主 题： Preconditioning 2009 in Hong Kong, 24-26 Aug 2009

PRECONDITIONING 2009
HONG KONG
AUGUST 24-26, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2009 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrix Problems (http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/precond09/)  is a sequel to similar meetings held in Minneapolis in 1999, Tahoe in 2001, Napa in 2003, Atlanta in 2005, and Toulouse in 2007. The 2009 conference will take place immediately after The 19th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods at Zhangjiajie of China, August 17-22, 2009 (http://math.xtu.edu.cn/myphp/math/ddm/). The PRECONDITIONING 2009 conference focuses on preconditioning techniques for solving various matrix problems, particularly those related to large-scale scientific and industrial applications.

IMPORTANT DATES:
March 15, 2009: Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts
(3 pages max, please follow the guidelines given on
the conference web-site http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/precond09/).
April 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance for contributed abstracts.

PLENARY PRESENTATIONS. The following invited speakers have agreed to give plenary presentations.

* Zhongzhi Bai, State Key Laboratory of Sci./Engrg. Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Azzam Haidar, CERFACS
* Valeria Simoncini, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Bologna
* Mirek Tuma, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
* Venkat Venkatakrishnan, The Boeing Company
* Kees Vuik, Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology
* Jinchao Xu, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University

Organizers:
Esmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Michael K. Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Yousef Saad, The University of Minnesota, USA
Wei-Pai Tang, The Boeing Company, USA

FURTHER INFORMATION is available from the conference web site:
http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/precond09/index.html