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<div align="center"><font color="navy"><b>Old Dominion University</b></font></div>
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<font size="6">Tuesday, February 04, 2014<br>
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<div align="center"><font size="6" color="#244061"><b>Dr. Balsa Terzic<br>
Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators (CASA) Jefferson Lab</b><font size="5" color="#0070C0">
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2">In this overview talk, I will present two new computational tools that can be employed to solve previously intractable accelerator physics problems.
One such computational tool is genetic algorithm (GA), which is effective in multidimensional, nonlinear optimization, especially in the higher-dimensional realm where traditional methods fail. The other is parallel computation on Graphical Processing Units
(GPUs), which can speed up intrinsically parallelizable algorithms by a few orders of magnitude, thereby making historically computationally prohibitive capabilities and domains of application feasible. I will motivate the use of these techniques, briefly cover
the main concepts, and outline several applications where they have been successfully applied, including: optimization of the working point in a particle collider, non-linear chi-square fitting, beam-beam simulations, and simulation of coherent synchrotron
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<div align="center"><font size="4">Presentation: OCNPS 200 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="4">Refreshments: OCNPS 200 Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5" color="#0070C0"><b>All interested persons are cordially invited to attend.</b></font></div>
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