Gene Golub SIAM Summer School

The summer school, founded by SIAM as the result of a generous bequest of former SIAM President Gene Golub, offers schooling in applied mathematics, computational science, and industrial mathematics, primarily for graduate students in mathematics and computer science.

2025 School

The 2025 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School will take place at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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Topic

Frontiers in Multidimensional Pattern Formation

Dates

August 11 - 26, 2025

The idea of a summer school for graduate students from around the world is the perfect way to honor Gene’s memory. It is exactly the kind of activity that Gene loved to promote.

Charles Van Loan Cornell University

2026 School

SIAM is calling for Letters of Intent proposing topics and organizers for the 2026 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School (G2S3). Letters of Intent in all areas of applied and computational mathematics will be considered. A small number of those who submitted Letters of Intent will be invited to submit full proposals.

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Deadline for Letter of Intent

January 31, 2025

About Professor Gene Golub

Gene was a leading pioneer in the field of numerical analysis, creating algorithms and software that allowed researchers to run large engineering and science calculations effectively on computers. Photo credit: Nick Higham
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Committee on Gene Golub SIAM Summer School

The committee is charged with planning, selecting, and providing oversight for the Gene Golub SIAM Summer Schools.
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Past Programs

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Participants of the 2022 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School (G2S3)—which took place in L’Aquila, Italy, in August 2022—gather for a group photo outside of the Gran Sasso Science Institute. Photo credit: Fabio Paolucci.
Several in-person cohorts worked together at centres of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Rwanda and Cameroon during the 11th Gene Golub SIAM Summer School, which took place in July 2021. Photo credit: Yae Olatoundji Gaba.
A group of students and instructors hike to the summit of Quandary Peak, one of the 14,000-foot mountains near Breckenridge, Colo., during the 2018 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School. Photo credit: Georg Stadler.
The entire 2018 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School team poses in the shape of a Gaussian curve in Breckenridge, Colo. Photo credit: Georg Stadler.
45 master’s and Ph.D. students from 18 different countries participated in the eighth Gene Golub SIAM Summer School, held in Berlin, Germany, this summer. Here they pose—along with the organizers and lecturer Bernhard Bodmann—in front of the “Herrenhaus,” the main building of the Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz. Photo credit: Carlos Echeverría.

2024: Iterative and Randomized Methods for Large-Scale Inverse Problems

2023: Quantum Computing and Optimization

2022: Financial Analytics: Networks, Learning, and High Performance Computing

2021: Theory and Practice of Deep Learning

2019: High Performance Data Analytics

2018: Inverse Problems: Systematic Integration of Data with Models under Uncertainty

2017: Data Sparse Approximations and Algorithms

2016: Stochastic Differential Equations and Wave Propagation

2015: RandNLA: Randomization in Numerical Linear Algebra

2014: Simulation, Optimization, and Identification in Solid Mechanics

2013: Matrix Functions and Matrix Equations

2012: Simulation and Supercomputing in the Geosciences

2011: Waves and Imaging

2010: International Summer School on Numerical Linear Algebra (ISSNLA)

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