Schedule for the workshop

Please see [http://modular.math.washington.edu/msri07/schedule.html the HTML schedule].

Slides

Monday, Jan 29

Theme: What do we want and what can we expect from applying parallel techniques to pure mathematics research tools?

• 9:00 Clement Pernet (University of Waterloo): Parallelism perspectives for the LinBox library [attachment:pernet.pdf PDF slides]

• 10:30 Brian Granger (Tech X Corp): Interactive parallel computing using Python and IPython [attachment:GrangerMSRI.pdf PDF slides] [attachment:GrangerMSRIdemo.ipy Demo].

• 11:30 Jean-Louis Roch (INRIA [http://moais.imag.fr Moais] / LIG, France): Processor-oblivious parallel algorithms with provable performances [http://www-id.imag.fr/~jlroch/perso_html/talks/2007-01-MSRI-Berkeley/2007-01-msri-procobliv.pps PPT slides (7.6MB)]

[http://www-id.imag.fr/~jlroch/perso_html/talks/2007-01-MSRI-Berkeley/roch-msri.pdf PDF (11MB)] [http://www-id.imag.fr/~jlroch/perso_html/talks/2007-01-MSRI-Berkeley/ieeevr06-mov1.mpg MPEG video]

• 1:30 Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research): Parallel computation tools for research: a wishlist

Tuesday, Jan 30

Theme: Algebra

• 9:00 Kathy Yelick (UC Berkeley): Programming models for parallel computing

• 10:30 Yozo Hida (UC Berkeley): Moving Lapack and ScaLapack to higher precision without too much work [attachment:hida.pdf PDF slides]

• 11:30 Alfred Noel (UMass Boston/MIT): Structure and representations of real reductive Lie groups: A computational approach
• 1:30 Anton Leykin (IMA, Minnesota): Parallel computation of Groebner bases in the Weyl algebra [attachment:leykin.pdf PDF slides]
• 2:00 Vladimir Tonchev (Michigan Tech): Combinatorial designs and code synchronization

Wednesday, Jan 31

Theme: Number Theory

• 9:00 Jason Martin (James Madison): MPMPLAPACK: The Massively Parallel Multi-Precision Linear Algebra Package [attachment:martin.pdf PDF slides]
• 10:30 Bill Hart (Warwick): Parallel computation in number theory [attachment:FLINT-msri-talk.pdf PDF slides]
• 11:30 Yi Qiang (U Washington): Distributed computing using SAGE
• 1:30 Robert Bradshaw (U Washington): Loosely dependent parallel processes [attachment:bradshaw-ipc-msri.pdf slides]
• 2:00 Ilias Kotsireas (Laurier U, Canada): Combinatorial Designs: constructions, algorithms and new results

Thursday, Feb 1

Theme: Geometry

• 9:00 Jan Verschelde (UIC): Parallel homotopy algorithms to solve polynomial systems
• 10:30 Marc Moreno Maza (Western Ontario): Component-level parallelization of triangular decompositions
• 11:30 David Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley Labs): Experimental mathematics and high-performance computing
• 1:30 Thomas Wolf and Winfried Neun: Parallel sparsening and simplification of systems of equations

Friday, Feb 2

Theme: Large-Scale Parallel Computation

• 9:00 Alan Edelman (MIT): Interactive parallel supercomputing: Today: MATLAB(r) and Python coming cutting edge: symbolic parallelism with Mathematica(r) and MAPLE(r)
• 10:30 Gene Cooperman (Northeastern U): Disk-based parallel computing: a new paradigm
• 11:30 Robert Harrison (Oak Ridge National Lab): Science at the petascale: tools in the tool box
• 1:30 Samee Khan (U Texas, Arlington): Game theoretical solutions for data replication in distributed computing systems