Announcement

The 10th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC'15)
is organized by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Time

The conference is scheduled for June 8-12, 2015, with arrival: June 7 and departure: noon June 12.

Place

The conference will be held at the Bulgarian Red Cross Educational Center in Sozopol (map of Sozopol), a picturesque town on the Black Sea coast, 36 km to the south from Burgas (the nearest international airport).

Related meeting

Seventh Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences (AMiTaNS'15), June 28-July 3, 2015, Albena

Topics

Specific topics of interest (but not limited to) are the following:

• Hierarchical, adaptive, domain decomposition and local refinement methods;
• Robust preconditioning algorithms;
• Monte Carlo methods and algorithms;
• Numerical linear algebra;
• Control systems;
• Parallel algorithms and performance analysis.
• Large-scale computations of environmental, biomedical and engineering problems;

Scientific Committee

J. Adler (USA), E. Atanassov (BG), I. Dimov (BG), S. Dimova (BG), S. Fidanova (BG), K. Georgiev (BG), T. Gurov (BG), X. Hu (USA), O. Iliev (DE), A. Karaivanova (BG), D. Keyes (SA) - SIAM representative, M. Krastanov (BG), J. Kraus (AT), U. Langer (AT), R. Lazarov (USA), I. Lirkov (BG), G. Luque (ES), S. Margenov (BG), M. Paprzycki (PL), S. Selberherr (AT), P. Vassilevski (USA), V. Veliov (AT/BG), J. Wasniewski (DK), L. Zikatanov (USA) - SIAM representative, Z. Zlatev (DK)

Scientific Program

The Scientific Program of LSSC'15 will include:

• Plenary Invited Talks (45 minutes)
• Talks in Special Sessions (25 minutes)
• Poster Session of Contributed Presentations

The deadline for applications to organize a special session is September 30, 2014. A short abstract is required with some preliminary information about the expected participants.

Information about templates of the posters will be provided later.

Plenary Invited Speakers

Thierry Coupez (Central School of Nantes, France), "Implicit Boundary in Multiphase Flows and Anisotropic Adaptive Meshing"

David Keyes (KAUST, Saudi Arabia), "Algorithmic Adaptations to Extreme Scale"

Johannes Kraus (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), "Combined Strategies in Algebraic Multilevel Preconditioning"

Siegfried Selberherr (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), "Spin-Based CMOS-Compatible Devices"

Ludmil Zikatanov (The Pennsylvania State University, USA), "Subspace Correction Methods: Theory, Practice, and Robustness"

Special Sessions

A POSTERIORI ERROR CONTROL AND ITERATIVE METHODS FOR MAXWELL TYPE PROBLEMS by D. Pauly (University of Dusburg-Essen, DE) and J. Kraus (University of Dusburg-Essen, DE)

MULTILEVEL METHODS ON GRAPHS by P. Vassilevski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) and L. Zikatanov (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF PDEs DESCRIBING PHYSICAL PROBLEMS by O. Iliev (Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany)
This session is dedicated to Petr N. Vabishchevich on the occasion of his 60th anniversary, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the mathematical modeling of physical problems and numerical analysis of PDEs.

NUMERICAL METHODS FOR MULTIPHYSICS PROBLEMS by J. Adler (Tufts University, USA), X. Hu (Tufts University, USA), and R. Lazarov (TA&MU, College Station, USA)

CONTROL AND UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS by M. Krastanov (IMI-BAS, BG) and V. Veliov (TU-Vienna, AT and IMI-BAS, BG)

ENABLING EXASCALE COMPUTATION by O. Iliev (Fraunhofer ITWM, DE) and D. Keyes (KAUST, SA)

EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS FOR HYBRID HPC SYSTEMS A. Karaivanova (IICT-BAS, BG), E. Atanassov (IICT-BAS, BG), T. Gurov (IICT-BAS, BG) and M. Mascagni (Florida State University, USA)

APPLICATIONS OF METAHEURISTICS TO LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS by S. Fidanova (IICT-BAS, BG) and G. Luque, (University of Malaga, ES)

COMPUTATIONAL MICROELECTRONICS - FROM MONTE CARLO TO DETERMINISTIC APPROACHES by I. Dimov (IICT-BAS, BG), M. Nedjalkov (IICT-BAS, BG) and J. Weinbub (TU-Vienna, AT)

LARGE-SCALE MODELS: NUMERICAL METHODS, PARALEL COMPUTATIONS AND APPLICATIONS by K. Georgiev (IICT-BAS, BG) and Z. Zlatev (Aarhus University, DK)

Proceedings

Proceedings of refereed and presented papers will be published as a special volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Abstracts and papers

The abstracts and papers are to be sent to: scicom15@parallel.bas.bg . If this is the case, please indicate the special session and send a copy to the session organizer.

The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the results) are to be written in standard LaTeX using the provided template. It is assumed that one participant will present not more than one talk.

The length of the papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is highly recommended to prepare the source files for the papers in LaTeX2e using the Springer class file llncs.cls (llncs.dem is a sample input file which you may take as a source for your own input and you can prepare the references as Springer requests.

You can download the needed files from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Conference fee

The conference fee covers: the booklet of abstracts, conference materials, the publication of conference proceedings, the coffee breaks, the conference reception, the official dinner and excursion.

The fee for accompanying person is 120 EURO.

Bank account

Please indicate: for LSSC'15 and your name.

The registration fee should be received at the Conference bank account free of bank transfer charges.

The late Conference fee is also payable at the registration desk cash (in Euro).

Accommodation

There is a limited number of rooms, reserved for the participants at the location where the conference will take place. The total price for 5 nights lodging (check-in on June 7 and check-out on June 12) and meals (beginning with a dinner on June 7 and ending with a lunch on June 12) is:

300 EURO for a single room;

240 EURO for a bed in double room.

The Accommodation Fees are payable at the Registration Desk in EURO (cash).

The participants may also contact their travel agencies as an alternative variant for arrangement of accommodation in Sozopol. Some of the travel agencies provide very attractive packages including air ticket plus hotel reservation.

Transportation

For the conference participants who will fly to Sofia, we will arrange a special bus from Sofia to Sozopol and return as follows:

Sofia-Sozopol: 15:00, June 7, Hotel of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (it was known before as hotel "Kedar") Sozopol-Sofia: June 12 (after the lunch from the conference place) The bus trip takes about 6 hours.

Another attractive way to organize your travel is to use a direct regular or charter flight to Burgas airport.

If you inform us in advance about the precise arrival time on June 7, at Bourgas Airport or at Burgas Railway/Buss Station, we will provide (free of additional charge) a special transportation to the conference place in Sozopol.