International Conference On Preconditioning Techniques For Scientific And Industrial Applications
July 31 - August 2, 2017
Vancouver, Canada
 
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Conference Program

Minisymposium and contributed talks consist of a 25 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion/transition. Plenary talks consist of a 40 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion/transition.

Registration and most of the talks (except the morning sessions of Day 2) will take place at the Forest Sciences Centre (FSC), 2424 Main Mall. More details can be found in the map here. Tuesday (Day 2) morning sessions take place in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Building (PHRM), 2405 Wesbrook Mall. If you do not want to walk alone to PHRM on Tuesday morning, we will meet at 8:10am sharp in front of FSC and walk together to the Pharmacy building. The reception and poster event will take place in the Computer Science Building (CS), 2366 Main Mall.

A hard copy of the schedule is included in the registration package.


Date / Sess. Time Activity Speakers Chair Location
July 31 07:30 - 08:15 Registration FSC Atrium
08:15 - 08:30 Opening Remarks Chen Greif FSC 1005
08:30 - 09:15 Plenary Talk Michele Benzi Chen Greif FSC 1005
09:15 - 09:45 Coffee Break FSC Atrium
#1 09:45 - 11:45 Minisymposium 1: Block Preconditioning, Part I Wathen, Phillips, Syed, Szyld Andy Wathen FSC 1005
#2 09:45 - 11:45 Minisymposium 2: Preconditioning Methods and Theory Based on Matrix Splitting Iterations Huang, Liu, Yang, Yin Zeng-Qi Wang FSC 1001
#3 09:45 - 11:45 Hierarchical and Multilevel Methods Dillon, Harness, Franceschini, Ferronato Geoffrey Dillon FSC 1613
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 Plenary Talk Tom Jönsthövel Andy Wathen FSC 1005
14:15 - 15:00 Plenary Talk Sander Rhebergen Andy Wathen FSC 1005
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break FSC Atrium
#1 15:30 - 17:30 Minisymposium 1: Block Preconditioning, Part II Pestana, Bootland, Bosch, Zulehner Michael Wathen FSC 1005
#2 15:30 - 17:30 HPC Petiton, Emad, Chevalier, Kaman Serge Petiton FSC 1001
#3 15:30 - 17:30 Applications Yang, Diaz, Safin, Dal Santo Chao Yang FSC 1613
17:30 - 19:30 Reception & Poster Event Yang, Nhan, Hasegawa, Chevalier, Knyazev, Bosch, Baumann & Qiu, Roy, Li CS Atrium



Date / Sess. Time Activity Speakers Chair Location
August 1 08:30 - 09:15 Plenary Talk Alison Ramage James Nagy PHRM 1101
09:15 - 09:45 Coffee Break PHRM Atrium
#1 09:45 - 11:45 Minisymposium 3: Preconditioning Methods in Large-Scale Ill-Posed Inverse Problems, Part I Nagy, Treister, Mang, Wilhelms Lars Ruthotto PHRM 1101
#2 09:45 - 11:45 Minisymposium 4: Innovative Structured Preconditioners, Part I Demanet, Michielssen, Li, Darve Jianlin Xia PHRM 1201
#3 09:45 - 11:45 Krylov Subspace Methods Herzog, Grim-McNally, Baumann, Knyazev Roland Herzog PHRM 3208
11:45 - 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 - 13:25 Group Photo outside FSC
13:30 - 14:15 Plenary Talk Jed Brown Yousef Saad FSC 1005
14:15 - 15:00 Plenary Talk Jie Chen Yousef Saad FSC 1005
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break FSC Atrium
#1 15:30 - 17:30 Minisymposium 3: Preconditioning Methods in Large-Scale Ill-Posed Inverse Problems, Part II Soane, Ruthotto, MacLachlan, Qiu James Nagy FSC 1005
#2 15:30 - 17:30 Minisymposium 4: Innovative Structured Preconditioners, Part II Vassilevski, Ghysels, Ye, Xia Eric Darve FSC 1001
18:30 - 20:30 Conference Dinner University Golf Club



Date / Sess. Time Activity Speakers Chair Location
August 2 08:30 - 09:15 Plenary talk Nicole Spillane Daniel Szyld FSC 1005
09:15 - 09:45 Coffee Break FSC Atrium
#1 09:45 - 11:45 Minisymposium 5: Preconditioning in the Context of Radial Basis Functions, Part I Yokota, Melenk, Chen, Le Borne Alison Ramage FSC 1005
#2 09:45 - 11:45 Minisymposium 6: Application Driven Preconditioning and Accelerating Methods An, Cui, Liu, Xu Hengbin An FSC 1001
#3 09:45 - 11:45 Multigrid Methods Tuminaro, He, Osei-Kuffuor, Oliveira Raymond Tuminaro FSC 1613
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 Plenary talk Eric Darve Esmond Ng FSC 1005
14:15 - 14:30 Coffee Break FSC Atrium
#1 14:30 - 16:30 Minisymposium 5: Preconditioning in the Context of Radial Basis Functions, Part II Farrell, Diederichs, Larsson, Carson Sabine Le Borne FSC 1005
#2 14:30 - 16:00 Domain Decomposition Methods Chow, Echeverria Serur, Dolean Edmond Chow FSC 1001


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