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Southeastern 1993 Spring Sectional Meeting
Knoxville, TN, March 26-27, 1993
Meeting #879

Associate secretaries:
Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu

Special Session on Numerical Methods in Optimization

  • Friday March 26, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
    Special Session on Numerical Methods in Optimization, I
    Room 110, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

    • 8:00 a.m.
      Derivative convergence for iterative solvers.
      Andreas Griewank*, Argonne National Laboratories, Illinois
      (879-65-107)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      Automatic differentiation of implicit functions with an application to parameter identification.
      Alan Carle, Rice University
      John E. Dennis, Jr., Rice University
      Karen A. Williamson*, Rice University
      Christian Bischof, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
      George Corliss, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
      Andreas Griewank, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
      (879-65-138)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      A transfer function technique for the estimation of coefficients in hyperbolic equations.
      H. T. Tran*, North Carolina State University
      (879-65-106)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Parameter estimation in the 1-D Stefan problem.
      Katherine A. Murphy*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      (879-49-41)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      The inverse problem of seismic velocities as an optimization problem.
      William Symes*, Rice University
      (879-65-162)

  • Friday March 26, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Numerical Methods in Optimization, II
    Room 110, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

    • 2:30 p.m.
      On the use of high order CFD codes for function evaluation in optimization based design of fluid flow systems.
      John A. Burns*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
      (879-49-74)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Optimization of complex, coupled systems: Multidisciplinary design optimization.
      R. M. Lewis*, Rice University
      (879-65-139)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Control of a nonlinear beam.
      H. T. Banks, North Carolina State University
      Belinda B. King*, North Carolina State University
      (879-93-118)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      A globally and superlinearly convergent potential reduction interior point method for convex programming.
      Renato Monteiro, University of Arizona
      Stephen Wright*, Argonne National Laboratories, Illinois
      (879-90-02)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      An interior-point type algorithm for constrained nonlinear optimization.
      Jon W. Tolle*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      Paul T. Boggs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      (879-65-116)

  • Saturday March 27, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
    Special Session on Numerical Methods in Optimization, III
    Room 110, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

    • 8:00 a.m.
      Implicitly restarted Arnoldi methods for large scale Eigenvalue problems.
      D. C. Sorensen*, Rice University
      Phuong Vu, Cray Research, Inc., Texas
      (879-65-35)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      A conservative semi-Lagrangian method.
      J. S. Scroggs*, North Carolina State University
      (879-86-108)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      A GMRES-backtracking Newton iterative method.
      Homer F. Walker*, Utah State University
      (879-65-117)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Inexact Newton methods for singular problems.
      C. T. Kelley*, North Carolina State University
      Z. Xue, North Carolina State University
      (879-65-12)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Sufficient conditions and the gradient projection method in sets of functions with range in a polyhedron.
      J. C. Dunn*, North Carolina State University
      (879-49-75)

  • Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Numerical Methods in Optimization, IV
    Room 110, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

    • 2:30 p.m.
      On the convergence of pattern search methods.
      Virginia Torczon*, Rice University
      (879-65-27)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      An implicit filtering algorithm for optimization of functions with many local minima.
      P. Gilmore*, North Carolina State University
      C. T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
      (879-49-58)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Fast numerical determination of symmetric sparsity patterns.
      Richard G. Carter*, Stoner Associates Incorporated, Texas
      (879-49-69)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      A Bayesian approach to robustness in the linear regulator.
      Ben G. Fitzpatrick*, North Carolina State University
      (879-93-88)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Augmented Lagrangian method with second order update.
      Kazufumi Ito*, North Carolina State University
      (879-65-163)
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