CS 2003-2004 Faculty Information - Department of Computer ...

Greg N. Frederickson and Roberto Solis-Oba, “Increasing the weight of minimum spanning trees,” Journal of
Algorithms, Volume 33, pp. 244-266, 1999.
Walter Gautschi
Education:
PhD, Computer Science, University of Basel, 1953
Positions:
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Bio-sketch:
Before coming to Purdue, Professor Gautschi did postdoctoral work as a Janggen-Pöhn Research Fellow at the National
Institute of Applied Mathematics in Rome and at the Harvard Computation Laboratory. He also held positions at the
National Bureau of Standards, the American University, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the University of
Tennessee. Since coming to Purdue, he has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University of Munich and has held
visiting appointments at the University of Wisconsin, Argonne National Laboratory, the Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, ETH Zurich, the University of Padova, and the University of Basel. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer, an ACM
National Lecturer, and a SIAM Visiting Lecturer. He is, or has been, on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on
Mathematical Analysis, Numerische Mathematik, Calcolo,and Mathematics of Computation, and has served as a special
editor for Linear Algebra and Its Applications. From 1984 to 1995, he was the managing editor of Mathematics of
Computation and, since 1991, an honorary editor of Numerische Mathematik. In 2001, Professor Gautschi was elected
a Corresponding Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and, in the same year, a Foreign
Member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin.
Selected Publications:
W. Gautschi, “Orthogonal Polynomials: Applications and Computations,” Acta Numerica, (A. Iserles, Editor)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 45-119, 1996.
W. Gautschi, “The Incomplete Gamma Functions Since Tricomi,” Tricomi’s Ideas and Contemporary Applied
Mathematics, pp. 203-237, Atti dei Convegni Lincei, No. 147, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, 1998.
W. Gautschi, “Orthogonal Polynomials: Computation and Approximation,” Oxford University Press, 2004.
Ananth Grama
Education:
BE, Computer Science and Technology, University of Roorkee, 1989
MS, Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, 1990
PhD, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 1996
Position:
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Bio-sketch:
Professor Grama’s research interests span the areas of parallel and distributed computing architectures, algorithms,
and applications. His work on distributed infrastructure deals with development of software support for dynamic clus-
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