PROGRAMME

Saint-Girons V will be held on June 29 – July 3, 2026. There will be a welcome reception on the evening of Monday, 29th June, and the meeting will finish at lunchtime on Friday, 3rd July.  Saint-Girons V will expand the Saint-Girons Conference series, by focusing on emerging topics in HPC. Topics to be discussed include:

    • numerical linear and multi-linear algebra
    • numerical optimization
    • numerical solution of PDEs
    • AI for scientific computing and HPC for AI
    • quantum computing
    • approximate computing involving mixed precision
    • low precision computation
    • randomized algorithms
    • low rank approximation

Preliminary Programme

Monday

10:00 – 16:00      Workshop on Quantum Computing organized jointly with Fondation N7-Dev, in Toulouse.

19:00                   Welcome reception at the Le Carré de l’Ange in Saint-Lizier

Tuesday

Main themes: Quantum Computing and Data Science.

09:00 – 09:45     Marc Baboulin (INRIA and Université Paris-Saclay), invited speaker. Toward hybrid quantum-classical linear algebra solvers.

09:45 – 10:15     Simon Martiel (IBM Quantum), invited speaker. Quantum advantage with confidence.

10:15 – 10:45     — coffee break —

10:45 – 11:15     Julien Zylberman (CERFACS). Quantum algorithm for anisotropic diffusion and convection equations with vector norm scaling.

11:15 – 11:30     Youssef Achari Berrada (FAU and CERFACS). Enabling the solution of PDEs using Quantum Neural Networks and novel Trainable Frequency Feature Maps.

11:30 – 11:45     Siwar Badreddine (CERFACS). An Optimal Framework for Constructing Lie-Algebra Generator Pools: Application to Variational Quantum Eigensolvers for Chemistry.

11:45 – 12:00     Jean-Philippe Valois (Université de Lille). Scalable Parallel Branch-and-Bound for Optimal Qubit Mapping.

12:00 – 13:30     — lunch —

Main themes: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.

13:30 – 14:15     Rick Stevens (Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago), keynote speaker. Agentic Science and the DOE Genesis Mission.

14:15 – 14:45     Alena Kopanicakova (Toulouse-INP), invited speaker. Training of Deep Neural Networks Using Multilevel and Domain-Decomposition Methods.

14:45 – 15:15     Sherry Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Domain-aware Gaussian Process for Quantitative Learning in Scientific Computing.

15:15 – 15:45     — coffee break —

15:45 – 16:00     Florin Dobrian (Conviva). Commoditizing Combinatorial Code through Large Language Models: A Maximum Cardinality Matching Case Study.

16:00 – 16:15     Hans Johansen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Adaptive Mesh Higher-Order Embedded Boundary Algorithms.

16:15 – 16:30     Takanori Kotama (Nagoya University). HPC-AutoResearch: An Agentic Research System for HPC Through Split-Phase Execution.

16:30 – 16:45     Sixin Zhang (IRIT). Supervised and unsupervised learning for Data assimilation.

17:00 – 18:00     Poster blitz (two-minute presentation per poster)

18:00 – 19:00     Formal poster session with all posters manned for last hour of schedule. Posters will also be kept up all week, and accessible during breaks.

Wednesday

Main themes: HPC and Numerical Linear Algebra.

09:00 – 09:45     Jack Dongarra (Innovative Computing Laboratory), keynote speaker. HPC in Transition.

09:45 – 10:00     David Goudin (Bull). Grand Cru Project: Bull’s strategy to develop expertise and innovation for the synthetic benchmarks.

10:00 – 10:15     Joost Rommes (NVIDIA). Accelerated linear algebra on AI-era GPUs.

10:15 – 10:30     Alexis Montoison (AMD). Krylov.jl: Empowering Performance and Portability in High-Performance Computing.

10:30 – 10:45     Miroslav Tuma (Charles University). Avoiding the Normal Equations: Row-Splitting ILU Preconditioners for Sparse Least Squares.

10:45 – 11:15     — coffee break —

11:15 – 12:00     Satoshi Matsuoka (Riken Center for Computational Science), keynote speaker. Presentation to be announced.

12:00 – 12:15     Michaël Krajecki (GENCI). Presentation to be announced.

12:15 – 12:30     Alfredo Buttari (CNRS-IRIT). The NumPEx French PEPR Research Program.

12:30 – 12:45     Biswajeet Rath (IRIT-INP Toulouse). Analyzing the use of accelerators and mixed precision algorithms on the performance of sparse direct solvers.

12:45 – 13:00     Youssef Aly (Siemens Industry Software Egypt). Design and Implementation of a Reduced and Mixed Precision AMG Solver on GPUs for Large Industrial Circuit Verification Tasks.

13:00 – 13:15     Marc Marot-Lassauzaie (TUM). A mixed- and variable-precision implementation of Discontinuous Galerkin solvers.

13:14 – 14:45     — lunch —

Touristic and other activities in the afternoon followed by the gala dinner.

Thursday

Main Themes: Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization.

09:00 – 09:45     Per-Gunnar Martinsson (The University of Texas at Austin, ILAS Keynote Speaker). Randomized Linear Algebra at Scale: From Sketches to Operators.

09:45 – 10:00     Andy Wathen (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). Self-adjointness and complex eigenvalues of a real nonsymmetric matrix.

10:00 – 10:15     Philip Knight (University of Strathclyde). A Framework for Fast Balancing.

10:15 – 10:30     Julien Langou (University of Colorado Denver). Variations on an algorithm to compute the Q factor after a Householder QR factorization.

10:30 – 10:45     Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan (Argonne National Laboratory). diffblas and difflapack: derivatives of BLAS and LAPACK routines.

10:45 – 11:00     Jean-Claude Yakoubsohn (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse). Unified Newton’s Method For Matrix Decompositions.

11:00 – 11:30     — coffee break —

11:30 – 12:00     Mike Saunders (Stanford University). MinAres: An Iterative Solver for Symmetric Linear Systems.

12:00 – 12:15     Petr Tichy (Charles University). On Dubrulle’s Block Conjugate Gradient Method.

12:15 – 12:30     Gérard Meurant (retired). Block conjugate gradient methods for least squares problems.

12:30 – 12:45     Bastien Vieublé (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science). A comparison of the convergence rates of iterative refinement and GMRES.

12:45 – 13:00     Stephen Thomas (Lehigh University). Spectral Measures, Christoffel Functions, and Edge Instability in Krylov Methods.

13:00 – 13:15     Oussama Mouhtal (CERFACS, Montréal Polytechnique). A Spectral Preconditioner for the Conjugate Gradient Method with Iteration Budget.

13:15 – 14:30     — lunch —

14:30 – 15:15     Eulogies to Cleve Moler

15:15 – 15:30     Alex Pothen (Purdue University). A Half Century of Algorithm Design: The Matching Story.

15:30 – 15:45     Bob Lucas (Synopsys). Porting multifrontal computations to GPUs using the OpenMP API.

15:45 – 16:00     Esmond Ng (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). On Solving General Sparse Symmetric Linear Systems.

16:00 – 16:15     Edgar Solomonik (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). Sparse LDL, LU, and Inverse Butterfly Factorization via Tree Decomposition.

16:15 – 16:45     — coffee break —

16:45 – 17:30     Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory), keynote speaker. Unifying nonlinearly constrained optimization.

17:30 – 18:00     Hussam Al Daas (STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), invited speaker. Extended-Krylov-subspace methods for trust-region and norm-regularization subproblems.

18:00 – 18:15     Jennifer Scott (University of Reading and STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). How Low Can You Go? Mixed-Precision Incomplete Factorization Preconditioners for Sparse Least-Squares Problems.

18:15 – 18:30     Thomas Bake (Charles University). Forward and backward error bounds for a mixed precision preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm.

18:30 – 18:45     Joanna Bisch (INRIA). Bridging the gap between Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA) and Rank-Revealing LU: a path for BLAS3 ACA.

18:45 – 19:00     Antoine Jego (Sorbonne Université). Memory Accessor for Mixed Precision GMRES-Based Iterative Refinement.

Friday

Main themes: PDEs, Multigrid, Applications.

09:00 – 09:30     Francoise Tisseur (University of Manchester), invited speaker. Computing Accurate Eigenvalues and Singular Values Using Mixed-Precision Algorithms.

09:30 – 09:45     Alycia Lisito (Bull). Exploiting recursive tasks to submit data dependent graph for the LU factorization with partial pivoting.

09:45 – 10:00     Brieuc Nicolas (INRIA). Series of tensor contractions with an STF runtime.

10:00 – 10:15     Matthieu Robeyns (IRIT). A parallel approach for solving the Green’s function based on the nested-dissection and selected-inverse methods.

10:15 – 10:30     Aydin Buluc (NVIDIA). GPU-Accelerated Direct and Iterative Sparse Linear Solvers.

10:30 – 11:00     — coffee break —

11.00 – 11:15     Petr Vacek (IRIT). Multigrid methods with approximate coarsest-level solvers.

11:15 – 11:30     Jun Cao (Toronto Metropolitan University). An Immersed-Boundary-Based Framework for Study of Tornado Dynamics.

11:30 – 11:45     Sophie Moufawad (American University of Beirut). Direct and Inverse Problem for Gas Diffusion in Polar Firn.

11:45 – 12:00     Suraj Kumar (Inria, Lyon). Communication Lower Bounds and Algorithms for Sketching with Random Dense Matrices.

12:00 – 12:30     Serge Petiton (Paris), invited speaker. Distributed and Parallel Sparse Matrix Computation in the Age of AI.

12:30 – 14:00     — lunch —

Post conference activities in the afternoon. People who can stay later can benefit from the renowned hospitality of the people of Saint-Girons as has happened in earlier meetings. (This would be later on Friday and into the weekend.)

Preliminary program (oral presentations and posters) and list of participants (as of 2nd June 2026)

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