NA Digest Saturday, June 13, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 56

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

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Mail-From: GOLUB created at 12-Jun-87 22:31:23
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 87 15:51:02 CDT
From: rrm@lowfat.wisc.edu (R Meyer)
To: ggolub@score.stanford.edu
Subject: Symposium on Parallel Optimization
ReSent-Date: Fri 12 Jun 87 22:31:22-PDT
ReSent-From: Gene H. Golub <GGOLUB@Score.Stanford.EDU>
ReSent-To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU

Hi Gene-

Olvi and I are the organizers for this symposium in August. We would
appreciate it if you would distribute the following announcement to
the na list. Thanks. Bob Meyer


SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION, PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION FORM




SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION

Madison 10-12 August 1987



P R O G R A M



ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD
IN THE AUDITORIUM OF
THE WISCONSIN CENTER
702 Langdon Street


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

O. L. Mangasarian
R. R. Meyer
Laura Cuccia, Secretary


Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin 53706


Supported by

Air Force Office for Scientific Research
&
Office of Naval Research



Monday 10 August

8:00 REGISTRATION
Lobby, The Wisconsin Center

8:45 Welcoming Remarks
Olvi L. Mangasarian & Robert R. Meyer


SESSION I

9:00 George B. Dantzig: "Planning under
uncertainty using parallel computing"

9:45 Coffee Break

10:30 Stavros A. Zenios & John M. Mulvey:
"Nonlinear network programming on
vector supercomputers"

11:15 Dimitri P. Bertsekas: "Parallel relaxation
methods for linear network flow problems"

12:00 Lunch Break


SESSION II

2:00 Ron S. Dembo & Patrick He naff:
"Vectorized conjugate gradient projection
methods"

2:45 Shih-Ping Han: "Parallel quasi-Newton
algorithms for nonlinear programming"

3:30 Coffee Break

4:00 Michael D. Chang, Michael Engquist,
Raphael A. Finkel & Robert R. Meyer:
"Solving multiperiod generalized network
problems on a parallel computer"

4:45 Robert R. Meyer: "Parallel algorithms
for large-scale network optimization"

5:30 Adjourn


Tuesday 11 August

SESSION III

8:15 Alexander H. G. Rinnooy Kan: "Parallel
partitioning methods"

9:00 J. Ben Rosen & Andrew Phillips: "Multitasking
and parallel algorithms for linearly constrained
global optimization"

9:45 Coffee Break

10:30 Klaus Ritter: "On the use of parallel
computing and automatic differentiation
in mathematical programming"

11:15 Robert Schnabel, Richard H. Byrd & G. Shultz:
"Speculative function evaluation in parallel
optimization"

12:00 Lunch Break


SESSION IV

2:00 Yair Censor: "Parallel and block-iterative
methods with applications in medical imaging
and radiation therapy"

2:45 Coffee Break

3:15 Jong-Shi Pang: "Parallel Newton methods
for complementarity problems"

4:00 Lucio Grandinetti: "Applications of vector
computers to optimization of large scale
systems"

4:45 Adjourn

5:00 Cash Bar: Tripp Commons, Memorial Union

7:00 Banquet: Tripp Commons, Memorial Union


Wednesday 12 August

SESSION V

8:15 A. Ech-cherif, Joseph G. Ecker & M. Kupferschmid:
"A parallel algorithm for nonlinear programming
on the hypercube"

9:00 James K. Ho: "Linear programming decomposition"

9:45 Coffee Break

10:30 Danny Sorensen: "Programming methodology
and performance issues for advanced computer
architecture"

11:15 Olvi L. Mangasarian & Renato De Leone:
"Serial and parallel successive overrelaxation
in linear and quadratic programming"

12:00 Adjourn
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PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION

Proceedings of this symposium will be published as
a Mathematical Programming Study.


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Registration Form


Name: ______________________________________


Soc. Sec. #_________________________________
(Not Mandatory)

Affiliation: _______________________________

Address: ___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Telephone: _________________________________



Advance Registration by July 7, 1987 $50*
(Reg. fee includes administration fee,
refreshments, breaks, banquet, conference
materials)

Registration $60 (after July 7)

Checks should be made payable in U.S. Funds
to: University of Wisconsin-Extension

Mail completed form and check to:
Pat Gaitan
SPO
The Wisconsin Center
702 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A.

Further Information: Available from
O. L. Mangasarian or R. R. Meyer,
Computer Sciences Department, (608) 262-1204.

*Lodging is in short supply in Madison during
the meeting. Lodging information will be sent
with registration confirmation. Please register
early to ensure space.

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