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Minisymposium on AD and Nonlinear Optimization at SIAM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 9--13, 2012.
I am organizing a minisymposium on Automatic Differentiation (AD) and its
application in nonlinear optimization at the upcoming SIAM Annual Meeting to be held July 9--13, 2012
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mini (scheduled for July 13) will feature four talks discussing recent developments in AD technology and their use in applications. Topics to be covered include sparsity exploitation, partially separable functions, higher-order derivatives, and a new operator-overloading based method
for functions written in MATLAB.
For more information visit the the minisymposium page at the
conference website.
AD 2012 will take place July 23-27, 2012 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Sixth International Conference on Automatic Differentiation will be held in Fort Collins, Colorado
from July 23 to 27, 2012.
For more information visit the
conference website.
Minisymposium on Scientific Computing on Multicore
and Multithreaded Architectures
at SIAM CSE11.
I am co-organizing (together with Erik Boman, Sandia National Lab) a minisymposium entitled
``Recent Advances in Scientific Computing on Multicore and Multithreaded Architectures"
at the upcoming SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
to be held Feb 28 - March 4, 2011
in Reno, Nevada.
This minisymposium will feature eight talks discussing recent advances in the development
and optimized implementation of parallel graph or sparse matrix algorithms on
various kinds of architectures with various degrees of multithreading capabilities.
It will also showcase examples of applications being enabled by such methods.
For more information visit the
the conference
website.
Minisymposium on Parallel Algorithms for Massive
Graphs at SIAM PP10, Seattle, Washington, Feb 24-26, 2010.
I am co-organizing a minisymposium on
parallel algorithms and software for massive graphs
at the upcoming SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing and
Scientific Computing to be held Feb 24-26, 2010
in Seattle, Washington.
The minisymposium will feature eight talks that attempt to
highlight the interplay between applications, architecture,
algorithms, and software engineering in the design and
implementation of parallel algorithms for problems on massive
graphs. For more information visit the
minisymposium page at the conference
website.
Minisymposium on AD and its applications at SIAM CSE09, Miami, Florida, March 2--6, 2009.
Together with Paul Hovland from Argonne, I am organizing a minisymposium on automatic differentiation (AD) and its
application in computational science and enginnering (CSE) at the upcoming SIAM Conference on CSE to be held March 2--6, 2009
in Miami, Florida. The mini will showcase applications that are benefiting from the use of AD,
and will feature talks on AD techniques and representative software tools from the two major paradigms, source
transformation and operator overloading. The talks on applications will discuss examples from chemical engineering,
computational biology, climate modeling, and nuclear safety analysis.
For more information visit the
conference website.
The first version of ColPack released.
The first version of ColPack, our serial software package for coloring and related algorithms for
derivative computation, has been released in October 2008.
For more information visit the
coloring project website.
A Dagstuhl
Seminar on CSC to take place Feb 1 through Feb 6, 2009 in
Germany.
The seminar is expected to bring together researchers in combinatorial scientific computing
from across the world. It is being
organized by Uwe Naumann (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Olaf Schenk
(Universitat Basel, Switzerland), Horst Simon (Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), and Sivan Toledo (Tel Aviv
University, Israel).Further information available at the
seminar website. I plan to participate at this promising event.
CSCAPES Workshop 2008 took place June 10 to 13, 2008 in Santa Fe, NM.
CSCAPES hosted a SciDAC-oriented workshop on CSC in Santa Fe, NM from June 10 to 13, 2008.
Visit the
workshop website for slides of presentations and other information.
AD 2008 took place August 11--15, 2008 in Bonn, Germany.
The fifth international conference on automatic differentiation was held in Bonn, Germany from August 11 to 15, 2008.
Our work on coloring for sparse derivative computation was presented in both an invited and a contributed talk.
Learn more at the
conference website.