NAHP project entries for  the week of 21-28 January, 2001.

Age grid moves smoothly
Along characteristics
We become older
-©Bruce Ayati,  formerly IMA.
One Step with two steps 
moving us forward in time 
convergence is quick.
 

-©Bruce Ayati,  formerly IMA.
When you violate
The cell-Peclet condition,
Answers oscillate.
       -Bill Spotz, NCAR
Numerical work,
A theorist's worst nightmare.
Thank God for machines!
 

-Michael Forbes,MIT
Golub and Van Loan,
          "Matrix Computations," is
          A good place to start.

                                                          - Ed Anderson, EPA
Kolmogorov's name
Does not lend itself to verse --
 Too long for haiku.
 

 - Ed Anderson, EPA
so stability
cum consistency implies
convergence, that's it?
 

-Bill Kolata, SIAM
Galerkin Methods?
Sound variational ways
make numerics fly 
 

- Nilima Nigam, IMA
Ah, Lanczos method
My advisor loves it so
But is it useful?
 

- Leonard Hoffnung, U. Kentucky.
Unproductive day --
The code won't even compile
Yet another bug.
- Debra Lewis, UCSC.
Despite second law,
Newton's thermodynamics,
Energy expands.
          
-Ron Pavellas, San Jose.
How to quickly solve
   PDEs numeric'ly?
   One word: multigrid!
   
-"Max Power", UCSD.
Software from netlib
         Caveat Emptor!  Free stuff
 Has no guarantee.

                                                          - Ed Anderson, EPA
Your haiku project
       Is a waste of people's time.
       You should all be stopped.
                                  
- Ed Anderson, EPA
Oh Stability
How to bound the awful growth
inf-sup condition
                                             
- Kelly Black, Utah State U.
Adaptivity,
        Numericalists declare,
        Will rule the future.
                          
-W.Bangerth, IWR, U. Heidelberg
Soffre il computer:
     l'integrando oscilla.
     Gauss non conviene!

                                                -Roberto Brambilla, CESI.
Mixed are bounderies?
    Double integral equations
   are waiting for you.
 

-Roberto Brambilla, CESI.
It has to be right
        The code robust, stable, fast
        But no proof, no rigor.
                 
- Fred Dulles, IMA, U. of Minnesota.
Swapping and swapping
        Memory leaks, Sysadmins howl
        Not well behaved 

                             - Fred Dulles, IMA, U. of Minnesota.
Still more cycles add.
        It's only n-p hard, right?
        The stopping problem.

                           - Fred Dulles, IMA, U. of Minnesota.
Writing and writing
        Defending thesis Monday
        PhD to be
                               - Jamylle Carter, 24 hours from thesis defence, UCLA.
Making many slides
       Becoming LaTeX guru
      Call me Dr. J.
                              
- Dr. Jamylle Carter, UCLA.
Integral transforms
       Much change sluggish computers
        See-   Fast and deadly!

                               - Aleksei Beltukov, Math. Dept., TUFTS.