Invited Talks

Hough, P. D., Heroux, M. A., and Howle, V. E., "Implications of System Errors in the Context of Numerical Accuracy", 2009 Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scale Computing Workshop, Albuquerque, March 2009.

Hough, P. D., Howle, V. E., and Williams, P. J., "Choosing an Optimization Algorithm for Problems with Uncertain Features", SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Miami, March 2009.

Hough, P. D., Swiler, L. P., Martinez-Canales, M. L., Gray, G. A., Taddy, M., and Lee, H. K. H., "Gaussian Processes in Trust-Region Optimization Methods", INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 2008.

Hough, P. D., Swiler, L. P., Martinez-Canales, M. L., Gray, G. A., Taddy, M., and Lee, H. K. H., "Gaussian Processes in Trust-Region Optimization Methods", Inaugural International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, Minneapolis, May 2008.

"Gaussian Processes in Trust-Region Optimization" Minisymposium Talk, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, February 2007.

"Report on 2002 Fault Tolerance Workshop", Panel Presentation, SOS 7th Workshop on Distributed Computing, March 2003.

"Handling Simulation Error in Optimization", Minisymposium Talk, SIAM Annual Meeting, July 2002.

P. D. Hough and J. C. Meza, "A Class of Trust-Region Methods for Simulation-Based Optimization", SIAM Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, July 2000.

P. D. Hough and J. C. Meza, "A New Class of Trust-Region Methods for Parallel Optimization", Oak Ridge National Lab Technical Seminar, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, October 1998.

P. D. Hough and J. C. Meza, "A New Class of Newton Methods for Parallel Optimization", Stanford SCCM Technical Seminar, Palo Alto, California, April 1998.

P. D. Hough and J. C. Meza, "A Hybrid Newton-Parallel Direct Search Method for Parallel Optimization", AMS Southwest Regional Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 1997.

P. D. Hough and S. A. Vavasis, "Stable and Efficient Solution of the Layered Least-squares Problem", Argonne National Lab Technical Seminar, Argonne, Illinois, March 1997.

P. D. Hough and S. A. Vavasis, "Stable Solution of Weighted Least Squares with Applications in Interior-point Methods", Sandia National Labs Technical Seminar, Livermore, California, May 1996.

P. D. Hough and S. A. Vavasis, "Stable Solution of Weighted Least Squares for Near-degenerate Linear Programming Problems", SIAM Optimization Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, May 1996.

P. D. Hough and S. A. Vavasis, "Stable Solution of Weighted Least Squares with Applications in Interior Point Methods", Northern Telecom Technical Seminar, Richardson, Texas, May 1996.

P. D. Hough and S. A. Vavasis, "Complete Orthogonal Decomposition for Weighted Least Squares", AMS Summer Seminar on the Mathematics of Numerical Analysis, Park City, Utah, August 1995.

Contributed Talks

"Bayesian Networks for Automatic Optimization Algorithm Selection", Contributed Talk, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2007.

"Modern Machine Learning for Automatic Optimization Algorithm Selection", Workshop Presentation, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2006.

"Using Positive Basis Search in a Trust-Region Framework", Contributed Talk, SIAM Conference on Optimization, May 2002.

P. D. Hough and J. C. Meza, "Choosing a Search Strategy for TRPDS", SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, July 2001.

P. D. Hough and J. C. Meza, "Techniques for Adjusting the Fidelity of Approximation Models in a Trust-Region Framework", SIAM Optimization Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1999.

P. D. Hough and S. A. Vavasis, "Stable and Efficient Solution of the Layered Least-squares Problem", SIAM Annual Meeting, Palo Alto, California, July 1997.

Minisymposia, Workshops Organized

"Analysis Under Uncertainty"
Minisymposium co-organized with G. A. Gray
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, March 2009

"Gaussian Processes in Surrogate-Based Optimization Under Uncertainty"
Minisymposium co-organized with M. L. Martinez-Canales
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, February 2007

"Fault Tolerance in Large-Scale Scientific Computing"
Minisymposium co-organized with V. E. Howle
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, February 2004

"Second Workshop on Scalable Fault Tolerance"
CSRI Workshop co-organized with T. C. Bressoud and L. H. Ward
Sandia National Laboratories, June 2002

"First Workshop on Scalable Fault Tolerance"
CSRI Workshop co-organized with T. C. Bressoud and L. H. Ward
Sandia National Laboratories, April 2001

"Optimization in Engineering"
Minisymposium co-organized with A. S. El-Bakry, T. G. Kolda, M. L. Martinez-Canales, and J. C. Meza
SIAM Annual Meeting, July 2000