Second International Workshop on Computational Differentiation

Workshop Program

Conducted by SIAM in cooperation with the
ACM Special Interest Group on Numerical Mathematics (SIGNUM)

DEADLINE DATES

Hotel Reservation
Tuesday, January 9, 1996

Workshop Preregistration
Monday, January 29, 1996

Conference Themes

Differentiation Techniques
Direct Differentiation with Forward Mode	Adjoint Programming and the Reverse Mode
Combinatorial Aspects of the Chain Rule	Hessians and Higher-Order Derivatives
Error Estimation and Result Verification	Nonsmoothness and Exceptions
Tools and Tradeoffs
Tools for Fortran 77, Fortran 90, C, C++ and other Languages	Source Transformation and Operator Overloading
Integration into Symbolic and Numerical Packages	Modular Differentiation and Computational Paradigms
Detection and Exploitation of Derivative Sparsity	Derivative-Enabled Parallelism
Application Studies
Design and Shape Optimization	Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems
Beam Physics	Multibody Dynamics
Process Control

Support

SIAM thanks the Department of Energy; National Science Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory; Sun Microsystems; Michigan State University; and Los Alamos National Laboratory for their support in conducting this conference.

General Information

Get-Togethers
Organizing Committee
Program Committee
Skiing
A visitor's guide from the Santa Fe Visitors Bureau is available in various languages.

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