
\subsection{\bf CPS615---Abstract}
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{\LARGE\bf Finite Element/Conjugate \\
Gradient Presentation \\
}
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\begin{itemize}
\item This derives the finite element method for a simple
two-dimensional Laplacian with triangular elements

\item We use this to motivate conjugate gradient as a variant of
steepest descent for variational principle underlying FEM

\item We discuss preconditioning, parallelism and convergence of
general conjugate gradient method
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