IMA Special Workshop


Template-Driven Automatic Differentiation
for Large-Scale Scientific and Engineering Applications


June 29 - July 3, 1997

Thomas Coleman, Fadil Santosa and William Symes, organizers

Sponsored jointly by
the Cornell Theory Center and
the Center for Research on Parallel Computation


The aim of this workshop is to bring together developers of Automatic Differentiation (AD) codes with researchers who have an interest in applying AD technology to contemporary scientific and engineering problems. The applications are, by nature, usually large-scale, and function evaluations usually involve solutions of ordinary or partial differential equations. The workshop will review several well known AD packages and a sampling of the types of applied problems on which AD is to be deployed. AD packages featured will include ADOL-C, ADIFOR, Odyssee, TAMC, PADRE2, ADMIT-2 whereas applications will include optimal design, control problems, and inverse problems. We will also assemble teams to work on model problems. The results of our workshop will serve as a resource for AD developers and users.

Participants

Stephen Brown University of Hertfordshire
John Burns Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Alan Carle Rice University
Isabelle Charpentier INRIA Grenoble
Thomas Coleman Cornell University
David Dobson Texas A&M University
Christele Faure INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Ralf Giering Max Planck Institute
Victor Goldman University of Twente
John Guckenheimer Cornell University
Matthias Heinkenschloss Rice University
Koichi Kubota Chuo University
Lucas Roh Argonne National Laboratory
Joe Manke Boeing
Uwe Naumann Dresden
Linda Petzold University of Minnesota
Yves Papegay INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Fadil Santosa University of Minnesota
William Symes Rice University
Olivier Talagrande Ecole Normal Superieur
Jean Utke Argonne National Laboratory
Arun Verma Cornell University
Chaoming Zhang Rice University

Workshop program as of June 4, 1997

Last modified May 20, 1997
Images courtesy of the Geometry Center
santosa@math.umn.edu