University of Linköping, Dept. of Mathematics

Tommy Elfving

  • Professor Emeritus in Scientific Computing.

  • Research Areas:
    Numerical Linear Algebra, Iteration theory, Inverse Problems, Optimization.
    Applications include analysis and construction of algorithms for computerized tomography,
    and related reconstruction problems.
    For a short presentation of my research (in Swedish) see: Presentation:

  • Undergraduate Teaching.
    I have been developing and teaching basic courses in scientific computing,
    as well as secondary courses in numerical linear algebra, numerical methods for differential equations
    and parallel computing.
    During several years I was 'studierektor' responsible for undergraduate teaching in scientific computing
    for engineering programs. I have also taught courses in mathematics and optimization.
    Together with colleagues an exercise book was published at Studentlitteratur (1992, 2002, 2nd ed.).

  • Graduate Courses
    Finite Elements: theory and practice
    Iterative methods for unsymmetric matrices
    Support vector machines
    Matrix computations
    Discrete ill-Posed Problems
    Computational Inverse problems in Tomography (my last course).

  • Graduate students
    Graduate students

  • Master students
    Master students

  • Publications up to 2003
    Publ-old

  • Publications from 2004 and onwards
    Publ-new

    • Tommy Elfving;

    Department of Mathematics
    Linköping University
    S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
    E-mail: toelf@mai.liu.se
    Phone: +46 13 28 21 86
    Fax: +46 13 10 07 46