Information
- March 29 - 31, 2007
- Stanford University
Schedule
| Conference Events | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Date(s) | Time | Location |
| Registration | March 29, 2007 | 7:30 am | Hewlett 200 Auditorium |
| Opening | March 29, 2007 | 8:45 am | Hewlett 200 Auditorium |
| Talks | March 29 - 31, 2007 | 9:00 am - 5:40 pm | Hewlett 200 Auditorium |
| Welcome Reception and Poster Session | March 29, 2007 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Packard |
| Banquet | March 30, 2007 | 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Stanford Faculty Club |
| Thursday | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | |
| 7:30 am | Registration Desk Opens | |
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks by Gene Golub, Stanford University | |
| First SessionChair: James Varah | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Cleve Moler (The MathWorks) | Recollections of a Stanford NA groupie |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Beresford Parlett (UC Berkeley) | Stanford from 1958 to 1961 |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Richard Brent (Australian National University) | George Forsythe's last paper |
| 10:15 am - 10:40 am | Paul Saylor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Stanford's Foresight and Forsythe's Stanford |
| Second SessionChair: Richard Bartels | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Pete Stewart (University of Maryland) | A residual inverse power method |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Bill Gear (Princeton University) | Future directions in petascale computing: Explicit methods for implicit problems |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Paul Van Dooren (Université Catholique de Louvain) | Optimizing PageRank by choosing outlinks |
| 12:15 pm - 12:40 pm | Sabine Van Huffel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | The impact of numerical linear algebra in computational biomedical signal processing |
| Third SessionChair: Victor Pereyra | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 2:00 pm - 2:25 pm | Bertil Gustafsson (Stanford University) | High order one-step difference methods for wave propagation |
| 2:25 pm - 2:50 pm | Chris Paige (McGill University) | Accuracy of Ritz values from a given subspace |
| 2:50 pm - 3:15 pm | Bart De Moor (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | Numerical linear algebra in subspace system identification |
| 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara) | Future directions in computational systems biology |
| Fourth SessionChair: Haesun Park | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 4:00 pm - 4:25 pm | Philip Gill (UC San Diego) | Iterative methods for generalized saddle-point problems |
| 4:25 pm - 4:50 pm | Stephen Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Finding sparse solutions of underdetermined systems: Gradient Projection approaches |
| 4:50 pm - 5:15 pm | Michael Ferris (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Optimization modeling: Recent enhancements and future extensions |
| 5:15 pm - 5:40 pm | Michael Foster (NSF), Lenore Mullin (NSF), Eun Park (NSF) | Grand challenges in computational mathematics and numerical/symbolic computing: An NSF view |
| Welcome Reception and Poster Session | ||
| Time | Presenters | Judges |
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Graduate Students Junior Scientists |
Petter Bjørstad (University of Bergen) Howard Elman (University of Maryland) Michael Heath (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain) James Nagy (Emory University) Andy Wathen (University of Oxford) |
| Location: Packard | ||
| Friday | ||
| First SessionChair: Gerard Meurant | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Andy Wathen (University of Oxford) | Matrix iterations and saddle-point systems: From optimization to Navier-Stokes and back |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Marcus Grote (Universität Basel) | Computational wave propagation in bounded and unbounded domains |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Liliana Borcea (Rice University) | Model reduction and electrical impedance tomography |
| 10:15 am - 10:40 am | Martin Gander (Université de Genève) | A best approximation problem with application to parallel computing |
| Second SessionChair: Walter Gander | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Chen Greif (University of British Columbia) | Block preconditioners for saddle point systems: a junction of linear algebra, constrained optimization, and PDEs |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Roland Freund (UC Davis) | Krylov subspace-based dimension reduction of large-scale linear dynamical systems |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Bernd Fischer (Universität zu Lübeck) | Mathematics meets medicine |
| 12:15 pm - 12:40 pm | Steve Vavasis (University of Waterloo) | An SVD-based approach to nonnegative matrix factorization |
| Third SessionChair: Åke Björck | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 2:00 pm - 2:25 pm | Iain Duff (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | Combining direct and iterative methods for the solution of large systems in different application areas |
| 2:25 pm - 2:50 pm | Bo Kågström (Umeå Universitet) | Product eigenvalue problems: Computing periodic deflating subspaces associated with a specified set of eigenvalues |
| 2:50 pm - 3:15 pm | Ahmed Sameh (Purdue University) | A parallel banded system solver |
| 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Howard Elman (University of Maryland) | The stochastic finite element method: Recent results and future directions |
| Fourth SessionChair: Michele Benzi | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 4:00 pm - 4:25 pm | Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick) | MCMC in infinite dimensions |
| 4:25 pm - 4:50 pm | Dianne O'Leary (University of Maryland) | Parallel matrix computation: From the ILLIAC to quantum computing |
| 4:50 pm - 5:15 pm | Grace Wahba (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | A statistician's debt to numerical analysts |
| 5:15 pm - 5:40 pm | William Kahan (UC Berkeley) | Why I can debug some numerical programs and you can't |
| Banquet: Celebrating Gene Golub's 75th Birthday | ||
| Time | After-Dinner Speakers | Title |
| 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Charles Van Loan (Cornell University) | Reflections on Stan50 and GHG75 |
| Walter Gander (ETH) | Numerical Analysis at Stanford: Some Memories of a Golden Year | |
| Location: Stanford Faculty Club | ||
| Saturday | ||
| First SessionChair: Petter Bjørstad | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Rob Schreiber (Hewlett-Packard) | Manycores in the future |
| 9:25 am - 9:50 am | Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee) | The challenge of multicore and specialized accelerators for mathematical software |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Vani Cheruvu† (National Center for Atmospheric Research) | A spectral finite volume/flux corrected transport method for shallow water equations |
| 10:15 am - 10:40 am | James Lambers† (Stanford University) | The evolution of Krylov subspace spectral methods |
| † Winner of the Poster Competition | ||
| Second SessionChair: Michael Heath | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Carl de Boor (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Issues in multivariate polynomial interpolation |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Tony Chan (UC Los Angeles) | Duality methods for nonlinear image processing |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Andrew Bradley† (Stanford University) | Initialization of the limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian for discretized continuous optimization problems |
| 12:15 pm - 12:40 pm | Sarah Williams† (UC Davis) | A multiscale hybrid method for compressible fluids, with fluctuations |
| † Winner of the Poster Competition | ||
| Third SessionChair: Nancy Nichols | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 2:00 pm - 2:25 pm | Jim Demmel (UC Berkeley) | Suggested extra credit questions for a future edition of Golub & Van Loan |
| 2:25 pm - 2:50 pm | Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford) | Beating Gauss quadrature |
| 2:50 pm - 3:15 pm | Boris Efros† (Ben-Gurion University) | DSHAS - Algorithm for real-time calculation of discrete X-ray transform over a sliding window |
| 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Laurent Demanet† (Stanford University) | Fast computation of Fourier integral operators |
| † Winner of the Poster Competition | ||
| Panel Discussion: The Next 50 YearsModerator: Bill Coughran | ||
| Time | Panelist | |
| 4:00 pm - 5:45 pm | Zhaojun Bai (UC Davis) Margot Gerritsen (Stanford University) Tammy Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories) Paul Tupper (McGill University) |
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