Subject: NA Digest V87 #56

From: NA Digest <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat 13 Jun 87 09:19:53 PDT

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

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

                  Symposium on Parallel Optimization

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 87 15:51:02 CDT
From: [email-masked] (R Meyer)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Symposium on Parallel Optimization
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ReSent-From: Gene H. Golub  <[email-masked]>
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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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