WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 97

VENUE

March 10, 97Hong Kong Baptist University
March 11-12, 97The Chinese University of Hong Kong

PROGRAMME

MARCH 10, 1997 (Monday)

Venue : NAB 209 Lam Woo International Conference Centre
Hong Kong Baptist University

8:30REGISTRATION (Tea and refreshments)
9:15OPENING SESSION
Chairman:Fred. J. Hickernell
Head of Department, Dept. of Mathematics, HKBU
9:15Opening Speech:Daniel C.W. Tse
President and Vice-Chancellor, HKBU
9:30Keynote Speech:Gene H. Golub
Stanford University, USA
Tikhonov regularization for large scale problems
10:30TEA BREAK
10:50MORNING SESSION (I)
Chairman:Å. Björck, Linköping U, Sweden
10:50Walter Gander, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland
Cyclic reduction - history and application
11:20Paul Van Dooren, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Orthogonal matrix decompositions of matrix sequences and applications
11:50W.F. Blyth, RMIT Australia
Efficient and accurate parameter estimate for linear, bilinear and nonlinear systems using Walsh functions
12:10Lars Eldén, Linköping University, Sweden
The numerical solution of orthogonal Procrustes problems
12:45WORKING LUNCH
Renfrew restaurant, Shaw campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
14:00AFTERNOON SESSION (I)
Chairman:Bill Gear, NEC, USA
14:00Daniel Boley, U. Minnesota, USA
Factorization of Hankel matrices
14:30Dai-yong Cai, Tsinghua University, China
On inhomogeneous eigenproblems and pseudo spectra of matrices
15:00Takashi Nodera, Keio University, Japan
An adaptive restarting procedure for pseudo-residual methods
15:20Xiao-Wen Chang, McGill University, USA
Perturbation analyses for the Cholesky factorization with backward rounding error
15:40TEA BREAK
16:00AFTERNOON SESSION (II)
Chairman:Richard Brent, Australian National U, Australia
16:00Bill Gear, NEC Research Inst. Inc., USA
Scientific computing in computer vision
16:30Fred. J. Hickernell, HKBU, HK
Computing multivariate normal probabilities using rank-l lattice sequences
16:50AFTERNOON SESSIONS ENDED
17:00BUS DEPARTS TO CAUSEWAY BAY FOR NIGHT CRUISE (20:00-22:00)
22:00BUS DEPARTS FROM NORTH POINT TO CUHK GUEST HOUSE


MARCH 11, 1997 (Tuesday)

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Shaw College,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9:30MORNING SESSION (I)
Chairman:Robert J. Plemmons, Wake Forest U, USA
9:30Tony Chan, UCLA, USA
Multigrid preconditioners for total variation image deblurring
10:00Frank Luk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Exponential decomposition
10:30 Holger Kraus, De Montfort U., England
Wavelets, signal processing and textile surfaces
10:50TEA BREAK
11:00MORNING SESSION (II)
Chairman:Tony Chan, UCLA, USA
11:00 Robert J. Plemmons, Wake Forest U., USA
Regularized blind deconvolution using recursive inverse filtering
11:30Sifen Zhong, Princeton U, USA
Adaptive image smoothing respecting feature directions
11:50Jiaming Li, The U of New South Wales, Australia
Efficient Image Compression Scheme Using Tree Structure Wavelet Transforms
12:10Mong-Shu Lee, National Taiwan Ocean U, Taiwan
Size-location patterns of different wavelets in signal processing
12:30S.H. Lui, HKUST
Schwarz alternating methods for eigenvalue and nonlinear problems
13:00WORKING LUNCH
Staff canteen, Shaw college, CUHK
14:00AFTERNOON SESSION I
Chairman:Frank Luk, Renss. Poly Institute, USA
14:00Michael Saunders, Stanford U, USA
Basis pursuit for signal analysis
14:30Curt Vogel, Montana State U, USA
Solution of linear system arising in nonlinear image deblurring
15:00Michael K. Ng, The Australian National U, Australia
Temporal data mining with a case study of astronomical data analysis
15:20Z. X. Su, Dalian U of Tech., China
Multiscale edge detection of images from its radon transform
15:40TEA BREAK
16:00AFTERNOON SESSION II (Parallel Sessions)
Session A (Venue: LG 203, Wen Lan Tang, Shaw College, CUHK)
Chairman: T.M. Shih, HKPU
16:00Ramesh Natarajan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
The bias and variance of finite element discretizations for FFT-Based Kernel Density Estimation
16:20Y.L. Wang, Academia Sinica, China
The finite element methods based on two-scale analysis
16:40Michael Drexler, NAG, England
Efficient solution of the Jacobian system in Newton's method Close to a Root
17:00Zhouchen Lin, PolyU, HK
Numerical analysis of the bulging of continuously cast slabs
Session B (Venue: LG 204, Wen Lan Tang, Shaw College, CUHK)
Chairman: Raymond Chan, CUHK
16:00Roman W. Swiniarski, San Diego State U, USA
NeuroRoughSetsLab an intelligent data processing software laboratory for rough sets, neural networks and image processing
16:20JIahong Yin, UNICAMP, Brazil
Image reconstruction from parallel projections based on wavelet decomposition
16:40Kh. T. Kholmurodov, Joint Instit. for Nuclear Research, Russia
Numerical simulation of 2D gas transfer dynamics in an adsorbing open system of the interacting particles
17:00Jixiu Jiang, U of New South Wales, Australia
Detecting chaos in non-linear dynamical systems by trajectory predictions and innovation tests


MARCH 12, 1997 (Wed.)

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Shaw College,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

9:00MORNING SESSION (I)
Chairman:Michael Saunders, Stanford U, USA
9:00Å. Björck, Linköping U, Sweden
Newton and Rayleigh quotient methods for total least squares problems
9:30Ji-guang Sun, Umea U, Sweden
On optimal backward perturbation bounds
10:00Li-zhi Liao, HKBU
Numerical experiment for large-scale optimization problems
10:20Hai Xiang Lin, Delft U of Technology, The Netherlands
Parallel optimization for TSP
10:40TEA BREAK AND GROUP PHOTO
11:10MORNING SESSION (II)
11:10 Grafton W.H. Hui, HKUST
The role of coordinates in the accurate computation of discontinuous flow
11:40Rolf Jeltsch, ETHZ, Switzerland
Error estimators for the position of discontinuities in hyperbolic conservation laws with source terms which are solved sing operator splitting.
12:00Daniel B. Szyld, Temple U, USA
Permutations for preconditioning of discretizations of convection-diffusion equations
12:20Jun Zou, CUHK
An efficient finite element approach for solving interface problems
13:00WORKING LUNCH
Staff Canteen, Shaw College, CUHK
14:00AFTERNOON SESSION I
Chairman:Grafton Hui, HKUST
14:00E.R. Pike, King's College, England
Quadratic programming methods for positive solutions of ill-conditioned linear inverse problems with constrained singular-function coefficients
14:30Richard Brent, Australian N U, Australia
Numerical stability of some fast algorithms for structured matrices
15:00Tao Tang, CUHK and Simon Fraser U
Adaptive methods for singular perturbation problems
15:20G. Rex, University of Leipzig, Germany
Fixed point theorems and error bounds for solutions of equations
15:40TEA BREAK
16:00SPECIAL SESSION
(Chinese Delegation invited from China and supported by Pei Hua Foundation)
Chairman:Tao Tang, CUHK and Simon Fraser U
16:00Jia-chang Sun, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Parallel block elimination algorithm for generalized eigen-problem and it's application on crystal electronic structure
16:20Er-Xiong Jiang, Fudan University
An upper bound of the spectral condition number for diagonalizable matrix
16:40Guorong Wang, Shanghai Normal U, China
A new application of Leverrier's algorithm for orthogonal polynomial bases
17:00Zhong-zhi Bai, Chinese Academy of Science, China
A class of two-stage iterative methods for systems of weakly nonlinear equation
17:20Weimin Xue, HKBU and Tsinghua U, China
3-D Jacobi rotation method for eigenvalue problems of matrices
18:30GENE GOLUB'S BIRTHDAY BANQUET
Staff Canteen, Chung Chi College, CUHK