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The year is divided into three areas of concentration:
Fall Quarter, September-December, 1996: The Mathematics of Computing	Winter Quarter, January-March, 1997: Molecular Modeling and HPC	Spring Quarter, April-June, 1997: Parallel Computational Mechanics

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Organizers
Name	Home institution
Petter Bjørstad	University of Bergen
Mitchell Luskin	University of Minnesota
Dianne O'Leary	University of Maryland
Robert Schreiber	Hewlett-Packard
Ridgway Scott (Chair)	University of Houston

HPC Long-term and Workshop Participants

Co-Sponsors: Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, Silicon Graphics and the Geometry Center.

The program will concentrate on massively parallel algorithmic issues, molecular modeling and biomedical computations, and computational mechanics.

High performance computing and communication (HPCC) has become a major focus of attention by government, industry, and academic institutions. The U.S. government has made this a top national priority, linking the development of a "data superhighway system" to national competitiveness and national defense.

Many modeling efforts in earth science, biology, medicine, and mechanics are limited by the current speeds of computational engines and data transmission networks. Hardware advances in the next ten years will make even more massive computations possible, but effective use of the hardware will require a tremendous investment in research into the design of parallel algorithms and into the refinement of mathematical models.

The identification of "grand challenge problems" in the applied sciences has brought together teams of mathematicians, computer scientists, and physical or biological scientists to develop appropriate mathematical models, algorithms for solution of the model equations, and techniques to analyze and validate the results. These intense collaborations are resulting in a host of advances in understanding physical phenomena, and also raise a host of interesting mathematical and algorithmic questions. The goal of a special year in the Mathematics of High Performance Computing will be to highlight the synergistic relation between mathematics and HPCC, and to foster research interactions among mathematicians, algorithm designers, and other scientists. Even though meetings related to these topics take place regularly, we have taken care that each of the proposed workshops bring together groups with common interests who do not normally interact. Having mathematics as the central focus already distinguishes these activities from similar ones. But we have also designed each activity to bring together applied scientists who can benefit from interactions with each other. This is not a plan for ``rounding up the usual suspects," but for mixing researchers with complementary interests who do not normally have the opportunity for scientific interchange.

Tutorials will supplement workshops by providing elementary training in the areas of parallel programming environments, molecular modeling, and computational mechanics. These tutorials will help visitors develop a common vocabulary and basis for interaction.

Go to:

Fall Quarter, September-December, 1996:
The Mathematics of Computing

Winter Quarter, January-March, 1997:
Molecular Modeling and HPC

Spring Quarter, April-June, 1997:
Parallel Computational Mechanics

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September - December, 1996

Fall Workshop Participants

Tutorial: The Message Passing Interface Standard (MPI), September 9-11, 1996

Tutorial: High-Performance Fortran (HPF), September 11-13, 1996

Workshop 1: Algorithms For Parallel Processing, September 16-20, 1996

Workshop 2: Minorities in Applied Mathematics-Connections To Industry, October 4-6, 1996

Workshop 3: Evolutionary Algorithms, October 21-25, 1996

Workshop 4: The Mathematics of Informational Coding, Extraction and Distribution,
November 11-15, 1996

Workshop 5: Data Mining and Industrial Applications, November 18-20,1996


Workshop 6: 3D Scanning: from Physical Objects to Computer Models, December 2-6, 1996


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January-March, 1997

Winter Workshop Participants

Workshop 7: Molecular Structure: Dynamics, Geometry and Topology, January 20-23, 1997

Special Workshop: Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods, March 12-13, 1997

Note: A SIAM Meeting on Parallel Processing will be held in Minneapolis, March 14-17, 1997.

Workshop 8: Computational Radiology and Imaging: Therapy and Diagnostics,
March 17-21, 1997


Note: The IMA will be holding a workshop on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Drug Design April 7-11, 1997.

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April - June, 1997

Spring Workshop Participants

Tutorial: Rational Drug Design, April 3-4, 1997

Workshop 9: Mathematical and Computational Issues in Drug Design, April 7-11, 1997

Special Workshop: Future Directions in Mathematical Sciences, April 18-20, 1997

Tutorial: PDE Software, April 21-25, 1997

Workshop 10: Grid Generation and Adaptive Algorithms, April 28 - May 2, 1997

Workshop 11:Parallel Processing of Discrete Problems, May 12-16, 1997

Workshop 12: Parallel Solution of PDE, June 9-13, 1997

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IMA Special Workshop: Template-Driven Automatic Differentiation for Large-Scale Scientific and Engineering Applications, June 29 - July 3, 1997

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