UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

A Newton Institute Workshop

Mathematical Challenges in Scientific and Engineering Computation

20-24 January 2003

Timetable:


Monday 20 January
09.00-12.30 Registration

12.30-13.30 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Rannacher, R (Heidelberg)

The role of error control and adaptivity in numerical computation  More info

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 Nochetto, R (Maryland)

Error control and adaptivity for free boundary problems  More info

16.30-17.00 Ockendon, J (Oxford)

Emerging areas for computational mathematics in industry  More info

17.00-17.30 Computational PDE's in industry
Chair: Ockendon

17.30-18.30 Wine \& Beer Reception


Tuesday 21 January
09.00-10.00 Pironneau, O (Paris VI)
Inverse fluid flow problems with discontinuities  More info

10.00-11.00 Elliott, CM (Sussex)

Numerical diffusion induced grain boundary motion and methods for
evolving interfaces  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 Wheeler, A (Southampton)

Phase-field models

12.30-13.30 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Sutton, A (Oxford)

Atomistic simulations of diffusional processes with elastic
interactions  More info

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.00 Barrett, JW (Imperial College)

Numerical approximation of surface diffusion  More info

16.00-16.30 Interface motion and phase field models
Chair: Barrett, Elliott \& Wheeler


Wednesday 22 January
09.00-10.00 Tadmor, E (Technion)
Multiple-scale modelling of materials using the quasicontinuum method  More info

10.00-11.00 Engquist, B (Princeton)

Heterogeneous multiscale methods  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 McLeish, T (Leeds)

Molecular models of viscoelastic flows  More info

12.30-13.30 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Analysis and applications of the heterogeneous multiscale method?  More info

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.00 S\"{u}li, E (Oxford)

Adaptive finite element methods for hyperbolic problems  More info

16.00-16.30 Adaptive finite element methods for partial differential equations
Chair: Suli

20.00- . Conference Dinner - Downing College


Thursday 23 January
08.30-10.00

10.00-11.00 Glowinski, R (Houston)

Numerical methods for the solution of a system of eikonal equations
with Dirichlet boundary conditions  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee \& Poster Session

11.30-12.30 Chan, T (UCLA)

Variational PDE techniques in wavelet transforms
\& image compression  More info

12.30-13.30 Lunch

14.00-14.20 Wathen, A (Oxford)

Preconditioning the incompressible Navier Stokes equations

14.20-14.40 Phillips, T (Aberystwyth)

Direct numerical simulation of droplet-gas systems for power
generation applications

14.40-15.00 Roberts, G (Bangor)

Variational techniques for micromagnetic simulations

15.00-16.00 Tea \& Poster Session

16.00-16.20 Chandler-Wilde, S (Brunel)

Integral equation methods for direct and inverse scattering by
unbounded surfaces

16.20-18.00 EPSRC Programme managers in mathematics \& engineering \& high
performance computing


Friday 24 January
09.00-10.00 Quarteroni, A (Lausanne)
Numerical modelling of the cardiovascular system  More info

10.00-11.00 Monk, P (Delaware)

Inverse electromagnetic scattering  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.00 Davies, AR (Aberystwyth)

PDE's, food rheology, and processing  More info

12.00-12.30 PDE's in food industry
Chair: Davies

12.30-13.30 Lunch

14.00-14.45 Weatherill, N (Swansea)

Mesh quality in computational engineering  More info

14.45-15.00 Mesh generation
Chair: Weatherill

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.00 Giles, M (Oxford)

Challenges in scientific and engineering computation  More info

16.00-16.30 Engineering computations
Chair: Giles

16.30-17.00



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