Gene around the world at CERFACS
Foreword:
Gene was a frequent visitor to France and we are delighted to join in the worldwide celebration of his birthday on February 29th.
The Parallel Algorithms Team at CERFACS and our colleagues at ENSEEIHT/IRIT have had a particularly close association with Gene over many years. Among the events organized in common over the last years, Gene attended the two St Girons meetings, meetings during the International Year of Linear Algebra, several of the annual Sparse Days, and both anniversary meetings of CERFACS, giving a keynote plenary talk at the 20th Anniversary meeting in October last year.
The status of numerical linear algebra in France has increased greatly over the past few years and Gene has been instrumental in encouraging this, particularly with his strong support for students. He had an amazing ability to communicate and inspire young people, often influencing greatly their future career. It is thus, with great pleasure although tinged with deep sadness, that we offer a series of lectures all presented by graduate students to commemorate this day. These students represent several centres in France and their affiliations are given in the programme (to come) for the day.
There will be other events to commemorate Gene in France later this year from a Burns Supper tribute at CERFACS to a dedication at the next Sparse Days which will be a Workshop of the International VECPAR meeting in June.
Gene around the world at CERFACS: February 29th, 2008
Programme of February 29th
9.30 – 10.00 Welcome coffee
10.00 Foreword by Jean-Claude Andre (with photos)
10.05 – 10.30 : Melodie Mouffe (CERFACS) Multigrid techniques applied in an optimization context
10.30 – 11.00 : Jordan Ninin (ENSEEIHT / APO – IRIT) Combining interval and affine arithmetic with linear reformulation in deterministic global optimization
11.00 – 11.30 : Sandrine Mouysset (ENSEEIHT / APO – IRIT) Spectral Clustering : principe et perspectives
11.30 – 12.00 : Anke Troeltzsch (CERFACS) Solving Expensive Aerodynamic Design Optimization Problems
12.00 – 12.30 : Magdalena Grigoroscuta (INRIA Futurs – Magique 3D) Une methode stabilisee de type Galerkin discontinu pour l’equation d’Helmholtz
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 : Jeremie Gaidamour (LaBRI and INRIA Bordeaux – Sud-Ouest – Scalapplix project) A parallel direct/iterative solver based on a Schur complement approach
14.30 – 15.00 : Caroline Baldassari (INRIA Futurs – Magique 3D) Analysis of the performance of the Interior Penality Discontinuous Galerkin method applied to the Reverse Time Migration
15.00 – 15.30 : Florent Sourbier (Geosciences Azur – CNRS) 3D frequency-domain acoustic wave modeling using a domain decomposition method based on the Schur complement approach and a hybrid direct/iterative solver
15.30 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.00 – 16.30 : Baptiste Poirriez (IRISA – SAGE project) Domain decomposition methods applied to flow computation in heterogeneous porous media
16.30 – 17.00 : Azzam Haidar (CERFACS) Some investigations of an hybrid solver on unsymmetric and indefinite problems
17.00 – 17.30 : Xavier Pinel (CERFACS) Solution of the three-dimensional Helmholtz equation using Krylov methods preconditioned by multigrid
