Calendar for 2005

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER TITLE HOST
TBA TBA TBA Chris Ding Combinatorial Optimization in Data Mining using Continuous Constraint Optimization Esmond Ng
December 2, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Ali Ozer Ercan Collaborative Wireless Camera Networks Ali Pinar
November 21, Monday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Shashi Kant Reasoning with Uncertainty over the Semantic Web Frank Olken
November 11, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 John Dennis Optimal Placement of Tsunami Warning Buoys Juan Meza
November 4, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Joe Grcar John von Neumann's Analysis of Gaussian Elimination and the Invention of Modern Computing Esmond Ng
October 28, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Shmuel Oren Modeling and computing two settlement oligopolistic market equilibrium in a congested electricity network Ali Pinar
October 20, Thursday 1:00-2:00 70-191 Jie Zhou Applying Multi-class Support Vector Classifier to Pattern Analysis Problems: Three Case Studies Chris Ding
October 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jennifer Hoffman Exploring the Geometry of the Brightest Supermovae Peter Nugent
September 28, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Xintao Wu Interactive Exploration of Gene Interactions from Microarray Data Chris Ding
September 27, Tuesday 2:00-3:00 70-191 Stephane Pralet Improved scaling and pivoting strategies for sparse parallel L D L^T factorizations Sherry Li
September 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Forrest Hoffman Climate and Carbon Software Engineering and Research on High End Computers Helen He
August 29, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jose Roman Implementation details of eigensolvers in SLEPc and plans for future developments Tony Drummond
August 26, Friday (POSTPONED) 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Frank Olken Graph Data Management for Biology - An Introduction Chris Ding
August 19, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Christos Kozyrakis/Kunle Olokuton Stanford FARM Kathy Yelick
August 12, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Eric Darve Calculating Transport Properties of Nanodevices Esmond Ng
August 5, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Horst Simon Progress in Supercomputing: The Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 Years and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years Esmond Ng
July 29, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Christian Bischof Recent Developments in Computational Differentiation Horst Simon
July 26, Tuesday 10:00-11:00 50B-4205 Christian Bell Using Overlap to Reduce Bisection Bandwidth Needs with Berkeley UPC Kathy Yelick
July 15, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 C. Aaron Lai Is the Ocean doing a Slow-burn? Yu-Heng Tseng
June 24, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Larry Breaker Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of an 85-Year Time Series of Sea Surface Temperature in Monterey Bay Yu-Heng Tseng
June 22, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 David Quarrie The ATLAS Experiment Craig Tull
June 17, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Nelson Martins Eigenvalue Applications/Computations in Electrical Power System Studies Osni Marques
June 3, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Cecilia Aragon Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: Airflow Hazard Display for Helicopter Pilots Wes Bethel
May 11, Wednesday 11:00-12:00 50B-4205 Jeremy Templeton Near-Wall Treatments for Coarse Grid Large-Eddy Simulation Juan Meza
May 6, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jack Schonbrun High Resolution Protein Molding Silvia Crivelli
April 28, Thursday 11:00-12:00 70-191 Christof Voemel New Eigenvalue and SVD Algorithms for LAPACK and ScaLAPACK Osni Marques
April 25, Monday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Tsuyoshi Ide A spectral approach to anomaly detection in computer systems Chris Ding
April 21, Thursday 11:00-12:00 50F-1647 Denis Demchenko Electronic Structure and Schottky Barrier Formation in Fe/GaAs Magnetic Junctions Lin-Wang Wang
April 15, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Sandip Roy Distributed Algorithms for Partitioning and Other Canonical Network Tasks Ali Pinar
April 11, Monday 4:00-5:00 50B-4205 Uwe Kuester First Experiences with the NEC SX-8 at HLRS Stuttgart Horst Simon
April 8, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Lin-Wang Wang Electronic structure calculations for mathematicians Esmond Ng
April 1, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Weiguo Gao An Algebraic-Substructuring Method for Large-Scale Eigenvalue Calculation Sherry Li
March 25, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Damian Rouson Design Metrics in Quantum Turbulence Simulations: How Physics Influences Software Architecture Tony Drummond
March 18, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Victor Markowitz/Nikos Kyrpides The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) System: A Case Study in Developing Biological Data Management Systems in an Academic Setting Horst Simon
March 18, Friday 11:00-12:00 50F-1647 Patrick D. Quillen Generalization of an Inverse Free Preconditioned Algorithm for Symmetric Generalized Eigenvalue Problems Osni Marques
March 16, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Mark Ashdown Destriping: a fast, approximate map-making method for Planck Gayoung Chon
March 11, Friday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Lek-Heng Lim Low-rank approximation of tensors and the statistical analysis of multi-indexed data Chris Ding
March 7, Monday 10:30-11:30 50B-4205 Joshua Schrier Spins in Tight Places: Theoretical studies of spin properties in nanocrystals and fullerenes Lin-Wang Wang
March 4, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 David Skinner Integrated Performance Monitoring Horst Simon
February 24, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Arno Candel A Massively Parallel Particle-in-Cell Code for the Simulation of Field-Emitter Based Electron Sources Esmond Ng
February 4, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Gerald Heydt/Bernie Lesieutre The Potential for Power Engineering Combinatorial Problem Solution by Parallelization Ali Pinar
January 21, Friday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Ben Haley Kinetic Lattice Monte Carlo study of vacancy assisted arsenic diffusion and time dependent clustering effects in silicon Andrew Canning
January 19, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Yun Wang Atomic-level control of material properties with molecular modeling Lin-Wang Wang
January 18, Tuesday 2:00-3:00 50D-3416 Constantine Bekas AMLS, Spectral Schur Complements and Iterative Computation of Eigenvalues Esmond Ng
January 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Yinyu Ye Theory and Computation of Semidefinite Programming for Sensor Network Localization and other Distance Geometry Problems Chris Ding
January 7, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Chris Ding 2-Dimensional Singular Value Decomposition for 2D Maps and Images Esmond Ng

Calendar for 2004

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER TITLE HOST
December 20, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Adolfy Hoisie Performance Modeling of Large-Scale Parallel Systems and Applications Hongzhang Shan
December 16, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Kengo Nakajima Performance of large-scale finite-element applications in earth science on BlueGene/L prototype system using parallel iterative solvers of GeoFEM Esmond Ng
December 6, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 John Drake Overview of the SciDAC Community Climate System Model Project Esmond Ng
December 3, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Fan Zhang Double excitations within time-dependent density functional theory linear response Lin-Wang Wang
December 2, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Chen Greif An Algebraic Analysis of Augmented Lagrangian Techniques Applied to Saddle-Point Linear Systems Esmond Ng
November 19, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Sou Cheng Choi HOT-PageRank: Tuning in to the Traffic Channel Xiaoye Li
November 5, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Peter Gottschling Parallel Graph Algorithms and Libraries Ali Pinar
November 3, Wednesday 11:00-12:00 50D-3416 Vaibhav Donde Guaranteeing Dynamic Performance in Nonlinear Non-smooth Power Systems Ali Pinar
November 1, Monday 11:00-12:00 50D-3416 Vanessa Lopez Periodic Solutions of Chaotic Partial Differential Equations Ali Pinar
October 29, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Erich Strohmaier APEX-Map: A Synthetic Benchmark to Explore the Space of Application Performance TBA
October 15, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Helen He MPH: A Library for Coupling Multi-Component Models on Distributed Memory Architectures and its Application Chris Ding
September 14, Tuesday 11:00-12:00 50F-1647 Kwan-Liu Ma Visualization for Network Security Wes Bethel
September 3, Friday 12:00-1:00 50D-3416 Jie Zhou Designing Multi-class Classifiers Using Error Correcting Output Codes Chris Ding
August 27, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Alan Laub Statistical Condition Estimation Esmond Ng
August 27, Friday 11:00-12:00 50A-5132 John Wu On the Performance of Bitmap Indices for High Cardinality Attributes Arie Shoshani
August 25, Wednesday 2:00-3:00 50B-4205 Yu-heng Tseng On the Development of the Immersed Boundary Method and its Application to High Performance Ocean Modeling Chris Ding
August 13, Friday 2:30-3:30 50A-5132 David Pointcheval Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange Deb Agarwal
July 30, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Hui Xiong Hyperclique Pattern Discovery and Its Application to Protein Functional Module Extraction Chris Ding
July 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Richard Troy Science Tools and The BigSur High Performance Computing System developed at UCB Arie Shoshani
July 16, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Tim Davis Sparse LU factorization for circuit simulation matrices Xiaoye Li
July 13, Tuesday 11:00-12:00 50A-5132 Patrick Geoffray Myrinet eXpress (MX): Smart Interconnect for HPC Erich Strohmaier
July 9, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Gayoung Chon Fast estimation of the CMB polarization power spectra and its covariances Radek Stompor
July 2, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Erik DeBenedictis Extreme Supercomputing Juan Meza
June 11, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Hongzhang Shan Performance characteristics of the Cray X1 and their implications for application performance tuning Brent Gorda
June 7, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Marc Barthelemy Structure and modeling of weighted complex networks Esmond Ng
June 4, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Greg Butler The GUPFS Project at NERSC James Craw
May 28, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Daniel Kasen Asymmetry and Polarization of Type Ia Supernovae Peter Nugent
May 21, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Brent ByungHoon Kang Summary Hash History for Scalable and Secure Optimistic Replication Alex Sim
May 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Silvia Crivelli ProteinShop: A Graphical Environment for Protein Structure Prediction Chris Ding
May 12, Wednesday 3:00-4:00 50D-3416 Raquel Romano Projective Geometry for Computer Vision Chris Ding
May 7, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Simone S Sbaraglia A Simulator Infrastructure to Guide Memory Analysis David Skinner
April 30, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 David Barkai What Intel does in and for the HPC Space Horst Simon
April 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Edward Givelberg Fluid-Structure Interaction in Complex Biological Systems Sherry Li
April 16, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Daniel Szyld Convergence of Exact and Inexact Krylov Subspace Methods Esmond Ng
April 9, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Ernesto Prudencio Parallel Linear and Nonlinear Domain Decomposition Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization Osni Marques
April 6, Tuesday 11:00-12:00 50F-1647 Sanjukta Bhowmick Multimethod Solvers: Algorithms, Applications and Software Chao Yang
April 6, Tuesday 10:00-11:00 50F-1647 Byounghak Lee Theory of Ferromagnetic Semiconductors; Toward Semiconductor Spintronics Lin-Wang Wang
April 5, Monday 11:00-12:00 50F-1647 Bruno Carpentieri Matrix-free preconditionings of dense linear systems from electromagnetics Osni Marques
March 26, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Shoaib Kamil Introduction to the Itanium 2 Brent Gorda
March 18, Thursday 10:15-11:15 70-191 Michael Wetter Decreasing the computation time for Generalized Pattern Search optimization algorithms by using adaptive precision cost function evaluations Juan Meza
March 16, Tuesday 10:30-11:30 50F-1647 Alison Marsden Suppression of airfoil trailing-edge noise via derivative-free shape optimization Juan Meza
March 11, Thursday 11:00-12:00 50A-5132 David Skinner BlueGene/L: MPI Testing and Application Experiences Bill Kramer
March 5, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Kurt Stockinger Scheduling and Replica Optimization Techniques on the Grid Arie Shoshani
March 1, Monday 11:00-12:00 50B-6208 Jian He Global Parameter Estimation for Cell Cycle Modeling in Systems Biology Chris Ding
February 20, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Bjoern Heckel Application of Hierarchical Clustering Techniques in Visualization Horst Simon
Wednesday 18, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Andreas Stathopoulos Designing a nearly optimal eigensolver for symmetric problems under memory constraints Esmond Ng
February 6, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 L. Oliker, J. Carter, and A. Canning Trip Report from the Earth Simulator Center J. Lamoureux, P. Husbands
February 5, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 James Nagy Exploiting Kronecker Product Structure in Image Restoration Esmond Ng
February 5, Thursday 10:30-11:30 70A-3377 Jin-Ho Yoon Summer rainfalls in Boreal forests Chris Ding
January 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Hanchuan Peng Minimum Redundancy Feature Selection in DNA Gene Expression Classification Chris Ding
January 9, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Srinidhi Varadarajan System X: Building the Virginia Tech Supercomputer Bill Kramer
January 7, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 John Baumgardner Next Generation Global Ocean Models Horst Simon

Calendar for 2003

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER TITLE HOST
December 19, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Costin Iancu Is there a Path to High Performance Reconfigurable Computing? Brent Gorda
December 15, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Hongyuan Zha Isometric Embedding and Manifold Learning Chris Ding
December 12, Friday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Jon Urrestilla Cosmological defect simulations using AMR Julian Borrill
December 5, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Xiaofeng He Multi-protein Complex Data Mining for Detecting Protein Interactions and Functional Organizations Chris Ding
November 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Chris Ding SCG Computational Discussion: Bioinformatics Tutorial SCG
November 7, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Michael Welcome The IBM/LLNL BlueGene/L Machine Brent Gorda
November 6, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Song Guo Numerical Simulation of Atmospheric Effects of Volcanic Clouds Using Parallel and Distributed Systems Chris Ding
October 31, Friday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Peter Nugent SCG Computational Discussion: Optimization and Spectrum Synthesis SCG
October 24, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Victor Eijkhout A Proposed Standard for Matrix Metadata with a view towards a Self-Adapting Large-scale Solver Architecture Osni Marques
October 21, Tuesday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Lizhi Ouyang First principles calculations of complex ceramic and biomolecules Lin Wang
October 17, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Erich Strohmaier Architecture independent Performance Characterization and Benchmarking Brent Gorda
October 10, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Alison Marsden Optimal aeroacoustic shape design using the surrogate management framework Juan Meza
October 8, Wednesday 11:00-12:00 50A-5132 Nakajima Kengo Flat MPI vs. Hybrid: Finite-Element Benchmarks on Seaborg and the Eath Simulator. Esmond Ng
October 3, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Parry Husbands SCG Computational Discussion: SCG
September 19, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jean-luc Fattebert Finite difference method for electronic structure calculations Andrew Canning
September 12, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 TBA no seminar .
August 29, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Peter Nugent
Julian Borrill		 SCG Computational Discussion: Cosmic Simulator SCG
August 27, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 TBA Allison Baker On improving the performance of the linear solver restarted GMRES Esmond Ng
August 22, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jonathan Richard Shewchuk Anisotropic Triangulations Esmond Ng
August 21, Thursday 11:00-12:00 50B-4205 Peter Strazdins Simulation Techniques for NUMA Architectures Lenny Oliker
June 27, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Lenny Oliker Performance Evaluation of the SX6 Vector Architecture for Scientific Computations Brent Gorda
June 6, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Paolo Bientinesi Towards an Automatic Approach for the Derivation of Linear Algebra Algorithms and Libraries. Esmond Ng
May 29, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Woo-Sun Yang Implementing an efficient parallel I/O Chris Ding
May 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Tim Davis A column pre-ordering strategy for the unsymmetric-pattern multifrontal method Xiaoye Li
May 19, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Edward F. Valeev Towards electronic structure theory of subchemical accuracy Linwang Wang
May 2, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Rob Ryne A New Method for the Solution of Poisson's Equation in Domains of Arbitrary Aspect Ratio Esmond Ng
April 25, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Joe Sventek Automated Network Management - The Search for the Holy Grail Arie Shoshani
April 18, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Kurt Cuffey Modeling the polar ice sheets: motivations, progress, and challenges Horst Simon
April 17, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Franz-Josef Pfreundt HPC at Fraunhofer ITWM - Research and related industry projects Brent Gorda
April 11, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 John Wu Using Bitmap Indexing for Interactive Exploration of Large Datasets Esmond Ng
April 4, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Tim Davis Towards a Sparse SVD Xiaoye Li
March 21, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Louis Komzsik How far can we go with the Lanczos method? Xiaoye Li
February 28, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Tao Yang Neptune: Programming and Runtime Support for Cluster-based Internet Services and Data-Intensive Online Applications Esmond Ng
RESCHEDULED . . Oren Livne Coarsening by Compatible Relaxation Esmond Ng
February 26, Wednesday 10:00-12:00 2-100 Geoff Hayward Storage Grid: Grid services between storage subsystems on Storage Wide Area Networks Greg Butler
February 20, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Ralf Byers Deflation and Choice of Shifts in the QR algorithm: Questioning Conventional Wisdom. Esmond Ng
February 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Dimitri Bevc Grid computing for energy exploration and development Horst Simon
February 7, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Kengo Nakajima Solid Earth Simluation using GeoFEM Platform on the Earth Simulator. Esmond Ng
January 31, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Steve Reinhardt SGI's Altix 3000 System: Hardware & Software Plans & Specs Brent Gorda
January 30, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Radek Stompor Extracting science from the Cosmic Microwave Background Data Sets. Juan Meza
January 24, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Marshall Bern Two image processing problems in structural biology Esmond Ng
January 22, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Andrew Canning A performance comparison of the NEC SX6, IBM SP P3 and P4 machines for the materials science code PARATEC Esmond Ng
January 17, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Tong Wen Support Vector Machines: Algorithms and Applications Chris Ding
January 10, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Alex Pothen Computational Problems in Proteomics: Statistics, Optimization, and Combinatorics Ali Pinar
January 8, Wednesday 11:00-12:00 50D-3416 Karen Devine Parallel Data Services for Dynamic, Unstructured and Adaptive Applications Ali Pinar

Calendar for 2002

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER TITLE HOST
December 13, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jeff Vetter Characterization and modeling of scalable scientific applications Leonid Oliker
December 12, Thursday 12:00-1:00 50D-3416 Ricardo Oliva Dynamics of a large array of coupled lasers. Juan Meza
December 9, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Ren-Cang Li Krylov Subspace Method for Quadratic Matrix Polynomials Esmond Ng
December 6, Friday 12:30-1:30 50A-5132 Robert Bridson Frictional Contact and Collisions in Cloth Simulation Esmond Ng
November 15, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Laura Grigori A Scheduling Algorithm for Parallel Sparse LU Factorization with Static Pivoting Esmond Ng
November 8, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Burton Smith CASCADE Horst Simon
October 25, Friday 1:00-2:00 no room reserved      
October 18, Friday 10:00-11:00 50A-5132 Felix Wolf Automatic Performance Analysis on Parallel Computers with SMP Nodes Tony Drummond & Osni Marques
October 18, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Pat Miller High Performance Python for Scientific Computing Thomas DeBoni
October 11, Friday 10:00-12:00 TBA TBA Tutorial on hdf5 TBA
October 11, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Roman Geus The Jacobi-Davidson algorithm for solving large sparse symmetric eigenvalue problems with application to the design of accelerator cavities Andreas Adelmann
August 26, Moday 2:00-3:00 50 Auditorium Christoph Pflaum Semi-Unstructured Grids in the Library EXPDE (Expression Templates for Partial Differential Equations) Andreas Adelmann
August 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Boris Jeremic Computational Challenges for Seismic Design of Bridges Esmond Ng
August 19, Monday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Julian C. Cummings Parallel Particle Simulation Techniques in POOMA Andreas Adelmann
August 2, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Keni Zhang & Yu-shu Wu Parallel Computing for Large-Scale Multi-Component and Multiphase Fluid and Heat Simulation Chris Ding
July 19, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jane Cullum Eigenvalue algorithms for large-scale problems: From the seemingly bizarre to the classical and in between Esmond Ng
July 12, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Chris Cantalupo ccSHT: A C Library for Computing a Fast Parallel Spherical Harmonic Transform Julian Borrill
June 26, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Robert Preis Approximation Algorithms for Weighted Matchings in Graphs and their Application in Multilevel Graph Partitioning Ali Pinar
June 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Bill Carithers Computing challenges from two Astrophysics and Cosmology experiments in very remote environments Jodi Lamoureux
June 7, Friday 1:00-2:00 Perseverence Hall Andreas Adelmann Computational Accelerator Physics @ Work: Theory, Simulations, Experiments and Challenges Esmond Ng
June 5, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 70-191 Jeongnim Kim and
John W. Wilkins		 OHMMS: a framework for multi-scale materials simulations Andrew Canning
May 31, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Masoud Nikravesh Soft Computing: Tools for Integrated Reservoir Characterization (IRESC) Chris Ding
May 24, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Ratko Orlandic Accessing Large Volumes of High Dimensional Scientific Data Arie Shoshani
May 21, Tuesday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Alex Dragt Computing Interior Field Data (and then Transfer Maps) from Surface Data Rob Ryne & Esmond Ng
May 17, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Lofti Zadeh What is Fuzzy Logic and What are its Applications? Chris Ding
May 15, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Paul Thompson From Probabilistic Information Retrieval to Question Answering in the InfoSphere Chris Ding
May 10, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Mike Sievers A Massively Parallel Architecture for Biological Sequence Similarity Comparisons Horst Simon
May 7, Tuesday 2:00-3:00 50A-5132 Tony Nilles NAG Mathematical and Statistical Components - Why reinvent the Wheel? Harsh Anand
Apr 30, Tuesday 11:00-12:00 50A-5132 Michael Friedlander Stabilizing MINOS Juan Meza
Apr 29, Monday 3:00-4:00 50B-4205 Ken Miura Japanese Grid Activities Horst Simon
Apr 29, Monday 1:00-2:00 50 Auditorium Gregory Wilson Programming on the Universal Canvas Brent Gorda
Apr 11, Thursday 2:00-3:00 50 Auditorium Lynn Kissel & Robert Yates BlueGene/L: A next-generation supercomputer Brent Gorda
Apr 8, Monday 2:00-3:00 70A-3377 Mei Kobayashi Major and Outlier Cluster Analysis using Dynamic Re-Scaling of Document Vectors Chris Ding
Apr 5, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Chris Ding Web Community Discovery Via Unsupervised Learning Horst Simon
Apr 5, Friday 10:30-11:30 50B-4205 Shan Hongzhang A Comparison of Programming Models on Distributed Erich Strohmaier
Apr 3, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Iain S Duff Preconditioning for numerical solution of BE problems in electromagnetics Esmond Ng
Mar 22, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Eugene N. Miya DLI-2: The Multi-Agency Digital Libraries Initiative, Phase 2 Horst Simon
Mar 15, Friday 1:00-2:00 Perseverance Hall Martin White Calculating the Large Scale Structure of the Universe Jodi Lamoureux
Mar 8, Friday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Stewart Loken Computing in the General Science Divisions at LBNL Jodi Lamoureux
Mar 1, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Patricia D. Hough Developing Methods for Simulation-Based Optimization Problems: In Search of Robustness and Efficiency Esmond Ng
Feb 22, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Robert Brunner National Virtual Observatory Julian Borrill
Feb 20, Wednesday 11:00-12:00 50A-5132 Paul Lu Informal Peer-to-Peer Metacomputing: The Gossamer Project Brent Gorda
Feb 13, Wednesday 3:30-4:30 50A-5132 Brian Tierney Data Management Issues for the EU DataGrid Project Horst Simon
Feb 4, Monday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Mike Wehner Predicted 21st Century Changes in Seasonal Extreme Precipitation Events in the Parallel Climate Model Chris Ding
Jan 25, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Dean Williams The Climate Data Analysis Tools (CDAT) Chris Ding
Jan 18, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Jose Molovich POSTPONED Chris Ding
Jan 11, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 John Fararra The UCLA Earth System Model and its application in studies of climate variability Chris Ding
Jan 11, Friday 11:00-12:00 70-191 Genetha Gray A Variational Study of the Electrical Impedance Tomography Problem Chao Yang

Calendar for 2001

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER TITLE HOST
Jan 5, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK N/A
Jan 11, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Martin Head-Gordon Fast Methods In Many-Body Theory Esmond G. Ng
Jan 19, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Leonid Oliker A Comparison Of Three Programming Models For Adaptive Applications On The Origin2000 Leonid Oliker
Jan 26, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Ted Westerman LSF Architecture And Capabilities Tony Drummond
Feb 2, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Lior Pachter What To Do With The Sequence Produced By Large Scale Genome Projects? Chris Ding
Feb 9, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Benedikt Grosser An O(n2) Algorithm For The Bidiagonal SVD Osni Marques
Feb 14, Wednesday 10:00-11:00 50F-1647 Karl Meerbergen The Solution Of Parametrized Linear Systems Arising From Engineering Problems Chao Yang
Feb 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 POSTPONED MOVED TO MARCH 23, 2001 N/A
Feb 28, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Jon Saenz Py-Climate: A Python Based Toolkit For The Analysis Of Large Atmospheric And Oceanic Data Sets Tony Drummond
Mar 2, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Andrew Knyazev Optimal Preconditioned Eigensolvers For Very Large Symmetric Eigenproblems Beresford Parlett
Mar 5, Monday 10:30-11:30 50F-1647 Erik Elmroth Recursive Matrix Computations Chris Ding
Mar 5, Monday 2:00-3:00 50F-1647 Yves-Henri Sanejouand Low-Frequency Normal Modes Of Proteins Osni Marques
Mar 9, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Klaus Gaertner Sparse Factorization With Two-Level Scheduling In PARDISO Esmond G. Ng
Mar 16, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK N/A
Mar 23, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Rich VuDuc Roles For Statistics In Automatic Performance Tuning Esmond G. Ng
Mar 28, Wednesday 3:00-4:00 50F-1647 Brigitte Verdonk Reliable Multiprecision Floating-Point Arithmetic: The Need For Testing Esmond G. Ng
Mar 30, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 David Gorsich
James Overholt		 Overview Of The US Army Tank-Automotive Research Command Horst Simon
Apr 6, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK N/A
Apr 13, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jodi Lamoureux South Pole Trip Report Esmond G. Ng
Apr 20, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Ali Pinar Combinatorial Algorithms For Adaptive Computation Horst Simon
Apr 24, Tuesday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Paul Plassmann Toward A Software Framework For Scalable Algorithms For Unstructured Mesh Computation Esmond G. Ng
Apr 27, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Iain S. Duff A New Multifrontal Code For The Solution Of Sparse Symmetric Indefinite Systems Esmond G. Ng
May 4, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Gabriel Wittum Numerical Simulation In Science And Engineering Horst Simon
May 11, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Nancy Tran ARIMA Time Series Dynamic Modeling And Forecasting For Adaptive I/O Prefetching Robert Lucas
May 18, Friday 10:00-11:00 50A-5132 Hongyuan Zha Spectral Embedding For Graph Partitioning And Data Clustering Horst Simon
May 25, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Manfred Zorn TBA Chris Ding
Jun 1, Friday 1:00-2:00 50D-3416 Siddhartha Chatterjee Exact Analysis Of The Cache Behavior Of Nested Loops Horst Simon
Jun 5, Tuesday 1:30-2:30 50A-5132 Roldan Pozo High Performance Java for Scientific and Technical Computing Tony Drummond
Jun 5, Tuesday 2:30-3:30 50B-4205 John Reynders Supercomputing at Celera Horst Simon
Jun 8, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR TODAY N/A
Jun 14, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Tim Davis Modifying a Sparse Cholesky Factorization Esmond G. Ng
Jun 15, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Joel Primack Simulating Galaxy Mergers Julian Borrill
Jun 21, Thursday 10:00-11:00 50D-3416 Padma Raghavan Sparse Matrix Methods for Improving the Performance of Two Applications Esmond Ng
Jun 22, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Charles Tong Design of A Parallel Multilevel Solver Framework for Unstructured Finite Element Applications Sherry Li
Jun 29, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK N/A
Jul 6, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 David Kil
Jim Martin 		Easy-To-Use, Scalable Data Mining Horst Simon
Jul 13, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jeffrey Vetter Automated Techniques for Performance Analysis of Terascale Applications Esmond Ng
Jul 18, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Peter Benner On the Numerical Solution of Large and Sparse Algebraic Riccati Equations Chao Yang
Jul 19, Thursday 1:00-2:00 50F-1647 Alex Pothen Memory-friendly Algorithms in Scientific Computing Silvia Crivelli
Jul 20, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Eldad Haber On the solution of KKT systems which rise in distributed parameter estimation problems Esmond Ng
Jul 27, Friday 2:00-3:00 50A-5132 Jeff Gibson Memory Profiling on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Esmond Ng
Aug 3, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK N/A
Aug 10, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Peter Nugent Research Discussions Esmond G. Ng
Aug 17, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Peter Arbenz A Comparison of Factorization-free Eigensolvers with Application to Cavity Resonators Esmond G. Ng
Aug 21, Tuesday 9:00-10:00 50A-5132 Ji Qiang High Performance Simulation of Intense Beams: Algorithms and Applications Robert Ryne
Aug 24, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Andrew Williamson An O(N) approach for quantum Monte Carlo (computational issues and applications) Andrew Canning
Aug 31, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 TBA TBA TBA
Sep 5, Wednesday 10:00-11:00 50A-5132 Gerhard Wellein The Hitachi SR8000 at LRZ Munich: An introduction to architecture and performance of Europe's first TeraFlops computer Horst Simon
Postponed 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Chandrakant Patel Cooling High Power Devices and Systems: State of the Art and the Inevitable Future Cooling Alternatives Horst Simon
Sep 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK N/A
Sep 21, Friday 10:00-11:00 71-264 Shu-Ju Tu Fung Brief Reviews of Neutrino Pair Exchange Interactions, Geometric Probability, and Parallel Programming Robert Ryne
Sep 21, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Inez Fung How fast will the world warm?
Studies with the NCAR Community Climate System ModelClimate		 Chris Ding
Sep 25, Tuesday 2:00-3:00 50B-4205 Mark S. Shephard Automation of Large-scale Simulations with emphasis on a Flexible Discontinuous Galerkin Procedure Horst Simon
Sep 28, Friday 1:00-2:00 50B-4205 Ed Seidel Dynamic Grid Computing for Science and Engineering Horst Simon
Oct 5, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK N/A
Oct 9, Tuesday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Jose E. Roman Molto Development of numerical libraries and high-performance computing applications for Medicine and Engineering Tony Drummond
Oct 12, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 N/A NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK (ACTS Toolkit Workshop this week) N/A
Oct 19, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Robert Ryne From keV-to-TeV and from kFLOPS-to-TFLOPS: a Historical Review of the Development of Accelerator Technology and Computer Technology, and the Challenges Ahead Esmond G. Ng
Nov 7, Wednesday 4:00-5:00 373 Soda Sivan Toledo Graph Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra Esmond Ng
Nov 9, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Zhiqiang Cai The Rate of Corrections and its Application in Scientific Computing: Higher-Order Approximations for Real Non-Smooth Data Chris Ding
Dec 6, Thursday 2:00-3:00 50D-3416 Rich Wolski Computational Grids: Aggregating Globally Distributed Resources for Performance Brent Gorda
Dec 14, Friday 1:00-2:00 50A-5132 Bodo Knuth Parady Parallel Performance and the Performance Box Horst Simon
Scientific Computing

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