Parlett/Kahan Day at Berkeley - Program

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                             PROGRAM


     THREE DECADES OF NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA AT BERKELEY:
       A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF THE SIXTIETH BIRTHDAYS OF
             BERESFORD PARLETT AND WILLIAM KAHAN

                       October 17, 1992


DAY PROGRAM:  Math Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley,
              (near Lawrence Hall of Science)

 8:30am   Registration and Coffee

Session 1.   Chair:  Gene Golub, Stanford University

 9:00am   James Bunch, University of California, San Diego
         "Three Decades of Numerical Linear Algebra at Berkeley"

 9:30am   G. W. Stewart, University of Maryland
         "On the Perturbation of Matrix Factorizations"

10:00am   John Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England
          "Taking Advantage of Sparsity within 2x2 Pivots When
           Solving Symmetric Indefinite Sets of Linear Equations"

10:30am   Coffee

Session 2.   Chair:  William Poole, Pacific Consulting, Seattle

11:00am   Horst Simon, NASA Ames Research Center
          "Spectral Algorithms--A New Approach to Some Discrete
           Optimization Problems in Scientific Computing"

11:30am   Larry Nazareth, Washington State University
          "The Newton and Cauchy Perspectives on Computational
           Nonlinear Optimization"

12:00n    James Ortega, University of Virginia
          "Solution of Nonlinear Poisson-type Equations"

12:30-2pm     Lunch at MSRI

Session 3.   Chair: Olin Johnson, University of Houston

 2:00pm   Anne Greenbaum, Courant Institute, NYU
          "Matrices that Generate the Same Krylov Residual Spaces"
 
 2:30pm   Bahram Nour-Omid, Scopus, Berkeley
          "Ordered Modified Gram-Schmidt"

 3:00pm   Peter Tang, Argonne National Laboratory
          "Recent Advances in Rank-Revealing QR Factorization"

 3:30pm   Coffee

Session 4.   Chair:  

 4:00pm   David Scott, Intel
          "A High Performance Out-of-Core Dense Equation Solver
           for the Intel Parallel Supercomputer"

 4:30pm   Scott Baden, University of California, San Diego
          "The Role of Heuristics in Parallel Computation of
           Scientific Problems"

 5:00pm   James Demmel, University of California, Berkeley
          "Recent Progress in Parallel Eigenroutines"


EVENING PROGRAM:  Berkeley Conference Center, 2105 Bancroft Way        
                           (at Shattuck Ave.)

 6:00pm   Cash Bar

 7:00pm   Banquet

          Speaker:  Richard Lau, Office of Naval Research
                    "What I Have Learned in Washington"

          Open Microphone:  Tales about B and V.


Note that the deadline for registration is October 1.  If you have
not obtained the registration form already, contact Toni Sweet: 
sweetacs.berkeley.edu   or   (510)642-5244.