2018

Original Conference Website: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~greif/PNWNAS2018/ (Online as of July 2020)

08:45 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome Chen Greif and Uri Ascher
09:45 - 10:30 Ron Estrin, Stanford University, Stanford, USA . The Merits of Keeping It Smooth: Implementing a Smooth Exact Penalty Function for Nonlinear Optimization
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Jay Gopalakrishnan, Portland State University, Portland, USA . Explicit methods for hyperbolic systems on unstructured tent meshes.
11:45 - 12:30 Steve Ruuth, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Linearly Stabilized Schemes for the Time Integration of Stiff Nonlinear PDEs
12:30 - 12:40 Group Photo
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break (on your own)
14:00 - 14:45 Danny Kaufman, Adobe Research, Seattle, USA . Physics in the Rough: Geometric Algorithms for Coarsened Simulation
14:45 - 15:30 Andy Wan, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada. Conservative methods for dynamical systems
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, USA. Clustering Techniques and Hierarchical Matrix Formats for Kernel Ridge Regression
16:45 - 17:30 Eldad Haber, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Computational aspects of deep neural networks
18:30 - 20:30 Group Dinner, Banana Leaf (3005 W. Broadway)

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