SIAM Workshop on Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms: Theory, Implementation and Application
Abstract
The workshop was attended by sixty-five researchers, of whom thirty gave half hour lecturers, and nineteen presented posters. This was the first scientific meeting devoted to the topic of automatic differentiation of algorithms. There were many excellent talks on large scale applications - in particular weather modeling, oceanography, petroleum reservoir modeling, beam tracing in optics, satellite orbit analysis, and mechanical systems simulation. Some of the speakers delineated very clearly the remaining deficiencies of currently available automatic differentiation techniques in comparison to handcoded derivative evaluation programs. From the lively discussion that followed, it can be expected that the software developers present will accept the challenge of closing this gap in efficiency without sacrificing user convenience. In many formal and informal discussions, the participants raised the question of how potential users and the scientific community at large can be made aware of the extremely promising computational techniques presented at the workshop. Some felt that the name Automatic Differentiation sounds too mechanical and fails to indicate the wealth of intrinsic problems and ramifications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA241512
Entities
People
- I. E. Block
Organizations
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics