Recent Presentations

July 2001

P. D. Hough* and J. C. Meza, Choosing a Search Strategy for TRPDS, SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, July 2001.

Tamara G. Kolda, How To Give a Talk: Advice on Preparing and Presenting Technical Talks in the Mathematical Sciences, Sandia National Labs Student Seminar Series, Albuquerque, NM, July 31, 2001. Abstract and slides.

Tamara G. Kolda, APPSPACK: A Software Package for Asynchronous and Fault-Tolerant Parallel Pattern Search for Derivative-Free Optimization, SIAM Annual Meeting Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, CA July 9-13, 2001. Abstract and slides.

June 2001

Paul Boggs, A Software System for PDE-Based Optimization, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, June 27, 2001.

Paul Boggs, A Software System for PDE-Based Optimization, Conference on High Performance Algorithms and Software for Nonlinear Optimization, Erice, Sicily, Italy, June 28 -- July 8, 2001.

May 2001

Pamela J. Williams* and Susanna P. Gordon, How to Get a Smoother Ride on BART, IMA Career Workshop: Minorities and Applied Mathematics - Connections to Industry and Government Laboratories, Minneapolis, MN, May 4-6, 2001.

April 2001

V. E. Howle* and Stephen A. Vavasis, Accurate Integration of the Transient Stability Equations in Electrical Power Modeling, Preconditioning 2001 Conference, Tahoe City, CA, April 2001.

V. E. Howle* Ray Tuminaro, John Shadid, and Howard Elman, Parallel Block Preconditioning of the Linearized Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations, Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, Copper Mountain, CO, April 2001.

Tamara G. Kolda, Fault Tolerance in Asynchronous Parallel Pattern Search, Sandia Workshop on Fault Tolerance, Livermore, CA, April 26-27, 2001. Slides.

Kevin Long, Sundance: a rapid prototyping tool for large-scale parallel PDE optimization, 1st Sandia Workshop on large-scale PDE optimization, Santa Fe, NM, April 2001.

Monica Martinez-Canales, A Reverse Trajectory Method for Contaminant Containment in an Aquifer with Uncertain Properties, Center for Environmental Fluids, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 13, 2001.

Pamela J. Williams* and Susanna P. Gordon, How to Get a Smoother Ride on BART, Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 23, 2001.

February 2001

V. E. Howle and Stephen A. Vavasis, Efficient Iterative Methods for Ill-Conditioned Linear and Nonlinear Power Network Problems, Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, Livermore, CA, February 2001

Tamara G. Kolda, Optimization, Engineering, and Cluster Computing, UC Davis Applied Mathematics Seminar, February 22, 2001. Abstract and slides.

Monica Martinez-Canales, Incorporating Uncertainty into Simulation: Modeling Contaminant Plume Containment under Uncertainty due to Spatially Variable Aquifer Properties, Bay Area Scientific Computing Day in Livermore, CA, February 10, 2001.

January 2001

Tamara G. Kolda, AWM Workshop at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 10-13, 2001. (Invited Panel Speaker.)

Paul T. Boggs, Software Issues in Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization, Seventh US-Mexico Workshop in Numerical Analysis, Merida, Mexico, January 8--12, 2001

September 2000

Paul T. Boggs* and Kevin R. Long, Tightly Coupled SQP Algorithms from Loosely Coupled Components, First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Washington, DC, September 21-24, 2000.

P.D. Hough and J.C. Meza*, A Class of Trust-Region Methods for Simulation-Based Optimization, First SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C., September 21-24, 2000.

Tamara G. Kolda, Optimization, Engineering, and Cluster Computing . IMA Workshop on Connecting Women in Mathematical Sciences to Industry, Minneapolis, MN, September 8-11, 2000. Abstract and Slides.

August 2000

Paul T. Boggs* and Kevin R. Long, Integrating an object-oriented SQP algorithm into component-based frameworks, 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Atlanta, GA, August 7-11, 2000.

Tamara G. Kolda, On Convergence of an Asynchronous Parallel Pattern Search Method.International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 2000 Atlanta, GA August 7-11, 2000. Abstract and Slides

July 2000

Paul T. Boggs* and Kevin R. Long, A flexible implementation of an SQP Algorithm, SIAM Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 10-14, 2000.

P.D. Hough* and J.C. Meza, A Class of Trust-Region Methods for Simulation-Based Optimization, 2000 SIAM Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 10-14, 2000.

Tamara G. Kolda, Asynchronous Parallel Pattern Search with Bound Constraints. 2000 SIAM Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 10-14, 2000. Abstract and Slides

Pamela J. Williams* and Susanna P. Gordon, Advanced Automatic Train Control Optimization. SIAM Annual Meeting. Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. July 10-14, 2000.

February 2000

Tamara G. Kolda*, Patricia D. Hough, and Virginia Torczon, Asynchronous Parallel Pattern Search. Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, Berkeley, CA, February 26, 2000.

Pamela Williams, Advanced Automatic Train Control Optimization. Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, Berkeley, CA, February 26, 2000.

January 2000

Tamara G. Kolda*, Patricia D. Hough, and Virginia Torczon, An Asynchronous Pattern Search Method for Optimization on Parallel Computers. Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 19-22, 2000. Abstract

* Speaker