2004

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Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar

September 30 - October 2, 2004

Organizers: Chen Greif (University of British Columbia), Dominik Schoetzau (University of British Columbia), Manfred Trummer (Simon Fraser University).

The meeting will start at 8pm on Thursday September 30th, and end at noon on Saturday October 2nd. The Banff Centre is available for accommodations for the two nights of Thursday-Friday. Check-in time at the Banff Centre is 4pm and check-out time is noon.

Thursday

  • 8:00pm-8:40pm John Haws, Boeing. Approximating Wind Tunnel Data with Tensor Product Splines

Friday

  • 9:00-9:40 Donna Calhoun, University of Washington Exact far-field boundary conditions for the two dimensional Poisson equation and the heat equation in exterior domains

  • 9:45-10:25 Randy Bank, University of California at San Diego Parallel Adaptive Methods

  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00-11:40 Michael Friedlander, University of British Columbia Gradient projection for general quadratic programs

  • 11:45-12:25 Michael Overton, New York University Nearest Matrix Problems

  • 12:30-5:00 Break: Lunch, hike, etc.

  • 5:00-5:40 Adam Oberman, Simon Fraser University The comparison principle: the continuous instantiation for nonlinear PDE and the discrete instantiation for difference schemes

  • 5:45-6:25 Rich Lehoucq, Sandia National Laboratory Numerical solution of the Large-scale eigenvalue problem in structural dynamics

  • 8:00 Wine & Cheese reception

Saturday

  • 9:00-9:40 Elena Braverman, University of Calgary Fast Fourier solvers for elliptic PDEs: nonperiodic case

  • 9:45-10:25 Juan Restrepo, University of Arizona Finding Extreme Eigenvalues with Application to Preconditioners

  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00-11:40 Peter Minev, University of Alberta Finite Element Methods for Free Boundary Flows

  • 11:45 Meeting closed