Annual Copper Mountain Conferences on Multigrid and Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, CO 2003-2006

铜山会议系列始于1983年，每年4月初在科罗拉多州的铜山举行；这些会议的主题每年在多网格方法和迭代方法之间交替进行。该系列是在这两个密切相关的领域交流思想的重要论坛。会议计划为期五天，每次会议由个别会谈组成，每次会谈约半小时。按照传统，这些会议将采取平等主义的风格，不邀请演讲，学生的演讲与其他所有人一视同仁。主要目标之一是提高学生、妇女和少数民族数学家对这次会议的参与度。这是通过学生论文比赛和一项特别基金来实现的，该基金增加了对女性和少数民族数学家的旅行支持。本系列选择了几个重点主题：即将召开的会议将强调先进的体系结构（反映了由于多处理器计算而引起的高度兴趣），代数方法（由最近出现的由非结构化网格引起的非常大的离散问题所刺激），特征值问题（其中最近的趋势包括经典方法的鲁棒并行实现）和预处理（其中很大的改进来自域分解或并行近似逆）。这个多网格会议系列的一个重要特点是使用了教程。该系列的特色是半天的基本多网格、代数多网格、并行计算机的多网格和缓存感知多网格教程。会议记录的其他重要特征包括注册时发出的初步记录，以及专门报道会议的主要期刊（SIAM SISC， ETNA等）的特刊。

The Copper Mountain Conference Series, begun in 1983, is held in early April at Copper Mountain, Colorado; the subject of these meetings alternates yearly between Multigrid Methods and Iterative Methods. The Series is an important forum for the exchange of ideas in these two closely related fields. The meetings are planned for five days, with sessions consisting of individual talks of approximately a half hour each. By tradition, these conferences will have an egalitarian style with no invited talks and student presentations put on equal footing with all others. One of the main goals is to enhance the participation in this meeting by students, women, and minority mathematicians. This is accomplished through a student paper competition, and a special fund to augment travel support for women and minority mathematicians.Several topics of emphasis have been selected for this Series: the coming conferences will emphasize advanced architectures (reflecting a heightened interest due to multiprocessor computing), algebraic methods (spurred by the recent advent of very large discrete problems arising from unstructured grids), eigenvalue problems (where recent trends include robust parallel implementations of classical methods), and preconditioning (where great improvements have come from domain decomposition or parallel approximate inverses). One important feature of the multigrid conference series is the use of tutorials. The series has featured half-day tutorials on basic multigrid, algebraic multigrid, multigrid for parallel computers, and cache-aware multigrid. Other important features of the conference proceedings include preliminary proceedings, given out upon registration, and special issues of major journals (SIAM SISC, ETNA, etc.) devoted to the conferences.