Joint University of Hertfordshire/Cranfield University

Automatic Differentiation Workshop With Special Sessions on: "Aerospace Applications of AD & Adjoints" and "AD of C++"

Thursday 5th & Friday 6th June 2003

to be held at: Shrivenham Campus, Cranfield University, RMCS Shrivenham, Swindon SN6 8LA, UK

Sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Updated information can be found at: http://www.rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk/amor and follow link to "Workshops on Automatic Differentiation"

This 2-day workshop is the latest in a series that provides a forum for the presentation of theoretical developments in and applications of Automatic Differentiation (AD) and adjoint methods.

SPECIAL SESSIONS For this particular workshop, as well as our usual open sessions, we are holding 2 special sessions on "Aerospace Applications of AD & Adjoints" and "AD of C++". We are particularly keen to receive contributions from researchers active in these two areas.

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS of AD & ADJOINTS The use of both forward sensitivity analysis and adjoint design methodologies are currently receiving particular attention in the Aerospace community. This special session of the workshop will focus on present applications and future requirements for AD in this demanding area.

Invited Speaker - Larry Green, NASA Langley Research Center, USA (to be confirmed)

Contributions From -

David Standingford, BAE SYSTEMS ATC-Sowerby, UK - "Making use of adjoint sensitivities in aerodynamic design"

Shaun Forth, Cranfield University, UK - "Automatic Differentiation of an industrial, unstructured-mesh CFD solver"

AD OF C++ Presently, most large scale applications of AD have been made to code written in Fortran. The lack of object-oriented features such as polymorphism and inheritance in Fortran is only now being addressed with the awaited Fortran 2000 standard. This has led to the recent development of many large scale application codes in C++. This special session is devoted to: the requirements for C++ AD tools; the implementation of current C++ AD tools; and AD applications using C++ AD tools.

Invited Speaker - Dr Ole Stauning, FADBAD++ (to be confirmed)

OPEN SESSIONS Contributions from -

Jan Riehme, "Preaccumulation in the differentiation-enabled NAGWare Fortran 95 compiler"

Uwe Naumann, "Towards ADIFORC -- AD In Fortran and C"

CONTRIBUTIONS Those wishing to speak should contact the organiser Shaun Forth.

REGISTRATION, ACCOMMODATION & TRAVEL Registration for the workshop is free. Please contact the workshop secretary Jo Nash.

Chairman: Bruce Christianson (B.Christianson@herts.ac.uk) Organiser: Shaun Forth (s.a.forth@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk) Secretary: Jo Nash (amor@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk)