Acta Numerica 2014: Volume 23
Acta Numerica Series, Vol. 23

Acta Numerica is an annual publication containing invited survey papers by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The papers present overviews of recent developments in their area and provide state-of-the-art techniques and analysis.

1. Communication lower bounds and optimal algorithms for numerical linear algebra G. Ballard, E. Carson, J. Demmel, M. Hoemmen, N. Knight and O. Schwartz; 2. Mathematical analysis of variational isogeometric methods L. Beirão da Veiga, A. Buffa, G. Sangalli and R. Vázquez; 3. Topological pattern recognition for point cloud data G. Carlsson; 4. Numerical methods for kinetic equations G. Dimarco and L. Pareschi; 5. Stochastic finite element methods for partial differential equations with random input data M. D. Gunzberger, C. G. Webster and G. Zhang; 6. Numerical tensor calculus W. Hackbusch; 7. Numerical methods with controlled dissipation for small-scale dependent shocks P. G. LeFloch and S. Mishra.

Arieh Iserles is Professor of Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations at the University of Cambridge.