Scientific Computing and Matrix Computations Seminar

Organized by James Demmel and Ming Gu

Fall 2013

Wednesdays 11:10AM-12:00Noon in 380 Soda Hall.


Past Seminars


Current Schedule




Date Speaker Affiliation Talk
Sept. 11 William Kahan
UC Berkeley
Floating-Point Tricks to Solve Boundary-Value Problems Faster
Sept. 18 Shiv Chandrasekaran
UC Santa Barbara
A Minimum Sobolev Norm technique for the numerical solution of elliptic PDEs

Sept. 25 Michael Mahoney
Stanford U.
Implementing Randomized Matrix Algorithms in Parallel and Distributed Environments
Oct. 2
Jim Demmel
UC Berkeley
Communication Lower Bounds and Optimal Algorithms for Programs that Reference Arrays
Oct. 9
Wibe de Jong
LBNL
Advancing the performance and scalability of computational chemistry algorithms in NWChem
Oct. 16
Ming Gu
UC Berkeley
Fast Gaussian Process for Time Series
Oct. 23
Edgar Solomonik

UC Berkeley
Communication avoiding parallel algorithms for dense matrix factorizations
Oct. 30
Ravi Kannan
Microsoft India
Algorithms for Distributed Data
Nov. 6
Ren-Cang Li
UT Arlington
The Hyperbolic Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem
Nov. 13
Cleve Moler The Mathworks
The Evolution of Matlab , 2:00--3:00PM, LBNL Building 50 Auditorium
Nov. 20
Per Gunnar Martinsson
U. of Colorado at Boulder
Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs, 11:00AM--12:00Noon, 736 Evans
Nov. 27
Zhaojun Bai
UC Davis
Solving Algberaic Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems via Rapid Iterative Diagonalization
Dec. 4
Chris Melgaard
UC Berkeley
An efficient randomized GECP algorithm