Title: Combinatorial Scientific Computing

Speaker: Ali Pinar, High Performance Computing Research Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 10:00 – 11:00 am MST

Location: 915/S101 (CA), Videoconference to CSRI/90 (NM)

Brief Abstract: Combinatorial methods have long played an important role in scientific computing, by making the solution of large-scale computations feasible by reducing resource requirements. This area continues to be important, as both the algorithms/applications and target computational platforms evolve, and new performance metrics, such as power efficiency, arise. The new trends in computational science and engineering however, bring new challenges for combinatorial scientific computing, as combinatorial problems arise directly in science and engineering applications. Many problems in these new challenges require studying nonlinear systems with discrete and continuous variables, an emerging area of research. This talk will overview the role of combinatorial methods in scientific computing, and discuss a case study on vulnerability analysis of the electric power grid.

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