Sparse Days 2007 : Schedule
Sparse Days at CERFACS Meeting,
October 10-12, 2007, Toulouse, France
Programme of Wednesday, October 10th
10.00 - 10.30 Opening remarks
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Didier Henrion (LAAS) | Semidefinite programming for polynomial optimization and robust control | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Jennifer Scott (RAL) | The out-of-core challenge for large-scale problems | |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Phil Knight (University of Strathclyde) | A Fast Algorithm for Matrix Balancing |
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Ronan Guivarch (ENSEEIHT) | GRID-TLSE (Test for Large Systems of Equations) | |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Dimitri Komatitsch (University of Pau) | Large-scale parallel simulations of earthquakes at high frequency: the SPECFEM3D project |
15.00 - 15.30 Pause
| 15.30 - 15.50 | Tzvetomila Slavova (CERFACS) | Solution phase in out-of-core environment | |
| 15.50 - 16.10 | Azzam Haidar (CERFACS) | A High-Performance Parallel Hybrid Solver for Large Sparse Linear Systems | |
| 16.10 - 16.30 | Xavier Pinel (CERFACS) | Solution of the three-dimensional Helmholtz equation using Krylov methods preconditioned by multigrid | |
| 16.30 - 16.50 | Melodie Mouffe (CERFACS) | Integration of bound constraints in a recursive multilevel trust-region algorithm |
17.00 Scottish cocktails (and poetry)
Programme of Thursday, October 11th
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Margherita Porcelli (Universita' di Firenze) | Trust-region methods for rectangular systems of nonlinear equations | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Alex Pothen (Old Dominion University) | The CSCAPES Project | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Martin van Gijzen (Delft University) | IDR(s): a family of simple and fast algorithms for solving large nonsymmetric systems of linear equations | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Francoise Chaitin-Chatelin (CERFACS) | Measuring the product of vectors by SVD in 2^k dimensional spaces, k>=1 |
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon
There will be general CERFACS activities on the afternoon and evening with talks by Algo related people including Gene Golub, Gerard Meurant, Philippe Toint and Alan Edelman.
Programme of Wednesday, October 10th
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Tim Davis (University of Florida) | The History of UMFPACK and AMD ... back to CERFACS Days | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Valerie Fraysse (Kvasar Technology) | Du canard au Black Duck |
10.30 - 11.00 Pause
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Jean-Claude Dunyach (Airbus) | How to write a successful European proposal using Science-Fiction techniques | pdf ppt |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Alan Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Interactive supercomputing with star-p in MATLAB(r) and PYTHON | pdf link |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Julien Langou (Univ Colorado) | All Reduce Algorithms: Application to Householder QR Factorization |
12.30 - 13.45 Lunch
| 13.45 - 14.00 | Jean-Christophe Rioual (NEC) | NEC and the Algo experience | pdf
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| 14.00 - 14.30 | Osni Marques (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) | Eigensolvers for Large Electronic Structure Calculations | |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Lars Lundin (European Southern Observatory) | ASCI Blue Mountain | pdf
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15.00 - 15.30 Pause
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Yann Herve De Roeck (IFREMER) | Modelling for the Coastal Environment | |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Oleg Burdakov (Linkoping University) | Monotonic data fitting and interpolation with application to postprocessing of FE solutions | |
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Jussi Rahola (Nokia Research Center) | Characteristic mode analysis: eigenvalue analysis for antennas |
20.00 - 23.00 Algo dinner



