2000

Original Conference website: http://people.math.sfu.ca/~mrt/potlatch/ (Online as of July 2020)

The Fourteenth Annual Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Potlatch will be held on Saturday, October 28, 2000, at the Vancouver Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The location, only a few steps away from the beach, features views of the ocean, Stanley Park, and the North Shore Mountains. Granville Island, Kitsilano Beach, the Maritime Museum are within walking distance. It's a great spot to use as a base for exploring Vancouver, so bring your family! Free parking, too!

In celebration of the Fast Multipole Method being voted one of the top ten algorithms of the Century, we are hosting a workshop on Fast Multipole Methods in conjunction with the Numerical Analysis Potlatch. This Workshop runs on Sunday, October 29, from 9am to 3pm, and is also held at the Vancouver Museum.


  • 09:00 -- 09:30 Welcome

  • 09:30 -- 10:00 Frank Stenger, Computer Science, Utah. A unified approach to solving PDEs.

  • 10:00 -- 10:30 Russell Luke**, University of Washington. Non-parametric Phase Retrieval: Iterative transform algorithms and analytic techniques

  • 10:30 -- 11:00 coffee break

  • 11:00 -- 11:30 Dhavide Aruliah**, Computer Science, UBC. Multigrid Preconditioning of time-harmonic Maxwell's equations in 3D

  • 11:30 -- 12:00 Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute. Robust Algorithms for Computational Engineering

  • 12:00 -- 13:30 L U N C H

  • 13:30 -- 14:00 Sorin Mitran, University of Washington. Algorithms for computing bubbly flows

  • 14:00 -- 14:30 Oliver Dorn, Computer Science, UBC. A level set approach for shape reconstruction in electromagnetic cross-borehole tomography.

  • 14:30 -- 15:00 coffee break

  • 15:00 -- 15:30 Sharon Filipowski, The Boeing Company. Applications of nonsmooth optimization in industry.

  • 15:30 -- 16:00 Ricardo Carretero, Mathematics, SFU. Metastability and blow-up in reaction diffusion systems: Some computational challenges

  • 16:30 -- 19:00 CASH BAR / D I N N E R

** Winner of the student paper competition

Fast Multipole Workshop -- Schedule

  • 9:00 - 9:45 Michael Epton, Boeing. Application of Multipoles to Compressible Aerodynamics: Interesting Issues and Observations

  • 9:45 - 10:30, Leslie Greengard, Courant. A new version of the fast multipole method for screened Coulomb interactions

  • 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee

  • 10:45 - 11:30 Ben Dembart, Boeing. The Search for an O(N) FMM for the Helmholtz/Maxwell's Equation

  • 11:30 - 12:15 Vikram Jandhyala, University of Washington. FMM variations for quasi-planar structures and related applications

  • 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

  • 1:30 - 2:15 Frank Ethridge, Courant Fast Algorithms for Volume Integrals in Potential Theory

  • 2:15 - 3:00 Mary Catherine Kropinski, SFU Fast Integral Equation Methods for Interfaces in a Stokes Flow