2007 Seminars

Title Speaker Date
Implicit modeling of fluid dynamics for Earth systems applications Kate Evans, ORNL December 17, 2007
Simulations of energetic materials under shock conditions: response to high-rate shear deformation and constitutive relationships under uniaxial compression Sergey Zybin, California Institute of Technology December 12, 2007
ASC SQE Appraisals: Lessons Learned (Software Engineering Seminar Series) Molly Minana & Jennifer Turgeon, Sandia National Laboratories December 11, 2007
Cross-platform software development made easy with Qt Jan AArsaether, Technical Sales Manager, Trolltech
David Boosalis, SW Engineer, Trolltech
December 6, 2007
ALE Hydrocodes at the DOE Labs Bill Rider, Sandia National Laboratories November 29, 2007
Polynomial chaos, stochastic collocation, and stochastic sampling methods for UQ/SPDEs and the connections and differences
between them
Max Gunzburger, Florida State University November 29, 2007
On the Intersection of V&V and SQE (Software Engineering Seminar Series) Tim Trucano, Sandia National Laboratories November 28, 2007
Quantum Computing - potential, implementation, challenges Professor Lloyd C.L. Hollenberg,
ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
November 27, 2007
Analysis and Control of Numerical Uncertainty in PDE-Constrained Optimization (John von Neumann Fellowship Lecture) Denis Ridzal, Sandia National Laboratories November 26, 2007
ConceptDoppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship Jed Crandall, Dept. of Computer Science, UNM November 19, 2007
The Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Framework for Fluid-structure Interaction Santiago Badia, Centre International de Metodes Numerics November 15, 2007
Automatic Differentiation of C++ with Sacado (Software Engineering Seminar Series) Eric Phipps, Sandia National Laboratories November 13, 2007
Efficient Prediction of RNA Secondary Structure Gaurav Sharma,
University of Rochester
November 9, 2007
Enhanced Collaboration in Application and Algorithm R&D (Software Engineering Seminar Series) Ross Bartlett, Sandia National Laboratories October 30, 2007
Low-dimensional Modeling for Temporally Developing Free Shear Layers Mingjun Wei October 29, 2007
Statistical Leverage and Improved Matrix Algorithms Michael W. Mahoney, Yahoo Research October 15, 2007
Reduced Order Modeling Techniques for Design Optimization under Uncertainty Kurte Maute and Gary Weickum, Univ. of Colorado October 9, 2007
Connections between the non-local Peridynamic model of continuum mechanics and local elasticity theory Olaf Weckner, Math Group, The Boeing Company, Bellevue, Washington October 4, 2007
Advances in Topology Optimization of Coupled Multi-Physics Problems Kurt Maute, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder October 4, 2007
(Part I) Parallel symbolic analysis to enhance memory scalability of SuperLU (Part II) EigAdept - A framework to build expert eigensolver toolbox Dr. Xiaoye (Sherry) Li, Lawrence Berkeley Lab October 4, 2007
Software Engineering in the Trilinos Project: Then, Now and to Come(Software Engineering Seminar Series) Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories October 3, 2007
The 3-D Dislocation Dynamics Method: Applications and Capabilities Tariq A. Khraishi
University of New Mexico
October 3, 2007
Topologic and Geometric Constraint-Based Hexahedral Mesh Generation Jason Shepherd, Sandia National Laboratories September 27, 2007
Towards the Ultimate Time-Domain Solver for the Wave Equation Prof. T. Hagstrom, Department of Mathematics, UNM September 24, 2007
Hybrid Optimization Parallel Search Package Josh Griffin, Sandia National Laboratories September 19, 2007
The Counter-Intuitive Properties of Ensembles for Machine Learning, or, Democracy Defeats Meritocracy Philip Kegelmeyer, Sandia National Laboratories, CA September 13, 2007
Using superconducting quantum computers to solve artificial intelligence problems: preliminary results Geordie Rose, D-Wave September 10, 2007
Data Streaming Compilers for Multi-core CPUs Brent Leback, The Portland Group August 30, 2007
Shock-capturing schemes for a collisionless two-fluid plasma model Evan Johnson (Ph.D. Student), Univ. of Wisconsin August 29, 2007
Residual Distribution Schemes for Astrophysical Flows James Rossmanith, Univ. of Wisconsin August 29, 2007
Simulation of Compressible, Reacting Flows in Complex Geometries Krishnan Mahesh, University of Minnesota August 29, 2007
New results on overlapping Schwarz methods Olof Widlund, Courant Institute, NYU August 29, 2007
Synthetic Programming Using CorePy Chris Mueller and Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University August 27, 2007
The Velocity Tracking Problem for MHD Flows with Distributed Magnetic Field Control Catalin Trenchea, University of Pittsburgh August 22, 2007
A Low Level Introduction to High-Dimensional Sparse Grids John Burkardt, Florida State University August 21, 2007
Second-order accurate discretization method for diffusion problems with tensor coefficients on polyhedral meshes K. Lipnikov, LANL August 20, 2007

MPI and beyond: Communication paradigms for large irregular communication patterns

Brian Barrett, Graduate Student, Open Systems Lab, Indiana University

August 15, 2007
An Abstract Nonlinear Solver Point of View on Strong Partitioned Fluid Structure Interaction Coupling
Algorithms
Michael W. Gee, Chair for Numerical Mechanics, Technical University of Munich August 13, 2007
Calibration under Uncertainty of Expensive Computer Simulations with Multivariate Output John McFarland, Vanderbilt University August 9, 2007
Computational Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Wave Phenomena Prof. Dan Givoli, Technion Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel August 2, 2007
Intracellular Calcium Waves as a Signal for Neuronal Synaptic Strengthening: A Potential Mechanism for Late Long Term Potentiation Dr. Brad Peercy (NIH) July 30, 2007
Anthropology of Terrorism: Modeling How Envy, Humiliation and Greed Manifest Violent Conflict in Cross-Cultural Perspective Dr. Lawrence Kuznar, Chair, Indiana University/Purdue University July 30, 2007
Distributed Access to Parallel File Systems Dean Hildebrand, University of Michigan July 26, 2007
Patterns of Extinction and Failure in Evolving Complex Networks Paul Ormerod, Volterra, Inc. July 26, 2007
Modelling with Low Cognition Agents in the Social Sciences Paul Ormerod, Volterra, Inc. July 24, 2007
Immersive Real-Time Network Simulation Jason Liu, Colorado School of Mines July 17, 2007
An Object-Oriented Framework for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Joaquim R. R. A. Martins, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) July 10, 2007
Atomistic simulation of high strain rate plasticity, spall damage, and fracture of crystalline and polycrystalline metals: Nanocrystalline Cu; single crystal Al; nano-precipitates influence Prof. Henry Norman, Alexey Yanilkin, Alexey Kuksin, Vladimir Stegailov, Joint Institute for High Tempertures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia July 2, 2007
Wireless Network Analysis Peter Sholander, Sandia National Laboratories June 28, 2007
A Very Brief History of Hydrodynamic Codes (i.e. Hydrocodes) Bill Rider, Sandia National Laboratories June 27, 2007
FCT Algorithms for the Euler Equations on Overlapping Grids Jeffery Banks, Sandia National Laboratories June 26, 2007
The Trouble with Molecular Dynamics Paul Tupper, McGill University June 26, 2007
Offline Test Criteria for Filtering Complex Dynamical Systems

John Harlim, New York University

June 25, 2007
Hardened by Design Approaches for Mitigating Transient Faults in Memory-Based Systems Daniel Blum, Washington State University June 20, 2007
Overview of Optimization Under Uncertainty R&D within the DAKOTA Project Mike Eldred, Sandia National Laboratories June 19, 2007
Agent-based strategies for modeling and optimization John Siirola, Sandia National Laboratories June 13, 2007
Kriging Models:  Friend or Foe? Jay Martin, Applied Research Lab at Penn State University June 13, 2007
Stabilized Multiple Time Stepping Method for Coupling Multiple Time Scales in Molecular Dynamics Dr. Phani Nukala, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, ORNL June 7, 2007
Modeling Processor Performance Using Monte Carlo Techniques Ramkumar Srinivasan, New Mexico State University May 23, 2007

A Unified Approach for Solving Stochastic Problems in Engineering

Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University May 14, 2007
Recent research efforts in V&V and UQ at the Stanford ASC Center Gianluca Iaccarino, Stanford University May 10, 2007

Practical and Optimal Iterative Methods for Large Scale Systems Including Maxwell Equations

Jinchao Xu, Pennsylvania State University

May 2, 2007
Atomic-to-continuum (AtC) mulitiscale coupling using peridynamics Rich Lehoucq and Stewart Silling, Sandia National Laboratories April 25, 2007
Plans for the GNEP Fuels Modeling and Simulation Effort Dana Knoll, Idaho National Laboratories April 24, 2007

Closure Models for Multimaterial Cells in Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrocodes

Mikhail Shashkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory April 23, 2007

Achieving Human Performance for Multi-Lingual Multi-Document Summarization

John Conroy, IDA Center for Computing Sciences April 10, 2007
Multi-physics Simulations for Nuclear
Reactor Cores
Vincent Mousseau, Idaho National Labs April 3, 2007

Modular Abstract Self-Learning Tabu Search (MASTS)

Michael Ciarleglio, J. Wesley Barnes, The University of Texas at Austin

April 2, 2007

Tabu Search at The University of Texas at Austin – Applications & Research

J. Wesley Barnes, The University of Texas at Austin

April 2, 2007

A Class of Residual Schemes for Conservation Laws:  Design Criteria, Analysis and Applications

Mario Ricchiuto, INRIA Futurs project Scalapplix and IBM Universite’ de Bordeaux 1 March 29, 2007
The peridynamic theory: comparison to classical continuum mechanics, numerical implementation, and applications at Boeing Olaf Weckner, The Boeing Math Group March 7, 2007
Multilevel Algorithms for Clustering Documents and Large-scale Proteomic Networks

Sang-Cheol Seok, University of Iowa

March 5, 2007
Efficient Setup Phase Algorithms for Parallel Algebraic Multigrid David Alber, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign February 26, 2007

Parallel Hexahedral Mesh Generation for Geophysical and Seismic Engineering

           

Emanuele Casarotti, California Institute of Technology Marco Stupazzini, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Germany

February 26, 2007
Stochastic Programming: Models, Instances and Computation Prof. Horand ("Gus") Gassmann, Dalhousie University February 19, 2007
Nanowire-based Computing Systems Andre’ DeHon, U. Penn February 16, 2007

Inverse, Shifted Inverse, and Rayleigh Quotient Iteration as Newton’s Method

Richard A. Tapia, Rice University January 31, 2007
Mesh Adaptation for Multiphysics Applications Glen Hansen, Idaho National Laboratory January 23, 2007
Efficient parallel implementation of Bose Hubbard model: Exact numerical groundstates and dynamics of gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates for investigating Schrödinger cat states Mary Ann Leung, University of Washington January 17, 2007

Uncertainty Quantification using Multiscale Methods and Stochastic Finite Element Methods for Porous Media Flows

Paul Dostert, Texas A&M University

           
January 16, 2007
Fast, Reduced Hamilton-Pontryagin (HP) Variational Integrators

Nawaf Bou-Rabee, California Institute of Technology

January 15, 2007

Explicit formulae in the statistical equilibrium of nearly parallel vortex filaments

Timothy Andersen, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute January 10, 2006
Rapidly and Reliably Recognizing an Object Minjoon Kouh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology January 8, 2007