THEMATIC PROGRAMS

Numerical and Computational Challenges in Science and Engineering

Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra in Scientific and Engineering Applications
October 29 - November 2, 2001
The Fields Institute, Second Floor

Organizers:
Gene H. Golub (Stanford University)
Esmond G. Ng (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Monday October 29
8:30 - 9:00	Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00	Francois Gygi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Numerical challenges of large-scale first-principles molecular dynamics
10:00 - 10:20	Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:20	Lieven De Lathauwer, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise Independent component analysis and multilinear algebra
11:20 - 12:00	Wilfried N. Gansterer, University of Tennessee Approximating Eigenpairs in Quantum Chemistry (pdf file of presentation)
12:00 -1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30	Jacob White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Model Order Reduction Applied to IC Design Problems
2:30 - 3:10	Chen Greif, Parametric Technology Corporation Techniques for solving indefinite linear systems
3:10 - 3:30	Afternoon Tea
3:30 - 4: 30	Gene Golub, Stanford University Coxeter Lecture #1 - Matrices, moments and quadrature
4:30 - 6:30	Reception
Tuesday October 30
8:30 - 9:30	Marko Huhtanen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology On generating discrete orthogonal bivariate polynomials
9:30 - 10:30	Jianbo Shi, Carnegie Mellon University Image Segmentation and Grouping with Normalize Cut
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30	Kenneth Driessel, Colorado State University On a Zero-preserving Iso-spectral Flow
11:30 - 12:10	Justin Wan, University of Waterloo Solving Complex Symmetric Linear Systems with Multiple Right-Hand Sides
12:10 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30	Olavi Nevanlinna, Helsinki University of Technology Bounds for Krylov solvers which are robust in low rank perturbations
2:30 - 3:10	Oleg Diyankov, Russian Federal Nuclear Centre-VNIITF The ILU-type Preconditioner with 2 Drop Tolerance Parameters
3:10 - 3:30	Afternoon Tea
3:30 - 4:30	Gene Golub, Stanford University Coxeter Lecture #2 -Matrices, moments and quadrature
Wednesday October 31
8:30 - 9:30	John Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Frontal and multifrontal codes in HSL 2000 for direct solution of large sparse sets of linear equations
9:30 - 10:30	Mark Baertschy, University of Colorado, Boulder Solution of a three-Body problem in quantum mechanics using sparse linear algebra on parallel compucters
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30	Tucker Carrington, Universite de Montreal Using Preconditioned Inexact Spectral Transform Methods to Calculate Vibration Energy Levels and Metastables State Lifetimes
11:30 - 12:10	Dhavide Aruliah, The Fields Institute Multigrid Preconitioning for Time-harmonic Maxwell's Equations in 3D
12:10 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30	Nicola Mastronardi, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Fast algorithms for Structured Total Least Squares in Speech Compression
2:30 - 3:10	Zhaojun Bai, University of California, Davis Second-order Dynamical Systems: quadratic eigenvalue problem and reduced-order modeling
3:10 - 3:30	Afternoon Tea
3:30 - 4:30	Xiao-Wen Chang, McGill University A Recursive Least Squares Approach for GPS Based Positioning
Thursday November 1
8:30 - 9:30	Jim Nagy, Emory University Preconditioned Iterative Methods for Image Restoration
9:30 - 10:30	Chao Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Challenges in Cryo-Electron Microscopy Image Reconstruction
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30	Richard B. Lehoucq, Sandia National Labs An Automated Multilevel Substructuring Method for Eigenspace Computation in Linear Elastodynamics
11:30 - 12:10	Nicola Mastronardi, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Fast computation of the eigenvalues of diagonal plus semiseparable matrices
12:10 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30	Peter Forsyth, University of Waterloo Penalty methods for American options
2:30 - 3:10	Petter Wiberg, University of Toronto Hedging with Value-at-risk
3:10 - 3:30	Afternoon Tea
3:30 - 4:30	Gene Golub, Stanford University Coxeter Lecture #3 -Matrices, moments and quadrature
Friday November 2
8:30 - 9:30	Eldad Haber, University of British Columbia Techniques for Forward and Inverse Electromagnetic Problems in 3D
9:30 - 10:10	Gregory Lewis, The Fields Institute The Numerical Approximation of Eigenvalues in the Differentially Heated Rotating Fluid Annulus
10:10 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 -11:10	Xiezhang Li, Georgia Southern University The Representation and Iterative Methods for Drazin Inverse with Complex Spectrum
11:10 - 11:50	Christina Christara, University of Toronto Fast Fourier Transform Solvers and Preconditioners for Quadratic Spline Collocation
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