SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2002
Room C116 of the David F. Strong Building

9:00-9:30

Coffee
(receipts will be issued for the conference fee and dinner; dinner tickets will be distributed)

9:30-9:35 Welcome and Information
9:35-10:15 Volker Mehrmann
Technical University Berlin, Berlin
"Numerical methods for model reduction and the control of partial differential equations"
10:20-10:50 Break
10:50-11:20 Tom Hogan
The Boeing Company, Seattle
"Fitting position, direction and curvature with a C^2 Quartic Spline"
11:25-11:55 John Fyfe
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria
"Numerical methods in climate research"
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:10 John Gilbert
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge and Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Graph algorithms in numerical linear algebra: past, present and future"
2:15-2:45 Chen Greif
Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
“On the solution of indefinite linear systems”
2:50-3:20 Break
3:20-3:50 Mike Foreman
Institute of Ocean Sciences, Victoria
"Modelling tidal resonance and tidal power around Vancouver Island"
3:55-4:25 Joerg Gablonsky
The Boeing Company, Seattle
"Effective parallel optimization of expensive functions"
5:30-6:30 No host bar at the University Club, University of Victoria
6:30 Dinner at the University Club, University of Victoria