Sparse Days Meeting 2007 at CERFACS … CERFACS 20th Anniversary Meeting
October 10th-12th, 2007
The Parallel Algorithms Team at CERFACS split its annual “Sparse Days at CERFACS” this year between the Preconditioning 2007 meeting, and the CERFACS Anniversary meeting in October.
CERFACS will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary on October 10-12. There will be general CERFACS activities on the afternoon and evening of Thursday 11th with talks by Algo related people including Gene Golub, Gerard Meurant, Philippe Toint and Alan Edelman.
The Parallel Algorithms Team will hold a Sparse Days meetings on Wednesday 10th and the morning of Thursday 11th and a one-day meeting on Friday 12th.
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
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 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
11.30 – 12.00 Alan Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Interactive supercomputing with star-p in MATLAB(r) and PYTHON
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
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
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
