The Lake City Summit

A research workshop in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado for the advancement of algebraic multigrid methods and least-squares finite element methods.

LC Summit Photo Gallery

History

In 1997, a casual research meeting between people in the University of Colorado's Applied Math department and Lawrence Livermore National Lab's CASC division met in Frisco, Colorado to discuss their collaboration on AMG and related issues. They met again in Boulder in 1998. In 2000, the meetings became annual, held in Lake City, Colorado. From 2002 until 2006, they were expanded to include an Applied Math research retreat, primarily focused on the FOSLS methodology.

The structure is like that of the Copper Mountain meetings in the sense of morning and evening sessions, with afternoons free to recover from the intensity of the discussions. But the 'sessions' are much different. We strongly discourage formal talks about what is known in favor of exposing troubles and open issues. The knowledge content is primarily for setting the scene for the attendees to try to work on troubles and questions, and help suggest some avenues of further research.

For more information go to http://grandmaster.colorado.edu/summit/