Sheehan Olver
Lecturer
School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia
Telephone
+61 2 9351 5782
Email
Sheehan.Olver@sydney.edu.au
Research Interests
Computational mathematics for integrable systems, random matrix theory, spectral methods and oscillatory differential equations.
News
Awarded the
2012 Adams prize
(jointly with
Françoise Tisseur
)
Preprints
S. Olver &
T. Trogdon
(2012),
Nonlinear steepest descent and the numerical solution of Riemann–Hilbert problems
, submitted on 9 May 2012.
S. Olver &
N. Raj Rao
(2012),
Numerical computation of convolutions in free probability theory
, arXiv:1203.1958v1, submitted on 8 Mar 2012.
S. Olver &
A. Townsend
(2012),
A Fast and well-conditioned spectral method
, arXiv:1202.1347v1, submitted on 7 Feb 2012.
Papers
T. Trogdon
, S. Olver &
B. Deconinck
(2011),
Numerical inverse scattering for the Korteweg–de Vries and modified Korteweg–de Vries equations
, to appear in
Physica D
.
S. Olver (2010),
A general framework for solving Riemann–Hilbert problems numerically
, to appear in
Numer. Math.
D. Huybrechs
& S. Olver (2012),
Superinterpolation in highly oscillatory quadrature
,
Found. Comput. Maths
,
12
: 203–228.
S. Olver (2011),
Computation of equilibrium measures
,
J. Approx. Theory
,
163
: 1185–1207.
S. Olver (2011),
Numerical solution of Riemann–Hilbert problems: Painlevé II
,
Found. Comput. Maths
,
11
: 153–179.
S. Olver (2011),
Computing the Hilbert transform and its inverse
,
Maths Comp.
,
80
: 1745–1767.
S. Olver (2010),
Fast, numerically stable computation of oscillatory integrals with stationary points
,
BIT Numer. Math.
,
50
: 149–171.
S. Olver (2010),
Shifted GMRES for oscillatory integrals
,
Numer. Math.
114
: 607–628.
S. Olver (2009),
GMRES for the differentiation operator
,
SIAM J. Numer. Anal.
47
: 3359–3373.
S. Olver (2009),
On the convergence rate of a modified Fourier series
,
Maths Comp.
78
: 1629–1645.
S. Olver (2007),
Moment-free numerical approximation of highly oscillatory integrals with stationary points
,
Euro. J. Appl. Maths
18
: 435–447.
S. Olver (2007),
Numerical approximation of vector-valued highly oscillatory integrals
,
BIT Numer. Math.
,
47
: 637–655.
S. Olver (2006),
On the quadrature of multivariate highly oscillatory integrals over non-polytope domains
,
Numer. Math.
103
: 643–665.
S. Olver (2006),
Moment-free numerical integration of highly oscillatory functions
,
IMA J. Numer. Anal.
26
: 213–227.
Proceedings
T. Claeys
& S. Olver (2011),
Numerical study of higher order analogues of the Tracy–Widom distribution
, to appear in
Cont. Maths
.
S. Olver (2011),
GMRES for oscillatory matrix-valued differential equations
,
Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations
, J.S. Hesthaven and E. M. Rønquist (eds.), Springer, Heidelberg, 267–274.
S. Olver (2007),
Numerical quadrature of highly oscillatory integrals using derivatives
,
Algorithms for Approximation
, A. Iske and J. Levesley (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 381–388.
A. Iserles
,
S. P. Nørsett
& S. Olver (2006),
Highly oscillatory quadrature: The story so far
,
Proceedings of ENuMath, Santiago de Compostela
, A. Bermudez de Castro
et al
, (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 97–118.
Book Chapters
D. Huybrechs
& S. Olver (2009),
Highly oscillatory quadrature
,
Highly Oscillatory Problems
, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 366, Cambridge University Press, 25–50.
D. Huybrechs
& S. Olver (2009),
Rapid function approximation by modified Fourier series
,
Highly Oscillatory Problems
, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 366, Cambridge University Press, 51–71.
Essays
S. Olver (2008)
Numerical Approximation of Highly Oscillatory Integrals
, PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge.
S. Olver (2006)
Numerical approximation of highly oscillatory integrals
, Smith-Knight/Rayleigh-Knight Essay, Class 1.
Software
RHPackage, a
Mathematica
package for computing solutions to Riemann–Hilbert problems
Presentations
Numerical calculation of random matrix distributions and orthogonal polynomials
Numerical solution of Riemann–Hilbert problems: Painlevé II
Numerically approximation of highly oscillatory integrals
, Leslie Fox Second Prize Talk
Miscellaneous
Computer Modern fonts in Mathematica on Mac OS X