Scientific Computing and Matrix Computations Seminar

Organized by James Demmel and Ming Gu

Spring 2012

Wednesdays 12:10-1:00PM in 380 Soda Hall.


Past Seminars

Current Schedule




Date Speaker Affiliation Talk
Jan. 25 Ming Gu
UC Berkeley
Subspace Iteration and Random Start Matrix.
Feb. 1 Chris Rycroft
UCB and LBL
Application of the Voronoi tessellation for high-throughput analysis of crystalline porous materials

Feb. 8 Aydin Buluc
LBNL
Parallel algorithms for sparse matrix product, indexing, and assignment
Feb. 15
Jim Demmel
UCB
New Lower and Upper bounds on Communication and Arithmetic .
Feb. 22
Kathy Yelick
UCB and LBNL
Generalizing Communication Optimal Algorithms
Feb. 29
Prof. W. Kahan
UCB
A half-century's Quest to compute Accurate Singular Values quickly
March 7
Dr. Lin Lin
LBNL
Adaptive local basis set for Kohn-Sham density functional theory in a discontinuous Galerkin framework
March 14
Kensuke Aishima
University of Tokyo, Japan
dqds algorithm with aggressive deflation for computing singular values
March 21
Robert Saye
UCB and LBL

March 28


Spring Break
April 4
Shiqian Ma
IMA
Alternating Direction Methods for Sparse and Low-Rank Optimization
April 11
Artem Napov
LBL
Conditioning analysis of incomplete Cholesky factorizations with orthogonal dropping
April 18
Beresford Parlett
UCB
dqds and Quasiseparable Matrices
April 25
Shiv Chandrasekaran
UCSB
A new technique for the numerical solution of partial differential equations
May 2
Brian Gawalt
UCB
Convex Approaches to Text Mining