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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 Moré, 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 |