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University of Minnesota

Minneapolis

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
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Preliminary schedule for

1999 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrix Problems in Industrial Applications

June 10-12, 1999

sponsored by
University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for
Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation and
University of Waterloo

in cooperation with SIAM

All activities will be held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455


Wednesday, June 9,1999

7:00-9:00 p.m. Registration and reception at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome in room

Thursday, June 10, 1999
7:40 a.m. Lee Lines coach arrives Radisson Hotel Metrodome
7:50 a.m. Lee Lines coach departs Radisson Hotel Metrodome for Humphrey Center
8:00 a.m. Lee Lines coach arrives Humphrey Center
8:20 a.m. Welcome
8:30-9:10 a.m Charbel Farhat, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Recent Advances in the FETI Method for Structural Mechanics and Acoustic Scattering Problems"
9:10-9:50 a.m. Peter A. Forsyth, University of Waterloo, Canada, "Iterative Methods for Multi-factor Option Pricing"
10:15-10:45 a.m. L.Yu. Kolotilina, A.A. Nikishin, and A.Yu. Yeremin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, "Factorized Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioning. IV: Simple Approaches to Rising Efficiency"
10:45-11:15 a.m. Edmond Chow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Parallel Preconditioning for Multiphysics Simulations with Sliding Interfaces"
11:15-11:45 a.m. B. Carpentieri, I.S. Duff, and L. Giraud, European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation, France, "Sparse Preconditioning of Dense Problems from Electromagnetic Applications"
11:45-12:15 p.m. Robert Bridson and Wei-Pai Tang, University of Waterloo, Canada, "A Multi-Resolution Basis Approximate Inverse Preconditioner for Unstructured Meshes"
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:35-2:15 p.m.
Willy H.A. Schilders, Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands and Henk A. van der Vorst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, "Preconditioning Techniques for Indefinite Linear Systems with Applications to Circuit Simulation"
2:15-2:45 p.m. Herbert De Gersem, Domenico Lahaye, Ronny Mertens, Stefan Vandewalle, and Kay Hameyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, "Solution Techniques for the Hybrid Systems Arising from Field-Circuit Coupled Electromagnetic Models"
2:45-3:15 p.m. Ilaria Perugia, Università di Pavia, Italy and V. Simoncini, Instituto di Analisi Numerica-CNR, Italy, "Preconditioners for a Mixed Finite Element Method in Magnetostatics"
3:15-4:00 p.m. Poster session and break
4:00-4:30 p.m. Andy Wathen, Oxford University, United Kingdom,"Preconditioning Constrained Systems"
4:30-5:00 p.m. Serge Goossens, Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium, "Preconditioning Overlapping Composite Mesh Difference Methods for Shallow Water Equations"
5:00-5:30 p.m. Huaiyu Zhang and Jiachang Sun, Academia Sinica,Beijing,PRC, "Domain Decomposition Interface Preconditioners for Nonsymmetric Second Order Elliptic Problems"
5:30-6:00 p.m. Jun Zhang, University of Kentucky, "A Parallelizable Preconditioner Based on A Factored Sparse Approximate Inverse Technique"
5:55 p.m. Lee Lines coach arrives at Humphrey Center
6:05 p.m. Lee Lines coach departs from Humphrey Center
6:15 p.m. Lee Lines coach arrives at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome
7:00-7:45 p.m. Reception at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome
7:45-9:45 p.m. Banquet

Friday, June 11, 1999

7:50 a.m. Lee Lines coach arrives Radisson Hotel Metrodome
8:00 a.m. Lee Lines coach departs Radisson Hotel Metrodome for Humphrey Center
8:10 a.m. Lee Lines coach arrives Humphrey Center
8:30-9:10 a.m.
Howard C. Elman, University of Maryland, "The Schur Complement and Preconditioners for Saddle Point Problems"
9:10-9:50 a.m.

David Keyes, NASA Langley Research Center, "Newton-Krylov Methods with Multilevel Preconditioning: Algorithm-Architecture Trade-offs in the Number of Levels"
9:50-10:15 a.m. Break
10:15-10:45 a.m.

Maya G. Neytcheva, University of Nijimegen, The Netherlands, "Fully Parallel Interface Domain Decomposition Method for Finite Element Elliptic Problems"
10:45-11:15 a.m.

Venansius Baryamureeba and Trond Steihaug, University of Bergen, Norway, "Application of a New Class of Preconditioners on Large Scale Linear Programming Problems
11:15-11:45 a.m.

Martin J. Gander and Frederic Nataf, Ecole Polytechnique, France, "AILU: A Preconditioner Based on the Analytic Parabolic Factorization of the Elliptic Operator"
11:45-12:15 p.m.
Matthew G. Knepley, Vivek Sarin, and Ahmed H. Sameh, Purdue University, "Multilevel Preconditioning for Parallel CFD"
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:35-2:15 p.m.

Raymond Honfu Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Republic of China, "Preconditioning Techniques for Toeplitz Systems and their Applications in High-Resolution Image Reconstruction"
2:15-2:45 p.m.

Wing Lok Wan, Stanford University, "Interface Preserving Coarsening and Energy-Minimizing Interpolation Multigrid Methods for Discontinuous Coefficient PDEs"
2:45-3:15 p.m. Lutz Grosz, The Australian National University, Australia, "Incomplete Elimination of Blocks in ILUM"
3:15-4:00 p.m. Poster session and break
4:00-4:30 p.m.

Jussi Rahola, Center for Scientific Computing, Finland, and Satu Tissari, Picker Nordstar Inc., Finland,"Iterative Solution of Dense Linear Systems Arising from the Biomagnetic Inverse Problem"
4:30-5:00 p.m.



Maria Sosonkina, University of Minnesota at Duluth, John T. Melson, Michelin Americas Research and Development Corporation, and Layne T. Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "Preconditioning Strategies for Linear Systems Arising in Tire Design"
5:00-5:30 p.m.

Andreas Pomp, Olaf Schenk, and Wolfgang Fichtner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, "An ILU Preconditioner Adapted to Diffusion Processes in Semiconductors"
5:30-6:00 p.m.

Uri Peskin, Åke Edlund, and Ilan Bar-On, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, "Parallel Computation of Multidimensional Scattering Wavefunctions for Helmholtz/Schroedinger Equations"
5:55 p.m. Lee Lines coach arrives at Humphrey Center
6:05 p.m. Lee Lines coach departs from Humphrey Center
6:15 p.m. Lee Lines coach arrives at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome

Saturday, June 12, 1999

8:20 a.m. Lee Lines coach arrives Radisson Hotel Metrodome
8:30 a.m. Lee Lines coach departs Radisson Hotel Metrodome for Humphrey Center
8:40 a.m. Lee Lines coach arrives Humphrey Center
9:00-9:30 a.m.

Michele Benzi and Jane Cullum, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Miroslav Tuma, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, "Avoiding Breakdowns in the AINV Preconditioner"
9:30-10:00 a.m. Esmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Barry W. Peyton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Padma Raghavan, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, "A Cache-Efficient Blocked Incomplete Cholesky Preconditioner"
10:00-10:30 a.m. Wim Bomhof and Henk A. van der Vorst, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, "A Parallel Linear System Solver for Circuit Simulation Problems"
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45-11:15 a.m Menno Verbeek, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, "Repairing Near-Singularity for Dense EMC Problems by Adaptive Basis Techniques"
11:15-11:45 a.m. Daniele Bertaccini, University of Firenze, Italy, "P-circulant Preconditioners in the Numerical Integration of Evolutionary PDEs and Stiff and Hamiltonian ODEs"
11:45-12:15 p.m.
Thomas Huckle, Technical University of Munich, Germany, "Sparse Approximate Inverses and Applications"
12:10 p.m. Lee Lines coach arrives at Humphrey Center
12:20 p.m. Lee Lines coach departs from Humphrey Center
12:30 p.m Lee Lines coach arrives at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome

Addresses

Supercomputing Institute:
1200 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415
(612) 625-1818
Hubert H. Humphrey Center:

301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

(612) 625-9505
Radisson Hotel Metrodome:

615 Washington Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

(612) 379-8888


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