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History of Householder Symposia
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The Householder Symposia originated in a series of meetings
organized by Alston Householder, Director of the Mathematics
Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ford Professor
at the University of Tennessee. These international
meetings were devoted to matrix computations and linear algebra
and were held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They had a profound
influence on the subject.
The last "Gatlinburg" conference held at Gatlinburg was in 1969
on the occasion
of Householder's retirement. At the time, it was decided to
continue the meetings but vary the place. Since then meetings
have been held at three-year intervals in a variety of venues
and the series has been renamed in honor of Alston Householder.
The meetings, which last for five days, are by invitation only.
They are intensive, with plenary talks in the day
and special sessions in the evenings. To encourage people to
talk about work in progress, no proceedings are published,
although extended abstracts are circulated. The response of the
participants to the meetings has generally been very enthusiastic.
The conferences are run in tandem by a permanent organizing
committee and a local arrangements committee. Although attendance
is restricted, anyone - including students - can apply. Selection
is made by the organizing committee, generally by ballot.
The meeting is also the occasion for the award of the Householder
prize for the best thesis in numerical linear algebra. This
prize is entirely (and well) supported by contributions solicited
at the Symposium banquet. Here is a complete list of the
previous symposia:
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Number
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Year
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Place
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Organized by
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I
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1961
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Gatlinburg, U.S.A.
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A.S. Householder
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II
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1963
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Gatlinburg, U.S.A.
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A.S. Householder, F.W.J. Olver
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III
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1964
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Gatlinburg, U.S.A.
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A.S. Householder
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IV
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1969
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Gatlinburg, U.S.A.
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A.S. Householder
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V
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1972
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Los Alamos, U.S.A.
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R.S. Varga
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VI
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1974
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Hopfen am Seem, BRD
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F.L. Bauer
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VII
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1977
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Asilomar, U.S.A.
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G.H. Golub
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VIII
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1981
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Oxford, ENGLAND
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L. Fox, J.H. Wilkinson
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IX
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1984
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Waterloo, CANADA
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J.A. George
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X
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1987
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Fairfield Glade, U.S.A.
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R.C. Ward, G.W. Stewart
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XI
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1990
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Tylosand, SWEDEN
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A. Björck
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XII
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1993
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Lake Arrowhead, U.S.A.
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T.F. Chan, G.H. Golub
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XIII
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1996
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Pontresina, SWITZERLAND
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W. Gander, M.H. Gutknecht, D.P. O'Leary
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XIV
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1999
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Whistler, B.C., CANADA
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J.M. Varah, G. W. Stewart
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XV
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2002
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Peebles, SCOTLAND
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P. Knight, A. Ramage, A. Wathen, N.J. Higham
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XVI
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2005
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Seven Springs, U.S.A.
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J. Barlow, D. Szyld, H. Zha, C. Van Loan
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XVII
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2008
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Zeuthen, GERMANY
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J. Liesen, V. Mehrmann, R. Nabben, A. Bunse-Gerstner
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XVIII
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2011
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Tahoe City, U.S.A
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Esmond G. Ng, M. Overton
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At Householder XIII in Pontresina, Switzerland, F.L. (Fritz)
Bauer gave an after-banquet talk, remembering the Symposium's
namesake, and the early history of the meetings. Click here
for Bauer's notes for the talk (posted in NA Digest, July 18,
1996, vol. 96, no. 27).
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