Selected Presentations (2000 - present)

Invited

• “Technologies for Computational Science” [ppt][html], Marquette EECE Colloquium, March 15, 2005.
• “Challenges in Performance Evaluation and Improvement of Scientific Codes” [ppt][html], SIAM CSE Meeting, February 13, 2005
• “Software Architecture Approaches for Adaptive Scientific Computing,” PARA’04 minisymposium on Advanced Algorithms and Software for Scientific Computing, June 21, 2004.
• “Issues and Approaches in Scientific Component Software Development,” Colloquium, Penn State University Computer Science and Engineering, March 18, 2004.
• “High-Performance Scientific Components,” First Friday Forum, Argonne National Laboratory, June 2003.
• Panel member at the Women in Science Careers Conference, Argonne National Laboratory, March 2003.
• “CCA Components for Linear System Solution,” SIAM Annual Meeting, minisymposium on New Approaches for Scalable Sparse Linear System Solution, July 10, 2002, Philadelphia.
  

Tutorials and Contributed Presentations

• Common Component Architecture (CCA) Tutorials: SC’05, HPC2005, SC’04, SIAM PP’04, SC’03, and at some quarterly CCA meetings. Developed hands-on code and reusable build system.
• “Tools and Methods for Performance Modeling and Prediction,” SIGMETRICS’04 Tutorial, New York, June 13, 2004.
• Common Component Architecture Forum presentations on various topics at most quarterly meetings since 2002.
• “Automatic Differentiation,” MCS Summer Lecture Series, June 14, 2005.
• “Computational Quality of Service in Parallel CFD,” PCFD’05, University of Maryland, College Park, May 26, 2005
• “ADIC 2.0 Status and Plans,” Workshop on Automatic Differentiation, Nice, France, April 15, 2005.
• “Performance Evaluation Challenges and Adaptive Numerical Approaches,” SIAM CSE Conference, Orlando, February 13, 2005.
• “Large-Scale Simulation of Plasmonic Nanodevices,” Argonne LDRD proposal presentation, with Stephen Gray (Chemistry), September 24, 2004.
• “Multimethod Linear Solvers in PDE-Based Simulations,” Computational Institute Brown Bag Lunch, University of Chicago, April 29, 2004.
• “Overview of the Common Component Architecture,” Minisymposium on High-Performance Component Technologies, SIAM PP’04, San Francisco, February 25, 2004.
• “Adaptive Sparse Linear Solvers of Implicit CFD Using Newton-Krylov Algorithms,” Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Boston, June 2003.
• “A Distributed Application Server for Automatic Differentiation,” 15th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, San Francisco, April 2001.
• “Automatic Differentiation: A Tool for Computational Science,” Optimization Technology Center Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, October 2001.
• “Remote Access to Mathematical Software,” IAMC’01, July 22, 2001, London, Canada.
• “An Interactive Problem-Solving Environment for Parallel Scientific Computations,” First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, September 2000, Washington, DC.