Combinatorial algorithms play a crucial enabling role in computational science and engineering (CSE), and as problems and data sets increase in size and complexity, this role continues to grow. To provide a forum for researchers interested in the interaction of combinatorial mathematics and algorithms with CSE, the SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC07) was organized in Costa Mesa, CA, on Feb 17-19, 2007.The CSC07 workshop preceded the 2007 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, and was organized in co-operation with the SIAM Activity Groups on Computational Science and Engineering, and Supercomputing.

CSC07 followed two earlier CSC workshops held in 2004 and 2005. The First SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC04) was held at San Francisco in February 2004, and the Second International Workshop on CSC (CSC05) was held at Toulouse, France in June 2005. Each of these workshops was attended by close to a hundred participants, and featured about twenty-five plenary and selected talks on the themes of parallel computing, high-performance algorithms, sparse matrix computations, combinatorial problems in optimization, automatic differentiation, mesh generation, computational biology, and combinatorial matrix theory. The CSC07 Workshop brought together researchers interested in these themes as well as other aspects of combinatorial mathematics and algorithms in scientific computing, broadly interpreted.

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The list that follows includes invited talks and contributed talks that were presented.

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