Charles Anthony Micchelli

Charles Anthony Micchelli (born December 22, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American mathematician, with an international reputation in numerical analysis, approximation theory, and machine learning.

Biography

As the youngest of four children, he was born into an Italian-American family. After graduating from Newark's East Side High School, he attended Rutgers University, where he graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He then became a graduate student at Stanford University. After taking a course on Chebyshev polynomials taught by Gábor Szegő, he became interested in approximation theory. Micchelli graduated in 1969 with a PhD from Stanford University. His PhD thesis Saturation Classes and Iterates of Operators was supervised by Samuel Karlin.

Influenced by Gene Golub and recognizing the growing importance of computers and numerical analysis, Micchelli accepted a postgraduate invitation at the University of Uppsala's computer sciences department. On his return to Stanford University he met IBM researcher Theodore J. Rivlin, who was visiting Karlin and Golub. Rivlin recruited Micchelli to become a researcher for the mathematical sciences department of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There Micchelli did research from 1970 to 2000 and was a visiting professor at more than twenty universities in various countries, including in Israel, Sweden, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Chile, the United States, Spain, Canada, and Singapore. In 2000 he retired as an emeritus of IBM and became a professor of mathematics at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Micchelli is the author or co-author of more than 275 research publications and is on the list of ISI's Highly Cited Researchers. He has made contributions to the theory of total positivity, multivariate splines, refinability, geometric modeling, wavelets, interpolation by radial functions, neural networks, and machine learning theory. In 1974 I. J. Schoenberg presented a new approach to Micchelli's theory of cardinal L-splines. In 1983 Micchelli was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.

Through his numerous research stays at universities, conferences, invitations and even family trips, Micchelli has traveled throughout the world many times, At a mathemtical congress, at the Oberwolfach Institute, he began his relationship with the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) through a meeting with Professor Mariano Gasca from UNIZAR's department of applied mathematics. Micchelli was on sabbatical at UNIZAR for the academic year 1988–1989 and with Gasca was the co-director in 1989 of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computation of Curves and Surfaces in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife from July 10th to 21st, 1989. Since then, especially in the 1990s, Micchelli has repeatedly visited and contributed academically to UNIZAR, which awarded him a honorary doctorate in 1994.

Starting an organizational effort in 1991, Micchelli was one the founding editors of the journal Advances in Computational Mathematics (with first issue in February 1993) and became the founding co-editor-in-chief with John Charles Mason (1941–2016). Micchelli has also served on the editorial boards of several other international journals.

In 1965 he married his wife Patricia, who was his schoolmate since childhood. They have two children, Craig (born 1970) and Lisa (born 1972). In 2006 Craig A. Micchelli joined the faculty of the department of developmental biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Selected publications

Articles

• Micchelli, C. A.; Rivlin, T. J. (1972). "Turán Formulae and Highest Precision Quadrature Rules for Chebyshev Coefficients". IBM Journal of Research and Development. 16 (4): 372–379. doi:10.1147/rd.164.0372.
• Micchelli, C. A.; Rivlin, T. J. (1973). "Numerical integration rules near Gaussian quadrature". Israel Journal of Mathematics. 16 (3): 287–299. doi:10.1007/BF02756708. S2CID 121533778.
• Micchelli, C. A. (1975). "Convergence of Positive Linear Operators on C(X)" (PDF). Journal of Approximation Theory. 13: 305–315.
• Micchelli, C. A.; Rivlin, T. J. (1977). "A Survey of Optimal Recovery". Optimal Estimation in Approximation Theory. pp. 1–54. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-2388-4_1. ISBN 978-1-4684-2390-7.
• Micchelli, Charles A.; Sharma, A. (1980). "Spline Functions on the Circle: Cardinal L-Splines Revisited". Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 32 (6): 1459–1473. doi:10.4153/CJM-1980-115-9.
• Johnson, Olin G.; Micchelli, Charles A.; Paul, George (1983). "Polynomial Preconditioners for Conjugate Gradient Calculations". SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 20 (2): 362–376. Bibcode:1983SJNA...20..362J. doi:10.1137/0720025.
• Dahmen, Wolfgang; Micchelli, Charles A. (1983). "Translates of multivarlate splines". Linear Algebra and Its Applications. 52–53: 217–234. doi:10.1016/0024-3795(83)80015-9.
• Micchelli, C. A.; Rivlin, T. J. (1985). "Lectures on optimal recovery". Numerical Analysis Lancaster 1984. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 1129. pp. 21–93. doi:10.1007/BFb0075157. ISBN 978-3-540-15234-7.
• Micchelli, Charles A. (1986). "Interpolation of scattered data: Distance matrices and conditionally positive definite functions". Constructive Approximation. 2: 11–22. doi:10.1007/BF01893414. S2CID 189914732.
• Mhaskar, H.N; Micchelli, Charles A. (1992). "Approximation by superposition of sigmoidal and radial basis functions". Advances in Applied Mathematics. 13 (3): 350–373. doi:10.1016/0196-8858(92)90016-P. 1992
• Dahmen, Wolfgang; Micchelli, Charles A.; Seidel, Hans-Peter (1992). "Blossoming begets $B$-spline bases built better by $B$-patches". Mathematics of Computation. 59 (199): 97. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1992-1134724-1.
• Dahmen, Wolfgang; Micchelli, Charles A. (1993). "Using the Refinement Equation for Evaluating Integrals of Wavelets". SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 30 (2): 507–537. doi:10.1137/0730024.
• Jia, Rong-Qing; Micchelli, Charles A. (1993). "On linear independence for integer translates of a finite number of functions". Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 36: 69–85. doi:10.1017/S0013091500005903.
• Micchelli, Charles A.; Xu, Yuesheng (1994). "Using the Matrix Refinement Equation for the Construction of Wavelets on Invariant Sets". Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 1 (4): 391–401. doi:10.1006/acha.1994.1024.
• Micchelli, C.A.; Sauer, Thomas (1997). Advances in Computational Mathematics. 7 (4): 455–545. doi:10.1023/A:1018971524949. S2CID 18838600. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Dahmen, W.; Micchelli, C. A. (1997). "Biorthogonal Wavelet Expansions". Constructive Approximation. 13 (3): 293–328. doi:10.1007/s003659900045. S2CID 15299124.
• Micchelli, Charles A.; Pontil, Massimiliano (2005). "On Learning Vector-Valued Functions". Neural Computation. 17 (1): 177–204. doi:10.1162/0899766052530802. PMID 15563752. S2CID 12725766.
• Micchelli, Charles A.; Shen, Lixin; Xu, Yuesheng (2011). "Proximity algorithms for image models: Denoising". Inverse Problems. 27 (4): 045009. Bibcode:2011InvPr..27d5009M. doi:10.1088/0266-5611/27/4/045009.
• Micchelli, Charles A.; Shen, Lixin; Xu, Yuesheng; Zeng, Xueying (2013). "Proximity algorithms for the L1/TV image denoising model". Advances in Computational Mathematics. 38 (2): 401–426. doi:10.1007/s10444-011-9243-y. S2CID 20378302.
• Chen, Zhongying; Micchelli, Charles A.; Xu, Yuesheng (2002). "Fast Collocation Methods for Second Kind Integral Equations". SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 40: 344–375. doi:10.1137/S0036142901389372.

Books

• Cavaretta, Alfred S.; Dahmen, Wolfgang; Micchelli, Charles A. (1991). Stationary Subdivision. ISBN 9780821825075.
• Micchelli, Charles A. (January 1995). Mathematical Aspects of Geometric Modeling. ISBN 9780898713312.
• Chen, Zhongying; Micchelli, Charles A.; Xu, Yuesheng (16 July 2015). Multiscale Methods for Fredholm Integral Equations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316381304.

as editor

• Selected Papers of Alan Hoffman with Commentary. World Scientific. 2003. ISBN 9789812796936.
• Gasca, Mariano; Micchelli, Charles A., eds. (9 March 2013). Total Positivity and Its Applications. ISBN 9789401586740.