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  • The nalag research pages are being modified. We are sorry for any inconveniences this might temporarily cause.
  • The nalag web pages have been moved to a new location on May 30, 2010. Please notify our webmaster if some of the links are dead or if pages do not render properly.
  • Now out: Leren werken met MATLAB.
    Karl Meerbergen. Nico Scheerlinck. Yvette Vanberghen.
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  • Now out: The birth of numerical analysis.
    Edited by A. Bultheel and R. Cools.
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  • Hendrik Speleers has been awarded a fellowship by the Research Foundation Flanders to stay for 10 months at the Center for Constructive Approximation, Vanderbilt University. From September 2009 until June 2010, he will collaborate with prof. Larry Schumaker on the topic of shape preserving approximation.
  • Jens Hermans wins the Jos Schepens prize 2008 with his master thesis Optimalisatie van binnenscheepvaart
  • New book: Vandebril R., Van Barel M. and Mastronardi N., Matrix Computations & Semiseparable Matrices Volume I: Linear Systems, 570 pages and Volume II: Eigenvalue and Singular Value Methods . Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007.
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  • Frederik Vercauteren, master thesis student 1998-99, established the world record "counting points on an elliptic curve".
    See the article in Campuskrant (In Dutch). Also available in pdf; and the article from Veto (In Dutch) or see also here.
  • Wim Sweldens, PhD student of our department (PhD 1994) is among the top 100 innovators of the 20th century.
    See here for an extract from the Technology Review article.