Gene Around the World

Program

29 February 2008
9:30a.m.
Opening Remarks
Prof. Franklin Luk, Vice President Academic, HKBU
9:40a.m.
Session Chair: Zhong-zhi Bai
9:40a.m.
Zhong-ci Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  Multigrid Method [pdf]
10:10a.m.
Liqun Qi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  Diffusion Tensor and Diffusion Kurtosis Tensor in Biomedical Engineering [pdf]
10:40a.m.
Michael Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  A Fast Total Variation Minimization Method for Image Restoration [pdf]
10:55a.m.
 Coffee Break
11:10a.m.
Session Chair: Michael Ng
11:10a.m.
Franklin Luk (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Solving Ax=b [pdf]
11:40a.m.
Sanzheng Qiao (McMaster University)
  A Gene's Late Interest: The LLL Algorithm [pdf]
12:10p.m.
Xiao-qing Jin (University of Macau)
  Some Results and Relations between Optimal and Superoptimal Preconditioners [pdf]
12:40p.m.
 Group Photo
   
 Lunch at Renfnew Restaurant
2:15p.m.
Session Chair: Xiao-Qing Jin
2:15p.m.:
Zdenek Strakos (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  Lanczos Tridiagonalization and Golub-Kahan Bidiagonalization: Ideas, Connections and Impact [pdf]
2:45p.m.
Zhong-zhi Bai (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  Restrictively Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods [pdf]
3:15p.m.
Raymond Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Equivalence of Fixed Point Iteration and Half-quadratic Iteration [pdf]
3:45p.m.
 Coffee Break
4:00p.m.
Session Chair: Raymond Chan
4:00p.m.
Lizhi Liao (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Continuous Models for Eigenvalue Problems [pdf]
4:30p.m.
Delin Chu (National University of Singapore)
  Model Updating for Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem with Positive Definiteness [pdf]
5:00p.m.
Zheng-Jian Bai (Xiamen University)
  A Numerical Approach to Robust Partial Quadratic Eigenvalue Assignment in Second-Order Control Systems [pdf]