Perspectives on Nonlinear Equations and Optimization
Conference in Honor of Homer Walker
Abstract
Numerical methods for nonlinear equations and optimization are vital tools for scientific, engineering, and industrial applications. These methods have become highly sophisticated but still constitute a very active area of research stimulated by new algorithmic developments, challenging applications, and the continuing advance of high-performance computing. The speakers will address topics including Newton-Krylov methods as solvers and accelerators, implicit integration methods, multi-grid/multi-level methods, methods for multi-physics problems, methods for non-smooth problems, and direct search methods. Applications will include industrial design and large-scale and parallel simulation of chemically reacting flows, groundwater flow, radiation and neutron transport, and fusion.
Invited Speakers
Peter Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
John Dennis, Rice University
Tim Kelley, North Carolina State University
David Keyes, Columbia University
Michael Pernice, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Shadid, Sandia National Labs
Carol Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
All presentations will take place in Higgins Labs 116, with registration at 8:30 a.m.
The lunch and the banquet will take place in the Odeum Room in the Campus Center. A reception will be held at 6 p.m., with dinner at 6:45.
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