Charles F. Van Loan

Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering Department of Computer Science 5153 Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 Telephone: (607) 255-5418 Fax: (607) 255-4428 Email: cv@cs.cornell.edu

 Walk-In Office Hours:

Exceptions will be posted here--always check first. Email me for  special appointments.

Courses: Engineering 1050 (freshman Advising) and CS 6220 (Sparse Matrix Computations)

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Miscellaneous writings: 

• How to Give a Good Short Talk (1990)
• Building Freshman Intuition for Computational Science (1996)
• Requirements and New majors in Engineering--A Call for Flexibility (2003)
• A Framework for Thinking about Mental Health on Campus (2004)

Some Talks:

• Fifteen Ways to Think About Research (2004)
• Using the Ellipse to Fit and Enclose Data Points (2006)
• 50/50, 20/20 and Other Golden Ratios--Tribute to Gene Golub (2008)
• Q, Then R, Then What? -- Tribute to Ralph Byers (2008)
• Evaluating PhD Dissertations is Hard (2008)
• Future of the Numerical Linear Algebra Field (2008)
• Tensor Network Computations in Quantum Chemistry (2008)

CSE Courses