Tuesday, July 11

MS21
Combinatorial Algorithms in Scientific Computing

10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Pelican

Although scientific computing deals primarily with problems of continuous mathematics, discrete mathematics and combinatorial algorithms play an important role in finding efficient solutions to many scientific computing problems. Seymour Parter introduced a graph model for Gaussian elimination in 1961, and since then graph models have been used to design efficient algorithms for sparse linear algebra. Topics from graph theory such as matchings, colorings, and partitioning have found wide use in scientific computing. Conversely tools from continuous mathematics such as eigenvalue solvers have found use in graph partitioning and graph sequencing problems. The speakers in this minisymposium will describe recent applications of combinatorial techniques to preconditioning, sparse orthogonal factorizations, and mesh generation.

Organizers: Alex Pothen
Old Dominion University and ICASE, USA
Suely Oliveira
University of Iowa, USA
10:30-10:55 Robust Parallel Preconditioning via Graph Model of Incomplete Matrix Factorizations
David Hysom, Old Dominion University and ICASE, USA; and Alex Pothen, Organizer
11:00-11:25 Graph Embeddings and Preconditioning
Bruce A. Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
11:30-11:55 A Parallel Mesh Improvement Algorithm
Mark T. Jones, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA; and Paul Plassmann, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
12:00-12:25 An Algorithm for Predicting QR Fill-in Exactly
Suely Oliveira, Organizer

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