Special Issue on Multigrid Methods

This special issue of Computing and Visualization in Science contains selected papers from the 2014 European Multigrid conference (EMG 2014), which took place in Leuven, Belgium, from 9 to 12 September, 2014.European Multigrid (EMG) is a series of conferences on the theme of multigrid methods and related fields.EMG is one of the most important conference series on this topic worldwide.Previous EMG meetings have been held in Cologne (1981 and 1985), Bonn (1990), Amsterdam (1993), Stuttgart (1996), Gent (1999), Hohenwart (2002), Scheveningen (2005), Bad Herrenhalb (2008), Ischia (2010) and Schwetzingen (2012).The EMG 2014 conference took place at the Irish College, in Leuven, an old university college founded in 1607.It attracted more than 80 participants of 15 countries, of which 20 were PhD-students; 12 participants attended the conference from outside Europe.Further details are available on the conference homepage http://metronu.ulb.ac.be/EMG2014/