Saturday March 29, 2008

08:15-08:50
breakfast and registration
08:50-09:00
Opening remarks
Horst Simon
Associate Laboratory Director - Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Session 1, Chair: James Demmel, University of California at Berkeley
09:00-09:30
Stopping Blood Clots Before they Stop You: Modeling Flow through Inferior Vena Cava Filters
Mike Singer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
09:30-10:00
Hodge decomposition, spectral embedding, and the Netflix dataset
Yuan Yao, Stanford University
10:00-10:30
Fast Adaptive Hybrid Mesh Generation Based On Quad-tree Decomposition
Mohamed Ebeida, University of California at Davis
10:30-11:00
coffee break
Session 2, Chair: Zhaojun Bai, University of California at Davis
11:00-11:30
Two-way Coupling of Fluids to Rigid and Deformable Solids and Shells
Tamar Shinar, Stanford University
11:30-12:00
A coupled continuum/discrete model of dense granular flow
Chris Rycroft, University of California at Berkeley
12:00-12:30
Turbulent Flames in Type Ia Supernovae
Andy Aspden, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
12:30-02:00
lunch break
Session 3, Chair: Tammy Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
02:00-02:30
Object-Oriented Design Patterns for Multiphysics Modeling in Fortran 2003
Damian Rouson, Sandia National Laboratory
02:30-03:00 Statistical Leverage and Improved Matrix Algorithms
Michael Mahoney, Yahoo Research
03:00-03:30 Implicitly Defined High-Order Operator Splittings for Time-Dependent Variable-Coefficient PDE Using Modified Moments
James Lambers, Stanford University
03:30-04:00 Adaptive Multigrid Refinement Method for Porous Media Flow Simulation
George Pau, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
04:00-05:00
Posters (also available throughout the day)
06:00-10:00 Banquet dinner at the Berkeley Faculty Club, including a Banquet Speech by Jim Demmel ( in PowerPoint2007 format , in PowerPoint2003 format ,and in PDF format ) and an open floor session after dinner. .

Sunday March 30, 2008

08:30-09:00
breakfast
Session 1, Chair: James Bunch, University of California at San Diego
09:00-09:30
Remembering Beresford and Velvel
Cleve Moler, The MathWorks
09:30-10:00
Large Sparse Eigenvalue Problems: from SEP to Multicore
Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:00-10:30
From UCB to IEEE: How Could There Possibly Be Anything More to Say About Computer Arithmetic?
David Hough, Sun Microsystems
10:30-11:00
coffee break
Session 2, Chair: Michael Saunders, Stanford University
11:00-11:30
Upper and Lower Bounds on the Norms of Functions of Matrices
Ann Greenbaum, University of Washington
11:30-12:00
Eigenvalues of a Perturbed Hermitian Matrix
Ren-Cang Li, University of Texas at Arlington
12:00-12:30
Zyzzyva: The Symmetric Tridiagonal Eigenproblem
Inderjit Dhillon, University of Texas at Austin
12:30-02:00
lunch break
Session 3, Chair: Cleve Moler, The MathWorks
02:00-02:30
Prediction from bad models and partial data
Alexandre Chorin, University of California at Berkeley
02:30-03:00 Computational Mechanics Today
Robert Taylor, University of California at Berkeley
03:00-03:30 Recollections (designed to entertain or enlighten)
Beresford Parlett, University of California at Berkeley
03:30-04:00 Back to the Future of Undebuggable Floating-Point Computation in Science and Engineering
William Kahan, University of California at Berkeley