Scientific Computing Group Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Mikhail Shashkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, “ReALE – Reconnection-Based Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Method”, CS/CSE Joint Seminar, 10:00 A.M., Monday, December 7, 2009, 2405 Siebel Center.

J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas at Austin, “Validation, Prediction, and Error Control in Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling: Foundational Issues in Modern Computational Science”, CEE Newmark Distinguished Lecture, 4:00 P.M., Monday, December 7, 2009, 1320 DCL.

Regular Seminar Series

• Applied/Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar
• Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
• Computational Science and Engineering
• CS 591 MH

• William Kramer, UIUC/NCSA, “Challenges and Opportunities of Peta-scale Computing”, SIAM Student Chapter Colloquium, 1:00 P.M., Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Arif Masud, UIUC/CEE, “Stabilized Finite Element Methods and Turbulence”, SIAM Student Chapter Colloquium, 1:00 P.M., Thursday, October 22, 2009, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Jonathan Freund, UIUC/MechSE, “Simulation of Cellular Blood Flow in Complex Geometry Microvessels”, SIAM Student Chapter Colloquium, 1:00 P.M., Monday, September 28, 2009, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Jesus Izaguirre, University of Notre Dame, “Simulation of Long Timescale Dynamics of Proteins Using Normal Mode Langevin Dynamics”, Theoretical Biophysics Group Seminar, 3:00 P.M., Monday, August 3, 2009, 3269 Beckman Institute.
• Scott Baden, University of California, San Deigo, “A Method of Adaptive Coarsening for Compressing Numerical Data”, CS Seminar, 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 2405 Siebel Center.
• Alper Ungor, University of Florida, “Premium Quality Triangulations”, CSE Seminar, 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 2240 DCL.
• Gerard Awanou, Northern Illinois University, “Finite Elements for Symmetric Tensors in Three Dimensions”, SIAM Student Chapter Colloquium, 3:00 P.M., Thursday, April 30, 2009, 4403 Siebel Center.
• Donald Estep, Colorado State University, “Adjoint-Fueled Advances in Error Estimation for Multiscale, Multiphysics Problems”, CSE Symposium Keynote, 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2240 DCL.
• Gilbert Strang, MIT, “Teaching and Learning Computational Science and Engineering”, CSE Symposium Keynote, 9:00 A.M., Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2240 DCL.
• Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, “Four Important Concepts to Consider when Using High Performance Computers”, CS Distinguished Lecture, 4:00 P.M., Monday, April 13, 2009, 1404 Siebel Center.
• Paul Hovland, Argonne National Laboratory, “Automatic Differentiation: Theory, Tools, and Applications”, SIAM Student Chapter Colloquium, 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Wen-mei Hwu, UIUC/ECE, “The Parallel Computing Revolution”, 11:00 A.M., Monday, February 16, 2009, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Boyana Norris, Argonne National Laboratory, “Student Programs and Career Opportunities at Argonne National Laboratory”, 11:00 A.M., Monday, February 9, 2009, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Barry Smith, Argonne National Laboratory, “An Introduction to PETSc”, 10:45 A.M. – 12:45 P.M., Thursday, January 29, 2009, 3405 Siebel Center.
• Michael Eldred, Sandia National Laboratories, “Experiences with Collocation-Based Stochastic Expansion Methods for Uncertainty Analysis and Design”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 190 ESB.
• George Zagaris, College of William and Mary, “Parallel Mesh Generation”, 1:00 P.M., Monday, December 1, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Rajeev Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, “A Least-Squares/Galerkin Split Finite Element Method for Incompressible and Compressible Viscous Flows”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Chad Westphal, Wabash College, “Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations in Nonsmooth Domains”, 4:00 P.M., Thursday, November 13, 2008, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Sanjay Kale, UIUC/CS, “Raising the Level of Abstraction in Parallel Programming”, 11:00 A.M., Monday, October 27, 2008, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Hyunsun Lee, UIUC/CSE, “Computing Bounds on Thermo-Mechanical Properties Using Extended Hashin-Shtrikman Variational Principles with Third-Order Statistics”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Michal Benes, UIUC/CSE, “Asynchronous Multi-Domain Variational Integrators for Nonlinear Hyperelastic Solids”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Klaus Schulten, UIUC/Physics, “Advanced Computing in Biology and Bioengineering”, 11:00 A.M., Monday, September 22, 2008, 4405 Siebel Center.
• Terry Wilmarth, UIUC/CSAR, “Scalable Dynamic Adaptive Simulations with ParFUM”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Ilya Safro, Argonne National Laboratory, “Multilevel Algorithms for Linear Ordering Problems”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, “Combinatorial Algorithms Enabling Computational Science”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Jan Hesthaven, Brown University, “Discontinuous Galerkin Methods: The Right Tool for CSE?”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Linda Petzold, University of California - Santa Barbara, “Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Systems”, 9:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Tayfun Tezduyar, Rice University, “Stabilized Space-Time Fluid-Structure Interaction (SSTFSI) Technique”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, April 7, 2008, 1320 DCL.
• Sethuraman Sankaran, Cornell University, “Computational Techniques for Uncertainty Modeling and Robust Design of Material Systems”, 12:00 Noon, Monday, April 7, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• Gengbin Zheng, UIUC/CSAR, “A Parallel Runtime System for Achieving High Performance on Large Parallel Machines”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 2240 DCL.
• As part of a worldwide celebration of the life and memory of Gene Golub, a Symposium in his honor was held on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana on Februrary 29, 2008, which would have been his 19th birthday.
• Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota, “Mixed Finite Element Methods for Elasticity”, 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, February 20, 2007, 2405 Siebel Center.
• Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota, “Stable Discretizations of Partial Differential Equations and Their Geometrical Foundations”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 245 Altgeld Hall.
• Daniil Svyatskiy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Nonlinear Monotone Finite Volume Method for Anisotropic Diffusion Problems”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Joseph Grcar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “John von Neumann and the Origins of Scientific Computing”, 10:00 A.M., Thursday, November 8, 2007, 2405 Siebel Center.
• Joseph Grcar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “John von Neumann's Analysis of Gaussian Elimination: the Founding of Modern Numerical Analysis”, 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• William Gropp, UIUC/CS, “Performance Challenges for MPI Implementations”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, October 29, 2007, 1404 SC.
• Damrong Guoy, UIUC/CSAR, “Parallel Mesh Adaptation for Highly Evolving Geometries with Application to Solid Propellant Rocket Simulation”, 12:30-1:00 P.M., Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Evan VanderZee, UIUC/Mathematics, “Well-Centered Planar Triangulation – An Iterative Approach”, 12:00-12:30 P.M., Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Systems”, 3:00 P.M., Thursday, September 27, 2007, 217 Noyes Lab.
• Ning Lei, AquaWorld Technologies, Aurora, Illinois, “Object Reconstructions with Dual-Space Iterative Algorithms and Constraints”, 3:00 P.M., Friday, September 21, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• James Lottes, Argonne National Laboratory, “Algebraic Multigrid for a Petascale Spectral Element Method Navier-Stokes Code”, 3:00 P.M., Thursday, September 13, 2007, 4124 Siebel Center.
• Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Load Distribution in MADNESS”, 12:00 Noon, Monday, August 6, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science, June 11-12, 2007.
• Tom Manteuffel, University of Colorado at Boulder, “First-Order System LL* (FOSLL*) for Maxwell's Equations in 3D with Edge Singularities”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, April 30, 2007, 1404 Siebel Center.
• Rupesh B. Kotapati, George Washington University, “Numerical Simulations of Synthetic Jets and Their Applications to Separation Control in Canonical Separated Airfoil Flows”, 3:30 P.M., Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Manuel N. D. Barcelos Jr., University of Colorado at Boulder, “Aeroelastic Optimization Methodology for Viscous and Turbulent Flows”, 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Arif Masud, UIUC/CEE, “A Mathematically Consistent Framework for Developing Multiscale Methods”, 11:00 A.M., Thursday, April 19, 2007, 1030 NCSA Bldg.
• Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory, “Accurate, Stable, and Scalable Algorithms for Convection-Dominated Flows”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Michael Holst, University of California, San Diego, “The Poisson-Boltzmann Equation: Some Unfinished Business”, 9:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 2240 DCL.
• Laxmikant Kale, Computer Science/UIUC, “Parallel Programming for Multicores and PetalFLOPs”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 3, 2007, B02 CSL.
• Matthew West, Stanford University, “Multi-Scale, Asynchronous, Distributed Computation for Complex Physical Systems”, 12:00 Noon, Thursday, March 29, 2007, 2005 MEL.
• William Gropp, Argonne National Laboratory, “Challenges for the Message-Passing Interface in the PetaFLOPS Era”, 10:00 A.M., Monday, March 26, 2007, 2405 SC.
• Eric Shaffer, UIUC/CSAR, “Mesh Processing Research at CSAR: Coarsening, Quadrangulation, and Optimization”, 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• Eunice Santos, Virginia Tech, “Models for Effective Deployment of Large-Scale Simulations across Parallel and Distributed Platforms”, 10:00 A.M., Thursday, August 24, 2006, 2405 SC.
• Habib Najm, Sandia National Laboratories “Uncertainty Quantification in Reacting Flow Modeling”, 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• Dongbin Xiu, Purdue University, “Stochastic Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering Applications”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• Katerina Papoulia, Cornell University, “Cohesive Fracture: Algorithms and Models”, 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• Jie Wan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Adaptive Mesh Control for Evolving Geometry Problems”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• Tathagata Ray, Ohio State University, “Quality Delaunay Meshing of Volumes and Surfaces”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• Edward Seidel, Louisiana State University, “Dynamic Applications on Grids”, 1:00 P.M, Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 1122 NCSA.
• John Drake, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Simulation of Climate and Development of Earth System Models”, 3:00 P.M., Thursday, April 13, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• William Gropp, Argonne National Laboratory, “Overcoming the Barriers to Sustained Petaflop Performance”, 9:00 A.M., Thursday, April 13, 2006, 2240 DCL.
• Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, “Recent Advances and Trends in Deterministic Global Optimization”, 4:00 P.M, Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 2005 MEL.
• Pavel Bochev, Sandia National Laboratories, “Mimetic Discrete Models with Weak Material Laws, or Least Squares Principles Revisited”, 3:00 P.M, Monday, April 10, 2006, 3405 SC.
• William Camp, Sandia National Laboratories, “Some Thoughts About the Physics of Computing and the Computing of Physics”, 3:00 P.M, Thursday, April 6, 2006, 2405 SC.
• Thanh N. Truong, University of Utah, “Computational Science and Engineering Online (CSE-Online): A Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Computing”, 2:00 P.M, Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 1030 NCSA.
• Scott MacLachlan, University of Minnesota, “Coarsening in Adaptive Algebraic Multigrid”, 12:00 Noon, Monday, February 20, 2006, 2405 SC
• Anil Hirani, UIUC/CS, “Dynamical Systems and Space Mission Design”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, January 30, 2006, 103 Talbot Lab.
• Michael Heath, UIUC/CS, “Integrated Simulation of Solid Propellant Rockets”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, January 23, 2006, 103 Talbot Lab.
• Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, “Software Tools to Support Computational Science”, 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 50 Everitt Lab.
• Chris Siefert, UIUC/CS, “Preconditioners for Generalized Saddle-Point Problems”, PhD Thesis Defense, 1:30 P.M., Wednesday, January 4, 2005, 4405 SC.
• Luke Olson, UIUC/CS, “A High-Order Mess”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, November 28, 2005, 1404 SC.
• Richard B. Lehoucq, Sandia National Laboratories, “Multilevel Methods for Eigenspace Computations in Structural Dynamics”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Marc Garbey, University of Houston, “A Domain Decomposition Method to Compute PDEs on the Grid”, 3:00 P.M., Monday, November 7, 2005, 2005 MEL.
• Paul F. Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory, “Spectral Elements 101”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Timothy J. Tautges, Sandia National Laboratories, “Geometry and Mesh Components for Component-Based Scientific Computing”, 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Stephen Vavasis, Cornell University, “Near Linear Time Solution of Elliptic Differential Equations Using Support-Graph Preconditioners”, 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 2405 SC.
• Jerrold Marsden, California Institute of Technology, “Geometric Fluid Mechanics: Lagrangian Coherent Structures and Swimmers”, 4:00 P.M., Thursday, October 6, 2005, Beckman Auditorium.
• Eric Shaffer, UIUC/CS, “Smoothing Large Meshes”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Jay Boris, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, “Dust in the Wind: Challenges for Urban Aerodynamics”, 3:00 P.M., Thursday, April 21, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Nikos Chrisochoides, College of William & Mary, “Parallel Unstructured Mesh Generation Using COTS Software”, 9:00 A.M., Thursday, April 21, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Phil Alexander, UIUC/CSAR, “Parallel Surface and Volume Mesh Smoothing”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Kalyan Nakshatrala, UIUC/CEE, “Stability of Coupling Algorithms”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Wei Wang, UIUC/CS, “Fast Polarizable Force Field Computation in Biomolecular Simulations”, 3:30 P.M., Thursday, March 31, 2005, 4403 SC.
• Damrong Guoy, UIUC/CSAR, “Tools and Techniques for Mesh Repair in Rocket Simulation”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Kirsten Boyd, Eureka College, “Subgrid Upscaling and Mixed Multiscale Finite Element Methods”, 3:00 P.M., Monday, March 28, 2005, 100h Talbot Lab.
• Luke Olson, Brown University, “Towards Efficient Solution Techniques for High-Order Methods: Highlights and Outlook”, 10:00 A.M., Thursday, March 17, 2005, 2405 SC.
• Xiangmin Jiao, UIUC/CSAR, “Face-Offsetting Framework for Dynamic Surface Meshes”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 2240 DCL.
• Michael Parks, UIUC/CS, “The Iterative Solution of a Sequence of Linear Systems Arising from Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis”, CS Ph.D. thesis defense, 1:00 P.M., Monday, December 20, 2004, 4102 SC.
• Stephen Berry, University of Chicago, “Integrating Computational Tools for Simulations on Different Time Scales”, 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 3405 SC.
• Thom H. Dunning, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Opportunities and Challenges in High End Computing for Science and Engineering”, 11:00 A.M., Friday, September 17, 2004, 5602 BI.
• Shripad Thite, UIUC/CS, “Spacetime Meshing for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods”, 1:00 P.M., Tuesday, August 24, 2004, 3403 SC.
• Mark Shephard, RPI, “Mesh Modification for General Adaptive Mesh Control”, 10:00 A.M, Tuesday, July 27, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• Erik DeBenedictis, Sandia National Laboratories, “Taking Supercomputing to the Limits”, 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 2405 SC.
• Misha Kilmer, Tufts University, “Reuse-based Iterative Solvers for 3D Imaging in Diffuse Optical Tomography”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• Sean Meyn, UIUC/ECE, “Phase Transitions and Metastability in Markovian and Molecular Systems”, 3:30 P.M., Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 4405 SC.
• Michel Dubois, University of Southern California, “Are We Entering the Golden Age of Parallel Processing?”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, May 3, 2004, 1320 DCL.
• Alla Sheffer, University of British Columbia, “Cross-Parameterization and Compatible Remeshing of 3D Models”, 2:00 P.M., Thursday, April 29, 2004, 3405 SC.
• Chris Johnson, University of Utah, “Problem Solving Environments and Visualization for Biomedical Applications”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• Lori Freitag Diachin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “Developing Interoperable Meshing and Discretization Components”, 9:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• Stephen Bond, UIUC/CS, “Applications of Geometric Integration in Molecular Simulation”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, April 19, 2004, 1320 DCL.
• Oren Livne, Stanford University, “Towards Bootstrap Algebraic Multigrid (BAM)”, 11:00 A.M., Monday, April 5, 2004, 2405 SC.
• Damrong Guoy, UIUC/CSAR, “Meshing Activities in CSAR”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, March 31, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• Edgar Ramos, UIUC/CS, “On Delaunay-Based Mesh Generation”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, March 29, 2004, 1320 DCL.
• Andreas Haselbacher, UIUC/CSAR, “Higher-Order Spatial Discretization in the Unstructured Fluid Solver Rocflu”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• Craig Douglas, University of Kentucky and Yale University, “Virtual Telemetry for Dynamic Data-Driven Application Simulations”, 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• David Padua, UIUC/CS, “Extending MATLAB for Parallel Programming”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 2240 DCL.
• Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin, “Estimation and Control of Modeling Error for Random Heterogeneous Materials”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 2005 ME Lab.
• Anil Hirani, Caltech, “Exterior Calculus and its Applications in Mechanics and Computer Science”, 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 3405 SC.
• Inderjit Dhillon, University of Texas, Austin, “ Information-Theoretic Clustering, Co-clustering and Matrix Approximations”, 4:00 P.M., Thursday, February 12, 2004, 3405 SC.
• Inderjit Dhillon, University of Texas, Austin, “Fast Eigenvalue/Eigenvector Computation for Dense Symmetric Matrices”, 11:00 A.M., Thursday, February 12, 2004, 1003 MRL.
• Robert Skeel, UIUC/CS, “Macromolecular Simulation: A Computational Perspective”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 4405 SC.
• Stephen Bond, UIUC/CS, “Simulation of Acetylcholine Diffusion in Neuromuscular Junctions Using Finite Elements”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 4405 SC.
• Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota, “Computational Challenges and Solution Algorithms in Electronic Structure Calculations”, 10:00 A.M., Friday, November 7, 2003, 280 MRL.
• Jonathan Shewchuk, UC-Berkeley, “Untangling Dynamically Changing Meshes”, 10:00 A.M., Friday, September 26, 2003, 2501 DCL.
• Jonathan Shewchuk, UC-Berkeley, “What is a Good Linear Finite Element? Interpolation, Conditioning, Anisotropy, and Quality Measures”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Jonathan Shewchuk, UC-Berkeley, “Anisotropic Voronoi Diagrams and Guaranteed-Quality Anisotropic Mesh Generation”, 3:00 P.M., Monday, September 22, 2003, 100H Talbot Lab.
• Damrong Guoy, UIUC/CSAR, “Domain Decomposition for Quadrilateral Meshing with Macro Delaunay Refinement”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Michele Benzi, Emory University, “Some Techniques for Preconditioning Symmetric Indefinite Linear Systems”, 3:00 P.M., Friday, September 5, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Gene Golub, Stanford University, “Techniques for Solving General Saddle Point Systems”, 2:00 P.M., Thursday, September 4, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Daniel Szyld, Temple University, “Convergence of Inexact Krylov Methods”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Ali Pinar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “The Nice Basis Problem”, 2:00 P.M., Friday, May 23, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Vivek Sarin, Texas A&M University, “Efficient Algorithms for Inductance and Capacitance Extraction”, 11:00 A.M., Monday, May 19, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• George Karniadakis, Brown University, “The Dawning of the Age of Stochastic Simulations”, 3:00 P.M., Friday, April 25, 2003, 1005 BI.
• Somnath Ghosh, Ohio State University, “Multi-Level Computational Models For Multiple Scale Analysis of Composite Materials”, 9:00 A.M., Friday, April 25, 2003, 1005 BI.
• Armando Duarte, University of Sao Paulo, “An Overview of Partition of Unity and Generalized Finite Element Methods”, 12:00, Monday, March 17, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Stephen Bond, University of California at San Diego, “Challenges in Biomolecular Simulation”, 10:00, Thursday, March 13, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Phil Boyland, University of Florida, “Lagrangian Mechanics and the Numerical Computation of Periodic Orbits”, 2:00 P.M., Monday, January 27, 2003, 100h Talbot Lab.
• Siu-Wing Cheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “Graded Conforming Delaunay Tetrahedralization with Bounded Radius-Edge Ratio”, 12:00, Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 2240 DCL.
• Linda Petzold, University of California - Santa Barbara, “Adaptive Numerical Methods for Sensitivity Analysis of Differential-Algebraic Equations and Partial Differential Equations”, 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, October 2, 2002, 2240 DCL.
• Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University, “Arbitrary Discontinuities and Level Sets in Finite Element Methods”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 218 MEB.
• Michael Klein, University of Pennsylvania, “Computer Simulation Studies of Biomolecules at Soft Interfaces: The Continuing Challenge of Bridging Length and Time Scales”, 3:00 P.M., Monday, September 23, 2002, 3269 BI.
• Karl Meerbergen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, “Theory and Software for Krylov Methods for the Computation of the Frequency Response of Large Structures and Acoustic Finite Element Models ”, 4:00, Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 2240 DCL.
• Dimitri Mavriplis, ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, “The Development of Unstructured Grid Methods for Computational Aerodynamics”, 4:00, Monday, April 29, 2002, 103 Talbot Lab.
• Omar Ghattas, Carnegie Mellon University, “Dynamic Meshes, Dynamic Interfaces, and Hemodynamics”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 1005 BI.
• David Keyes, Old Dominion University, “Domain Decomposition Methods in Computational Science and Engineering”, 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 1005 BI.
• Adrian Sandu, Michigan Technological University, “Computational Aspects of Air Quality Modeling”, 4:00, P.M., Monday, April 1, 2002, 1320 DCL.
• Joerg Liesen, UIUC/CS, “Indefinite Preconditioning and Applications in Surface Parameterization”, 12:00, Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Anath Grama, Purdue University, “Computational Aspects of Multipole Methods”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 165 Everitt Lab.
• Xiangmin Jiao, UIUC/CS, “Data Transfer and Interface Propagation in Multicomponent Simulations”, 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Chris Johnson, University of Utah, “BioPSE: A Biomedical Problem Solving Environment”, 3:00 P.M., Monday, November 19, 2001, 3269 BI.
• Damrong Guoy, UIUC/CSAR, “Tetrahedral Mesh Improvement: Algorithms and Experiments”, 12:00, Wednesday, September 5, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories, “Support Theory: A Framework for Analyzing Preconditioners”, 2:00 P.M., Monday, June 25, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Paul Concus, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Preconditioning for Parallel Computation of 3-D Isopycnal Fluid Flow”, 12:00, Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Margaret H. Wright, Bell Laboratories, “What's (Genuinely) New in Constrained Optimization?”, 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, May 9, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Wen Chen, Mechatronics Inc., “Development of a Dynamic Solver with Incomplete Solution Based on Multilevel Iterative Method”, 12:00, Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Xiangmin Jiao, UIUC/CS, “Interfacing Computational Modules in Integrated Rocket Simulation”, 12:00, Wednesday, April 25, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Mark Shephard, RPI, “Automation of Large-Scale Simulations with Emphasis on a Flexible Discontinuous Galerkin Procedure”, 3:30 P.M., Friday, April 20, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• John Gilbert, Xerox PARC, “Smart Matter: Frontiers of Computation”, 11:00 A.M., Friday, April 20, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Paul Saylor, UIUC/CS, “What Does the Scattering Amplitude Have To Do with Conjugate Gradients, Fluid Mechanics and Differential Algebraic Equations?”, 12:00, Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Cornelis W. Oosterlee, SCAI/GMD, “On Multigrid Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems with Application to American-Style Options”, 12:00, Friday, March 30, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Steve Owen, Sandia National Laboratories, “Research and Development in Mesh Generation at Sandia National Laboratories”, 12:00, Friday, February 16, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Alla Sheffer, UIUC/CSAR, “Cubes and Triangles: Generation and Manipulation of Meshes in 3D”, 12:00, Wednesday, February 7, 2001, 2240 DCL.
• Ganesh Thiagarajan, Louisiana State University, “An Equation-by-Equation Algorithm for CG Solvers for FE Problems on Distributed Memory Machines”, 10:00 A.M., Friday, December 1, 2000 BI 5239.
• Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories, “Devising Effective Parallel Algorithms”, 4:00 P.M., Thursday, October 5, 2000, 3211 DCL.
• Saara Hyvoenen, Helsinki Institute of Technology, “On the Convergence of Iterative Methods for Nonnormal Problems”, 12:00, Wednesday, August 2, 2000, 2240 DCL.
• Walter Gander, ETH Zurich, “Adaptive Quadrature - Art or Science?”, 12:00, Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 2240 DCL.
• Randall LeVeque, University of Washington, “Finite-Volume Methods and Software for Hyperbolic PDEs and Conservation Laws”, 3:00 P.M., Friday, April 28, 2000, Second Floor Commons, Grainger Engineering Library.
• Mitchell Smooke, Yale University, “Computational and Experimental Study of Energetic Materials”, 9:00 A.M., Friday, April 28, 2000, Second Floor Commons, Grainger Engineering Library.
• Jeff Grandy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “A Parallel Method for Remapping Polyhedral Meshes”, 12:00, Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 2240 DCL.
• Andreas Haselbacher, ABB Alstom Power Technology, Zurich, “Discretisation Aspects on Mixed Unstructured Grids”, Tuesday, April 18, 2000, 10:00 A.M., 2240 DCL.
• Kim Mish, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,“The Finite-Element Interface: Separating the Mechanics from the Algebra in Engineering Analysis” 12:00, Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 2240 DCL.
• Steve Ashby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,“Meeting the ASCI Challenge: Terascale Scientific Simulation”, 1:00 P.M., Monday, November 8, 1999, 2240 DCL.
• Faisal Saied, UIUC/NCSA, “Linear Solver Technologies at NCSA”, 11:00 A.M., Friday, October 15, 1999, 5239 BI.
• Ben Leimkuhler, University of Kansas, “Effective Geometric Integrators and Applications”, 4:00 P.M., Thursday, October 14, 1999, 1310 DCL.
• Eric de Sturler, UIUC/CS, “Iterative Methods in Numerical Analysis”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, October 4, 1999, 1320 DCL.
• Rich Lehoucq, Sandia National Laboratories, “Solving Large Scale Eigenvalue Problems with Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Methods”, 4:00 P.M., Thursday, September 16, 1999, 2240 DCL.
• Achi Brandt, Weizmann Institute, “Multiscale Molecular Dynamics”, 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, July 21, 1999, 2269 BI.
• Achi Brandt, Weizmann Institute, “Review of Multiscale Scientific Computation Methods”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, July 20, 1999, 2269 BI.
• Achi Brandt, Weizmann Institute, “Review of Multiscale Engineering Computation Methods”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, July 19, 1999, 1310 DCL.
• Andreas Stathopoulos, “A Parallel Block Jacobi-Davidson Implementation for Solving Large Eigenproblems on Coarse Grain Environments”, 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, July 6, 1999, 2240 DCL.
• Tim Baker, Princeton University, “Adaptive Modification of Unstructured Meshes”, 11:00 A.M., Thursday, May 27, 1999, 2240 DCL.
• Mary F. Wheeler, UT-Austin, “Synthetic Environments for Modeling Subsurface Flows”, 2:00 P.M., Friday, April 23, 1999, B02 CSRL.
• Marsha Berger, NYU/Courant Institute, “Automatic High Performance Fluid Computations in Complex Geometry”, 9:00 A.M., Friday, April 23, 1999, B02 CSRL.
• Eric de Sturler, UIUC/CSAR, “Krylov Subspace Methods and the Influence of the Projection Space”, 4:00 P.M., Wednesday, April 21, 1999, 2240 DCL.
• Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, “High-Performance Computing, Numerical Libraries, and Trends”, 1:30 P.M., Thursday, February 25, 1999, 3269 BI.
• Michael Heath, UIUC/CS, “Rocket Science Meets Computer Science: Integrated Simulation of Solid Propellant Rockets”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, February 22, 1999, 1320 DCL.
• Bill Henshaw and Dan Quinlan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “Overture: A Framework for Solving Partial Differential Equations on Complex Geometries”, 12:00, Wednesday, February 10, 1999, 2240 DCL.
• Alvaro Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Edge-Based Iterative Strategies for the Solution of Finite Element Systems of Equations”, 11:00 A.M., Monday, November 16, 1998, 2240 DCL.
• Gary Miller, Carnegie-Mellon University, “Using Sphere-Packing for Mesh Generation, Refinement, and Coarsening, and Mesh Partioning”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, November 2, 1998, 1320 DCL.
• James Quirk, Caltech, “AMRITA — Adaptive Mesh Refinement Interactive Teaching Aid”, 1:00 P.M., Friday, October 30, 1998, 2240 DCL.
• Alla Sheffer, Hebrew University, “Hexahedral Mesh Generation Using the Embedded Voronoi Graph”, 3:00 P.M., Thursday, October 29, 1998, 2240 DCL.
• Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University, “Higher Order Methods, Adaptive Techniques, and Real World Problems”, 3:00 P.M., Friday, September 4, 1998, B02 CSRL.
• Eric de Sturler, Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, ETH Zurich, “High Performance Fortran for Regular, Block-Structured, and Irregular Grid-Based Applications”, CSAR seminar, 10:00 A.M., Thursday, July 9, 1998, 2240 DCL.
• Stanley Osher, UCLA, “Subscale Capturing and Its Numerous Applications”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, May 4, 1998, 1310 DCL.
• Ron Fedkiw, UCLA, “Advances in Level Set Techniques”, CSAR 2:00 P.M., Monday, May 4, 1998, 100H Talbot Lab.
• Paul Saylor, UIUC/CS, “Coping with Milestone Panic: Experience with a Large Computational Science Project”, 12:00, Wednesday, April 29, 1998, 2240 DCL.
• Tony Chan, UCLA, “Nonlinear PDE Models in Image Processing”, 3:00 P.M., Friday, April 17, 1998, B02 CSRL.
• John Gustafson, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, “Experimentless Science”, 10:00 A.M., Friday, April 17, 1998, B02 CSRL.
• Dennis Parsons, UIUC/CE, “Multi-Grid Methods: The Future?”, 12:00, Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 2240 DCL.
• Gene Golub, Stanford University, “Scientific Computing and Cyclic Reduction”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, March 3, 1998, 3rd Floor Auditorium, Altgeld Hall.
• Michael Mascagni, University of Southern Mississippi, “SPRNG: A Scalable Library For Pseudorandom Number Generation”, 2:00 P.M., Monday, March 2, 1998, 4269 BI.
• Steven Huss-Lederman, University of Wisconsin, “Strassen's Algorithm: A Practical Method for Fast Matrix Multiplication”, 10:30 A.M., Friday, February 27, 1998, 3269 BI.
• Randall Bramley, Indiana University, “The Linear System Analyzer Project”, 11:00 A.M., Friday, January 30, 1998, 5239 BI.
• Zhiqiang Cai, Purdue University, “First-Order System Least Squares (FOSLS) for Partial Differential Equations”, 4:00 P.M., Wednesday, November 12, 1997, 2240 DCL.
• Alan Davies, University of Hertfordshire, “Developments in Parallel Boundary Element Methods”, 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, November 12, 1997, 2240 DCL.
• Michael Heath, UIUC/CS, “Rocket Science Meets Computer Science”, 4:00 P.M., Monday, October 27, 1997, 1310 DCL.
• Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, “High-Performance C++ for Scientific Applications”, 3:00 P.M., Monday, October 20, 1997, 2501 DCL.
• Noel Nachtigal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Iterative Methods for Nonsymmetric Linear Systems”, 2:00 P.M., Friday, October 10, 1997, 2240 DCL.
• Michael Heath, UIUC/CS, “VR: Virtual Rocketry?”, 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, September 16, 1997, B02 CSRL.

Scientific Computing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.