Murtazo Nazarov, Visiting Assist. Prof., Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University: Adaptive finite element methods for compressible flows using high-order stabilization

Denis Ridzal, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratory: A Matrix-Free Trust-Region SQP Algorithm for Large-Scale Optimization

Miles Lubin, Predoc, MCS: Parallel distributed-memory simplex for large-scale stochastic LP problems

Brian T. Smith, Numerica 21 Inc: A Tool TH to Test and Evaluate Scientific Computations

Jack Gilbert, Assistant Professor, Dept of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago and ANL: The Earth Microbiome Project: A new paradigm in geospatial and temporal studies of microbial ecology

Ilya Safro, Argonne Scholar, LANS: Multiscale Methods in the 'Big Data' World of Networks

Guanghui (George) Lan, Assistant Professor, University of Florida: Stochastic First- and Zero-order Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Programming

Sabrina Oliveira , Capes Ph.D. fellow at IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: The improvement and analysis of ACO algorithms for the DTSP by the use of different pheromone restructuring procedures and local searches

Andreas Grothey, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh: Optimization and Exascale Computing

Andreas Grothey, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh: Interior Point warmstarts and stochastic programming