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15. "Generalizations of Laguerre's Method: Higher Order Methods," SIAM J. onNumerical Analysis, Vol. 18, pp. 1005-1018, Dec. 1981.16. "The Convergence of Rational Functions Closely Related to Pade Approximants," J.Approximation Theory, Vol. 28, February, 1980.17. "A Practical Solution to the Minimal Design Problem," IEEE Trans. on AutomaticControl, Vol. AC-24, pp. 449-454, June, 1979.18. "Applications of Non-linear Approximation Theory to the Model ReductionProblem," Ph.D. dissertation, Div. Applied Math., Brown University, 1978. Advisor:W.A. Wolovich.Conference Presentations and Professional Activities:1. “Application of Stable and Efficient Gaussian Process Calculations to DynamicalSystem Prognostics”, NASA Aviation Safety Technical Forum, St. Louis, MO, Oct.2007.2. “Row Echelon Form is Accurate After All,” Internation Linear Algebra SocietyAnnual Conference, Shanghai, China, July, 2007.3. ‘Efficient and Stable Gaussian Process Calculations’, NASA Data Mining inAeronautics, Sciences and Exploration Systems (DMASES 2007), Mountain View,CA, June, 2007.4. Invited panelist for the Numerical Computing Panel for the Division of Computingand Communications of the National Science Foundation. Reviewed proposals to theNSF, July 31 – August 1, 2006.5. “A BLAS-3 Implementation of Rook Pivoting and Rank-Revealing Applications,”invited speaker at the Householder Symposium XVI, Champion, PA, May 26, 2005.Also presented at Southern California Matrix Meeting, San Jose, CA, November 13,2004.6. “Why the QR Factorization can be more Accurate than the SVD,” SIAM Nationalmeeting, Portland, Oregon, July, 2004. Also presented Univ. of California BerkeleyNumerical Analysis Seminar, May 14, 2003 and Stanford Numerical AnalysisSeminar, May, 2004.7. “Comparison of LAPACK’s methods for solving rank-deficient linear systems,”invited speaker at the 2002 Householder Meeting in Peebles Scotland, June 2002.8. “How often are solutions produced by the QR factorization better than those producedby the SVD?” presented at the Southern California Matrix Meeting, San Jose, CA,November 2001.