2013

1. AMMCS-2013 International Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science, Waterloo, 2013.
   'High-Order Finite Volume Element Methods for Elliptic PDEs with Singularities, and Applications to Capillarity'. [pdf]

2. AMMCS-2013 International Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science, Waterloo, 2013.
   'Cluster Newton Method for Sampling Multiple Solutions of an Underdetermined Inverse Problem: Parameter Identification for Pharmacokinetics'. [pdf]

3. Fields Workshop on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Carleton University, Ottawa, August 2013.
   'Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics with Application to Space Physics Flows: Structure of MHD as a Hyperbolic System', invited mini-course (lecture 1). [pdf]

4. Fields Workshop on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Carleton University, Ottawa, August 2013.
   'Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics with Application to Space Physics Flows: Finite Volume Methods for MHD', invited mini-course (lecture 2). [pdf]

5. Fields Workshop on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Carleton University, Ottawa, August 2013.
   'Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics with Application to Space Physics Flows: Numerical Methods for Transonic Solutions', invited mini-course (lecture 3). [pdf]

6. First Canadian Symposium on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Quebec City, June 2013.
   'Extending Preconditioned GMRES to Nonlinear Optimization'. [pdf]

7. Weizmann Workshop 2013 on Multilevel Computational Methods and Optimization, Rehovot, Israel, May 2013.
   'Adaptive Algebraic Multigrid for Canonical Tensor Decomposition'. [pdf]

8. 16th Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, March 2013.
   'Adaptive Algebraic Multigrid for Singular Value Decomposition'. [pdf]

9. SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Boston, February 2013.
   'A Parallel and Dynamically Adaptive 3D Cubed-Sphere Grid Framework for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws'. [pdf]

10. ORCA seminar, University of Guelph, February 2013.
    'The Arab Spring: A simple compartmental model for the dynamics of a revolution'. [pdf]

2012

1. SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Valencia, Spain, June 2012.
   'Extending Preconditioned GMRES to Nonlinear Optimization'. Invited plenary lecture. [pdf]

2. 20th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics, Toronto, June 2012.
   'Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on 3D Cubed-Sphere Grids: A Parallel High-Order Solution-Adaptive Simulation Framework'. [pdf]

3. Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) Annual Meeting, June 2012.
   'Global approximation of singular capillary surfaces: asymptotic analysis meets numerical analysis'. [pdf]

4. 12th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, March 2012.
   'Extending GMRES to Nonlinear Optimization, with Application to Tensor Optimization'. [pdf]

2011

1. Scientific Computing seminar, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 27 September 2011.
   'Extending GMRES to Nonlinear Optimization: Application to Tensor Approximation'. [pdf]

2. Max Planck Institute for Informatics seminar, Saarbruecken, Germany, 16 August 2011.
   'A residual-minimizing nonlinear optimization method applied to tensor approximation'. [pdf]

3. Workshop on Tensor Approximation in High Dimension, Bonn, Germany, 2 August 2011.
   'Extending GMRES to Nonlinear Optimization: Application to Tensor Approximation'. [pdf]

4. Department of Computer Science seminar, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, 7 July 2011.
   'Extending GMRES to Nonlinear Optimization: Application to Tensor Approximation'. [pdf]

5. Department of Mathematics seminar, University of Trier, Germany, 5 July 2011.
   'Extending GMRES to Nonlinear Optimization: Application to Tensor Approximation'. [pdf]

6. Mathematics Division seminar, Center for Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 29 June 2011.
   'Efficient solution of stationary Euler flows with critical points and shocks'. [pdf]

7. Applied Computer Science Group seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wuppertal, Germany, May 2011.
   'Algebraic Multigrid for the Singular Value Problem'. [pdf]

8. 2011 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering Reno, NV, USA, March 1, 2011.
   'Multilevel Aggregation of Small-World Graphs with Application to Random-Walk Ranking'. [pdf]

9. Center for Applied Scientific Computing Seminar. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, February 2011.
   'Algebraic Multigrid for the Singular Value Problem'. [pdf]

2010

1. National Institute of Informatics seminar, Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2010.
   'Multigrid methods for Markov Chains'. [pdf]

2. National Institute of Informatics seminar, Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2010.
   '3D Multilevel Aggregation for Segmentation and Tracking of Live Cells'. [pdf]

3. National Institute of Informatics seminar, Tokyo, Japan, December 10, 2010.
   'Distributed transactions in Hadoop's HBase and Google's Bigtable'. [pdf]

4. Institute for Aerospace Studies seminar, University of Toronto, November 23, 2010.
   'Efficient solution of stationary Euler flows with critical points and shocks'. [pdf]

5. Tenth European MultiGrid Conference, Ischia, Italy, September 19 - 23, 2010.
   '3D Multilevel Aggregation for Segmentation and Tracking of Live Cells'.

6. 2010 Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Toronto, June 7-11, 2010.
   'Numerical Modelling of MHD Space Plasmas', invited lecture. [pdf]

7. Oberseminar Mathematische Bildanalyse, Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University, Germany, May 21, 2010.
   '3D Multilevel Aggregation for Segmentation and Tracking of Live Cells'. [pdf]

8. Eleventh Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, April 2010.
   'Recursively Accelerated Multilevel Aggregation for Markov Chains'. [pdf]

9. Eleventh Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, April 2010.
   'Multilevel Space-Time Aggregation for Cell Microscopy Segmentation and Tracking'. [pdf]

2009

1. Department of Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Waterloo, 5 November 2009.
   'Numerical methods for nonlinear ODE and PDE systems that describe stationary transonic fluid flow'. [pdf]

2. 12th Seminar "NUMDIFF" on Numerical Solution of Differential and Differential-Algebraic Equations, September 14-18, 2009, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), invited plenary lecture.
   'Efficient numerical simulation of stationary Euler fluid flows with critical points and shocks'. [pdf]

3. 14th International Conference on Random Structures and Algorithms, August 3-7, 2009, Poznan (Poland).
   'Fast Multilevel Numerical Methods for Random Walks on Directed Graphs'. [pdf]

4. Workshop on Computational Methods for Hyperbolic Problems, April 20-22, 2009, Waterloo, invited.
   'Efficient solution of stationary Euler flows with critical points and shocks'. [pdf]

5. SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, March 2-6, 2009, Miami, invited (mini-symposium).
   'Smoothed Aggregation and Algebraic Multigrid Methods for Markov Chains'. [pdf]

6. Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) Workshop, February 20-21, 2009, Banff.
   'Secondary Slow Shock Front in the Magnetosheath for Strongly Magnetized Solar Wind Conditions'. [pdf]

2008

1. 5th Canadian Solar Workshop, November 5-7, 2008, Canadian Space Agency, Montreal.
   'Introduction to numerical MHD modeling of the solar wind'. [pdf]

2. Ninth European MultiGrid Conference, October 20 - 24, 2008, Bad Herrenalb, Germany.
   'Smoothed Aggregation Multigrid for Slowly Mixing Markov Chains'. [pdf]

3. Departamento de Ingenieria Matematica Seminar, Universidad de Chile, 25 April 2008.
   'Fast Iterative Solvers for Markov Chains, with Application to Google's PageRank'. [pdf]

4. Tenth Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, April 2008.
   'Smoothed Aggregation Multigrid for Slowly Mixing Markov Chains'. [pdf]

5. Department of Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 4, 2008.
   'Smoothed Aggregation Multigrid for Slowly Mixing Markov Chains'. [pdf]

6. Waterloo Numerical Analysis Symposium in commemoration of Gene Golub, February 29, 2008.
   'Google's PageRank, multilevel solvers, and Gene's ranking'. [pdf]

2007

1. ICIAM 2007 - 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zuerich, July 2007, invited (mini-symposium).
   'Markov Chains and Web Ranking: a Multilevel Adaptive Aggregation Method'. [pdf]

2. Center for Plasma Astrophysics, K.U. Leuven, July 2007.
   'Numerical Methods for Calculating Planetary Outflow Profiles with Critical Points'. [pdf]

3. Waterloo Symposium in Undergraduate Mathematics, 9 June 2007.
   'Supersonic Planetary Flow Simulations and the Origin of Life'. [pdf]

4. 15th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada, Toronto, May 27-31, 2007.
   'Direct Numerical Solution of the Steady 1D Compressible Euler Equations for Transonic Flow Profiles with Shocks'. [presentation pdf] [paper pdf]

5. CAIMS 2007 Annual Conference 2007, Banff, May 2007, invited (numerical linear algebra session).
   'Markov Chains and Web Ranking: a Multilevel Adaptive Aggregation Method'. [pdf]

6. Computer Science Department/PIMS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2007.
   'Markov Chains and Web Ranking: a Multilevel Adaptive Aggregation Method'. [pdf]

7. Thirteenth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, March 2007.
   'Multilevel adaptive aggregation for Markov chains, with application to web ranking'. [pdf]

2006

1. Third Canadian Solar Workshop, Montreal, November 2006.
   'Solar Wind-like Outflows from Planetary Atmospheres'. [pdf]

2. 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, July 16 - 22, 2006.
   `LSFEM for Scalar Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Convergence and Numerical Conservation'. [pdf]

3. 17th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics, Toronto, June 17-19, 2006.
   `Numerical simulation of supersonic escape from planetary atmospheres'. [pdf]

4. CAIMS-MITACS Joint Annual Conference, Toronto, June 16-20, 2006.
   `Scalable algebraic multigrid on Blue Gene/L'. [pdf]

5. Ninth Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, April 2 - April 7, 2006.
   `Improving Coarsening and Interpolation for Algebraic Multigrid'. [pdf]

2005

1. First SHARCNET/HPCVL Joint Symposium on High Performance Computing and Applications, Toronto, October 11, 2005, invited presentation.
   `A Lightweight, Scalable Grid Computing Framework for Parallel Bioinformatics Applications'. [pdf]

2. Fifth Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference, Santander, 30 June-9 July 2005.
   `Optimal Order Parallel Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners'. [pdf]

3. 19th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, Guelph, May 15-18, 2005.
   `A Lightweight, Scalable Grid Computing Framework for Parallel Bioinformatics Applications'. [pdf]

4. Seventh IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, Toronto, May 5-8, 2005.
   `Reducing Complexity in Algebraic Multigrid'. [pdf]

5. Southern Ontario Numerical Analysis Day, Waterloo, April 29, 2005, invited presentation.
   `Scalable sparse matrix solvers on supercomputers'. [pdf]

6. Twelfth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, April 3-8, 2005.
   `Coarsening and Interpolation in Algebraic Multigrid: a Balancing Act'. [pdf]

2004

1. Lehrstuhl fuer Simulation, Department of Computer Science, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, 24 June 2004.
   `Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDEs'. [pdf]

2. Abteilung fuer Angewandte Mathematik, University of Feiburg, 17 June 2004.
   `Numerical Conservation Properties of Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Scalar Hyperbolic Conservation Laws'. [pdf]

3. Center for Plasma Astrophysics, K.U. Leuven, 15 June 2004.
   `Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDEs'. [pdf]

4. Department of Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 2004.
   `Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDEs'. [pdf]

5. Eighth Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, March 28 - April 2, 2004.
   `Reducing Complexity in Algebraic Multigrid'. (with Ulrike Meier Yang) [ppt]

6. Department of Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Waterloo, January 2004.
   `Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDEs'. [pdf]

2003

1. Bioinformatics Supergroup Seminar. University of Colorado at Boulder, November 2003.
   `A Software Framework for Parallel Bioinformatics on Computational Grids'. [pdf]

2. Center for Applied Scientific Computing Seminar. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, August 2003.
   `Numerical Conservation Properties of Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Scalar Hyperbolic Conservation Laws'. [pdf]

3. 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada, June 2003.
   `H(div)-Conforming Least Squares Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws'. [pdf]

4. 2003 Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods. Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 2003.
   `Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws'. [pdf]

5. 2003 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Melbourne, Florida, March 2003.
   `A lightweight Java Taskspaces framework for scientific computing on computational grids'. [pdf]

2002

1. University of Erlangen, Department of Computer Science. June 2002.
   `Scientific Computing Methods for Plasma Physics Simulation'. [pdf]

2001

1. First SIAM-EMS Conference (2001). Berlin, Germany, September 2001.
   `Multi-Dimensional Upwind Constrained Transport of Divergence-Free Fields on Unstructured Grids'. [pdf]

2. 2001 Gesellschaft fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) annual meeting. ETH Zuerich, Switzerland, February 2001.
   `Overcompressive shocks in 3D magnetohydrodynamic bow shock flows'. [ppt]

2000

1. Eighth International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems (2000). Magdeburg, Germany, March 2000.
   `Multiple-front 3D MHD bow shock flows with intermediate shock segments'. INVITED.

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