AAPO First Friday Lecture

November’s First Friday Lecture, “Writing Reliable and Efficient Mathematical Software,” will be presented by Gabriel Dos Reis, assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University.

The lecture will be held Friday, November 6, 2009, in 111 Koldus. Lunch will be provided to registrants at 11:45 a.m. The lecture will begin at noon and end at 1:00 p.m. 

Dr. Dos Reis received his PhD in Mathematics in 2001 from Université Paris-VII and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France.  His research interests include mathematical software, programming languages and libraries, and generic programming.  Dr. Dos Reis is an active member of the ISO C++ standards committee where he regularly represents the French national association for standards.  He authored or co-authored several extensions to C++0x, the next revision to the C++ programming language. He leads the OpenAxiom project, an open source platform for scientific computation.  He served as Release Manager of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.

The First Friday Lecture Series is a program of the African American Professional Organization held the first Friday of the month and is sponsored by the Division of Research and Graduate Studies.

To learn more about the African American Professional Organization, visit their website.