Gene Golub Symposium

Engineering at Illinois Engineering at Illinois

Schedule of Events

Friday, February 29, 2008

1:00 pm   Michael Heath – Welcome
1:15 pm   Michael Heath – The Scientfic Legacy of Gene Golub
1:45 pm   Paul Saylor – Gene Golub: A Tale of Two Universities / Poetic Tribute by Tim Davis
2:15 pm   Eric de Sturler – Preconditioned Iterative Methods for Sequences of Linear Systems
2:45 pm   Break
3:30 pm   Biswa Datta – Inverse Eigenvalue Problems: Gene's All Time Favorite
4:00 pm   Ahmed Sameh – Parallel Schemes for Solving Linear Systems of Equations
4:30 pm   Luke Olson – Generalizing Connectivity in Algebraic Multigrid
6:30 pm   Dinner at Tang Dynasty

Saturday, March 1, 2008

8:30 am   Coffee
9:10 am   Vadim Sokolov – A New Approach to Affine Parametric Quadratic Inverse Eigenvalue Problem (slides)
9:30 am   Padma Raghavan – Preconditioning with Selective Sparse Approximate Inversion
10:00 am   Dan Boley – Linear Algebra in the Analysis of Metabolic Pathways
10:30 am   Break
11:15 am   Robert Skeel – The Backward Error Analysis Dogma
11:45 am   William Gropp – Building a Successful, Scalable Parallel Numerical Library: Lessons from PETSc
12:15 pm   Stephen Bond – Accuracy of Molecular Dynamics Simulation
12:45 pm   Adjourn