McGill Computational Science and Engineering Seminar

For Fall 07: Biweekly on Fridays at 2:30pm in McConnell Engineering Building Room 103.

Cookies and orange juice served afterwards in the same room

For Students, Researchers and Professionals Involved in Scientific Computing

Program for Fall 2007 and Winter 2008

  • September 21, 2007: Thomas Wihler, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
    Error Indicators and Adaptivity for hp-Discontinuous Galerkin FEM for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems (abstract)

  • October 5, 2007: Eusebius Doedel, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University,
    "Collocate and Bifurcate": High-order accurate discretizations of ODEs and PDEs and their Application in Bifurcation Problems (abstract).

  • October 19, 2007: Henry Wolkowicz, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo,
    Sensor Network Localization, Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions, and Graph Realization (abstract)
    Joint CSE and Computer Science Colloquium/Seminar
    Room and time: McConnell Engineering Building 11, 3:30pm

  • (CANCELLED) November 2, 2007: Mohamed Oussama Damen, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo,
    Cooperation in Asynchronous Networks (abstract)

  • November 9, 2007: Leszek Demkowicz, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin,
    Polynomial Extension Operators for H1, H(curl) and H(div) Spaces on a Cube (abstract).
    Joint CSE/Applied Math Seminar

  • November 16, 2007: Yoshua Bengio, Department d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, Universite de Montreal
    Learning Deep Architectures for AI (abstract)

  • (CANCELLED) November 30, 2007: Arun Chawla, Marine Modeling and Analysis, NOAA


  • January 11, 2008: Pierre Gauthier, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    Mathematical problems Associated with Atmospheric Data Assimilation and Weather Prediction (abstract)

  • January 25, 2008: Laurence Loumes, Department of Mechancial Engineering, McGill University
    Multilayer Gelatin Impedance Pump: A nature inspired valveless pump with bio-medical applications. (abstract)

  • February 8, 2008: Ronald Haynes, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Acadia University
    Schwarz Waveform Moving Mesh Methods (abstract)

  • February 22, 2008: Miguel Anjos, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo
    Large-Scale Fixed-Outline Floorplanning Design Using Convex Optimization (abstract)

  • March 7, 2008: This seminar is dedicated to Gene H. Golub (1932-2007).
    Chris Paige, School of Computer Science, McGill University
    The bidiagonalization algorithms of Gene Golub and William Kahan abstract

  • March 28, 2008: Mohamed Oussama Damen, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo
    Coding and Decoding Algorithms in Asynchronous Networks abstract

  • April 11, 2008: Wolfgang Bangerth, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    Numerics for Inverse Problems in Biomedical Imaging (abstract)

  • Tuesday, May 13, 2008: Damien Stehle, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, CNRS and Universite de Lyon
    The floating-point LLL algorithm (abstract)


    • For any questions contact chang@cs.mcgill.ca, bartello@math.mcgill.ca, crtlz@cim.mcgill.ca, dennisg@ece.mcgill.ca, or wihler@math.mcgill.ca