== Interactive Parallel Computation in Support of Research in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory ==

= Notes from the talks =

== Monday, Jan 29 ==

   * 9:00 Clement Pernet (University of Waterloo): Parallelism perspectives for the LinBox library [[attachment:notes_pernet.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_pernet.txt|Text notes]]

   * 10:30 Brian Granger (Tech X Corp): Interactive parallel computing using Python and IPython [[attachment:notes_granger.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_granger.txt|Text notes]]

   * 11:30 Jean-Louis Roch (INRIA [[http://moais.imag.fr|Moais]] / LIG, France): Processor-oblivious parallel algorithms with provable performances [[attachment:notes_roch.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_roch.txt|Text notes]]

   * 1:30 Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research): Parallel computation tools for research: a wishlist [[attachment:notes_cohn.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_cohn.txt|Text notes]]

== Tuesday, Jan 30 ==

   * 9:00 Kathy Yelick (UC Berkeley): Programming models for parallel computing [[attachment:notes_yelick.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_yelick.txt|Text notes]]

   * 10:30 Yozo Hida (UC Berkeley): Moving Lapack and ScaLapack to higher precision without too much work [[attachment:notes_hida.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_hida.txt|Text notes]]

   * 11:30 Alfred Noel (UMass Boston/MIT): Structure and representations of real reductive Lie groups: A computational approach [[attachment:notes_noel.txt|Text notes]]

   * 1:30 Anton Leykin (IMA, Minnesota): Parallel computation of Groebner bases in the Weyl algebra [[attachment:note_leykin.txt|Text notes]]

== Wednesday, Jan 31 ==

   * 9:00 Jason Martin (James Madison): MPMPLAPACK: The Massively Parallel Multi-Precision Linear Algebra Package [[attachment:notes_martin.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_martin.txt|Text notes]]

   * 10:30 Bill Hart (Warwick): Parallel computation in number theory [[attachment:notes_hart.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_hart.txt|Text notes]]

   * 11:30 Yi Qiang (U Washington): Distributed computing using SAGE [[attachment:notes_qiang.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_qiang.txt|Text notes]]

   * 1:30 Robert Bradshaw (U Washington): Loosely dependent parallel processes [[attachment:notes_bradshaw.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_bradshaw.txt|Text notes]]

   * 2:00 Ilias Kotsireas (Laurier U, Canada): Combinatorial Designs: constructions, algorithms and new results [[attachment:notes_kostireas.pdf|PDF notes]] [[attachment:notes_kotsireas.txt|Text notes]]

== Thursday, Feb 1 ==

   * 9:00 Jan Verschelde (UIC): Parallel homotopy algorithms to solve polynomial systems

   * 10:30 Marc Moreno Maza (Western Ontario): Component-level parallelization of triangular decompositions

   * 11:30 David Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley Labs): Experimental mathematics and high-performance computing 

   * 1:30 Thomas Wolf and Winfried Neun: Parallel sparsening and simplification of systems of equations 

== Friday, Feb 2 ==

   * 9:00 Alan Edelman (MIT): Interactive parallel supercomputing: Today: MATLAB(r) and Python coming cutting edge: symbolic parallelism with Mathematica(r) and MAPLE(r)

   * 10:30 Gene Cooperman (Northeastern U): Disk-based parallel computing: a new paradigm 

   * 11:30 Robert Harrison (Oak Ridge National Lab): Science at the petascale: tools in the tool box

   * 1:30 Samee Khan (U Texas, Arlington): Game theoretical solutions for data replication in distributed computing systems

Coming soon!  
--Rob Stapleton