Dynamical Systems and Computation Day

 

CESAME, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

 

July 15, 2004

 

This one-day workshop is devoted to the interplay between numerical algorithms and dynamical systems. This is the eigth of a series of annual workshops held in Belgium on topics related to dynamical systems. The goal of this series of workshops is to gather researchers from different disciplines around the general theme of dynamical systems in a casual and informal athmosphere; see the webpage for more information.

 

 

Program

 

09h30 -10h15        “The Karcher mean of points on the special orthogonal group”

                               Knut Hueper (National ICT Australia Ltd, SEACS Program, Australia)

 

10h15 - 10h45       Coffee

 

10h45 - 11h30       “Point convergence of gradient descent flows and numerical algorithms”

                              Robert Mahony (Australian National University, Australia)

 

11h30 - 12h15       “Trust region methods on Riemannian manifolds”

                              Pierre-Antoine Absil (Florida State University, USA)

 

12h15 - 14h15       Lunch

 

14h15 - 15h00       “Dynamical systems for extreme eigenspace computations”

                              Maziar Nikpour (CESAME, UCL, Belgium)

 

15h00 - 15h45       “Dynamics of particle groups”

                              Derek Paley (Princeton University, USA)

 

15h45 - 16h15       Coffee

 

16h15 - 17h00       “Numerical algorithms as discrete-time control systems”

                              Jens Jordan (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)

Organizers. Vincent Blondel (UCL), Rodolphe Sepulchre (ULg), Paul Van Dooren (UCL).

Practical details. The meeting will be held at CESAME, Euler Building, Université catholique de Louvain, 4, av. G. Lemaître, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. The meeting is organized within the framework of the IUAP on V/22 on Dynamical Systems and Control. Registration is free but participants must register before July 12 by sending an email to: termolle@auto.ucl.ac.be. Travel instructions to the Euler Building can be found here.