
When we first heard in the spring of 2000 that the Seminaire de matMmatiques superieures (SMS) was interested in devoting its session of the summer of 200l-its 40th-to scientific computing the idea of taking on the organizational work seemed to us somewhat remote. More immediate...

Preface. Key to group picture. Participants. Contributors. Computation of large-scale quadratic forms and transfer functions using the theory of moments, quadrature and Pad? approximation; Z. Bai, G.H. Golub. Thin film dynamics: theory and applications; A.L. Bertozzi, M. Bowen...