Acta Numerica 2012: Volume 21 Acta Numerica Series

Acta Numerica is an annual publication containing invited survey papers by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The papers present overviews of recent developments in their area and provide state-of-the-art techniques and analysis.

1. The heterogeneous multiscale method Assyr Abdulle, Weinan E, Björn Engquist and Eric Vanden-Eijnden; 2. Numerical-asymptotic boundary integral methods in high frequency acoustic scattering Simon N. Chandler-Wilde, Ivan G. Graham, Stephen Langdon and Euan A. Spence; 3. Mathematical cancer therapy planning in deep regional hyperthermia Peter Deuflhard, Anton Schiela and Martin Weiser; 4. High performance computing systems: status and outlook J. J. Dongarra and A. J. van der Steen; 5. Secrets of image denoising cuisine M. Lebrun, M. Colom, A. Buades and J. M. Morel; 6. Pricing futures with deterministic methods Olivier Pironneau.

Arieh Iserles is Professor of Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations at the University of Cambridge.