Outreach, Training, and Community Building

CSCAPES is in a sense an outgrowth of the broader effort of building a community around the field of Combinatorial Scientific Computing. The SIAM Workshop on CSC is the premier international event for the field. Since the Workshop's inception in 2004, three meetings have been organized and a fourth is planned to take place in 2009. In addition, CSC minisymposia are regularly organized at SIAM and other Conferences, and CSCAPES has been organizing more SciDAC-oriented outreach activities. This page chronicles some of the major CSC events that have ocurred over the last few years and in which CSCAPES members were involved as co-organizers or in other capacities.

CSC list serve
CSC Workshop Series
SciDAC-oriented Outreach Events
International Meetings on CSC and Related Topics
CSC Minisymposia or Workshop at Conferences
Other Outreach Activities

CSC Workshop Series

CSC07: The Third SIAM Workshop on CSC, Costa Mesa, CA, Feb 2007.
- Organizers: Srinivas Aluru, Erik Boman, John Gilbert, Bruce Hendrickson (Co-Chair), Paul Hovland, Ravi Kumar, Fredrik Manne, Esmond Ng, Alex Pothen (Co-Chair), Jean Roman, Jennifer Scott, Daniel Spielman, and Sivan Toledo.
- The program, abstracts of talks, and pictures from the workshop
- A SIAM News report on the workshop
CSC05: The Second International Workshop on CSC, CERFACS, Toulouse, France, June 2005.
- Organizers: Iain Duff (Co-Chair), John Gilbert, Alex Pothen (Co-Chair), Patrick Amestoy, Rob Bisseling, Andreas Griewank, Jean-Yves L'Excellent, Cynthia Phillips, and Bryan Shader.
- The program, abstracts and slides of talks from the workshop
CSC04: The First SIAM Workshop on CSC, San Francisco, CA, Feb 2004.
- Organizers: John Gilbert, Bruce Hendrickson (Co-Chair), Alex Pothen (Co-Chair), Horst Simon, and Sivan Toledo.
- The program, abstracts of talks, and pictures from the workshop
- A SIAM News report on the workshop
- Accompanying the workshop, a special issue of the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis devoted to CSC was published (ETNA Volume 21, 2005). The special issue was edited by John Gilbert, Bruce Hendrickson, Suely Oliveria, Alex Pothen, and Sivan Toledo. Dedicated to Alan George on the occassion of his sixtieth birthday, the volume featured nine papers covering different aspects of CSC. Read the papers here.

SciDAC-oriented Outreach Events

CSCAPES Workshop 2008, Santa Fe, NM, Jun. 2008.
Organized and hosted by CSCAPES.
CSCAPES tutorial at SciDAC 2007 Conference, Boston, MA, June 2007.
Title: Load-balancing and partitioning for scientific computing using Zoltan. (Slides)
Presenters: Erik Boman and Karen Devine.

International Meetings on CSC and Related Topics

Dagstuhl Seminar on CSC , Germany, Feb 2009.
- Organizers: Uwe Naumann, Olaf Schenk, Horst Simon and Sivan Toledo.
- CSCAPES participation: with three plenary talks, two tutorials, three contributed talks, a poster and two roundtable discussions, CSCAPES was strongly represented in this meeting:
  Plenary Talks
  - Bruce Hendrickson, Combinatorial Scientific Computing: A View to the Future
  - Alex Pothen, Matching in Scientific Computing
  - Paul Hovland, Combinatorial Problems in Automatic Differentiation
  Tutorials
  - Erik Boman, Zoltan - A Parallel Toolkit for Partitioning, Ordering, and Coloring
  - Jean Utke, Automatic Differentiation with OpenAD
  Contributed Talks
  - Assefaw Gebremedhin, Graph Coloring Algorithms in Automatic Differentiation
  - Andrew Lyons, Randomized Heuristics for Exploiting Jacobian Scarcity
  - Umit Catalyurek, Parallel Short Sequence Mapping for Genome Sequencing
  Posters
  - Cedric Chevalier, Weighted Aggregation for Multilevel Graph Partitioning
  Roundtables
  - Assefaw Gebremedhin, Graph Coloring for Parallel Computation
  - Erik Boman, Multilevel Algorithms for Discrete Problems

AD2008, The 5th International Conference on Automatic Differentiation , Bonn, Germany, Aug 2008.
- Organizers: Christian Bischof, Martin Bucker, Oliver Fortmeier, Paul Hovland, Uwe Naumann and Jean Utke.
- Proceedings: The conference resulted in a volume (edited by the organizers) comprising of 31 research papers and was published in Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering Volume 64 (2008).
- CSCAPES participation: In addition to co-organizing the conference and co-editing the proceedings, CSCAPES members have authored or co-authored six of the papers in the collection; one of the plenary talks at the conference was given by Alex Pothen.

CSC Minisymposia or Workshop at Conferences

SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09), Miami, Florida, March 2009.
- Combinatorial Scientific Computing and CSE
  Organizers: Erik Boman, Umit Catalyurek and Karen Devine
- Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations and Enabling algorithms (two-parts mini)
  Organizers: Umit Catalyurek, Bora Ucar and E. Boman
- Automatic Differentiation and its Enabling Role in CSE (two-parts mini)
  Organizers: Assefaw Gebremedhin and Paul Hovland
SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2008.
Organizers: Michael Wolf and Rob Kirby.
SIAM Conference on Discrete Math, Burlington, VT, June 2008.
Organizers: Alex Pothen and Bruce Hendrickson.
SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, MA, May 2008.
Organizer: Paul Hovland.
High Performance Computer Science Week, Denver, CO, April 2008.
Workshop on Scalable Tools for Scientific Simulation
Organizers: Roscoe Barlett, Erik Boman, and Mike Heroux.
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Atlanta, GA, March 2008.
Organizers: Rob Bisseling and Fredrik Manne. Read a SIAM News report on the minisymposium written by Michael Wolf and Erik Boman.
Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2007), Workshop on Combinatorial Tools for Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations, Gdansk, Poland, Sep. 9-12, 2007.
Organizers: Laura Grigori and Masha Sosonkina. Erik Boman served as a member of the Program Committee.
ICIAM07, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2007.
Organizer: Alex Pothen.
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Costa Mesa, CA, Feb 2007.
Organizer: Erik Boman.

Other Outreach Activities

Short course on AD at MIT, January 2009.
Presentations on Zoltan at Trilinos Users Group Meetings 2008, Albuquerque, NM, Oct 21-23, 2008.
Presentations on Zoltan at 9th ACTS collection workshop, Berkeley, Aug 19-22 2008.
Presentations on Zoltan at Trilinos Users Group Meetings 2007, Albuquerque, NM, Nov 6-8, 2007.
CSCAPES exhibits at Supercomputing 2008 (Austin, TX) and 2007 (Reno, NV).