Theory and Applications of Gaussian Quadrature Methods

Narayan Kovvali received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, as Assistant Research Scientist. He currently holds the position of Assistant Research Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. His research interests include statistical signal processing, detection, estimation, stochastic filtering and tracking, Bayesian data analysis, multi-sensor data fusion, Monte Carlo methods, and scientific computing. Dr. Kovvali is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

• Introduction.- Approximating with Polynomials and Related Functions.- Gaussian Quadrature.- Applications.- Links to Mathematical Software.