Fields of Specialization:

Numerical optimization, numerical linear algebra.

Interests:

Linear programming, nonlinear programming, sparse matrix methods, iterative solvers.
Design and implementation of algorithms for constrained optimization and sparse linear equations (including sparse least squares).

Co-author of constrained optimization packages:

MINOS, NPSOL, LSSOL, QPOPT, SQOPT, SNOPT.
     See Stanford Business Software, Inc. for descriptions of each package.
     Stanford users and UCSD users may obtain code and manuals free.
     Please come and chat about your application:
          saunders @ Stanford.edu or walter @ Stanford.edu and pgill @ ucsd.edu (respectively).
     Matlab interface to MINOS:  CMEX files.

I'm always glad to see output from MINOS, SYMMLQ, LSQR, etc.
If you're having trouble I'll try to help.
Send me email: saunders @ Stanford.edu
     (Attachments are OK, but please, no MS WORD documents!)