MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

MS 209
OSBORNE, M.R.

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Series 1: Biographical data

1 Curriculum vitae and publication list, 1998. Photographs of MRO (and wife Gloria?), c.1990?

2 MRO’s applications and appointments, 1965-1980: Correspondence concerning move to ANU, 1965; Invitation to join the Board of the Institute [of Advanced Studies?], ANU, as a non-voting member, 1970; Memorandum concerning the position of the Head of the Computer Centre, ANU, 1970; Application for the post of Professor in CRES, ANU, 1974; Working party on Computing, 1975; Invitation to become an ex officio member of the Faculty of Physical Sciences, ANU, 1975; Appointment as Director of the Computer Centre, ANU, 1976; Appointment to the Standing Committee of Council, ANU, 1976; Appointment as voting member of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU, 1976; Appointment as voting member of the Board of the School of General Studies, ANU, 1976; Application for Chair of Computer Science, 1977-1978; Appointment as Head of the ANU Vice Chancellor’s Computing Research Group, 1977; Appointment as Director of Computer Centre, ANU, 1976; B.W. Ninham’s supporting letter for MRO’s application as Head of Research School of Physical Sciences, University of Virginia, 1979; Recruitment letter for Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, 1979; Letter re the abolition of the ANU Vice Chancellor’s Computing Reseach Group and MRO’s secondment to the Dept of Statistics, 1979; Offer of appointment as Senior Visiting Fellow in Dept of Mathematics, University of Manchester, 1980; Appointment as Professorial Fellow, 1980; Correspondence re appointment at North Carolina State University, 1980; Headhunting of MRO for the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 1981; Invitation to join review committee of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, ANU, 1984 (declined); Correspondence re MRO’s application to be Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University, 1985; Correspondence re MRO’s application to be Chair in the Dept of Statistics, Southern Methodist University, 1985.

3 AAS: Nomination for Fellowship of AAS, 1977-1981; Nomination for the Hannan Medal, 1998.

Series 2: research activities

4 Report of research activities at ANU, 1980s-1990s: Report for1981 (?). Report for 1982 (?). Report for 1985. Report for 1986. Biennial report of research activities, 1988 (?). Report for 1990 (?).

5 Study leave reports for ANU, 1963-1990: Report of study leave to UK and USA, 1968. Report of study leave to USA, 1973. Report of fact-finding mission re Univac 1110, 1975. Report of study leave to Cambridge University, 1977. Report on outside studies to UK, Canada and USA, 1980. Report on outside studies to USA, 1981-1982. Report of study leave to the University of Western Australia, 1983. Report of study leave toUSA, 1984-1985. Report on outside studies of trip to USA, 1989. Report of visit and conference in USA, 1990.

6 Project proposals, 1986-1994: Research proposal for the Joint Liverpool-Manchester Symposium and Summer School on Nonlinear Problems in Numerical Analysis (no date, 1980s?). “A Proposal for a Project in Statistics, RSSS: Statistics Methods Project”, 1986 (?). “A Proposal for funding research in robust statistics”, 1987. Application to Centre for Information Science Research for “Large scale scientific computing on vector processors, 1988. “Software for variance estimation on vector processes” for 1998-1990. “Reports re Commonwealth Cooperative Research Centre in Generic Hypersonic Technology, 1991. Reports and correspondence re the Development of High Level Language Facilities, 1992-1994. Numerical Algorithms - Project plan”, 1994. Referees’ report on “A New Approach to the Symmetric Rank-One Updating Algorithm” by MRO & L.P. Sun, one by M.J.D. Powell (no date). ‘Berwin’s Problem’, by MRO, B. Presnell & B.A. Turlach, ANU Research Report, 1998.

7 Submissions for conference papers and presentations, 1975-1986 (see also Series 7: Notes and transparencies): ‘Unconstrained Optimisation Problems’, 1975. ‘Recent Developments in Algorithms for Non-Linear Sqaures Problems’, 1975. ‘Spline Smothing, Multipoint Boundary Value Problems, and Estimating Stochastic Differential Equations’, 1986.

8 Conference materials and correspondence, 1975-1993: Letter from MRO (co-organiser with J. Gani) re proposed Applied Mathematics Conference at Jindabyne in 1976, inviting J.H. Wilkinson to participate, 1975. Brochure and handbook for National Mathematical Sciences Congress, ANU – MRO listed as chair of Mathematics committee, includes abstract of paper by MRO & L.P. Sun ‘A New Approach to the Symmetric Rank-one Updating Algorithm’, 1988. Brochure for the inaugural Australian National Conference on Complex Systems, at ANU, 1992. Prelimenary announcement of CTAC93 (Computational Techniques and Applications Conference) at ANU, MRO director of organising committee, 1991 (?). Notes of organising committee for CTAC93, 1991-1992. Invitation to Trevor Robinson to give a public lecture (ultimately on ‘Supercomputers: Essential tools or expensive toys?’) for CTAC93, 1992. Letter advertising CTAC93 to the computers editors of The Australian newspaper by MRO, 1993. CTAC93 brochure.

Series 3: correspondence

9 Correspondence re MRO’s publications, 1975-1982: “Discrete, Linear Approximation Problems in Polyhedral Norms”, 1975. “Analysis of Newton’s Method at Irregular Singularities” by MRO and Andreas Griewank (Southern Methodist University, Dallas), (1980-1982), including referees’ reports. Referees reports on “A Descent Algorithm for Minimizing Polyhedral Convex Functions”, by MRO and D.I. Clark (1982?). Correspondence re paper on “Strong Uniqueness and Second Order Convergence in Nonlinear Discrete Approximation” by MRO and Krisorn Jittorntrum, 1979.

10 Correspondence on mathematical subjects, 1975-1988 (A-P) (sample): Correspondence with Prof. Uri Asher, (University of British Columbia), 1978. Correspondence with Luca Dieci and Bob (Russell), 1985. Request from Fuhua Cheng (Kentucky University), 1989. Correspondence from Kris Jittorntrum (Chiang Mai University), 1979. Letter to ‘Joe’ re results from FORTRAN, 1986?. Correspondence with F.T. Krogh (Jet Populsion Laboratory, California) on ‘The Selection of Shooting Points’, 1978. Correspondence with A. Miller (CSIRO) re LMM1 program, 1975. Letter to Bill (Murray?) re MRO’s work with David Clark, 1980. Correspondence with M.J.D. Powell (Cambridge), 1976 & 1983. Results from T. Prvan (Washington State University), 1987.

11 Correspondence on mathematical subjects, 1975-1988 (R-S) (sample): Letter to Dr D. Ratkowsky, CSIRO, 1984. Letter to ‘Ray’ on MRO’s thoughts on ‘computing in statistical theory’, 1988. Request from R.Reemtsen (West Germany) re minimax approximation, 1975. Letter to ‘Ren’ on uniqueness, 1987. Letter from ‘Rob’ (Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago), re strong uniqueness, 1988. Correspondence with Prof. Robert D. Russell (Simon Fraser University, Canada), 1978 & 1987 (plus letter to ‘Bob’, 1978; see also L. Dieci). Correspondence with Blair Schwartz (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) on his proposed paper, 1979. Letter from G.K. Smyth (Queensland University), 1989. Letter from ‘Steve’, containing comments on MRO’s book, 1982?.

12 Correspondence on mathematical subjects, 1975-1988 (T-Z) (sample): Letter from J.F. Traub, 1984. Correspondence with G. Alistair Watson (University of Dundee), re non-linear problem, minimum norm problem, polyhedral norms, comments on MRO’s book (1982) etc., 1975-1983. Correspondence with J.H. Wilkinson (National Physics Laboratory, UK; Stanford University), 1977 (plus letter to ‘Jim’, 1978). Letters to Margaret (H. Wright, California?), 1985.

13 General correspondence, 1974-1986: Invitation from A. Miller (CSIRO) to MRO to participate in the CSIRO divisional conference, 1974-1975. Letter from J. Self (Melbourne University) requesting information for prospective newsletter of Australian computing research, 1975. Letter from MRO to J. Garni (CSIRO) re conference (Feb. 1976) referring to the work of D. Elliott (Hobart), P. Young (ANU), Mathematical Psychology (Melbourne University) etc., 1975. Letter from S. Bootle (& MRO) to F. de Santis with notes re Univac computerisation of the State University, Rome, 1975. Invitation from A.J. Hall (International Computers Ltd) to seminar series, 1975. Inquiry from A.R. Dexter (Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide) to MRO re computation work, 1975. Letter from W.J. Fisher (Queensland Institute of Technology) to MRO re visit to examine Univac 1100, 1975. Letter from MRO to D. Ryan (University of Auckland) re use of Simula 67 for integer programming, 1975. Letters re the National Bureau of Economic Research (Mass.) research to algorithms for computing robust statistics 1975-1976. Invitation from the Mathematische Forschungsinstitut (Cologne) to MRO for meeting on ‘Numerical Treatment of Differential Equations’, 1976. Australian/French Cultural and Scientific Exchange program, 1976. Invitation to visit Lucas Heights Research Establishment, 1978. Letter to MRO from M.J.D. Powell re Optimization Research symposium, scheduled for 1981, 1978?. Correspondence with United Airlines re algorithms solving degeneracy, 1986.

Series 4: Computer science in Australia

14 Computer science policy, 1977-1992: Letter from J. Lions and M.W. Allen (UNSW) to MRO re the foundation of a conference series on computer science teaching and research, 1977. Correspondence re report of the Australian Science and Technology Council on ‘Science and Technology in Australia – 1977’, 1977. Minutes of a meeting considering the establishment of an ‘Applied Mathematics Policy Committee’, at the Applied Mathematics Conference, 1979. Contribution to the Review Committee of the CSIRO division of Mathematics and Statistics, 1981. Correspondence re Federal Government decision to charge fees to overseas students awarded scholarships: MRO to Hon. J. Langmore MP, Hon. S. Ryan to Langmore, and Ryan to MRO and Prof. Campbell, 1986. “We should do something about Supercomputers”, a letter to Prof. D. Curtis, AAS, and accompanying correspondence with D. Aitkin, I. Ross, 1988. Submission concerning the priority of computing research to Prof. D. Aitkin, Australian Research Council; Aitkin’s reply; Letters from P.G. Hall to D. Aitkin the same effect as MRO’s, all 1989. Correspondence with Prof. D. Craig of AAS concerning profile and representation of Information Sciences, 1992.

15 Birch Inquiry into computing facilities at CSIRO, 1976-1977: A.J. Birch’s invitation for submissions to the Inquiry, 1976. Submissions to the Inquiry from ANU coordinated by Prof. F. Fenner, including ‘Requirements for Large Scale Computing’ (by MRO?), 1977; submission by Dr G.N. Lance with MRO’s complementary submission and I. Ross’ comments, 1977. ‘Submission to the Independent Committee of Inquiry into CSIRO’ by J.M. Bennett, 1977. ‘Report on Education Needs and Resources: Summary of Findings and Recommendations’ by B.W. Smith & B.Z. Ferranti, 1977?. ‘Committee of Inquiry in the CSIRO Submission from the Computer Centre, ANU’ by MRO, 1977?. ‘Computer Centre: 1978-1980 Triennial Submission’ from MRO to Deputy Vice Chancellor, ANU, 1977 (not directly related to the Birch Inquiry). MRO’s letters to A.W. Coulter, C.J. Bellamy, C. Wylde, J.A. Lambert, T.A. Reid, & I.N. Capon encouraging submissions to the Birch Inquiry, 1977. MRO’s letter to the Vice Chancellor, ANU, re his and G.N. Lance’s submissions, plus comments on the DCR, 1977.

16 Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society: Proposal for an Applied Mathematics Journal, discussions in 1973. Letter from J.J. Mahony inviting MRO to be an associate editor, 1974. Letter from J.J. Mahony confirming appointment of associate editors and outlining referring procedures, 1974. Correspondence with J.J. Mahony on policy concerning the publication of programs, 1975. Letter from D.J. Evans inviting MRO to assist with Computer Studies Quarterly (apparently declined), 1975. Letter to G.A. Watson clarifying journal’s objectives, 1976. Editor’s reports etc., 1977-1984. Letters inviting MRO to continue as associate editor, 1982 & 1985 (latter declined).

17 Computer Centres’ Managers’ Meetings, 1976: Prelimenary discussions for the foundation of a regular meeting, Brisbane (with memoranda), 1976. Agenda of presentation by MRO & J. Blackeby on ‘Facilities and Staffing – Australia and the UK’ Sydney, 1976.

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Series 5: Computer science at the Australian National University

1 ANU Computer Centre, 1970-1975: Overloading of Computing Facilities, 1970. Improvements, 1974. Letter from MRO re the Centre’s name, 1975.

2 University computing policy, 1976-1977: Note from J.G. Blackeby (Deakin) re suppliers for university computer equipment, 1976. Query from J.S. Ruhl (University of Werstern Australia) to MRO re rights over computer programs, 1977. Correspondence with I.M. Hunter (James Cook University) re university responses to unauthorised computer access, 1977.

3 The ANU Technical Committee (or Group), 1975: MRO’s memorandum re setting up of the Technical Committee, 1975. ‘Computer Equipment Requirements (Preliminary Report)’ (i.e. the group’s activities), 1975?. ‘Administrative Computing Requirements 1976-1978’, by P.G. Wilson, 1975. ‘Submission on Library Computer Requirements 1975-1980’, plus clarifying document, for the Group, 1975. ‘Report of the Technical Committee on Computer acquistion, 1975. ‘Largescale Computations using the University System’, 1975 (by MRO?).

4 The Plowman Committee of Inquiry into the ANU Computer Centre Management, leading to the separation of the service and academic groups, 1977. Closing of the Computer Sciences Research Group, library resources, 1979.

5 Computing at ANU, 1984-1985: Letter to ‘The ANU Reporter’ concerning super computer facilities, printed 9/11/84. Correspondence re the establishment of a School of Mathematics, 1987. MRO’s letter to the Committee of Review for the restructuring of RSSS, ANU, 1988. Submissions re a Section in Computational Mathematics in the Mathematical Sciences School, ANU, 1989. Memorandum re Supercomputing, ANUSF and CSIR, from R. Gingold to I. Ross, 1989. Strategic Plan for the Mathematical Sciences School (5th draft), ANU, by C.C. Hedye, 1989. Submissions re Advanced Computation in the Mathematical Sciences School, ANU, 1989-1994?. Proposal for a Research School of Information Technology and Engineering, ANU, and MRO’s response, 1993. R. Gingold to MRO re ANU Information Technology Direction Statement, 1993. Report on Mathematical Libraries (proposed extensions to the Software Development Collaboration – Appendix 2), 1994?. ANU memorandum re Strategic Planning in the Institute of Advanced Studies, 1994. ‘Proposal for the Establishment of an ANU Centre for the Science and Engineering of Materials’, 1994. Draft paper on the Proposal for the Establishment of a Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, 1995.

6 IMSL computer facilities, correspondence with R. Gingold (ANU), passed on to MRO, 1989.

7 Fujitsu computers at ANU, 1992: Notes on Fujitsu super-computers (by MRO?), 1992. ‘Initial suggestions for future areas of mathematical development for the Fujitsu NGS under the area 4 project’ (by MRO?), 1992.

Series 6: Computer Teaching in the ACT, 1970-1977

8 Computer Teaching in the ACT, 1970-1977: Memoranda on the development of computing courses at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1970-1977. Letter from the Committee on Community Education about Schooling re resources in the ACT, 1975. Proposal for ‘Doctoral Teachers’ by R. Johnson (ANU), 1977.

Series 7: Notes and transparencies for lectures and conferences, 1975-2000

Note: many do not give their date, occasion or even title.

9 Transparencies and notes for lectures, c.1975-c.1984: On computing in Australian universities (no title, occasion or date), 1975 (?). ‘Numerical solution of BVP’s’, no occasion given, 1982. Box containing: lecture with no title, date or occasion (first line: “Example: boundary value problem…”); “Aspects of l1 fitting”, University of Western Australia, 1983;‘Two finite algorithms for robust estimation’; ‘The new methods for linear programming’, ADFA, no date (post-1984); and ‘Fisher’s method of scoring’, no date or occasion given.

10 Transparencies and notes for lectures, c.1990?: Box: ‘Linear programming’, no date or occasion (first line: “Problem of minimizing linear function subject to linear inequality constraints”); and ‘Reduced gradient algorithm, no date or occasion. ‘Solving least square problems on vectors processors’. ‘General methods – about the algorithms, no date or occasion (first line: “Have seen potential for trouble: (a) inadequate data for scoring method leading to slow convergence…”).

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Series 7 (cont.)

1 Notes and transparencies for lectures, c.1990?: lecture with no title, date or occasion (first line: “Eigenvalue problem…”). ‘Finite Algorithms in Optimization’, no date or occasion. ‘The method of scoring for maximising likelihoods’, no date or occasion (first line: “Start with likelihoods based on exponential family…”). Notes for ‘Collocation methods for boundary value problems’, no date or occasion. Box: no title, date or occasion (first line: “The basic Linear Programming problem…”); transparency of P. Prony, “Essai expérimental et analytique (sur la dilatation)” plus lecture with no title, date or occasion (first line: “Problem: find b e Rp given…”). No name, date or occasion (first line: “To solve Ax = b”).

2 Notes and transparencies for lectures, early 1990s?: ‘1-step Newton’, 1992. Box: no title, date (post-1993?) or occasion (first lines: “Least squares…”; “Sound channels”; “Linear programming problem: primal…dual…”; “Simple Chemical Reaction…”).

3 Notes and transparencies for lectures, c.1994-1995: Box: ‘Computers and technology, 30th anniversary review’, 1994 and ‘Degeneracy: artefact of particular solution’ no date or occasion. ‘Program in advanced computation’, no date (1995?) or occasion. ‘Joint Work with Bob Russell’, no title, date or occasion. ‘Cyclic reduction, dichotomy and the estimation of differential equations’, no date or occasion.

4 Notes and transparencies for lectures, mid-1990s?: The Gauss-Newton algorithm…”, no date or occasion. ‘Polyhedral Convex Functions as models for statistics based on counting and rank’, no date or occasion. ‘C1 estimation’, no date or occasion. Box: Transparencies for paper, no title, date or occasion, starts with page 2 (first line: “Two-part BVP’s in OPE’s…”) and for ‘Exploiting parallelism in solving overdetermined multipoint problems’, MRO & Uri Ascher, no date or occasion.

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Series 7 (cont.)

1 Notes and transparencies for lectures, mid-1990s?: Box: no title, date or occasion (first line: “Problems: Basic optimization problem encountered is maximizing likelihood”); ‘L1 of Habeis-M’, no date or occasion; ‘Internal and restricted Least Squares’, no date or occasion; and ‘Strong uniqueness’, no date or occasion. No title, date or occasion given (first line: “Linear programming: minimize linear function subject to linear inequality constraints”.

2 Notes and transparencies for lectures, mid-1990s?: ‘Fitting solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations to Observed Data’ MRO & S. Bart Childs, 1995. ‘The Estimation and Smoothing Problems’, no date or occasion given. Box: ‘Fisher’s method of scoring’ (different from one listed above) and ‘Compartmental Modelling Problem’ (including D.H. Anderson’s lecture notes in Biomath, vol. 50, NY, 1983, and MRO on Prony), no date or occasion.

3 Notes and transparencies for lectures, c.1995?: ‘Old wine in new bottles: least squares in the context of ‘large scale’, parallel multi-processors’, no date or occasion. ‘Fisher’s Method of Scoring’, no date or occasion given. ‘Polyhedral Convex Functions’, no date or occasion given.

4 Notes and transparencies for lectures, 1996: ‘More Old Wine in New Bottles”, Special Day of Mathematics and Computation in Honour of Dr John Pollard, ANSTO Research Laboratories (plus conference programme). Box: ‘New algorithms for advanced computers’, no date or occasion (abstract starts: “Recursive doubling is an important paradigm in computational mathematics…”) and ‘Wrap-around partitioning for block-bidiagonal linear systems’, no occasion given.

5 Notes and transparencies for lectures, 1997: ‘A Hard Case!’, CTAC97 conference, Adelaide University. ‘Eigenvalues by inverse iteration and Newton’s method’.

6 Notes and transparencies for lectures, c.1998?: ‘An inverse problem in sound propagation’, no date or occasion. ‘Aspects of the estimation problem in differential equations, no date or occasion.

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Series 7 (cont.)

1 Notes and transparencies for lectures: ‘Apologies to Tom Stoppard’. ‘Inverse iteration and deflation in general eigenvalue problems’. ‘Variable selection and control in the linear least squares problem’.

2 Notes and transparencies for lectures, late 1990s?: No title, date or occasion (first line: “The linear programming problem: primal:… dual:…”). No title, date or occasion (first line: “Systems: Realy [sic] an intuitive or primary concept…”) (with business card of Dr Irene Pestov, Bureau of Rural Sciences).

3 Notes and transparencies for lectures, late 1990s?: No title, date or occasion (first line: “What is a large-scale eigenvale problem?’), with notes for ‘Program Report: Advanced Computation’. ‘Computational Techniques for Differential Equation Eigenvalue Problems on Vector Processors’, no date or occasion given. tTwo papers ‘Linesearch’, no date or occasion given.

4 Notes and transparencies for lectures, 1999: ‘An estimation problem in ODE’s’. ‘Numerical solution of hydrodynamic stability problems’, CTAC99 conference, Australian National University. ‘When is a Vertex Non-degenerate?’ & ‘When is a Vertex Optimal’, no occasion given.

5-6. Editorial files for Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B: Applied Mathematics, of which MRO was an associate editor. These files are in numbered order.

5 F 20 – F 24

6 F 25 – F 28

209/6 Editorial files for Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B: Applied Mathematics, of which MRO was an associate editor. These files are in numbered order.

1 F 29 – F 31

2 F 32 – F 35

3 F 36 – F38

4 F 39 – F 42

5 F 43 – F 46

209/7 Editorial files for Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B: Applied Mathematics, of which MRO was an associate editor. These files are in numbered order.

1 F 47 – F 49

2 F 50 – F F 52

3 F 53 – F 57

4 F 58 – F 61

5 F 62 – F 64

209/8 Editorial files for Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B: Applied Mathematics, of which MRO was an associate editor. These files are in numbered order.

1 F 67, F 68 and several unnumbered manuscripts

2 F 71 – F 74

3 F 75 – F 79

4 F 80 – F 84

5 F 85 – F 86

209/9 Editorial files for Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B: Applied Mathematics, of which MRO was an associate editor. These files are in numbered order.

1 F 87 -- F 91

2 F 92 – F 99

3 F 100 – F 103

4 F 104 – F 107

5 Miscellaneous manuscripts submitted to Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B: Applied Mathematics, 1987-1989

6 References for colleagues 1975-1995 (arranged alphabetically)

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