2005 Seminars

Title Speaker Date

Development of a 2-D convection model to simulate phase transition accurately over long time integration

Katherine J. Evans, Los Alamos National Laboratory

December 19, 2005
Multimaterial Interface Reconstruction

M. J. Shashkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory

December 13, 2005
Superconducting Quantum Computation - Hardware and Applications

Dr. Peter J. Love, D-Wave Systems Inc.

December 12, 2005
Quantum Computation for Quantum Chemistry

Alan Aspuru-Guzik, UC Berkeley

December 12, 2005

A parallel adaptive mesh refinement algorithm of an unsplit staggered mesh scheme for magnetohydrodynamics

Dongwook Lee, University of Maryland at College Park

December 5, 2005

Optimization of large-scale water systems: Performance, Adaptation, and Security

Professor Jay Lund, University of California, Davis November 10, 2005

Studies of Algorithms for Gyrokinetics & The Effects of Shaping on Plasma Turbulence

E. A. Belli, Princeton University

November 7, 2005
Fast Electrostatics and Polarizable Forces

Robert D. Skeel

November 1, 2005
Why Polyhedra Matter in Nonlinear Equation Solving

J. Maurice Rojas, Texas A&M

October 24, 2005
A Parallel Dense-Matrix Eigensolver Mark Sears, Sandia National Laboratories October 20, 2005

Wide-range, Multi-phase Equation of State for Metals

Igor V. Lomonosov, Institute for Problems in Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, RUSSIA

October 19, 2005
Overview of AMPL David M. Gay, Sandia National Laboratories October 18, 2005

Evaluating I/O Characteristics and Methods for Storing Structured Scientific Data

Avery Ching, Northwestern University October 13, 2005

Molecular dynamics at constant temperature - Some mathematical and numerical results

Eric Cances, CERMICS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees October 12, 2005

Mathematical contributions to electronic structure calculations: one overview and two examples

Claude Le Bris, CERMICS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees October 12, 2005
Some Linear Algebra of Quantum Computing Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland September 28, 2005
On the Feasibility of Optical Circuit Switching for High Performance Computing Systems Eugen Schenfeld, IBM September 22, 2005
AM PERCS Interconnect and IO Research Jay Herring, IBM September 22, 2005
Numerical Simulations Based on Adaptive Delaunay Meshing

Pascal Frey, Lab. Jacques-Louis Lions, University Paris VI France

September 15, 2005
A comparison of some mesh adaptation schemes with FreeFem++

Prof. Frederic Hecht, Lab. Jacques-Louis Lions, University Paris VI France

September 15, 2005
RDMA Locks and their Usefulness in High Performance Computing Kenin Coloma, Northwestern University September 14, 2005
Multi-scale Saliency Search in Image Analysis

Anthony Campisi, University of New Mexico, Alex Slepoy, Sandia National Laboratories    

September 13, 2005
Making Chord Robust to Byzantine Attacks Jared Saia, University of New Mexico August 29, 2005
Preconditioners for Generalized Saddle-Point Problems Christopher Siefert, University of Illinois August 29, 2005
Monte-Carlo Algorithms for Matrices and Applications Petros Drineas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute August 24, 2005
Large Files, Small Writes and pNFS

Dean Hildebrand, University of Michigan 

August 24, 2005
Discrete exterior calculus with convergence to the smooth continuum  Jenny Harrison, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley August 11, 2005
Informatics for Higher Order Finite Element Simulations Philippe P. Pebay, Sandia National Laboratories August 8, 2005
Automated Nonlinear Macromodelling and Applications Jaijeet Roychowdhury, University of Minnesota August 8, 2005
Compatible discretizations for PDEs Kate Trapp, University of Richmond August 8, 2005
Rehabilitating POD Chris Beattie, Virginia Tech July 27, 2005

New Computational Methods in Quantum Dynamics, and Molecular Applications

Bill Poirer, Texas Tech July 27, 2005
Numerical methods for interface and contact problems Patrick Le Tallec, Ecole Polytechnique July 21, 2005

Dynamic Differential Data Protection in High-Performance Middleware

Patrick Widener, University of New Mexico July 21, 2005
Methods for Engineering Design under Uncertainty Dr. Wei Chen, Northwestern University July 20, 2005
Analysis of a prototypical multiscale method coupling atomistic and continuum mechanics Frederic Legoll, University of Minnesota July 14, 2005
The Parallel Boost Graph Library Andrew Lumsdaine June 29, 2005
On the TCAT Approach for Obtaining Multiphase Subsurface Conservation Equations

William G. Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

June 28, 2005

Mobility as a Predictive Measure of Evolutionary Algorithm Effectiveness

Monte Lunacek June 22, 2005

Developing multi-agent systems as a new approach for engineering design and optimization

John Siirola, Carnegie Mellon University

June 21, 2005
Symmetry Preserving Principle Component Analysis for Dynamical Systems

Danny Sorensen, Rice University

June 21, 2005

Fast Simulation-based Optimization for Engineering Design Under Uncertainty

Chun-Hung Chen, George Mason University

June 6, 2005

Recent advances in nonlinear output feedback and applications to unmanned vehicles

Farshad Khorrami, Polytechnic University

May 25, 2005

Building Blocks for Reliable Complex Nonlinear Numerical Simulations

Helen Yee, NASA Ames Research Center      

May 25, 2005
Efficient High Order Schemes for Long-Time Wave Propagation of Complex Multiscale Flows

Helen Yee, NASA Ames Research Center

May 24, 2005
Filtering and Limiting in High Order Methods for Non-ideal MHD

Helen Yee, NASA Ames Research Center   

May 24, 2005
First-Principles Modeling of Chemical Reactions on Heterogeneous Catalysts: Fundamental Understanding and Catalyst Design

Jeff Greeley, Technical University of Denmark

May 18, 2005

Towards Rational Mutation of an Enzyme: Understanding Rubisco's Specificity

Jurgen Schlitter May 18, 2005
Numerical Methods for the Wigner-Poisson Equations Matthew Lasater, North Carolina State University May 17, 2005

Sequential Kriging Optimization Methods for Stochastic and Multi-Fidelity Evaluations

Deng (Dan) Huang, Ohio State University

May 12, 2005

Artificially Intelligent Alternative to Equation-less modeling: Dare to Delegate

Alex Slepoy, Sandia National Laboratories May 4, 2005
Materials Simulation of Carbon Materials

Kwang-Ryeol Lee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology

April 29, 2005
An Inverse Problem in Nondestructive Evaluation of Spotwelds

Thomas Hoft, Interview, University of Minnesota       

April 26, 2005
Finite Element Method on the Sphere

Necibe Tuncer, Auburn University

April 21, 2005
Adjoint based optimization of free-shear-flow noise control

Jonathan Freund, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign   

April 21, 2005
“Near-Wall Treatments for Coarse Grid Large-Eddy Simulation"

Jeremy Templeton, Stanford University  

April 20, 2005

Generalizations of an Inverse Free Preconditioned Algorithm for Symmetric Generalized Eigenvalue Problems

Pat Quillen, University of Kentucky April 20, 2005

“Interior Methods for Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints (MPCCs)"

Gabriel Lopez-Calva, Northwestern University

April 18, 2005

Geometric Algorithms for Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Delivery Planning

Shuang (Sean) Luan, University of New Mexico

April 13, 2005
Duality-based error estimates and their application to inverse problems Wolfgang Bangerth, Texas A&M April 12, 2005
Traveling Threads: A New Multi-Threaded Execution Model Richard C. Murphy, Notre Dame University April 11, 2005
"Adaptive Parameter Space Exploration with Gaussian Process Trees" Herbert K. H. Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz April 6, 2005
Development of Comprehensive Grid Generation Technology

Vladimir D. Liseikin, Institute of Computational Technologies of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at Novosibirsk State University     

April 1, 2005
Smoothed Aggregation (SA) multigrid

Marian Brezina, University of Colorado at Boulder

March 29, 2005
Averaging Based Estimators for Elliptic Equations Varis Carey, Cornell University March 28, 2005
Correlations in planar quantum dots: A quantum Monte Carlo study

Professor Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University

March 28, 2005
Architectural Requirements for Efficient Execution of Graph Algorithms David A. Bader, University of New Mexico March 24, 2005
An introduction to Chapel: Cray Cascade's High Productivity Language Brad Chamberlain, University of Washington/Cray Inc. March 17, 2005

Parameter Estimation for a Nonlinear HIV Dynamics Model

Brian M. Adams, North Carolina State University   

March 9, 2005

Network Tomography in the Real World

Hal Burch, Carnegie Mellon University 

March 8, 2005
IMEX-RK methods

Alex Kanevsky, Brown University

March 8, 2005
“Global Optimization:  For Some Problems, There's HOPE”

Daniel M. Dunlavy, University of Maryland

March 1, 2005
An Active Set Method for Large-Scale Constrained Optimization

Prof. Richard H. Byrd, University of Colorado

February 3, 2005

A comprehensive spatio-temporal numerical scheme for fully implicit 3D extended MHD

Luis Chacon (Speaker) and Dana Knoll, Los Alamos National Laboratory

January 31, 2005
Binding of phenylalanine analogs to phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase

Peter Kekenes-Huskey, California Institute of Technology 

January 28, 2005
Phase Field Methods for Flows with Elastic Membranes

Judith Hill, Carnegie Mellon University

January 26, 2005
Rule-based Modeling of Biochemical Networks James R. Faeder, Los Alamos National Laboratory January 19, 2005
Ocean's Slow Burn Process and the Ocean Modeling for Climate Research

David Dietrich (President, AcuSea, Inc.) & C. Aaron Lai (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

January 13, 2005