Gordon L Kindlmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago: Optimizing Particle Systems for Image Feature Sampling

Figen Oztoprak, Northwestern University: Nonlinear Programming Algorithms and Infeasibility Detection

Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University : Algorithms and Software for Sparse Derivative Computation and Beyond

Sean Farley, Predoctoral Appointee, MCS: An Introduction to TikZ

Barry Smith, MCS: New Additions to PETSc

Victor Zavala, MCS: Real-Time Optimization for Energy Management of Building Systems

Siwei Wang, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago: Contextual Modeling in Continuous Speech Tone Recognition

Michael A. Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories : Building the Next Generation of Parallel Applications

Jeff Hollingsworth, Professor & Associate Chair, Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland: Friends Don't Let Friends Tune Code

Yulia Peet, MCS & Northwestern University: On stability of grid overlapping methods