Lots of people go. Haven't gone in many years but I would say the average quality is much lower than SIAM meetings but there is still some good stuff, the average is only low because so many people go.
Barry On Sep 24, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > Perhaps multiple people want to present? > > Is this worthwhile? I go to SIAM CS&E to see people, and everywhere else > because I want > to work with someone there. What do you think about ICIAM? > > Matt > > Barry > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Heroux, Michael A" <maherou at sandia.gov> >> Date: September 24, 2010 5:24:12 PM CDT >> To: "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>, "Ulrike Meier Yang" <yang11 at >> llnl.gov>, "Christopher Grover Baker" <bakercg at ornl.gov>, "Penny >> Anderson" <Penny.Anderson at mathworks.com>, "Rich Vuduc" <richie at >> cc.gatech.edu>, "Jack Dongarra" <dongarra at eecs.utk.edu>, "James Demmel" >> <demmel at cs.berkeley.edu>, "Mary Beth Hribar" <marybeth at microsoft.com> >> Cc: "Serge Petiton" <Serge.Petiton at lifl.fr>, "Kengo Nakajima" <nakajima >> at cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, "Heroux, Michael A" <maherou at sandia.gov> >> Subject: Request for participation in ICIAM 2011, please reply by Monday, >> Oct 4 >> >> Dear Colleagues, >> >> Kengo Nakajima, Serge Petiton and I are planning to propose a >> multi-national, multi-session minisymposium for ICIAM 2011 to be held in >> Vancouver, BC, Canada on July 18-22, 2011 ( http://www.iciam2011.com). >> >> Each of us is contacting a group of colleagues about participation. The >> deadline for the proposal is October 18. >> >> We are hoping that you or one of your colleagues are able to participate. >> We would like a response from you by October 4th in order to determine the >> number of session we can propose. >> >> Below is a title and abstract. >> >> Thank you for your consideration. I hope you are able to participate. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Mike >> >> Title: Creating the next generation of high performance numerical computing >> capabilities >> >> Abstract: >> >> We are now several years into the multicore computing era and the landscape >> is still changing rapidly. Multicore CPUs and GPGPUs are commonly used in >> research settings and in some production environments, but there is much >> more numerical analysis, algorithmic and software work to do, especially as >> core counts and memory architectures continue to evolve. In this series of >> talks, we present work at all levels of the numerical software stack from >> basic linear algebra to frameworks, programming languages & environments and >> applications. We discuss progress to-date, current capabilities and future >> plans. > > > > > -- > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments > is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments > lead. > -- Norbert Wiener
