Alex Barclay

Background

I am a Graduate Student in the Applied Mathematics program here at UCSD. My research area is Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming. To be more specific, I am working with Sequential Quadratic Programming methods to try to find efficient ways to solve large Nonlinear programs with many degrees of freedom. My advisor is Dr. Philip E. Gill.

I received my undergraduate degree, a BA in Mathematics with emphasis on Computational Math, from UC Santa Cruz in December of 1989. After graduation I worked for almost five years as a programmer for Lockheed in Sunnyvale, CA. If interested, you can read more about my educational background , or about my professional history.

I left Lockheed in the Fall of 1994 to attend graduate school here at UCSD. I was accepted in the Masters program for Applied Mathematics. In my second year I began working as a Research Assistant with Dr. Gill on a NSF Grant. Then, in the Fall of 1996 I received an MA in Applied Mathematics, and officially transfered into the PhD program in Mathematics here at UCSD.

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Research Interests

• Fields of Specialization:
  Scientific Computation, Large-Scale Numerical Optimization, Numerical Optimal Control,
  Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) Methods .
• Interests:
  Quadratic Programming, Numerical Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis.
• Advisor:
  Philip E. Gill.
  
  For more, see my research summary.

Related Links:

Scientific Computation Group

Department of Mathematics

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