Peter Carbonetto, Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Chicago: Inference as optimization in a multivariate linear regression with Laplace priors

Xian-He Sun,, Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology.: Reevaluating Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era

Xiaoyan Zeng, : Sequential Monte Carlo Method in Chemical Safety Assessment

Fengqi You, MCS: MINLP in the Process Industry: Theory, Computation and Real World Applications

Cosmin Petra, : Scalable Multi-stage Stochastic Programming via Interior-point Methods

Jean Utke, MCS: Asynchronous parallel computation of higher order derivative tensors

Pavan Balaji, MCS: InfiniBand on the Cloud

Andrew Lyons, MCS: What does efficient Hessian computation have to do with inferring evolutionary history?

Dave Goodell, MCS: MPI Object Lifetimes: Semantics and Solutions for Multithreading

Jeff Steward, Florida State University: Non-Smooth Optimization in the Data Assimilation of Satellite Observations In Numerical Weather Prediction