Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems: the MATLAB sparse backslash

Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems: The MATLAB sparse backslash

Length: 42 minutes. WMV format, filesize: 41MB; see below for other versions.

This was a plenary talk given at the SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, 2006.
Abstract:
SIAM had wanted to record the talk, but due to a minor technical glitch, the audio feed failed. The talk posted here is the same as the one given at the SIAM conference. It was presented as part of the G2V2 seminar series in the CISE Department of the University of Florida.
This talk will be available soon on the SIAM web page.
Click here for the talk in MPEG, 589MB in length. In this version, the text on the screen is more easily readable.
Click here for the talk in WMV, 41MB in length. Use this if you have a slow connection or if you are low on disk space.
The complete slides (PDF).
Just the primary slides (PDF). This compact version is suitable for printing (to print in Adobe Reader, select "multiple pages per sheet" for the page-scaling option, and print 3-by-4 pages per sheet). Since the slides can be hard to see sometimes in the video (particularly the lower resolution versions), I suggest that you view the PDF file on-line, or print it out, and refer to it while you view the video.
This talk is a concise synopsis of the book Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems (informally, "the sparse backslash book"), published by SIAM.
I would like to thank Gil Strang, Cleve Moler, and the members of the organizing committee for inviting me to give this talk at the SIAM meeting. I would also like to thank Siva Rajamanickam (one of my PhD students) for videotaping the talk given in the G2V2 seminar.