Winterschool on Hierarchical Matrices

Organizer

Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. W. Hackbusch, Dr. Steffen Börm and Dr. Lars Grasedyck .

Topic

Hierarchical Matrices can be a useful tool for the treatment of integral operators as well as the solution of linear systems arising in the discretisation of elliptic partial differential equations. Moreover, the representation of matrices in the hierarchical matrix format is suitable for the efficient solution of matrix equations.

The aim of this winterschool is to teach the necessary theoretical foundations for hierarchical matrices, but most of all the efficient implementation of the algorithms. The practical realisation on the computer will be done during the exercise courses in the afternoons. The participants will use the HLib library in order to assemble and solve BEM and FEM systems. Lecture notes are available in printed and electronic form.

Local organisation

• Steffen Börm
• Lars Grasedyck
• Florian Drechsler
• Valeria Hünniger

Important facts

Deadline for registration: 6.2.2009

Time

Monday, 2nd of March 2009, 9:15
till
Friday, 6th of March 2009, 12:00

Location

Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstrasse 22-26
D-04103 Leipzig

Application

by email to Lars Grasedyck

Fees (including coffee, cake, sandwiches, etc.) for all 5 days

Limitation of participants

Due to limited resources we can only allow up to 20 participants.

Desireable prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of the C programming language.
• Numerical mathematics (e.g. interpolation, linear systems, eigenvalue problems etc.)

Winterschool on Hierarchical Matrices