Speakers from Korea and India are being arranged.
Topics and Speakers
Basic Theory
Inner-outer iterations (Golub), wavelets (Strang),
multilevel methods (Xu),
finite element methods (Silvester, Shi),
preconditioning (T. Chan), Lanczos algorithm (Jea) and monotone methods
(Sheng).
Parallel Algorithms
Parallel computer architectures and algorithms (Dongarra),
parallel iterative methods (Van der Vorst, Nodera), domain
decomposition methods (T. Chan).
Applications
Computational fluid dynamics -- convection-diffusion equations
and Stokes solvers (Golub, Elman, Wathen, Silvester),
signal and image processing (Luk), queueing networks (R. Chan).
Lecture Notes
Lecture notes of the School will be distributed to attendees.
We will also publish the polished version of the lecture notes for
general international distribution.
Number of Attendees
Estimated to be 80 from initial contacts with neighboring countries and
the US. It is anticipated that a good proportion of the attendees
are post-doctoral researchers from Asian countries.
Sponsors
The Winter School is sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical
Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, The British Council,
The Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation Ltd., The Hong Kong
Research Grants Council, as well as other
foundations and agencies.
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairmen:
- Prof. Tony Chan, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Dr. Raymond Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Program Chairman:
- Prof. Gene Golub, Stanford University.
Local Organizing Committee:
- Hong-ci Huang (Committee Chair), Hong Kong Baptist University.
- Prof. Dong-Gao Deng, Zhongshan University.
- Dr. Thomas Au, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Dr. Daniel Ho, City University of Hong Kong.
- Dr. Lizhi Liao, Hong Kong Baptist University.
- Dr. Kit-ming Yeung, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Mr. Michael Ng (Secretary), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Organizing Institutions
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong
Professor S.T. Yau, Fields Medalist and Professor C.N. Yang, Nobel Prize
Laureate are the Directors
of the Institute. The Institute has offered seed money of US$22,500
for the School.
Department of Mathematics
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong
The Department
will provide its laboratory of about 50 workstations and Power PC's
for the demonstration and exercise sessions.
Call for Posters
The School will have a poster session for participants to
exhibit their research results. Authors are invited to
submit their papers (maximum four pages) on any topics related
to scientific computing. Please send the papers
either electronically or in hard copy form
to Dr. K.M. Yeung's address below. Deadline for submission
is December 1, 1995.
Registration
Registration fee is US$100 if paid before December 1, 1995 and
US$120 if paid after December 1, 1995. It includes all lecture notes
to be distributed at the School. To receive the registration
form, please send a note by postal or electronic mail
to Dr. K.M. Yeung at the address listed below. Latex and compressed
postscript files of the form can also be obtained by anonymous ftp to
ftp://ftp.ims.cuhk.hk/conf/winter/regis.tex or
ftp://ftp.ims.cuhk.hk/conf/winter/regis.ps.Z
The Royal Park Hotel is located in Shatin near the Shatin train station.
The University station is about 5 minutes away by train.
The hotel will offer a discount to attendees of the School.
The rate is about US$135 plus 15% service charge and government tax
for a double room each night. To reserve a room, please contact
Ms. Kimmie Mak of Royal Park Hotel directly (Tel: +852 2694-3892,
Fax: +852 2603-5184). To reserve other hotels in Hong Kong, please
contact Mr. Benson Lam at KAL Holiday Ltd. (Tel: +852 2810-1331,
Fax: +852 2845-2470).
General Information
Latex and compressed postscript files containing detail
information of the School can be obtained by anonymous ftp to
ftp://ftp.ims.cuhk.hk/conf/winter/info.tex or
ftp://ftp.ims.cuhk.hk/conf/winter/info.ps.Z .
For enquiry, please contact:
Dr. K.M. Yeung
Department of Mathematics
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong
E-Mail: kmyeung@cuhk.hk
Fax: +(852) 2603-5154
For more information, please contact
Dr. Raymond Chan.
at rchan@math.cuhk.hk.
Last update on October 26, 1995.