Announcement

The 14th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC'23) is organized by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and MIV Consult Ltd. in cooperation with the Center of Excellence in Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies, and Sozopol municipality.

Time

The conference is scheduled for June 5-9, 2023, with arrival: June 4 and departure: noon June 9.

Acknowledgement

The conference is organized with the financial support of the Bulgarian National Science Fund under Contract KP-06-MNF-35/16.12.2022. The Bulgarian National Science Fund is not responsible for the content of the talks presented at the scientific forum, as well as for the content of advertising materials and other materials for it.

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).

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

L. Aceto (IT), J. Adler (USA), B. Alexandrov (USA), E. Atanassov (BG), D. Boffi (SA), A. Budisa (NO), I. Dimov (BG), S. Dimova (BG), H. Djidjev (BG), S. Fidanova (BG), K. Georgiev (BG), D. Ghilli (IT), T. Gurov (BG), B. Haasdonk (DE), S. Harizanov (BG), X. Hu (USA), O. Iliev (DE), A. Karaivanova (BG), M. Krastanov (BG), J. Kraus (DE), M. Kuchta (NO), U. Langer (AT), R. Lazarov (USA), M. Leocata (IT), I. Lirkov (BG), G. Livieri (IT), G. Luque (ES), G. Manzini (USA), K.-A. Mardal (NO), S. Margenov (BG), M. Neytcheva (SE), M. Ohlberger (DE), G. Pichot (FR), J. Schöberl (AT), P. Vassilevski (USA), V. Veliov (AT), I. Yotov (USA), L. Zikatanov (USA), Z. Zlatev (DK)

Scientific Program

The Scientific Program of LSSC'23 will include:

• Plenary Invited Talks (45 minutes)
• Keynote Talks in Special Sessions (35 minutes)
• Talks in Special Sessions (25 minutes)
• Contributed Talks (25 minutes)
• Poster Session

The deadline for applications to organize a special session is September 30, 2022. A short abstract is required with some preliminary information about the expected participants.

Plenary Invited Speakers

Boian Alexandrov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Daniele Boffi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Maya Neytcheva, Uppsala University, Sweden

Géraldine Pichot, INRIA, Paris, France

Joachim Schöberl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Ivan Yotov, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Special Sessions

Preconditioning and Multilevel Methods, In memory of Owe Axelsson by Maya Neytcheva (Uppsala University, SE), Panayot Vassilevski (Portland State University, US)

Fractures and Mixed Dimensional Modeling: Discretizations, Solvers, and Methodology by James Adler, Xiaozhe Hu (Tufts University, US), Geraldine Pichot (Inria, FR), Ludmil Zikatanov (Penn State University, US)

Modeling, Discretization and Solvers for Interface-Coupled Multiphysics Problems by Ana Budisa, Miroslav Kuchta, Kent-Andre Mardal (University of Oslo, Simula Research Lab, NO), Ludmil Zikatanov (Penn State University, US)

Machine Learning and Model Order Reduction for Large Scale Predictive Simulations by Bernard Haasdonk (University of Stuttgart, DE), Oleg Iliev (ITWM, Kaiserslautern, DE), Mario Ohlberger (University of Münster, DE)

Fractional Differential Problems: Theoretical Aspects, Algorithms and Applications by Lidia Aceto (University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, IT), Stanislav Harizanov (IICT-BAS, BG)

Variational Analysis and Optimal Control by Mikhail Krastanov (Sofia University, BG), Vladimir Veliov (TU Wien, AT)

Stochastic Optimal Control and Numerical Methods in Economics and Finance by Daria Ghilli (University of Pavia, IT), Marta Leocata (LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, IT), Giulia Livieri (School Normal Superior, Pisa, IT)

Tensor Methods for Big Data Analytics and Low-Rank Approximations of PDEs Solutions by Boian Alexandrov (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US), Hristo Djidjev (IICT-BAS, BG), Gianmarco Manzini (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)

Applications of Metaheuristics to Large-Scale Problems by Stefka Fidanova (IICT-BAS, BG), Gabriel Luque (University of Malaga, ES)

Large-Scale Models: Numerical Methods, Parallel Computations and Applications by Krassimir Georgiev (IICT-BAS, BG), Zahari Zlatev (Aarhus University, DK)

HPC and HPDA: Algorithms and Applications by Aneta Karaivanova (IICT-BAS, BG), Todor Gurov (IICT-BAS, BG), Emanouil Atanassov (IICT-BAS, BG)

Proceedings

Abstracts and papers

The abstracts and papers are to be sent to: scicom23@parallel.bas.bg. Please indicate the special session (if this is the case) and send a copy to a 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 templates provided on the authors’ page.

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'23 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 or the equivalent in BGN, 1 EUR = 1.9558 BGN.