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/b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            Student Competition Papers                  </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>January 2, 2015</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            Author Abstracts                                      January 12, 2015</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            Early Registration                                     March 2, 2015</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            Guaranteed Lodging                                 February 21, 2015</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>           <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>HIGHLIGHTED TOPICS:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Uncertainty Quantification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Optimization and Inverse Problems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Data Mining, Large Graphs, and Markov Chains<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Nonsymmetric and Indefinite Problems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Krylov Accelerators<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Hybrid Direct-Iterative Linear Solvers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Parallel Multigrid on Multicore Systems and Heterogeneous Architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Time Parallel Methods<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>            Iterative Methods in Applications (e.g., Electromagnetics, Energy, Environmental, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>MHD,  Neutronics, Transport/Reaction)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:black'>            </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>           </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>IMPORTANT FEATURES:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Student Paper Competition.<b>  </b>Travel and lodging assistance will be</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>                        awarded to students and new PhDs judged to have submitted the best</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>                        research papers.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>             Workshops - Informal Topical Discussions</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>              Preliminary Proceedings</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>FURTHER INFORMATION:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>            </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Please access our website at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://grandmaster.colorado.edu/~copper/2015/">http://grandmaster.colorado.edu/~copper/2015/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>or contact the conference coordinator:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Annette Anthony</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Front Range Scientific Computations</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span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