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HideNicholas West
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I am a PhD student at MIT studying applied mathematics. My research focuses on numerical linear algebra, polynomial and rational approximation theory, and applications thereof. Some of my recent research projects include the following:
Spectral density estimation for normal matrices. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31430)
What is Jackson's constant? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23375)
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A short introduction to matvec algorithms part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2026:Activities
This is the first installment in a short series on "matvec algorithms," which are algorithms for linear algebraic problems that primarily use matrix-vector products rather than full matrix operations such ...