Friday
Saturday
A conference devoted to preconditioning methods for constrained optimization
and optimal control will be held. Problems of this type arise in applications
of quite different origin, such as in natural sciences, in optimal design
in engineering, in medical applications such as tomography, in economics etc.
The problems must in general be solved by some iterative solution method.
Thereby it is important to use an efficient preconditioning method for the
arising linear or nonlinear systems of algebraic equations, which are
typically of indefinite (symmetric or nonsymmetric) saddle point type.
The conference aims at bringing together scientists working in the theoretical
development of preconditioning methods and scientists working with applied
problems. It will focus on the above mentioned particular topics but other
related topics such as LBB stable element pairs, stabilization methods,
adaptive mesh refinements, optimal mesh design, and mortar element methods,
may also be presented.