[uw.talks] Parallelism in Problems of Mathematical Physics - An Uncertainly Principle.

ylfink@water.UUCP (09/15/87)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR

                    - Thursday, September 17, 1987

Professor  Joseph  Oliger  of  Stanford University will
speak  on  ``Parallelism  in  Problems  of Mathematical
Physics - An Uncertainty Principle''.

TIME:                4:00 PM

ROOM:              MC 6091A

ABSTRACT

A  physical analogue of the computational processes for
solving   partial   differential   equations   will  be
developed.   Problem  dissection will then be discussed
and   analyzed   in   terms  of  this  model.   Minimal
information  algorithms  will be introduced and related
to   parallelizable   tasks.   The  maximum  utilizable
parallelism   can   then  be  related  to  the  maximum
allowable error in terms of an uncertainly principle.