Copper Mountain 2014
Program and Schedule
(as of 21 March, 2014)

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.

The italicized entries in the program correspond to the papers participating in the student paper competition.


Sunday 6 April, 2014

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

 


Monday 7 April

7:30-8:30am
Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 1
8:00am
AMG, Part 1 / Bighorn B :
Appelhans, David
"Multi-level Range Decomposition for Massively Parallel Machines"
Inverse Problems, Part 1 / Bighorn C/1 :
Bader, Brett
"Inverse Problems for Shallow Water Bathymetry from Multispectral Imagery"
Hybrid Direct/Iterative / Bighorn C/2 :
Alkahtani, Badr
"Iterative Method (GMRES) vs Direct Solver for Solving Navier-Stokes Equations"
8:25am
AMG, Part 1 / Bighorn B :
Bienz, Amanda
"Scalability of Non-Galerkin Parallel Algebraic Multigrid "
Inverse Problems, Part 1 / Bighorn C/1 :
Bakhos, Tania
"Fast Krylov Solvers for Parabolic PDE-based Inverse Problems"
Hybrid Direct/Iterative / Bighorn C/2 :
Shen, Jie
"Fast Structured Direct Spectral Methods for Differential Equations with Variable Coefficients"
8:50am
Open
Open
Hybrid Direct/Iterative / Bighorn C/2 :
Choi, Sou-Cheng
"Generalized Minimal Residual Methods for Singular Linear Systems or Linear Least-Squares Problems"
9:15am
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 2
9:45am
Architectures / Bighorn B :
Gahvari, Hormozd
"Tying Iterative Solvers to Performance Models: Experiences with Algebraic Multigrid "
Optimization, Part 1 / Bighorn C/1 :
Leyffer, Sven
"Optimization Problems in Phase Retrieval"
Coupled Problems, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Draganescu, Andrei
"Optimal-order Multigrid Preconditioners for Linear Systems arising in the Semi-smooth Newton Solution of Certain PDE-constrained Optimization Problems"
10:10am
Architectures / Bighorn B :
Naumov, Maxim
"AmgX: Algebraic Multigrid and Preconditioned Iterative Methods on GPUs "
Optimization, Part 1 / Bighorn C/1 :
Tsuji, Paul
"PDE-Constrained Optimization and KKT Preconditioners for Nonsymmetric Indefinite Problems "
Coupled Problems, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Brennan, Brian
"Block Preconditioners for a Coupled Pressure-Temperature Model of Trace Gas Sensors"
10:35am
Architectures / Bighorn B :
Yang, Ulrike
"Experiences with Algebraic Multigrid on Blue Gene/Q"
Optimization, Part 1 / Bighorn C/1 :
Ulbrich, Michael
"A Semismooth Newton-CG Method for Constrained Parameter Identification in Seismic Tomography"
Coupled Problems, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Debreu, Laurent
"Multigrid Solvers and Multigrid Preconditioners for the Solution of Variational Data Assimilation Problems "
11:00am
Open
Optimization, Part 1 / Bighorn C/1 :
Ulbrich, Stefan
"Multilevel Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization Based on Adaptive Discretizations and Reduced Order Models"
Coupled Problems, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
He, Xiaoming
"A Multi-physics Domain Decomposition Method of the Steady-state Navier-Stokes-Darcy Model with Beavers-Joseph Condition"
11:25am
Open
Open
Coupled Problems, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Ho, Nguyenho
"Accelerated Uzawa Iteration for the Stokes Equations "
11:50pm
Lunch Break
4:00pm
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 3
4:30pm
AMG, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Chen, Meng-Huo
"Analysis of an Aggregation-Based Algebraic Two-Grid Method for a Rotated Anisotropic Diffusion Problem "
Helmholtz / Bighorn C/1 :
Lahaye, Domenico
"Improving the Shifted Laplacian Preconditioner for the Helmholtz Equation by Multilevel Deflation"
Applications/Quantum Chemsitry / Bighorn C/2 :
Canning, Andrew
"A Hybrid OpenMP/MPI Conjugate Gradient Iterative Eigensolver for First-Principles Plane Wave Electronic Structure Codes "
4:55pm
AMG, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Olson, Luke
"Using a Root-Node Based Approach to Algebraic Multigrid"
Helmholtz / Bighorn C/1 :
Tuminaro, Ray
"Augmented AMG-Shifted Laplacian Preconditioners for Indefinite Helmholtz Problems"
Applications/Quantum Chemsitry / Bighorn C/2 :
Anton, Lucian
"Comparing Parallel Performance for a Geometric Multigrid Solver Using Hybrid Parallelism, MPI Shared Memory and Multiple GPUs"
5:20pm
AMG, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Wang, Lu
"Parallel Auxilliary Grid AMG Method for GPU"
Open
Applications/Quantum Chemsitry / Bighorn C/2 :
Nance, James
"Following Molecular Reaction Paths with Sparse Interpolatory Surrogate Models"
5:45pm
Open
Open
Applications/Quantum Chemsitry / Bighorn C/2 :
Osei-Kuffuor, Daniel
"An Accurate and Scalable O(N) Algorithm for Large-Scale First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Computations"
6:10pm
Dinner Break

 


Tuesday 8 April

7:30-8:30am
Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 4
8:00am
Optimization, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Kelley, Tim
"Derivative-Free Optimization of Functions with embedded Monte Carlo Simulations"
Applications/MHD / Bighorn C/1 :
Benson, Thomas
"Robust Multigrid Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics"
UQ/Stochastic PDEs / Bighorn C/2 :
Osborn, Sarah
"Preconditioning Techniques for Stochastic Galerkin Discretizations of PDEs with Random Data"
8:25am
Optimization, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Kouri, Drew
"Inexactness in Trust-Region Algorithms with Applications to Adaptive Refinement"
Applications/MHD / Bighorn C/1 :
Moulton, David
"Exploring Parallelization and Performance of a Particle in Cell Method on Curvilinear Grids"
UQ/Stochastic PDEs / Bighorn C/2 :
Fregosi, Anna
"Uncertainty Quantification for Heat Transport in the Shallow Subsurface"
8:50am
Optimization, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Lieb, Anna
"Optimization of Intermittent Water Supply"
Applications/MHD / Bighorn C/1 :
Sturdevant, Benjamin
"Iterative Methods for an Implicit - Hybrid Kinetic Plasma Model"
UQ/Stochastic PDEs / Bighorn C/2 :
Ganesh, Mahadevan
"Uncertainty Quantification Algorithms for Multiple Component Wave Propagation Configurations"
9:15am
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 5
9:45am
Time Integration / Bighorn B :
Chaudhry, Jehanzeb
"Multi-level Parallel Time Integration"
Inverse Problems, Part 2 / Bighorn C/1 :
Berisha, Sebastian
"Constrained Iterative Solver for Deblurring and Sparse Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images"
Multiphysics, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Cyr, Eric
"A New Split Preconditioner for 3D Magnetohydrodynamics"
10:10am
Time Integration / Bighorn B :
Minion, Michael
"Interweaving PFASST and Parallel Multigrid"
Inverse Problems, Part 2 / Bighorn C/1 :
Chung, Julianne
"Computing Optimal Low-Rank Regularized Inverse Matrices for Inverse Problems"
Multiphysics, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Chen, Guangye
"An Energy- and Charge-conserving, Fully Implicit, Eletromagnetic Particle-in-cell Algorithm"
10:35am
Time Integration / Bighorn B :
Alyoubi, Ahmad
"Parallel Algorithms for a Class of Space-Time Evolutionary Models"
Inverse Problems, Part 2 / Bighorn C/1 :
Kilmer, Misha
"An Adaptive Inner-outer Iterative Regularization Method for Edge Recovery"
Multiphysics, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Cai, Xiao-Chuan
"An Implicit Domain Decomposition Algorithm for the Discrete-Velocity BGK model of the Boltzmann equation"
11:00am
Time Integration / Bighorn B :
Brown, Jed
"Fast Solvers for Implicit Runge-Kutta"
Inverse Problems, Part 2 / Bighorn C/1 :
Saibaba, Arvind
"Fast Algorithms for Hyperspectral Diffuse Optical Tomography"
Multiphysics, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Elman, Howard
"Block Preconditioners for the Stationary MHD Equations in Exact Penalty Formulation"
11:25am
Time Integration / Bighorn B :
Friedhoff, Stephanie
"Parallel Time Integration with Multigrid for Parabolic Problems"
Open
Multiphysics, Part 1 / Bighorn C/2 :
Evans, Katherine
"Implicit Time Stepping Methods Applied Within the Community Atmosphere Model"
11:50am
Lunch Break
4:00pm
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 6
4:30pm
Least Squares/Discretization / Bighorn B :
Adler, James
"A Non-Symmetric Least-Squares Finite-Element Method for Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion"
Eigensolvers / Bighorn C/1 :
Calvin, Christophe
"Toward Smart Tuning on Restarting Strategies for the ERAM Solver"
Multiphysics, Part 2 / Bighorn C/2 :
Newman, Chris
"Implicit/explicit Method for the Free-surface Ocean Equations"
4:55pm
Least Squares/Discretization / Bighorn B :
Allen, Jeffery
"New FOSLS Formulation of Nonlinear Stokes Flow for Glaciers"
Eigensolvers / Bighorn C/1 :
Vecharynski, Eugene
"Preconditioned Eigenvalue Computations for non-Hermitian Matrices"
Multiphysics, Part 2 / Bighorn C/2 :
Lemieux, Jean-Francois
"A Second-Order Accurate in Time IMplicit-EXplicit (IMEX) Integration Scheme for Sea Ice Dynamics"
5:20pm
Least Squares/Discretization / Bighorn B :
Bertrand, Fleurianne
"First-Order System Least Squares on Curved Boundaries"
Eigensolvers / Bighorn C/1 :
Xia, Jianlin
"Fast and Superfast Eigensolvers for Structured Matrices"
Multiphysics, Part 2 / Bighorn C/2 :
Leibs, Chris
"Preconditioning a Two-fluid Electromagnetic Model Using Physics-Based Preconditioning and First-Order System Least Squares"
5:45pm
Least Squares/Discretization / Bighorn B :
Munzenmaier, Steffen
"A Least Squares Finite Element Method for Coupled Surface/Groundwater Flows"
Open
Multiphysics, Part 2 / Bighorn C/2 :
Park, HyeongKae
"Efficient, Three Temperature, Thermal Radiative Transfer Solutions via a Moment-Based, Scale-Bridging Algorithm"
6:10pm
Dinner Break

 


Wednesday 9 April

7:30-8:30am
Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 7
8:00am
Krylov Accelerators, Part 1 / Bighorn B :
Sidje, Roger
"Simultaneous Tridiagonalization of Two Large Sparse Symmetric Matrices with a Three-Term Recurrence"
Optimization, Part 3 / Bighorn C/1 :
Haber, Eldad
"On Large Scale Inverse Problems that Cannot be Solved"
Applications/Misc. / Bighorn C/2 :
Giffen, Deena
"Simulating Non-Dilute Transport in Porous Media Using a TCAT-Based Model"
8:25am
Krylov Accelerators, Part 1 / Bighorn B :
de Sturler, Eric
"Computing Preconditioners for Parameterized Matrices"
Optimization, Part 3 / Bighorn C/1 :
Martins, Joaquim
"Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Aerospace Systems "
Applications/Misc. / Bighorn C/2 :
Quaife, Bryan
"Spectral Deferred Correction Methods for Vesicle Suspensions"
8:50am
Krylov Accelerators, Part 1 / Bighorn B :
Szyld, Daniel
"Classical Iterative Methods for the Solution of Generalized Lyapunov Equations"
Optimization, Part 3 / Bighorn C/1 :
Sachs, Ekkehard
"Reduced Order models in PDE-Constrained Optimization "
Applications/Misc. / Bighorn C/2 :
Hengbin, An
"Parallel Solution for Multi-Group Radiation Transfer Equations"
9:15am
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 8
9:45am
AMG, Part 3 / Bighorn B :
Prokopenko, Andrey
"Improving Parallel Performance of Coarse Grids in an Algebraic Multigrid"
Domain Decomposition / Bighorn C/1 :
Adams, Mark
"Memory Movement Minimizing Multigrid Techniques; Segmental Refinement Revisited"
Nonlinear Solvers / Bighorn C/2 :
Dogan, Gunay
"A Fast Algorithm to Compute the Shape Dissimilarity of Elastic Curves"
10:10am
AMG, Part 3 / Bighorn B :
Falgout, Rob
"Theoretical Advances Regarding Non-Galerkin Coarse-Grid Operators for Algebraic Multigrid"
Domain Decomposition / Bighorn C/1 :
Deng, Xiaomao
"Parallel Space-time Domain Decomposition Methods for Inverse Source Identification Problems"
Nonlinear Solvers / Bighorn C/2 :
Muller, Benjamin
"Mixed Least Squares Finite Element Methods for Geometrically Nonlinear Hyperelasticity"
10:35am
AMG, Part 3 / Bighorn B :
Siefert, Christopher
"Local Smoothers for CDFEM with Sub-Element Discontinuities"
Domain Decomposition / Bighorn C/1 :
Ong, Ben
"Pipeline Schwarz Waveform Relaxation"
Nonlinear Solvers / Bighorn C/2 :
Toth, Alexander
"Local Convergence Analysis for Anderson Acceleration"
11:00am
AMG, Part 3 / Bighorn B :
Villa, Umberto
"AMG Solvers for Upscaled Mixed Finite Element Discretizations"
Domain Decomposition / Bighorn C/1 :
Kong, Fande
"A Multilevel Domain Decomposition Method with a Boundary Geometry Preserving Coarse Space for Elasticity Equation"
Nonlinear Solvers / Bighorn C/2 :
Woodward, Carol
"Nonlinear Solvers for Dislocation Dynamics"
11:25am
AMG, Part 3 / Bighorn B :
Wobbes, Elizaveta
"On the Use of AMG in Reservoir Simulations"
Domain Decomposition / Bighorn C/1 :
Lazarov, Boyan
"Contrast Independent Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for Topology Optimization Under Manufacturing Uncertainties"
Open
11:50pm
Lunch Break
4:00pm
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 9
4:30pm
Large Graphs/Markov Chains / Bighorn B :
Dalton, Steven
"Graph Partitioning on the GPU"
Applications/Matrix Computations / Bighorn C/1 :
Lowery, Bradley
"Stability Analysis of QR Factorization in an Oblique Inner Product"
Multiphysics, Part 3 / Bighorn C/2 :
Phillips, Edward
"Block Preconditioners for Fully Coupled MHD with Lagrange Multipliers"
4:55pm
Large Graphs/Markov Chains / Bighorn B :
Deweese, Kevin
"Preconditioning Linear Systems Arising from Graph Laplacians of Complex Networks"
Applications/Matrix Computations / Bighorn C/1 :
Petiton, Serge
"Parallel Algorithms for Arbitrary Size Sparse and Dense Matrices with Imposed Spectrum"
Multiphysics, Part 3 / Bighorn C/2 :
Shadid, John
"An Implicit Stabilized FE Solver for 3D Resistive MHD with Integrated Adjoint Capability"
5:20pm
Large Graphs/Markov Chains / Bighorn B :
Jones, Tobias
"Aggressive Pruning in Linear- and Eigen-solvers for Graph Mining Problems"
Applications/Matrix Computations / Bighorn C/1 :
Rostami, Minghao
"Lyapunov Inverse Iteration for Computing Pseudospectral Abscissa"
Multiphysics, Part 3 / Bighorn C/2 :
Taitano, William
"Moment-Based Acceleration for a Collisional Kinetic Plasma Model"
5:45pm
Large Graphs/Markov Chains / Bighorn B :
Henson, Van Emden
"Community Detection in Graphs Based on a Multilevel Bipartite Matching "
Applications/Matrix Computations / Bighorn C/1 :
Mitchell, Tim
"Fast Approximation of the H-infinity Norm via Hybrid Expansion-Contraction using Spectral Value Sets"
Multiphysics, Part 3 / Bighorn C/2 :
Willert, Jeffrey
"Improved Time-step Solutions for the TRT HOLO Algorithm"
6:10pm
Dinner Break

 


Thursday 10 April

7:30-8:30am
Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 10
8:00am
Krylov Accelerators, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Wu, Lingfei
"Enhancing the PRIMME Eigensolver for Computing Accurately Singular Triplets of Large Matrices"
Stochastic Solvers/Neutronics / Bighorn C/1 :
Hamilton, Steven
"Monte Carlo Synthetic Acceleration as Approximate Polynomial Preconditioning"
8:25am
Krylov Accelerators, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Xue, Fei
"Preconditioned Eigensolvers for Large-Scale Nonlinear Hermitian Eigenproblems"
Stochastic Solvers/Neutronics / Bighorn C/1 :
Slattery, Stuart
"Multilevel Monte Carlo Solvers for Linear Systems"
8:50am
Krylov Accelerators, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Barker, Andrew
"Parallel Preconditioning for all-at-once Solution of Time-Dependent PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems"
Stochastic Solvers/Neutronics / Bighorn C/1 :
Norton, Richard
"Langevin and Hamiltonian Proposals are Matrix Splittings"
9:15am
Krylov Accelerators, Part 2 / Bighorn B :
Di Napoli, Edoardo
"An Optimized and Scalable Iterative Eigensolver for Sequences of Dense Eigenvalue Problems"
Stochastic Solvers/Neutronics / Bighorn C/1 :
Ketelsen, Christian
"Least-Squares Finite-Element Discretization of the Neutron Transport Equation in Spherical Geometry"
9:40am
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 11
10:10am
Resilient Solvers / Bighorn B :
Calhoun, Jon
"Towards a More Fault Resilient Multigrid Solver"
Coupled Problems, Part 2 / Bighorn C/1 :
Dillon, Geoffrey
"Block Preconditioners for Biot's Equations"
Applications/Waves / Bighorn C/2 :
Cowan, Benjamin
"Application of Multigrid Techniques to Electromagnetic Systems"
10:35am
Resilient Solvers / Bighorn B :
Elliott, James
"Making Numerical Algorithms Tolerate Silent Data Corruption"
Coupled Problems, Part 2 / Bighorn C/1 :
Pawlowski, Roger
"An Assessment of Coupling Algorithms for Parallel Coupled Neutronic and Thermal-Hydraulic Simulations"
Applications/Waves / Bighorn C/2 :
Emerson, David
"Energy Minimization for Liquid Crystal Equilibrium Configurations with Applied Electric Fields"
11:00am
Resilient Solvers / Bighorn B :
Li, Xiaoye
"Design of Fault Tolerant Algorithms for Low Rank Factorization Preconditioners"
Coupled Problems, Part 2 / Bighorn C/1 :
Morgenstern, Charles
"Coupled Computer Models for Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media"
Applications/Waves / Bighorn C/2 :
Lago, Rafael
"CRMN Method for Solving Time-Harmonic Wave Equation"
11:25am
Resilient Solvers / Bighorn B :
Sao, Piyush
"Self-stabilizing Iterative Solvers"
Open
Applications/Waves / Bighorn C/2 :
Lecouvez, Matthieu
"Optimized Transmission Conditions for Domain Decomposition Methods for the Helmholtz Equation"
11:50am
Open
Open
Applications/Waves / Bighorn C/2 :
Lim, Hyun
"A Numerical Implementation of the Space-Time Finite Element Approach for the Semilinear Wave Equation"
12:15pm
Lunch Break
3:45pm
Coffee and Tea Service
Session 12
4:15pm
Student Paper Winners / Bighorn B :
Bosch, Jessica
"Preconditioning for Vector-Valued Cahn-Hilliard Equations"
4:45pm
Student Paper Winners / Bighorn B :
Gaaf, Sarah
"Probabilistic Bounds for the Matrix Condition Number with Extended Lanczos Bidiagonalization"
5:15pm
Student Paper Winners / Bighorn B :
Ladenheim, Scott
"Indefinite Preconditioning of the Coupled Stokes-Darcy System"
5:45pm
Student Paper Winners / Bighorn B :
Winlaw, Manda
"A Nonlinearly Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Algorithm for Rank-R Canonical Tensor Approximation"
6:15pm
Break
6:30-7:00pm
Cash bar and Dinner Banquet at Copper Conference Center
7:00-9:30pm
Copper Conference Center

 


Friday 11 April

7:30-8:30am
Breakfast Buffet [Copper Conference Center]
Session 13
8:00am
Algebraic Preconditioners / Bighorn B :
Chow, Edmond
"Iterative Construction of ILU Preconditioners"
Applications/Neutronics / Bighorn C/1 :
Blake, Jack
"An Asymptotic Analysis of Preconditioned Linear Systems Arising from Discretisations of the Transport Equation within a Diffusive Regime"
8:25am
Algebraic Preconditioners / Bighorn B :
Duff, Iain
"Preconditioning of Least-Squares Problems by Identifying Basic Variables"
Applications/Neutronics / Bighorn C/1 :
Dai, William
"Interface- and Discontinuity-aware Numerical Schemes for 3-T Radiation Diffusion in Two and Three Dimensions"
8:50am
Algebraic Preconditioners / Bighorn B :
Ferronato, Massimiliano
"A Factored Sparse Approximate Inverse Software Package (FSAIPACK) for the Parallel Preconditioning of Linear Systems"
Applications/Neutronics / Bighorn C/1 :
Hanus, Milan
"Non-linear Algebraic Multigrid for Partial Eigenvalue Problem"
9:15am
Algebraic Preconditioners / Bighorn B :
Janna, Carlo
"Supernodes in Factored Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioning"
Open
9:40am
Close of Conference



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