Programme of the Second Euro AD Workshop

Thursday, November 17, 2005 1000 –1045   Coffee 1045 –1100   Introduction and welcome 1100 –1300   Session 1: Leigh Lapworth (Rolls-Royce plc) Simulation and Design of Gas Turbine Components Chris Hill (MIT, USA) The Earth System Modeling Framework Component Model - its design and features from an AD perspective Mike Giles (Oxford University) Adjoints in Financial Monte Carlo Calculations 1300 –1400   Lunch 1400 –1530   Session 2: Michael Maier (RWTH Aachen) Toward CompAD-II Andreas Kowarz (TU Dresden) Recent Developments for Checkpointing Strategies Julia Sternberg (TU Dresden) Control of Laser Surface Hardening by a Memory Efficient Approach of Second Order 1530 –1600   Coffee break 1600 –1730   Session 3: Laurent Hascoët (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Looking for the Optimal Snaphot for a Given Checkpointing Scheme Sebastian Schlenkrich (TU Dresden) Differentianting Fixed Point Iterations with ADOL-C Uwe Naumann (RTWH Aachen) Min-Ops Derivative Computation is NP-complete 1900   Dinner

Friday, November 18, 2005 900 –1030   Session 4: Andrew Lyons (Vanderbilt University, USA) Trading Fill-in for Fill-out in Sparse Gaussian-like Elimination Techniques on the Extended Jacobian Barak Pearlmutter (Hamilton Institute, Ireland) Challenges to AD Jeffrey Siskind (Purdue University) Nesting , Variable Capture, Programming Language Theory and AD 1030 –1100   Coffee break 1100 –1300   Session 5: Des Higham (University of Strathclyde) Opportunities for AD in Stochastic DE Solving Nick Gould (RAL) Requirements for AD in Numerical Optimization Paul Hovland (ANL, USA) Integrating AD with PETSc (and TAO) 1300 –1400   Lunch 1400 –1530   Session 6: Jean Utke (ANL, USA) The Current Status of the OpenAD Tool and Where it is Heading Michael Vossbeck (FastOpt) Adjoint and Hessian of a Satellite Code written in C Bruce Christianson (University of Hertfordshire) Optimizing Preventive Maintenance Models