2006 LANS Informal Seminar Talks

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