2005 LANS Informal Seminar Talks

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bulletDecember 14: Dan Negrut, Tool Showcase Extravaganza
bulletNovember 30: Barry Smith, The TOPS Solver components
bulletNovember 9: Dmitry Karpeev, On Newton's Method in the Infinite-dimensional Setting
bulletNovember 2: Dan Negrut, A Reconstruction Approach to Electronic Structure Computation
bulletOctober 26: Steve Benson, Applications of Semidefinite Programming (SDP)
bulletSeptember 28: Sven Leyffer, The Return of the Filter, slides available here
bulletSeptember 21: Robert D. Skeel, Fast Electrostatics and Polarizable Forces
bulletSeptember 14: Sanjukta Bhowmick, A Backtracking Correction Heuristic for Improving Performance of Graph Coloring Algorithms
bulletAugust 31: Chaman Verma, An All-Hex Meshing Strategy for Bifurcation Geometries in Vascular Flow Simulation
bulletAugust 10: Adrian Kopacz, DFT-Based Nanostructure Investigation
bulletAugust 3: Xuemin Tu, 3-level BDDC method, slides available here
bulletJuly 28: Barry Smith, Recovering from Ten Wasted Years
bulletJuly 11: Arjaan Buijk, DYTRAN - A Fluid-Structure Interaction simulation package
bulletJuly 6: Hans Kaper, Reduction methods for systems of ODEs
bulletJune 8: Hong Zhang, Eigenvalue Problems in Nanoscale Material Modeling
bulletMay 31: Jean Utke, ACTS and OpenAD - "what we did and want to do", slides available here
bulletMay 25: Paul Hovland, Performance Analysis of a Mesh Quality Improvement Application
bulletMay 4: Ming Yan, Micromagnetic simulations of spin wave modes in confined magnetic structures, slides available here
bulletApril 20: Eduard Kirr, Asymptotic Stability and Metastability of Ground States in Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation (NLS)
bulletApril 13: Satish Balay, LANS System Resources, slides available here
bulletApril 6: Mihai Anitescu, Electronic structure computation models
bulletMarch 30: Raymond Loy, Overview of Autopack 1.4, slides available here
bulletMarch 24: Boyana Norris, Overview of ADIC 2.0 status and plans, slides available here
bulletMarch 16: Michelle Strout, Representation-Independent Compiler Analysis
bulletMarch 9: Mike Minkoff and Dinesh Kaushik, Using Tensor Products to Obtain Exact Cumulative Reaction Probabilities Efficientlyslides available here
bulletMarch 2: Jason Sarich, NEOS Server 5.0
bulletFebruary 23: Misun Min, Higher Order methods for the Maxwell's equations
bulletFebruary 16: Dmitry Karpeev, Geometric Methods in PDE Theory and Computation
bulletJanuary 26: Steve Benson, Scalable Optimization Solvers
bulletJanuary 19: Matthew Kneply, Code Generation Tools for PDEs, slides available here