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2005 Seminars

November 10, 2005 Jay Lund, University of California, Davis
Optimization of Large-Scale Water Systems: Performance, Adaptation, and Security
September 15, 2005 Frederic Hecht, University Paris VI
A comparison of some mesh adaptation schemes with FreeFem++
September 15, 2005 Pascal Frey, University Paris VI
Numerical Simulations Based on Adaptive Delaunay Meshing
June 28, 2005 William G. Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
On the TCAT Approach for Obtaining Multiphase Subsurface Conservation Equations
June 6, 2005 Chun-Hung Chen, George Mason University
Fast Simulation-based Optimization for Engineering Design Under Uncertainty
April 6, 2005 Herb Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz
Adaptive Parameter Space Exploration with Gaussian Process Trees
March 17, 2005 Brad Chamberlain, University of Washington
An introduction to Chapel: Cray Cascade's High Productivity Language
February 3, 2005 Richard H. Byrd, University of Colorado
An Active Set Method for Large-Scale Constrained Optimization

2004 Seminars

September 16, 2004 Michael W. Mahoney, Yale University
Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Matrix Operations and Massive Data Set Analysis
July 22, 2004 Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley
Uncertain Reasoning in Open Worlds
June 28, 2004 Illya Hicks, Texas A&M University
Branchwidth, Parallel Graph Algorithms, and Social Networks
June 22, 2004 C. T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
Continuation Algorithms for Parameter Dependent Compact Fixed Point Problems
June 11, 2004 Alyn Rockwood, Colorado School of Mines
Direct Rendering of Non-Linear Objects
June 8, 2004 Howard Elman, University of Maryland
Fourier Analysis of Multigrid for the Two-Dimensional Convection-Diffusion Equation
June 7, 2004 Luis Melara, NIST
Simulation of Twinned-Martensite as a PDE Optimization Problem
March 23, 2004 Christine Shoemaker, Cornell University
New Function Approximation Algorithms for Optimization of Nonconvex Complex Models With Application to Costly Functions Involving Partial Differential Equations
March 2, 2004 Richard Byrd, University of Colorado at Boulder
Solving Optimization Problems for Protein Structure Prediction
March 1, 2004 Sven Beuchler, Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
A parallel multilevel preconditioner for the p-version of the Finite Element Method
February 4, 2004 James G. Nagy, Emory University
Exploiting Kronecker Product Structure in Image Restoration

2003 Seminars

September 11, 2003 Pascal Frey (INRIA, Rocquencourt)
Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation: Application to CFD Simulations
September 9, 2003 Jerome Pousin, National Institute for Applied Sciences, France
Solving Transport Equations subject to Constraints
10am, 905/210 (Sandia-CA)
September 8, 2003 Valerie E. Taylor, Texas A&University
Prophesy: Analysis and Modeling of Parallel and Distributed Applications
2pm, 921/137 (Sandia-CA)
June 12, 2003 Howard Elman (University of Maryland)
Efficient Iterative Algorithms for the Stochastic Finite Element Method with Application to Acoustic Scattering
May 1, 2003 Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee)
Optimal Control of an Integro-difference Population Model
April 29, 2003 Alison N. Smith (The University of Texas at Austin)
Compiler-Assisted Checkpointing for MPI Programs
April 7, 2003 Gundolf Haase (Johannes Kepler University of Linz)
Optimal Sizing and Shape Optimization in Structural Mechanics
January 23, 2003 John Birge (Northwestern University)
Using Stochastic Programming Problem Structure to Gain Computational Efficiency

2002 Seminars

January 16, 2002 Cleve Moler (The MathWorks, Inc.)
Recent Developments in MATLAB
January 22, 2002 Omar Ghattas (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dynamic Interfaces, Dynamic Meshes, and Hemodynamics
June 18, 2002 Linda Petzold (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Toward the Multiscale Numerical Solution of Chemically Reacting Systems
August 1, 2002 Robert Michael Lewis (The College of William and Mary)
A Multigrid Method for the Optimization of Systems Governed by Differential Equation
August 22, 2002* Anne Greenbaum (University of Washington)
Theory and Applications of the Polynomial Numerical Hull
September 25, 2002* Ubaldo Garcia-Palomares
Recent Developments in Derivative-free Algorithms for Non Smooth Unconstrained Minimization

2001 Seminars

February 6, 2001 Clint Dawson (University of Texas)
Simulation of Flow Through Porous Media
March 6, 2001 Jeff Borggaard (Virginia Tech)
Sensitivity Equations for Thermal Fluid Systems
May 15, 2001 Juan Alonso (Stanford University)
Aerodynamic Design Using the Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations
May 22, 2001 Tasha Inniss (Trinity College)
Estimating One-Parameter Airport Arrival Capacity Distributions Using Stochastic Modeling
June 5, 2001 Ariela Sofer (George Mason University)
Optimization in Medical Diagnosis
July 17, 2001 Ilse Ipsen (North Carolina State University)
Preconditioning KKT systems
October 23, 2001 Stephen Nash (George Mason University)
Multigrid Algorithms for Discretized Optimization Problems
Postponed from an earlier date.
November 6, 2001
(Don't forget to vote!)
Nancy Amato (Texas A&M University)
Using Motion Planning to Study Protein Folding
December 4, 2001 Jane Cullum (Los Alamos National Labs)
Iterative methods and approximating large systems by small systems: some theory and many open questions
December 13, 2001 Virginia Torczon (College of William and Mary)
Pattern Search: A Status Report



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