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December 13: Matt Knepley, MCS, A Discrete Optimization Problem Arising in Finite Element Computation | |
December 6: Totju Totev, NE, Modelling of Nuclear Fuel Behaviour | |
November 29: Chick Macal and Michael North, DIS, Introduction to Agent-based Modeling, slides | |
November 27: Yuan He, Columbia University, Parameter identification in time-dependent reaction-diffusion problems using the Newton-Krylov-Schur approach in PETSc | |
November 15: Mark D'Souza, Integrated information systems and tools for high-throughput high-resolution analysis of genomes | |
November 8: Dinesh Kauskik, MCS, Computational Challenges in Deterministic Neutron Transport | |
November 1: Mihai Anitescu, MCS, Stochastic finite element methods for stochastic optimization problems with constraints | |
October 25: Jaydeep Bardhan, MCS, Molecular Electrostatics: Numerical Methods and Applications | |
October 17: Satish Balay, MCS, An Introduction to Mercurial Source Control, slides | |
October 11: Cristian Rabiti, Nuclear Energy, Method of Characteristics for the Neutron Transport Equation, slides | |
October 4: Hong Zhang, Design, Implementation and Applications of PETSc-MUMPS Interface, slides, fun-slides | |
August 23: Jean Ragusa | |
August 30: Dan Negrut | |
August 9: Mihai Anitescu | |
July 26: Emil Constantinescu, Sensitivity analysis, inverse problems, and data assimilation | |
June 14: Misun Min, Exponential Integrator Based on Krylov Projection | |
June 7: Juan Restrepo, Sampling-Based Data Assimilation for Nonlinear/NonGaussian Models and Data | |
May 31: Jaewook Shin, Activity Analysis: Algorithms and Issues | |
May 18: Emilie Wanufelle, A new algorithm for mixed integer nonconvex problems in electrical supply networks | |
May 17: Amit Singer, Spectral Independent Component Analysis, slides available here | |
May 9: Andrei Draganescu, Multiscale Preconditioners for Operators Arising from Ill-Posed Problems | |
May 3: Taehun Lee, The diffuse interface theory: How fluids unmix | |
April 19: Paul Hovland, Differentiation of Parallel Reduction Operations | |
April 12: Jaewook Shin, Evaluating Compiler Technology for Control-Flow Optimizations for � Multimedia Extension Architectures | |
April 5: Giuseppe Palmiotti, Advanced Simulation of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Development of the Neutronics code UNIC | |
March 29: Louis Moresi & David May, Complicated rheologies using PETSc and Underworld | |
March 24: Anton Leykin, Solving systems of polynomial equations by numerical homotopy continuation | |
March 22: Nicol N. Schraudolph, Accelerating Stochastic Gradient Descent | |
March 8: Jorge Mor�, How LANS works (or not) | |
February 15: Sven Leyffer, How to Play Sudoku and Win | |
February 8: Matt Knepley, On Vector Fields | |
February 1: Branko Ruscic, Active Thermochemical Tables: A Vision for Petaflop Thermochemistry | |
January 25: Todd Munson, Domain Decomposition Techniques and PDE-constrained Optimization |