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 pdf
11.00 - 11.30 Jennifer Scott (RAL)The out-of-core challenge for large-scale problems pdf
11.30 - 12.00 Phil Knight (University of Strathclyde)A Fast Algorithm for Matrix Balancing pdf

12.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.30 Ronan Guivarch (ENSEEIHT)GRID-TLSE (Test for Large Systems of Equations) pdf
14.30 - 15.00 Dimitri Komatitsch (University of Pau)Large-scale parallel simulations of earthquakes at high frequency: the SPECFEM3D project pdf

15.00 - 15.30 Pause

15.30 - 15.50 Tzvetomila Slavova (CERFACS)Solution phase in out-of-core environment pdf
15.50 - 16.10 Azzam Haidar (CERFACS)A High-Performance Parallel Hybrid Solver for Large Sparse Linear Systems pdf
16.10 - 16.30 Xavier Pinel (CERFACS)Solution of the three-dimensional Helmholtz equation using Krylov methods preconditioned by multigrid pdf
16.30 - 16.50 Melodie Mouffe (CERFACS)Integration of bound constraints in a recursive multilevel trust-region algorithm pdf

17.00 - Scottish cocktails (and poetry)


Programme of Thursday, October 11th


09.30 - 10.00 Margherita Porcelli (Universita' di Firenze)Trust-region methods for rectangular systems of nonlinear equations pdf
10.00 - 10.30 Alex Pothen (Old Dominion University)The CSCAPES Project pdf
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 pdf
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

                 20th Anniversary of CERFACS

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 Friday, October 12th


9.30 - 10.00 Tim Davis (University of Florida)The History of UMFPACK and AMD ... back to CERFACS Days pdf
10.00 - 10.30 Valerie Fraysse (Kvasar Technology)Du canard au Black Duck pdf

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 pdf

12.30 - 13.45 Lunch

13.45 - 14.00 Jean-Christophe Rioual (NEC)NEC and the Algo experience
14.00 - 14.30 Osni Marques (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)Eigensolvers for Large Electronic Structure Calculations pdf
14.30 - 15.00 Lars Lundin (European Southern Observatory)ASCI Blue Mountain pdf

15.00 - 15.30 Pause

15.30 - 16.00 Yann Herve De Roeck (IFREMER)Modelling for the Coastal Environment pdf
16.00 - 16.30 Oleg Burdakov (Linkoping University)Monotonic data fitting and interpolation with application to postprocessing of FE solutions pdf
16.30 - 17.00 Jussi Rahola (Nokia Research Center)Characteristic mode analysis: eigenvalue analysis for antennas pdf

20.00 - 23.00 Algo dinner