Keast, Patrick

Professor
PhD - University of St Andrews (1967)
BSc -University of Edinburgh (1964)

e-mail:keast@mathstat.dal.ca

Research Interests:
- Numerical Integration (one - and multi - dimensional)
- Numerical Linear Algebra
- Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
Selected Recent Publications:
- Collocation software based on a Runge-Kutta time integrator for 1-D Parabolic PDEs and Schrodinger type problems, with spatial and temporal error control, Rong Wang, Pat Keast and Paul H. Muir, to appear in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 34, #3,2008.
- A comparision of adaptive software for 1-D parabolic PDEs, Rong Wang,
  Pat Keast and Paul H. Muir, J. Comput. Appl. Math., 196 (2004), 127-150.
  Available in PDF form, and Postscript form.
- A high-order global spatially adaptive collocation method for 1-D parabolic
  PDEs, Rong Wang, Pat Keast and Paul H. Muir, Appl. Nume. Math.,
  50 (2004), 239 -260.
  Available in PDF form, and Postscript form.
- BACOL: B-spline Adaptive COLlocation software for 1 -D parabolic PDEs,
  Rong Wang, Pat Keast and Paul H. Muir, ACM Trans. Math. Soft.,
  30 ( 2004), 454 -470
  The software can be obtained here.
- Pulse Detection in Initial Value ODEs, with Amy Hynick and Paul H. Muir,
  Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 40 ( 2004 ), 1335 - 1350. Available in PDF form, and Postscript form. The software can be obtained here.