CS497, Section MH, Spring 1999, Meets 3:30-4:45 Thursdays, 2272 DCL Topics date speaker topic Jan 28 Mike Heath Sparse Direct Methods: A Tutorial Overview Feb 4 David Hardy Graph Model and Sparse Data Structures Feb 11 Ali Pinar Permuting Sparse Matrices to Special Forms Feb 18 Boyana Norris Minimum Degree Ordering Feb 25 Fabiano Oyafuso Nested Dissection and Graph Partitioning Mar 4 Akhil Vidwans Elimination Trees and Symbolic Factorization Mar 11 Vanessa Lopez Numeric Factorization Mar 18 spring break Mar 25 Manoj Gupta Multifrontal Method Apr 1 Haydar Kutuk Triangular Solution Apr 8 Gang Zou Nonsymmetric Systems Apr 15 Jim Jiao Parallel Implementation Issues Apr 22 Manoj Gupta Scalability of Sparse Direct Methods Apr 29 Bob Dodds Linear Equation Solving in Computational Solid Mechanics References