PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


Short Course on Automatic Differentiation


Monday, July 19

8:30-9:30 Introduction to Automatic Differentiation Shaun Forth, Cranfield University (Shrivenham Campus)
9:30-10:30 Exploiting Sparsity and Structure Andrea Walter, Technical University Dresden
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00-12:00 Higher-order Derivatives Martin Berz, Michigan State University
12:00-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-14:10 What can go wrong and what to do about it Chris Bischof, RWTH Aachen
14:10-14:50 Practical aspects of reverse mode AD Ralf Giering, FastOpt
14:50-15:30 Survey of AD tools Martin Bücker, RWTH Aachen
15:30-17:30 Informal tool demos (tool developers, at tables in South Lounge)


Main Conference


Tuesday, July 20

8:30-9:30
OPENING ADDRESS

Louis Rall, University of Wisconsin Madison
Perspectives on Automatic Differentiation: Past, Present, and Future?

9:30-10:20
Contributed Talks:
  1. Shaun A Forth , Cranfield University (Shrivenham Campus)
    An Adjoint Solver for an Industrial CFD Code via Automatic Differentiation [extended abstract]

  2. Eric Phipps , Sandia National Laboratories
    Periodic Orbits of Hybrid Systems and Parameter Estimation via AD [extended abstract]

10:20-10:45 Coffee Break  
10:45-12:00
Contributed Talks:
  1. Jan Riehme , Humboldt University Berlin
    Computing Adjoints with the NAGWare Fortran 95 Compiler [extended abstract]

  2. Andre Vehreschild , RWTH Aachen
    A System to Define Derivatives for a Large Number of Functions Built into MATLAB [extended abstract]

  3. Ivo P. Nenov , Frontline Systems Inc.
    Convexity Determination in the Microsoft Excel Solver Using Automatic Differentiation Techniques [extended abstract]

12:00-13:20 Lunch  
13:20-15:00
Contributed Talks:
  1. Mike Fagan , Rice University
    Activity Analysis: Algorithms and Effectiveness [extended abstract]

  2. Laurent Hascoet , INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
    The Recompute-Or-Store Alternative in reverse Automatic Differentiation [extended abstract]

  3. J. Utke , University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory
    Flattening of Basic Blocks [extended abstract]

  4. Uwe Naumann , RWTH Aachen
    Optimal Pivoting in Augmented Tangent-Linear and Adjoint Systems of Nonlinear Equations [extended abstract]


15:00-15:20 Coffee Break  
15:20-17:00
Contributed Talks:
  1. Julia Sternberg , Technical University Dresden
    Reduction of storage requirement by checkpointing for time-dependent optimal control problems in ODEs [extended abstract]

  2. Ralf Giering , FastOpt
    Generating tangent linear and adjoint versions of NASA/GMAO's Fortran-90 global weather forecast model [extended abstract]

  3. Frank P. Hart , North Carolina State University
    Streamlined Circuit Device Model Development with fREEDA and Adol-C [extended abstract]
  4. M.L.Shashikant , Michigan State University
    A highly accurate high-order method to solve the Neumann boundary condition problem for the 3D Laplace equation [extended abstract]


18:00-20:00 Evening Reception and Poster Session, Tool Demos


Wednesday, July 21

8:30-9:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Applications of AD to Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis in Geophysical Fluids

9:30-10:20
Contributed Talks:
  1. Ying Xiao , University of Oklahoma
    Development of Adjoint for a Complex Atmospheric Model, the ARPS, using TAF [extended abstract]

  2. Pavel Snopok , Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
    Simulation and Optimization of the Tevatron Accelerator [extended abstract]

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break  
10:50-12:30
Contributed Talks:
  1. David M. Gay , Sandia National Labs
    Semiautomatic Differentiation for Efficient Gradient Computations [extended abstract]

  2. Laurent Hascoet , INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
    The adjoint Data-Flow analyses: formalization, properties, and applications [extended abstract]

  3. Hans Julius Skaug , Institute of Marine Research
    Integration by differentiation; doing modern statistics in AD Model Builder [extended abstract]

  4. Uwe Naumann , RWTH Aachen
    OpenAD

12:30- Afternoon Free --> Things to do


Thursday, July 22

8:30-9:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Paul Werbos, National Science Foundation
TBD

9:30-10:20
Contributed Talks:
  1. Shahadat Hossain , University of Lethbridge
    Pascal Seeding and the Efficient Calculation of Sparse Jacobian Matrices [extended abstract]
  2. J. Utke , University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory
    Optimality-Preserving Constant Folding [extended abstract]

10:20-10:45 Coffee Break  
10:45-12:00
Contributed Talks:
  1. Kyung-Wook Jee , University of Michigan Medical Center
    Implementation of Automatic Differentiation tools for Multicriteria IMRT Optimization [extended abstract]

  2. Vanesa de la Torre , Carnegie Mellon University
    Optimization of Periodic Adsorption Processes with a Novel Problem Formulation and Nonlinear Programming Algorithm [extended abstract]

  3. Mohamed Tadjouddine , Cranfield University (Shrivenham Campus)
    Adjoint Differentiation of a Structural Dynamics Solver [extended abstract]

12:00-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-15:10
Contributed Talks:
  1. Bruce Christianson , University of Hertfordshire
    Automatic Propagation of Uncertainties [extended abstract]

  2. Koichi Kubota , Chuo University
    Computation of matrix permanent with automatic differentiation [extended abstract]

  3. Thomas Kaminski , FastOpt
    Efficient sensitivities for the spin-up phase [extended abstract]

  4. Johannes Grote , Michigan State University
    High Order Representation of Poincare Maps [extended abstract]

15:10-15:40 Coffee Break  
15:40-17:20
Contributed Talks:
  1. Marc Honnorat , LMC-IMAG Grenoble
    Automatic differentiation: a tool for variational data assimilation and adjoint sensitivity analysis for flood modeling. [extended abstract]

  2. Andrea Walther , Technical University Dresden
    Online checkpointing for time-dependent flow control using HiFlow [extended abstract]

  3. Derya B. Ozyurt , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Application of Targeted Automatic Differentiation to Large Scale Dynamic Optimization [extended abstract]

  4. John D. Hobby , Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
    An Application for Semi-Automatic Differentiation [extended abstract]



Friday, July 23

8:30-10:10
Contributed Talks:
  1. Arno Rasch , RWTH Aachen
    Load Imbalance Effects in an AD-generated CFD Code [extended abstract]

  2. Valérie PASCUAL , INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
    Extension of TAPENADE towards FORTRAN9X [extended abstract]

  3. Monika Petera , RWTH Aachen
    Differentiation System Designed for Dynamic Optimization Algorithms in Process Enginering [extended abstract]

  4. Kevin Long , Sandia National Laboratories
    Efficient Discretization and Differentiation of Partial Differential Equations through Automatic Functional Differentiation [extended abstract]

10:10-10:45 Coffee Break  
10:45-12:00
Contributed Talks:
  1. Mohamed Tadjouddine , Cranfield University (Shrivenham Campus)
    Improving the Performance of the Vertex Elimination Algorithm for Derivative Calculation [extended abstract]

  2. Peter Gottschling , Technical University Dresden
    ANGEL - An Extensible Library for Jacobian Accumulation [extended abstract]

  3. Sebastian Schlenkrich , Technical University Dresden
    Application of AD based Quasi-Newton-Methods on stiff ODEs [extended abstract]

12:00-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-16:30 Tool Developers' Workshop


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