Gene Golub Memorial Conference

Friday, February 29, 2008

Conference Registration 8:30   UMass Dartmouth ATMC,  Fall River Massachusetts

Morning Session (Chair: Sigal Gottlieb)

9:00 - 9:10       Welcome Address  
                               Anthony Garro,  Provost, UMass Dartmouth
9:10 - 9:25       Opening remarks and brief overview of the career of Gene Golub
                                 Steven Leon, UMass Dartmouth  
9:25 - 9:55        Implementing the Retraction Algorithm for factoring symmetric banded matrices
                            Linda Kaufman, William Paterson University
9:55 - 10:25      Optimization of the Spectral Radius of Sums and Products of Nonnegative Matrices
                                Michael Neumann, University of Connecticut

10:25 -11:00  Coffee break and group picture
 
Morning Session 2  (Chair: Alan Edelman)

11:00 - 11:40     Inexact Krylov Subspace Methods for PDEs and Control Problems
                        Daniel Szyld, Temple University
11:40 -  12:20     Orthogonal Polynomials, Moments, Measure Deformation, Dynamical Systems, and SVD Algorithm
                        Moody Chu, North Carolina State University

Lunch 12:20 -1:30 (At ATMC)

Afternoon session  (Chair: Homer Walker)

1:30 - 2:00          Multilevel Methods for Image Deblurring Problems
                          Misha Kilmer, Tufts University
2:00 - 2:30          The Numerical Mathematics Consortium -- and what Gene had to say about it 
                           Alan Edelman, MIT
2:30 - 3:00          Least Squares with Nonnegativity Constraints and Generalizations
                                        Bob Plemmons, Wake Forest University

Coffee break 3:00 - 3:30

Afternoon session 2 (Chair: Jae-Hun Jung)
3:30 - 4:00           An analysis of ML(n)BiCGSTAB   
                            Man-Chung Yeung, University of Wyoming
4:00 - 4:30           Multiphysics Simulations
                            Svante Littmarck, Comsol
4:30 - 5:00           Lipschitz stabilty of canonical Jordan bases of H-selfadjoint matrices
                            Vadim Olshevsky, University of Connecticut

Reception 5:00 - 6:30  at ATMC

Banquet at White's of Westport  7:00

Banquet Program - Remembrances of Gene


Saturday, March 1

Morning Session (Chair: Vadim Olshevsky)

9:00 - 9:30            Quasiseparable matrices and polynomials
                                         Tom Bella, University of Connecticut
9:30 - 10:00          Traub algorithm based on quasiseparable matrices
                                          Pavel Zhlobich, University of Connecticut

Coffee break  10:00 - 10:30

Morning session 2 (Chair: Steven Leon)

10:30 - 11:00      Adjoint sensitivity analysis for two-layered shallow water model in a limited domain    
                            Vani Cheruvu, Florida State University
11:00 - 11:30      DIIS Acceleration of Fixed-Point Iteration
                            Homer Walker, WPI and US Dept of Energy
11:30 - 12:00         Block Krylov Subspace Methods for Solving Large Sparse SVD and Eigenvalue Problems
                                           James Baglama, University of Rhode Island
12:00 - 12:15      Closing Remarks - Carrying on the legacy of Gene Golub

Box Lunches will be provided