George Labahn

Professor George Labahn's research interests span a variety of areas in mathematical computation particularly in the area of symbolic computation. Since 1993 he has been the Director of the Symbolic Computation Group, a research group best known for its creation of the MAPLE computer algebra system.

During the past twenty years Professor Labahn has been heavily involved in both algorithm and software development in the Maple system, particularly in the areas of graphical, numeric and symbolic computation. He has been the primary author or designer of the plots and plottools packages for graphical computation, DEtools (now with various other co-authors) for manipulation of differential equations, along with the author of algorithms for elliptic integration and for finding closed form solutions of linear differential equations. Additional software development includes packages for algebraic computation for numeric polynomial algebra and symbolic computation for matrix polynomial algebra.

Presently, George is working on projects for the algebraic reduction of matrices of differential and recurrence operators. In particular, these reductions can be used for finding closed form solutions for differential-algebraic systems.

Professor Labahn has been a visiting professor at both the University of Lille and the University of Limoges in France. In addition he spent three months at INRIA, the leading research organization in France. His primary industrial interaction has been with MapleSoft Inc. where he has been involved with both software design and implementation.