators: Jesse Barlow and Alex Pothen. Amount of Award: (1st Year) $97,703, 4/1/88-11/31/88, (2nd Year) $116,798, 1/1/89-6/30/90.
9.
``Numerical Solution of Least Squares and Eigenvalue Problems,'' National Science Foundation, June 1990-May 1992. Principal Investigator: Jesse Barlow. Amount of Award: $54,975 for two years.
10.
``Undergraduate Education and Research in Software and Algorithm Development for Massively Parallel Computers,'' National Science Foundation, Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement, January 1991-June 1993. Principal Investigators: Lyle N. Long and Jesse L. Barlow. Amount of Award: $61,420.
11.
``Numerical Solution of Eigenvalue Problems,'' National Science Foundation: July 1992-August 1996. Grant no. CCR-9201612. Principal Investigator: Jesse L. Barlow. Amount of award: $186,755 for three years. REU supplement of $20,000 for last two years.
12.
``Numerical Solution of Eigenvalue and Related Least Squares Problems,'' National Science Foundation: August 1995-July 1998. Grant no. CCR-9424435. Principal Investigator: Jesse L. Barlow. Amount of award: $149,327 for three years.
13.
``Numerical Solution of Eigenvalue and Singular Value Problems with Applications," National Science Foundation: August 1998-July 2001. Grant no. CCR-9732081. Principal Investigator: Jesse L. Barlow. Amount of award: $217,326 for three years.
PH.D. THESES SUPERVISED
1.
Zaccone, Richard, "Numerical Computation in Digit On-Line Arithmetic.", December 1984.
2.
Handy, Susan, "On the Numerical Solution of the Eigenvalue and Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Real, Symmetric Toeplitz Matrices," May 1990.
3.
Vemulapati, Udaya, "Solving Least Squares Problems on Distributed Memory Machines," December 1990.
4.
Lu, Szu-Min, ``Computing the Orthogonal Factors of Large and Sparse Matrices,'', December 1994.
5.
Yoon, Peter, `` Modifying Two-Sided Orthogonal Decompositions: Algorithms, Implementation, and Applications, '' December 1995.
6.
Jayant Kirtane, ``Fast Multigrid Solvers for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations: Architecture and Algorithms,'' May 1996. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 


Numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, parallel computing


numerical aspects of computer arithmetic 



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