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Thursday, August 02, 2007
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Seminar

Direct Search Methods Using Triangulations

David Dreisigmeyer
HPC-4, LANL

Piecewise-linear approximation algorithms for manifolds are introduced. These are based on an implicit triangulation of the ambient space and pivoting in and out of the triangles. A slight modification of the pivoting algorithm allows us to derive a direct search method. Introduction to some frame-based direct search routines.

Host: DDMA Data Sciences Summer School - Katharine Chartrand