University of Houston Third Annual Workshop on Interdisciplinary Computational Science
March 22-24, 2007

This event is sponsored by:

• Dr. David Anderson, UC Berkley:
  The Future of Volunteer Computing | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. Kevin Bassler; University of Houston:
  Optimization of Transport on Complex Network
  
  
• Dr. Michel Bercovier; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
  Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Drug Release: Getting into Real Life | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. John Boisseau, University of Texas at Austin:
  Accelerating Computational Biomedical Research with Advanced Computing
  
  
• Dr. Thierry Colin, Université Bordeaux 1:
  Computer Modeling of Avascular Tumor Growth | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston:
  Runtime optimization of collective communication operations in scientific applications | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. Marc Garbey; University of Houston:
  Image Base CFD: Application to Hemodynamic | (slides)
  
  
• Conrad Geiger, Sun Microsystems  
  Research Partnership through Sun's Centers of Excellence
  
  
• Dr. Roland Glowinski, University of Houston:
  Numerical Methods for fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations
  
  
• Dr. Edward Jones, Visual Numerics, Inc.
  Solving Business Analytic Problems in Java and C using Neural Networks
  
  
• Dr. David Keyes, Columbia University:
  Five Easy Pieces | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris; University of Houston:
  Cardiovascular Informatics: How to Stop a Heart Attack Before it Happens
  
  
• Dr. Christof Karmonik, The Methodist Hospital:
  Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research – Selected Examples
  
  
• Dr. Choi-Hong Lai; University of Greenwich:
  On Transformation Methods and Concurrency in Time Domain Computation
  
  
• Dr. Ernst Leiss; University of Houston
  Some Comments on the Phenomenon of Superlinear Speedup | (slides)
  
  
  
• Christopher Linsenmann; University of Houston:
  Adaptive Path-Following Primal-Dual Interior Point Methods in Shape Optimization for Stationary Flow Problems | (slides)
  
  
• Hatem Ltaief: University of Houston:
  Fault Tolerant Algorithm for Distributed Computing | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. Pauline Markenscoff, University of Houston
  Modeling of Controlled-Release Drug Delivery Systems: Development of Parallel Algorithms and their Implementation on Beowulf Clusters | (slides)
  

• Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston:
  Looking Through the Human Face
  
  
• Dr. Monte Pettitt; University of Houston:
  Integral Equation Formulations for Biomolecules and Interfaces
  
  
• Christoph Picard; University of Houston:
  Solution Verification in CFD and Heat Transfer
  
  
• Dr. Catherine Putonti; University of Houston:
  A New Algorithm for the Discovery of Flexible Patterns
  
  
• Dr. Michael M. Resch, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany:
  Developing a Virtual Water Power Plant | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. Shishir Shah, University of Houston:
  Automated Cell Segmentation using Shape-Classification Model forCancer Cytology
  
  
• Dr. Charles Taylor; Stanford University:
  Image-based Modeling of Blood Flow in Arteries: Applications to Disease Research and Surgical Planning
  
  
• Dr. Mary Wheeler; University of Texas at Austin:
  Computational Environments for Coupling Multiphase Flow, Transport, and Mechanics in Porous Media
  
  
• Dr. Jun Zhang, University of Kentucky
  Diffusion Simulation for Understanding Human Brain Connectivity | (slides)
  
  
• Dr. David Zimmerman; University of Houston | (slides)
  Navigating Expensive and Complex Design Spaces Using Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks