1993

Seventh Annual Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar

Saturday October 9, 1993

Guggenheim 224, University of Washington, Seattle

  • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee -- 4th floor of Guggenheim Hall

  • 10:30 - 11:15 Dave Chopp, University of Washington "Computing Self-Similar Solutions for Mean Curvature Flow"

  • 11:15 - 12:00 Jonathan Borwein, Simon Fraser University "Three Examples of Experimental Computational Analysis"

  • 12:00 - 1:45 Lunch and posters

  • 1:45 - 2:30 Paul Carter, University of British Columbia "Computational Methods for the Shape from Shading Problem"

  • 2:30 - 3:15 Satish Reddy, Oregon State University "Transient Growth in Numerical Analysis and Hydrodynamic Stability"

  • 3:15 - 4:00 soft drinks and posters

  • 4:00 - 4:45 Tony Chan, UCLA "Domain Decomposition Methods"

  • 4:45 - 5:30 Dan Pierce, Boeing Computer Services "Rank Deficient Sparse Direct Methods and Why"

  • 5:45 Dinner at Laurelhurst Community Center 4554 NE 41st, Seattle ($12 per person)

The talks will be held in Guggenheim 224. The refreshments and poster sessions will be in the hallway on the 4th floor of Guggenheim Hall.

To reach Guggenheim, take I-5 to 45th Street, go east to 17th Avenue and then turn right to enter the campus. Stop at the kiosk and pick up a map if you need it. You will also have to pay $2.25 for parking. Try to park in the Padelford parking garage. Guggenheim faces Drumheller fountain, on the northeast side.

To save postage, we have decided not to send out maps and hardcopies of this announcement. Please let us know if you need more information or would like a map sent.

Pre-registering for the meeting is not essential, but it would be nice to have an estimate of how many people we should expect. So if you plan to come, please try to let us know.

If you plan to present a poster, please try to limit the size to roughly nine standard 8.5 x 11 pages since we have limited space available. If you haven't already, please let us know if you plan to present a poster.

************************* POSTERS *******************************

Here are the poster titles we have so far (Please remind us if you sent a title and it's not here -- a few might have been lost.)

  • Xunlei Jiang, UBC "A Non-symmetric SUPG method for the Hydrodynamic Semiconductor Device Equations"

  • Santhosh Kumaran, Oregon State Univesity "A data-parallel finite element quasi-geostrophic model with application to the bimodality of the Kuroshio."

  • Gabriel Lord, Stanford University "Dynamics and Numerical Analysis of the Ginzburg--Landau Equation".

  • Yuhe Ren, University of Minnesota "Numerical solution of differential-algebraic equations with ill-conditioned constraints"

  • David Watkins, Washington State University "Forward (in)stability and transmission of shifts in the QR algorithm"

  • Brian Wetton, UBC "Tracking curve networks moving with mean curvature motion"

  • Elizabeth Yip, Washington State University "A Necessary & Sufficient Condition for M-matrices and Its Relation to Block LU Factorization."

  • Tjalling Ypma, Western Washington University "A saxpy formulation for plane rotations"