The Bay Area Scientific Computing Day

The Bay Area Scientific Computing Day (BASCD) is an annual informal gathering to encourage the interaction and collaboration of researchers in the field of computational science and engineering from the San Francisco Bay Area. This event provides a great venue for junior researchers to present their work to the local community, and for the Bay Area scientific and computational science communities at large to interchange views on today's multidisciplinary computational challenges and state-of-the-art developments.

This year, the BASCD has been organized as a two-day workshop. In addition to the usual talks on the first day, we will hold a second day of talks in celebration of the many decades of accomplishments and the 75th birthdays of Prof. William (Velvel) Kahan and Prof. Beresford Parlett, both of whom have made fundamental and innumerable contributions to many fields of scientific computation. This will also be a celebration of great achievements by their academic descendants.

This year's BASCD is sponsored by the Mathematics Department, UC Berkeley , the Department of EECS, UC Berkeley, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), and held at MSRI at 17 Gauss Way in Berkeley, CA on Saturday and Sunday March 29-30, 2008.