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Program

Wednesday, June 23
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast Buffet and Registration
9:00-9:30 am Session I: Introduction
Eric Keiter, Sandia National Laboratories (Chair)
  Eric Keiter, Sandia National Laboratories
Opening Remarks
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9:30-10:00 am
Session II: Linear Algebra
Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories

Achim Basermann, NEC Europe
Parallel Flexible Iterative Solvers for Sparse Equation Systems from Circuit Simulation
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10:00-10:30 am
Refreshment Break
10:30-11:30 am
Session II: (Continued)

Robert Hoekstra, Sandia National Laboratories
Linear Solution of Circuits in the Xyce Simulator
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Tim Davis, University of Florida
Sparse LU factorization for matrices arising in circuit simulation
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11:30-12:30 pm Lunch Buffet
12:30-2:00 pm
Panel Discussion on The Utility of Iterative Linear Solvers and Other Numerical Methods for Circuit and Device Modeling
Mike Heroux and Rob Hoekstra
2:00-2:15 pm
Stretch Break
2:15-4:15 pm Session III: Time Integration
Scott Hutchinson, Sandia National Laboratories (Chair)

 C. W. Gear, NEC Research Institute
Explicit Integration Methods for Stiff Equations
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Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara
Error Estimation for Reduced Order Models of Dynamical Systems
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Todd Coffey, Sandia National Laboratories
 
Initial Condition strategies for Multiple-time Partial Differential Equations
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  Jaijeet Roychowdhury, University of Minnesota
Oscillator Macromodelling and Applications
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4:15 pm Adjourn for the day (dinner on your own)
Thursday, June 24  
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast Buffet
9:00-11:00 am Session IV: PDEs
Eric Keiter, Sandia National Laboratories (Chair)

Nick Hitchon, University of Wisconsin
Calculation of the Electron Distribution Function During Breakdown
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Neil Goldsman, University of Maryland
Advanced and Practical Approaches to Semiconductor Device CAD
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Matthew Scott Lasater, North Carolina State University
Simulating Resonant Tunneling Diodes with the Wigner-Poisson Equations
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Karti Mayaram, Oregon State University
Large-signal Frequency Domain Coupled Device and Circuit Simulation
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11:00-1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30-3:30 pm Session V: Nonlinear Equations
Brett Bader, Sandia National Laboratories

Mike Henderson, IBM Watson Research Center
Multiparameter Continuation
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Roger Pawlowski, Sandia National Laboratories
Nonlinear Solution Algorithms for Circuit Simulation
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Hans Georg Brachtendorf, Fraunhofer Institute IIS
Homotopy method for finding the steady states of
oscillators
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Homer Walker, Worcester Polytechnic Institue
Applications of Krylov subspace methods in large-scale continuation
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3:30-4:00 pm Refreshment Break
4:00-5:30 pm Panel Discussion on the role of Open Source in numerical simulation.
Phil Wilsey, Dale Martin and Tom Russo
6:30-7:30 pm Banquet
7:30-8:15 pm After Dinner Talk
Jaijeet Roychowdhury, University of Minnesota  (Chair)

Larry Nagel, Omega Enterprises
Is It Time for SPICE 4?
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8:15 pm  Adjourn for the day 
Friday, June 25
 
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast Buffet
9:00-10:30 am Session VI: Closing Talks
Rob Hoekstra, Sandia National Laboratories (Chair)


Dale Martin, Clifton Labs
Scheduling Optimization on the Simbus Backplane
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Sani R. Nassif, IBM Austin Research Labs
Who is in Control? (Enhancing your simulator using an extension language)
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Richard Schiek, Sandia National Laboratories
Using Circuit Modeling to Simulate Large Scale, Multi-Cellular,
Biological Pathways
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10:30-11:00 am Refreshment Break And Check-Out Of Hotel
11:00-12:00
Session V (Continued)

Layne Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
A Parallel Direct Search Algorithm
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Andreas Waechter,  IBM Watson Research Center
Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization in Circuit Tuning
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12:00-1:00 pm Lunch Buffet
1:00-2:30 pm Panel Discussion on The Next Generation of Transistor-Level Circuit Simulation
Jaijeet Roychowdhury, Eric Keiter and Todd Coffey
2:30 pm Wrap-Up and Adjourn
Eric Keiter, Sandia National Labortories
 

Instructions for speakers

Each speaker will be alloted 25 minutes. All talks should be accessible to both circuit and design modelers as well as numerical analysts. An overhead projector will be provided for viewgraph talks, and a computer and computer projector will be provided for electronic talks.

We request that each speaker submit an electronic copy of his or her talk to Eric Keiter [erkeite@sandia.gov] by no later than July 1st, 2004. The talks will be posted on this web page.

 

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