Program for the Conference on
Computational Methods in Multiscale Analysis and Applications
February 29 - March 2, 2004

Unless otherwise stated, all talks are in the Atrium, Little Hall 339.
(Little Hall can be found in the campus map.)
All talks, except the featured lectures, are twenty minutes in length with an additional five minutes for questions.

Sunday, February 29, 2004
   
8:00 Coffee
   
8:15 Introductory remarks
   
Session S.1 Chair: Leonid Berlyand (PennState)
   
8:30 Gregoire Allaire (Ecole Poly., France)
  A multiscale finite element method for numerical homogenization
   
8:55 Yalchin Efendiev (Texas A & M)
  Numerical homogenization of nonlinear partial differential equations
   
9:20 Robert Lipton (Lousiana State Univ.)
  Multi-scale stress analysis in composite structures
   
10:30 Coffee break
   

Session S.2 Chair: Shari Moskow (Math, UF)
   
10:30 Leonid Berlyand (Penn State)
  Discrete network approximation for effective properties of high
  contrast random highly packed solid and fluid composite
   
10:55 Eric Bonnetier (Inst. IMAG, France)
  Remarks on the polarization tensor of a composite medium
  containing close or touching disks
   
11:20 Darko Volkov (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.)
  Numerical methods for locating small dielectric inhomogeneities
  based on asymptotics of perturbed fields and application of
  selected incoming waves
   
11:45Gang Bao (Michigan State Univ.)
  Direct and Inverse Problems for 3-D Maxwell's Equations
   
12:10 Lunch break
   

Session S.3 Chair: Jay Gopalakrishnan (Math, UF)
   
1:30 Ludmil Zikatanov (Penn State)
  On two level convergence estimates and the convergence of
  algebraic multigrid method
   
1:55 Susanne Brenner (Univ. South Carolina)
  Multigrid algorithms for $C^0$ interior penalty methods
   
2:20 Joseph Pasciak (Texas A & M)
  Least-squares approximation of div-curl systems
   
2:45 Coffee break
   

Session S.4 Chair: William Hager (Math, UF)
   
3:15 Wei Shyy (Mech. & Aero. Dept., UF)
  Computations of Fluid Flow and Flexible Structure Interactions
   
3:40 Craig Douglas (Univ. Kentucky)
  Using virtual telemetry in dynamic data-driven application simulations
   
4:15 Thomas Hughes (Univ. Texas at Austin)
  Variational and multiscale methods in turbulence with particular
  emphasis on large eddy simulation
   
  --End of Session--
 
5:10 Discussion on State of the Art   (What is this?)
   
  No social events are planned for Sunday evening.
We have a few restaurant recommendations online.
   

Monday, March 1, 2004
   
8:00 Coffee
   
Session M.1 Chair: Joseph Pasciak (Texas A & M)
   
8:15 John Osborn (Univ. Maryland)
  Approximation results for the Generalized Finite Element Method
   
8:40 Richard Falk (Rutgers)
  Locking free discontinuous Galerkin methods for
  the Reissner-Mindlin plate without reduced integration
   
9:05 Bernardo Cockburn (Univ. Minnesota)
  An adaptive method for Hamilton-Jacobi equations
   
9:30 Coffee break
   

Session M.2 Chair: Loc Vu-Quoc (Mech. & Aero. Dept., UF)
   
10:00 Dominique Leguillon (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
  A two scale analysis of the failure of a joint between two steel plates
   
10:25 Josette Bellan (JPL, NASA)
  Computational-scale reduction for simulations of two-phase flow
  with phase change: LES using SGS models derived from DNS
   
  --End of Session--
 
11:30 Franco Brezzi (Univ. Pavia, Italy)  History lecture (in Lecture Hall 282, Reitz Union)
  The inf-sup condition, the bubble, and the subgrid
 
12:30 Lunch break
   

Session M.3 Chair: Jay Gopalakrishnan (Math, UF)
   
2:00 Fernando Reitich (Univ. Minnesota)
  A new high-order high-frequency integral equation method for
  the solution of wave scattering problems
   
2:25 Jie Shen (Purdue)
  Efficient and accurate spectral methods for
  linear and nonlinear wave equations
   
2:50 Max Gunzburger (Florida State)
  A multi-scale viscosity finite element method for hyperbolic
  conservation laws
   
3:15 Pierre Gremaud (North Carolina State Univ.)
  Numerical methods for multidimensional granular flows
   
3:40 Coffee break
   
4:05 Stephen Smale (Berkeley)   Erdös lecture (in TUR L011)
  Shannon sampling, learning theory, and reconstructing functions from point values
(The Erdös lecture is a local recurring event and is scheduled independently of this conference.)
   
7:00 Banquet at the Sovereign Restaurant
   

Tuesday, March 2, 2004
   
8:00 Coffee
   
Session T.1 Chair: Wei Shyy (Chairman of Mech. & Aero. Dept., UF)
   
8:15 Pieter Wesseling (Delft Univ., The Netherlands)
  A unified computing method for compressible and incompressible
  flows applied to hydrodynamic cavitation
   
8:40 Jacob Fish (Rensselaer Poly.)
  Multiscale computational solid mechanics
   
  --End of Session--
 
9:35 Michael Vogelius (Rutgers)   History lecture (in Little Hall 109)
  Low volume fraction mixtures and polarization effects
   
10:30 Coffee break
   

Session T.2 Chair: Bernardo Cockburn (University of Minnesota)
   
11:00 Donatella Marini (Univ. Pavia, Italy)
  Discontinuous Galerkin methods for first-order hyperbolic problems
   
11:25 Constantin Bacuta (Penn State)
  Applications of multilevel analysis to regularity estimates for PDEs
   
11:50 Guido Kanschat (Univ. Heidelberg, Germany)
  Multi-model preconditioning for radiative transfer in high density regimes
   
12:15 Lunch break
   

Session T.3 Chair: Shari Moskow (Math, UF)
   
2:00 Vladimir Druskin (Schlumberger Inc.)
  Optimal finite-difference grids for Neumann-to-Dirichlet problems
   
2:25 Jinchao Xu (Penn State)   [Replaced by his student Young-Ju Lee]
  New numerical techniques for some non-Newtonian flow models
   
2:50 Guillermo Goldstein (Georgia Tech.)
  Perfectly plastic heterogeneous materials
   
3:15 Coffee break
   

Session T.4 Chair: Vladimir Druskin (Schlumberger)
   
3:45 Marc Garbey (Univ. Houston)
  Heterogeneous domain decomposition for boundary layer problems
   
4:10 Faouzi Triki (Michigan State Univ.)
  Resonances for microstrip transmission lines
   
4:35 Vani Cheruvu (Univ. Colorado at Boulder)
  Adaptive multiwavelet solutions for a class of
  advection-diffusion equations