International Linear Algebra Year : workshop on Iterative Methods

   International Linear Algebra Year 
Workshop on Iterative Methods
June 10-13, 1996

Programme

Click the (underlined) title to download the abstract of the talk. A more detailed programme of the workshop and a collection of all the abstracts can be found here.

Monday June 10 : Industrial Day

Morning session
Chairman : G. Golub (Stanford University, USA)

F. Lafon (Thomson-CSF, France),
Parallel methods for solving large electromagnetic problems on cluster of workstations.
P. W. Hemker (CWI, the Netherlands),
Navier-Stokes and semiconductor modelling: Two applications of adaptive non-linear Finite Volume Multigrid. A survey.
F. X. Roux (ONERA, France),
Parallel solution of real life problems with the dual Schur complement method.
G. Meurant (CEA, France),
Numerical experiments in estimating errors in the CG algorithm.

Afternoon session
Chairman : C. Puglisi (CERFACS, France)

R. Tuminaro (Sandia National Laboratories, USA),
AZTEC: A parallel iterative package for the solution of linear systems arising from unstructured problems.
M. Heroux (Cray Research, USA),
A Survey of Sparse BLAS Efforts.
Short presentation of the posters
Poster session (see below for more details)

Tuesday June 11 : Krylov Methods

Morning session
Chairman : M. Benzi (CERFACS, France)

H. A. van der Vorst (Utrecht University, the Netherlands),
Hybrid Iteration Methods.
A. Wathen (Oxford University, UK),
Minimum Residual Methods for Augmented Systems.
A. Greenbaum (New York University, USA),
Some Uses of the Symmetric Lanczos Algorithm -- and Why it Works!
M. Arioli (CNR-Pavia, Italy),
Stopping Criteria in Iterative Methods for Solving PDE's.

Afternoon session
Chairman : B. Fischer (Medical University Lübeck, Germany)

G. H. Golub (Stanford University, USA),
Matrices, moments and quadrature.
T. Chan (UCLA, USA),
Wavelet Approximate Inverse Preconditioners.
D. Silvester (UMIST, UK),
Fast iterations imply optimally stabilised discretisation methods.
H. C. Elman (University of Maryland, USA),
Preconditioning for the Steady-State Navier-Stokes Equations with Low Viscosity.

Wednesday June 12 : Domain Decomposition Methods

Morning session
Chairman : X.-C. Cai (University of Colorado, USA)

J. Douglas (Purdue University, USA),
Domain Decomposition Methods in Porous Medium Simulation.
A. Quarteroni (Politecnico di Milano and CRS4, Italy),
Domain Decomposition Methods for Convection-Diffusion Equations.
Y. Maday (Université Paris VI, France),
Iterative Substructuring Preconditioners for the Mortar Finite Element Method in Two Dimensions.
Y. Kuznetsov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia),
Iterative Methods for Finite Element Problems with Non-matching Grids.

Afternoon session
Chairman : F. D'Almeida (University of Porto, Portugal)

P. Le Tallec (INRIA, France),
Generalised Neumann-Neumann Preconditioners for Iterative Substructuring.
D. E. Keyes (Old Dominion University and NASA Langley Research Center, USA),
Multi-domain and Multi-model Aspects of Newton-Krylov-Schwarz Methods.

Thursday June 13 : Multigrid Methods

Morning session
Chairman : P. Spiteri (ENSEEIHT-IRIT, France)

W. Hackbusch (Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany),
On a Composite FEM resolving small details of the boundary.
S. Brenner (University of South Carolina, USA),
Multigrid Methods for Stress Intensity Factors.
C. C. Douglas (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Yale University, USA),
Multigrid on Unstructured Grids Using an Auxiliary Set of Structured Grids.
P. Deuflhard (ZIB, Germany),
The cascade principle and cascadic multigrid methods.

Afternoon session
Chairman : I. Duff (CERFACS, France & RAL, UK)

T. A. Manteuffel (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA),
FOSLS (First-Order Systems Least Squares) : An Overview.
Another topic you may discuss with the speaker:
Conjugate Gradient Algorithms Using Multiple Recursions.
U. Rüde (Institut für Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, Germany),
Parallel Multilevel Adaptive Iteration.

Poster session (scheduled for Monday afternoon)

N. Atallah and A. Rigal (Université Paul Sabatier, France),
Finite Difference Schemes for Diffusion-convection Problems: Pseudospectra and Flow Directed Iterations.
A. Basermann (Research Centre Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany),
Parallelization Techniques for Sparse Iterative Solvers.
R. Guivarch (ENSEEIHT, France), P. Spiteri (ENSEEIHT, France), J.C. Miellou (University of Besançon, France), and D. El Baz (LAAS, France),
Parallelization of Subdomains Methods with Overlapping for the Resolution of Convection-diffusion Problem.
Th. Rottner, I. Lenhardt, G. Alefeld, and K. Schweizerhof (University of Karlsruhe, Germany),
Nonlinear Structural Finite Element Analysis using the Preconditioned Lanczos Method on Serial and Parallel Computers.
M. Sarkis (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA),
Parallel Domain Decomposition Methods Applied to the Unsteady Compressible Navier-Stokes Flows on Unstructured Meshes.
Y. Shapira (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel),
Parallelizable Approximate Solvers for Recursions Arising in Preconditioning.
C. Vuik (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands),
A preconditioned Krylov subspace method for least squares problems.

Local organizing committee

Craig Douglas (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Yale University),
Luc Giraud (CERFACS).

Location & Accommodation

The workshop took place at the UNESCO Centre in Toulouse.

For more information, please contact:

   ILAY Secretariat
   CERFACS                               Fax : (+33) 61-19-30-00
   Parallel Algorithms Project
   42 Avenue G. Coriolis                 Email : wlay@cerfacs.fr
   31057 Toulouse CEDEX
   France

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