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Copper Mountain 2015
Program and Schedule
(as of 2 February, 2015)

This program is subject to modifications. We will try to limit most schedule changes to within the given day. Participants and speakers should monitor this page and the bulletin board at the conference.
Speakers should plan their talks to be at most 25 minutes, including a 5 minute question and answer period. Program Chairs will adhere strictly to this schedule.
We will provide computer projectors for all day and evening sessions. Overhead projectors will NOT be provided.
All conference activities will be held in the Copper Conference Center.

7:00pm-9:00pm
Registration and Reception
Cash Bar and Light Buffet
Copper Conference Center

Monday 23 March

7:30-9:00am	Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 1
Topic	Advanced Multigrid Techniques
Chair	TBA
8:00am	Bolten, Matthias "Local Fourier Analysis of Pattern Structured Operators "
8:25am	Liu, Hao "Local Defect Correction Multigrid Method Coupled with the Zienkiewicz-Zhu a posteriori Error Estimator in Elastostatics Solid Mechanics"
8:50am	Rodrigo, Carmen "On the Design of a Finite Element Multigrid Solver for Mimetic Finite Difference Schemes"
9:15am	Yavneh, Irad "A Multilevel Approach for L-1 Regularized Convex Optimization with Application to Covariance Selection"
9:40am	Draganescu, Andrei "Optimal Order Multigrid Preconditioners for Linear Systems Arising in the Semismooth Newton Method Solution Process of a Class of Control-Constrained Problems"
10:05am	Coffee and Tea Service
Session 2
Topic	Multigrid Applications I
Chair	TBA
10:25am	MacLachlan, Scott "Monolithic Multigrid Methods for Coupled Multi-Physics Problems "
10:50am	Leibs, Christopher "Least-Squares Finite Element Method and Nested Iteration for Electromagnetic Two-Fluid Plasma Models"
11:15am	Reisner, Andrew "Multilevel Solvers for High Resolution Electric Field Calculations"
11:40am	Densmore, Jeffery "A Multigrid Method for the Self-Adjoint Angular Flux Form of the Radiation-Transport Equation Based on Cellwise Block Jacobi Iteration"
12:05pm	Sturdevant, Benjamin "Iterative Solution Method for an Implicit Orbit Averaged Particle-in-Cell Model "
12:30pm	Lunch Break
Session 3
Topic	Parallel Multigrid, GPU
Chair	TBA
4:30pm	Manea, Abdulrahman "A Massively Parallel Semicoarsening Multigrid for 3D Reservoir Simulation on Multi-core and Multi-GPU Architectures"
4:55pm	Rupp, Karl "A Performance Comparison of Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners on GPUs and MIC"
5:20pm	Calhoun, Jon "Understanding the Propagation of Silent Data Corruption in Algebraic Multigrid"
5:45pm	Sundar, Hari "Challenges in Parallelizing Adaptive High-order Geometric Multigrid"
6:10pm	Dinner Break

Tuesday 24 March

7:30-9:00am	Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 4
Topic	Multigrid Applications II
Chair	TBA
8:00am	Phillip, Bobby "Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Systems Arising in Diblock CoPolymer Systems"
8:25am	Hansen, Chris "Geometric Multigrid for MHD Simulations with Nedelec Finite Elements on Tetrahedral Grids"
8:50am	Cowan, Benjamin "Application of Multigrid Techniques to Magnetic and Electromagnetic Systems"
9:15am	Dai, William "On Operator-Splitting Approach for Plasma 3-T Radiation Diffusion in Two and Three Dimensions"
9:40am	Kelly, Keith "A Scalable Algorithm for Inverse Medium Problems with Multiple Sources"
10:05am	Coffee and Tea Service
Session 5
Topic	Multigrid Benchmarking and Performance
Chair	TBA
10:25am	Adams, Mark "Performance Evaluation of Multigrid Solvers for Block Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Discretizations"
10:50am	Brown, Jed "HPGMG: Benchmarking Computers Using Multigrid"
11:15am	Gahvari, Hormozd "Performance Modeling in Algebraic Multigrid: Latest Developments"
11:40am	Vi, Frederic "Parallel Multigrid Preconditioner Based on Automatic 3D Tetradedric Meshes"
12:05pm	Lunch Break
Session 6
Topic	Applications
Chair	TBA
4:30pm	Alyoubi, Ahmad "Efficient Time Parallel Simulation of a Class of Single-Phase Sub-Diffusion Models"
4:55pm	John, Lorenz "Robust Parallel Hierarchical Hybrid Multigrid Methods for the Stokes Equations."
5:20pm	Morgenstern, Charles "An Efficient Iterative Method for Acoustic Wave Propagation"
5:45pm	Ganesh, Mahadevan "A Fast Iterative Algorithm for Simulation of Wave Interactions between Large Number of 3D Particles"
6:10pm	Dinner Break

Wednesday 25 March

7:30-9:00am	Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 7
Topic	AMG and Mesh Manipulation
Chair	TBA
8:00am	Lashuk, Ilya "Multilevel Methods for Poisson-like Equations on the Sphere using highly Non-uniform Meshes"
8:25am	Fox, Alyson "Support Graph Smoothing Techniques"
8:50am	Sanders, Geoffrey "Hub Snub: Removing Vertices with High Degree from Coarse-grid Correction"
9:15am	Tuminaro, Ray "A Hybrid Operator Dependent MG / AMG Approach: Application to Ice Sheet Modeling"
9:40am	Wan, Justin "Numerical Method for Dynamic Bertrand Obigopoly Using Multigrid"
10:05am	Coffee and Tea Service
Session 8
Topic	Unconventional Multigrid
Chair	TBA
10:25am	Treister, Eran "A Fast Multigrid Approach for Solving the Helmholtz Equation with a Point Source"
10:50am	Bergen, Ben "Task-Graph and Functional Programming Models: The New Paradigm"
11:15am	De Sterck, Hans "Fast Multilevel Co-Clustering: Unraveling the Multilevel Overlapping Cluster Structure of Social Network Data"
11:40am	Gutierrez, Samuel "Data-Centric Models for Multilevel Algorithms"
12:05pm	Lunch Break
Session 9
Topic	Student Paper Competition
Chair	Van Emden Henson
4:30pm	*Baumann, Simon* "Aspects of Multigrid for Mantle Convection"
4:55pm	*Cao, Fei* "Compatible Relaxation Based Geometric-Algebraic Multigrid"
5:20pm	*Huber, Markus* "Resilience for Exascale Enabled Multigrid Methods"
5:45pm	Break
6:15-7:00pm	Cash bar and Dinner Banquet at Copper Conference Center

Thursday 26 March

7:30-9:00am	Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 10
Topic	Low Communication and Time Parallel
Chair	TBA
8:00am	Appelhans, David "Range Decomposition: A Low Communication Algorithm for Solving PDEs on Massively Parallel Machines"
8:25am	Ballard, Grey "Reducing Communication Costs for Sparse Matrix Multiplication within Algebraic Multigrid"
8:50am	Bienz, Amanda "Reducing Communication Costs in Parallel Algebraic Multigrid"
9:15am	O'Neill, Ben "Parallel-in-time Multigrid for Nonlinear Problems "
9:40am	Friedhoff, Stephanie "Multigrid Approaches for Parallel-in-Time Integration "
10:05am	Coffee and Tea Service
Session 11
Topic	Flow Problems
Chair	TBA
10:25am	Allen, Jeffery "New FOSLS Formulation of Nonlinear Stokes Flow for Glaciers"
10:50am	Benson, Thomas "Preconditioning the BDM₁ - P₀ Discretization of the Stokes Equations"
11:15am	Nourgaliev, Robert "On the Preconditioning of a High-Order RDG-based All-Speed Navier-Stokes Solver"
11:40am	Ruge, John "Hybrid FOSLS/LL for Navier-Stokes Equations"*
12:05pm	Lunch Break
Session 12
Topic	Interpolation and Smoothing
Chair	TBA
4:30	Molloy, Erin "Is the Ideal Approximation Operator Always "Ideal" for a Particular C/F Splitting?"
4:55pm	Eller, Paul "Non-Blocking Conjugate Gradient Methods for Extreme Scale Computing"
5:20pm	Almutairi, Saad "An Enhanced Class Diagram to Model Security Requirement for Context Aware System"
5:45pm	Almutairi, Abdulgader "Enforcement of CA-UCON Model"
6:10pm	Dinner Break

Friday 27 April

7:30-9:00am	Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 13
Topic	Stochastic and High Dimensional Problems
Chair	TBA
8:00am	Pflaum, Christoph "Discretization of Elliptic Differential Equations Using Sparse Grids and Prewavelets"
8:25am	Fairbanks, Hillary "High Dimensional Uncertainty Quantification via Multilevel Monte Carlo"
8:50am	Ketelsen, Christian "Multilevel Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Uncertainty Quantification in Subsurface Flow"
9:15am	Uli Rüde "Parallel Textbook Efficiency for Multigrid (Placeholder)"
9:40am	Moulton, David "Multiphysics Frameworks and Scalable Solvers for Environmental Applications "
10:05pm	Coffee and Tea Service
Session 14
Topic	Special Techniques & Coarse Approximation
Chair	TBA
10:25am	Brannick, James "An adaptive multilevel method for solving elliptic eigenvalue problems"
10:50am	Yang, Kai "Stable Discretizations and Robust Block Preconditioners for Fluid-Structure Interaction Systems "
11:15am	Open
11:40am	Open
12:05pm	Close of Conference

Thank you for attending.

Copper Mountain 2015 Program and Schedule (as of 2 February, 2015)

7:00pm-9:00pm Registration and Reception Cash Bar and Light Buffet Copper Conference Center

Monday 23 March

Tuesday 24 March

Wednesday 25 March

Thursday 26 March

Friday 27 April

Copper Mountain 2015
Program and Schedule
(as of 2 February, 2015)

7:00pm-9:00pm
Registration and Reception
Cash Bar and Light Buffet
Copper Conference Center