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Michael L. Overton is a Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He holds a B.Sc. (Honors) from the University of British Columbia, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.
- Roles: Academic Leadership, Research, Teaching, and Editorial Work
- Affiliations: Courant Institute, NYU; Editorial Boards of IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Numerische Mathematik, and others.
Research Interests: Focus on numerical analysis, linear algebra, optimization, and mathematical programming. Notably contributes to nonsmooth optimization, numerical algorithms, and control theory. His work bridges theory and applications, including the Crouzeix conjecture and robust control design.
Publications: Overton has authored influential books, including Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic, and published extensively on topics like gradient sampling methods, pseudospectra, and eigenvalue optimization. Recent works explore subdifferentiability of matrix functions and optimization algorithms.
- Awards: SIAM and IMA Fellowships, highlighting his impact on computational mathematics.
- Advising: Supervised MS students including Wilmer Henao, Allan Kaku, and Anders Skajaa, focusing on nonsmooth optimization and control problems.
- Professional Activities: Organized conferences, served on boards (e.g., SIAM, FoCM), and contributed to software like HIFOO for control design.
Labs/Teams: Active in collaborative projects at the Courant Institute, with interdisciplinary research in electronic structure calculations and semidefinite programming.
