Purdue CCAM (Center for Computational & Applied Mathematics) is hosting a Workshop on Fast Direct Solvers on Saturday and Sunday, Nov 12-13, 2016. The location is:

MATH 175, Department of Mathematics
150 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907
(Map. Parking lot across street during the weekend.)

The purpose of the workshop is to  discuss and exchange ideas on topics related to fast direct solvers, structured matrices, sparsity and data sparsity, structured preconditioning, high performance computing, fast PDE and IE solutions, high order discretizations, related applications, and other relevant subjects. The organizers are Jie Shen and Jianlin Xia.

Invited Speakers

(With links to abstracts)

• Tim Davis, Texas A&M University
• David Keyes, KAUST
• Gunnar Martinsson, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Victor Pan, Lehman College CUNY
• Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota

Contributed Speakers

 (With links to abstracts)

• Eric Darve, Stanford University

• Adrianna Gillman, Rice University

• Grégoire Pichon, LaBRI, INRIA Bordeaux-SO

• Bryan Quaife, Florida State University

• Sergey Solovyev, Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS

• Daria Sushnikova, Russian Academy of Sciences

• Alex Townsend, Cornell University

• George Turkiyyah, KAUST

• Yingwei Wang, Purdue University

• Heather Wilber, Cornell University

• Yuanzhe Xi, University of Minnesota

• Yu-Hong Yeung, Purdue University

• Liang Zhao, Lehman College CUNY