People at UWO Applied Mathematics

Rob Corless
Professor

Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario Middlesex College, Room 272 London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 tel: (519) 661-2111 ext. 88785 fax: (519) 661-3523 email: rcorless@uwo.ca web: http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~rcorless Ph. D. Mech. Eng. UBC 1987 M. Math. (Applied Math) Waterloo 1982 B. Sc. UBC 1980

Research Interests

• Scientific Computation
• Symbolic Computation
• Numerical Methods and Analysis
• Reliability of Numerical Methods for Dynamical Systems
• Flow-Induced Vibration
• Organic Mathematics

Representative Publications

• The Singular Value Decomposition for Polynomial Systems(with P. M. Gianni, B. M. Trager, and S. M. Watt) Proc. ISSAC, A. H. M. Levelt, ed., Montréal, July 10--12 (1995) 195--207.
• Error Backward Chaotic Numerics, AMS Contemporary Mathematics Series 172 (1994) 31-62
• Bifurcation in a Flow-Induced Vibration Model in Proceedings 1992 Fields Institute Workshop on Normal Forms and Homoclinic Chaos, ed. by W. Nagata and W. F. Langford, A.M.S., v. 4 (1995) 43-59
• Continued Fractions and Chaos The American Mathematical Monthly vol. 99, no. 3, March (1992) 203--215
• On the Lambert W Function (with G. H. Gonnet, D. E. G. Hare , David J. Jeffrey , and Donald E. Knuth ) Adv. Computational Math. 5 (1996) 326-359