50 Years of Alternating Direction Methods:  Celebrating the  Contributions of Douglas Peaceman Rachford
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Thursday, November 3, 2005
8:00 - 10:00 pm

Holiday Inn Select, Surrey Room
2712 Southwest Freeway Street, Houston, TX 77098
Hospitality Suite
A cash bar will be available.

Friday, November 4, 2005
8:00am Bus leaves Holiday Inn Select hotel for Rice University

Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30

Welcome and Introduction

9:30-10:30

A Review of ADI and Operator-Splitting Methods for the Solution of Initial Value Problems: Applications
Roland Glowinski, University of Houston

10:30-11:00 Simulation of a Three-Phase Flow Problem in Porous Media
Jim Douglas Jr., Purdue University
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30 -12:00

Improved Accuracy for Alternating-Direction Methods for Parabolic Equations Based on Regular and Mixed Finite Elements
Todd Arbogast, University of Texas at Austin

12:00 - 12:30

The ADI Method in Model Reduction for Dynamical Systems
Danny C. Sorensen, Rice University

12:30 - 1:00 Parallel ADI Smoothers for Multigrid
Craig C. Douglas, University of Kentucky and Yale University
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch, DH 1044, DH 1049, DH3076, DH3092 and DH3110
2:30 - 3:00

Physics-Driven Algorithms for Modeling Subsurface Phenomena
Mary F. Wheeler, University of Texas-Austin

3:00 - 3:30

An Inverse Problem for a Reaction Diffusion Equation: A Model Problem for Program Validation
Todd F. Dupont, University of Chicago

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:30 Positive Approximate Inverses and Multi-Level Applications
Julio C. Diaz, University of Tulsa
 
4:30 - 5:00 Iterative ADI Methods with Positive Semidefinite Matrices
Yuri Kuznetsov, University of Houston
5:15

Bus leaves Rice University for hotel

Dinner on your own

 

Saturday, November 5, 2005
8:00 am Bus leaves hotel for Rice University
Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Application of the Alternating-Direction Implicit Procedure in Petroleum Reservoir Simulation and Other Technical Fields
J. W. (Bill) Watts
, ExxonMobil Upstream Research

10:00 - 10:30 Control of Gas Flow in Pipelines
Henry H. Rachford Jr. , Advantica
10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:30 Adjoint Methods are Particle Methods: Implications for Eulerian-Lagrangian Modeling of Multiphase Multicomponent Transport
Thomas F. Russell, National Science Foundation
11:30 - 12:00 ADI—Fifty Years and Counting
Richard P. Kendall
, Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:00 - 12:30 Alternating Direction Multistep Methods For Quasi-Linear Partial Differential Equations—Iterative Stabilization
Richard Ewing
, Texas A&M University
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch, DH1064, DH 3076 and DH3092
2:00 - 2:30 Alternating Direction Methods for Mixed and Expanded Mixed Finite Element Methods
Zhangxin (John) Chen, Southern Methodist University
2:30 - 3:00 Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Ground Water/Surface Water Coupling
Clint Dawson, University of Texas-Austin
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 A Robust Multigrid Method with Cell-Based Coarsening
Joel Dendy, Los Alamos National Laboratory
4:00 - 4:30 Dynamic ADI; Nonlinear Krylov
Keith Miller, UC Berkeley
4:45 Bus leaves Rice University for hotel
6:30 - 7:30 Cocktails
7:30 - 9:00

Dinner
Holiday Inn Select, Windsor Ballroom
2712 Southwest Freeway Street, Houston, Texas 77098

 
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