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 | Conference Chairs
Pascal Hénon,  TOTAL   /  INRIA,   FranceEsmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA  Yousef Saad, The University of Minnesota, USA  Wei-Pai Tang, The Boeing Company, USA
Local Organization (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, ENSEIRB, University of Bordeaux 1)
 Emmanuel Agullo,  Luc Giraud, Abdou Guermouche, François Pellegrini,  Pierre Ramet, Jean Roman
 Josy Baron, Laetitia Grimaldi
 
 Program
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      The International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for
Scientific and Industrial Applications,
        Preconditioning 2011, is the seventh in a series of conferences 
        that focus on preconditioning techniques in sparse matrix computation.  
        Past Preconditioning Conferences were 
        Preconditioning 1999, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 
          10-12 1999.Preconditioning 2001, The Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe 
        City, April 29 - May 1, 2001.Preconditioning 2003, Embassy Suites Napa Valley, Napa, October 27-29, 2003. 
             Preconditioning 2005, Emory University, Atlanta, May 19-21, 2005. 
             Preconditioning 2007, Météopole, Toulouse, France, July 9-12, 2007.
             Preconditioning 2009, Hong-Kong Baptist University, Hong-Kong, August 24-26, 2009. 
        The goal of this series of conferences is to address the complex issues
        related to the solution of general sparse matrix problems in large-scale
        real applications and in industrial settings.  The issues related 
        to sparse matrix software that are of interest to application scientists 
        and
        industrial users are often fairly different
        from those on which the academic community is focused.  For example, 
        for an application scientist or an industrial user, improving robustness 
        may be far more important than finding a method that would gain
        speed.  Memory usage is also an important consideration, but is
        seldom accounted for in academic research on sparse matrix
        solvers.  As a last example, linear systems solved in applications are
        almost always part of some nonlinear iteration (e.g., Newton)
        or optimization loop.  It is important to consider the
        coupling between the linear and nonlinear parts, instead of
        focusing on the linear systems alone. 
        The speakers of this conference will discuss some of the
        latest developments in the field of preconditioning techniques
        for sparse matrix problems.  The conference will allow participants to exchange findings
        in this area and to explore possible new directions in light
        of emerging paradigms, such as parallel processing and object-oriented programming.
           Date
 
            May 16-18, 2011.         |