Workshop on
Foundations of Numerical PDEs

Schedule

Friday 20 June 2008
Saturday 21 June 2008
Sunday 22 June 2008

 

Friday 20 June 2008
13:50-14:35
Semiplenary 1:
13:50
Pingwen Zhang (Peking University)
  Numerical Methods of Self-Consistent Mean Field Theory
14:40-15:25
14:40
Angela Kunoth (University of Paderborn)
  Adaptive Wavelet Methods for Control Problems Constrained by Parabolic PDEs
15:03
Endre Suli (University of Oxford)
  Numerical Analysis of Fokker-Planck Equations with Unbounded Drift
15:30-16:00
 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45
16:00
Assyr Abdulle (The University of Edinburgh)
  Recent Progress in Finite Element Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods
16:23
Houman Owhadi (California Institute of Technology)
  On the Geometric Aspect Homogenization
16:50-17:35
16:50
Marcus Grote (University of Basel)
  Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Local Time Stepping for Second-Order Wave Equations
17:13
Manuel Torrilhon (ETH)
  Compact High Order Finite Volume Methods With and Without Intrinsic Constraints
17:35
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Saturday 21 June 2008
13:50-14:35
13:35
Reinhold Schneider (Technical University of Berlin)
  Direct Minimzation and A Posteriori Error Estimators in Density Functional Theory
14:13
Aihui Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  Adaptive Finite Element Eigenvalue Computations with Applications to Quantum Chemistry
14:40-15:25
14:40
Xiao-Ping Wang (Hong Kong Univ.of Science and Technology)
  Energy Dissipation for Moving Contact Line on Patterned Surfaces
15:03
Frances Kuo (University of New South Wales)
  Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality -- the ``lattice" Side of the Story
15:30-16:00
 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45
Semiplenary 2:
16:00
Ralf Hiptmair (ETH)
  Continuous and Discrete Helmholtz-Type Decompositions
16:50-17:35
16:50
Snorre Christiansen (University of Oslo)
  A Construction of Spaces of Compatible Differential Forms on Cellular Complexes
17:13
Rob Stevenson (University of Amsterdam)
  Adaptive Tensor Product Wavelet Methods
17:40-18:25
17:40
Hisashi Okamoto (Kyoto University)
  On Mathematical Issues on Discretization of the Blow-up Problems
18:25
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Sunday 22 June 2008
13:50-14:35
13:35
Tiejun Li (Peking University)
  The Community Structure of Complex Networks
14:13
Lars Grasedyck (Max Planck Inst. for Mathematics in the Sciences)
  Hierarchical Matrices for FEM and BEM
14:40-15:25
14:40
Pingbing Ming (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  Analysis of Multiscale Methods: Methodology and Examples
15:03
Michael Holst (University of California, San Diego)
  TBA
15:30-16:00
 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45
16:00
Long Chen (University of California, Irvine)
  High Order Finite Volume Methods for Elliptic Equations
16:23
Dongbin Xiu (Purdue University)
  Fast Stochastic Algorithms for Computations with Uncertainty
16:50-17:35
16:50
Weiguo Gao (Fudan University)
  Solving Kohn-Sham Equations with Newton-Type Method
17:13
Jun Hu (Peking University)
  Convergence of Adaptive Conforming and Nonconforming Finite Element Methods for the Perturbed Stokes Equation
17:35
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