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FPTalks 2026

The leading edge of floating-point research

The floating-point research community.
Online. August 6, 2026.

FPTalks 2026 will be held online on August 6, 2026 on Zoom. Talks are ten minutes long, followed by audience questions, and all talks are recorded.

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Italicized entries are provisional topics; final titles to come.

Welcome

Session 1

Correctly rounded functions: from pen-and-paper to formal proof

Wonyeol Lee (POSTECH) & Paul Zimmermann (INRIA Nancy)

New results on FPANs and the SELTZO abstraction

David K Zhang, Cerebras Systems

Golden models for numerical datapath

Artem Yadrov, University of Utah

Correctly rounded dot products

Sehyeok Park, Rutgers University

Break

Session 2

IEEE P3109 update

Andrew Fitzgibbon, Graphcore

NVFP4 pre-training

Paul Gibbons, NVIDIA

Direction-Preserving Number Representations

Bardia Zadeh, Imperial College London

Range Analysis of Neural Surfaces

Nick Sharp, NVIDIA

Break

Session 3

Grading the BLAS

Jim Demmel, UC Berkeley

Mixed-precision numerical algorithms

Erin Carson, Charles University

Adjoints for Roundoff Sensitivity Analysis

David Bindel, Cornell

Title to be announced

William S. Moses, UIUC

Conclusion

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