Latsis-Symposium 2002

              ITERATIVE SOLVERS FOR LARGE LINEAR SYSTEMS

      A conference commemorating 50 years of conjugate gradients

                       ETH Zurich, Switzerland
                        18 -- 21 February 2002

In 1952, M. Hestenes and E. Stiefel published their seminal paper
``Methods of conjugate gradients for solving linear systems''
in J. Research Nat. Bur. Standards 49 (1952), 409--436''.
This conference has the purpose to commemorate this event, review
the early and later developments of the conjugate gradient and other
Krylov space methods and their preconditioning as well as competing
iterative methods for solving linear systems.  Lectures on various
applications relying on such solvers will be presented too.

There will also be a celebration of Professor Gene Golub's 70th birthday.
For decades, he has been a promotor of the conjugate gradient method and
related tools in numerical analysis.


INVITED SPEAKERS:
(regular sessions)

Bernd Beckermann        Van Henson              Wei-Pai Tang
Howard Elman            Tim Kelley              Ray Tuminaro
Charbel Farhat          Gerard Meurant          Gene Wachspress
Roland Freund           Dianne O'Leary          Gabriel Wittum
Anne Greenbaum          Chris Paige             Henk van der Vorst
Michael Griebel         Youcef Saad


INVITED SPEAKERS:
(public session on early history of the CG method, Monday evening)

Fritz L. Bauer          Urs Hochstrasser       John Todd


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
(several members of the committee will present talks too)

Ron Boisvert            Martin Gutknecht        Mike Saunders
Tony Chan               Franklin Luk            Zdenek Strakos
Jack Dongarra           Paul Saylor             Paul Van Dooren
Walter Gander


LOCAL ORGANIZERS:

Walter Gander           Martin Gutknecht


FORMAT:

The conference will take place in the main building of ETH Zurich
in the center of the city of Zurich.  Four 45-minute invited talks
are planned for each morning, and 30-minute slots for contributed
talks in two parallel sessions are anticipated for the afternoons.
Public talks will be given by Fritz L. Bauer, Urs Hochstrasser, and
John Todd.
A special session and banquet on Tuesday, Feb. 19, will celebrate
Gene Golub's 70th birthday.  A poster session may also be held
(posters could be on display during the whole conference).
The conference will start on Monday morning and end at noon on
Thursday.


SPONSORS:

The conference is primarily sponsored by the Latsis Foundation,
which is linked to ETH Zurich. There is also a notable financial
contribution from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), where Hestenes and Stiefel met and wrote their joint paper.


DEADLINES:

Abstracts of contributed talks/posters:         December 15, 2001
Acceptance of contributed talks/posters:        January  15, 2001
Registration:                                   January  15, 2002


WEB SITE:

http://www.cg50.ethz.ch   OR   http://ru13.inf.ethz.ch:8080/cg2002/WEB