Programme

31 October 2007
RRS905
9:30-10:00
Opening and Group Photo
10:00 - 10:50
Speaker: Gene Golub (Stanford University)
  On computing the scattering amplitude and linear systems [pdf]
10:50 - 11:10
 Coffee Break
11:10 - 12:00
Speaker: Michel Fortin (Laval University)
  A hierarchical preconditioner for Stokes and connected problems [pdf]
12:00 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50
Speaker: Andy Wathen (Oxford University)
  Preconditioning for self-adjointness [pdf]
14:50 - 15:40
Speaker: Zhong-zhi Bai (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  Splitting iteration methods for positive definite linear systems [pdf]
15:40 - 16:00
 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50
Speaker: Miro Rozloznik (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  Saddle point solvers and their numerical behavior [pdf]
16:50 - 17:20
Speaker: Michael Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Preconditioning for saddle point problems and image processing
applications
[pdf]