Program Fourth QCDNA

The workshop will be held in Yale’s 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101 
63 High Street 
May 1-3, 2007 

Attendees can stay at the New Haven Hotel or the Courtyard Marriott, both conveniently located within walking distance from Linsly-Chittenden Hall. Walking directions are included under ‘Directions’ in the navigation bar. 

Transportation is provided by Connecticut Limo . More information can be found under Directions. 

The banquet dinner on Wednesday evening will be held at Thali.  

WIRELESS INTERNET access will be available at the workshop venue provided the hardware address of your wireless card is registered in the Yale database. For more information, please contact the organizers.

Intinerary:

Tuesday, 01 May 2007

Time
Title
Speaker
0800 Registration (breakfast provided)  
0900 Welcome R. Shankar, Chairman, Yale Physics
0915 QCD for Numerical Analysis (PPS) (PDF) R. Brower (Boston U.)
1015 Break  
1030 Recent Progress in Monte Carlo Algorithms for QCD (PDF) M. Clark (Boston U.)
1130 Recent Progress in Eigenvalue Methods (PDF) A. Stathopoulos (William-Mary Coll)
1230 Lunch  
1330 Computational Aspects Related to the Matrix Sign Function in Lattice QCD(PDF) A. Frommer (Wuppertal U.)
1430 Linear Systems with Multiple Shifts and Multiple Right-Hand Sides. (PDF) R. Morgan (Baylor U. Math Dept.)
1530 Break  
1545 Temporal Precondition for Wilson Like Fermions (PDF) B. Joó (Jefferson Lab)
1630 Dynamical Fermion Algorithms Using Multi-step Stochastic Correction (PDF) E. E. Scholz (Brookhaven)
1715 Biased Metropolis-Heatbath Algorithm (PDF) A. Bazavov (Florida State U.)
1800 Dinner  

Wednesday, 02 May 2007

Time
Title
Speaker
0800 Breakfast  
0900 Exponential Time Series Analysis (PDF) G. Fleming (Yale U.)
1000 Break  
1030 Neural Network Training with Variable Projections V. Pereyra (Weidlinger Assoc., Mt. View)
1130 Meson Spectral Functions: An Application of the Maximum Entropy Method(PDF) P. Petreczky (Brookhaven)
1230 Lunch  
1330 Lattice QCD Beyond Ground States  H.-W. Lin (Jefferson Lab)
1415 Model Optimization in the Presence of Correlations (PDF) A. C. Lichtl (Riken BNL)
1500 Break  
1530 Excursion: Guided Tour of Yale Peabody Museum  
1930 Cocktails  
2000 Dinner Banquet: Thali  

Thursday, 03 May 2007

Time
Title
Speaker
0800 Breakfast  
0900 Scaling of Domain Compositions and Multigrid Methods (PDF) D. Keyes (Columbia U. )
1000 Break  
1030 Introduction to Multigrid Methods for PDEs (PDF) I. Livshits (Ball State U.)
1130 Using Poisson Brackets on Group Manifolds to Tune HMC  A. D. Kennedy (Edinburgh U.)
1230 Lunch  
1330 Multigrid Solvers For Lattice QCD (PDF) J. Brannick (Penn State U.)
1430 Trace Estimation of Matrix Inverses (PDF) J. C. Osborn (Boston U.)
1530 Workshop Ends