Moving Interfaces and Threshold Dynamics

Part of the Long Program Geometrically Based Motions
May 9 - 11, 2001

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, May 9, 2001

Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:40
Eitan Tadmor (UCLA / University of Maryland)

Opening Remarks

9:40 - 10:30
Andrew Majda (New York University)

Theory and Modeling for Turbulent Reactive Fronts

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Markos Katsoulakis (University of Massachusetts)

Mesoscopic theories for particle systems with long range interactions

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Janko Gravner (University of California at Davis)

Convergence to asymptotic shapes in threshold growth and related models
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Takis Souganidis (University of Texas, Austin)

threshold dynamics and moving fronts


Thursday, May 10, 2001

Morning Session
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Steven Ruuth (Simon Fraser University)

Convolution-based Methods for Interface Problems
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session
1:15 - 1:45
David Griffeath (University of Wisconsin)

Adventures in Clustering (computer demo)

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Timo Seppalainen (Iowa State University)

Recent Results on Hydrodynamics of Asymmetric Interacting Particle Systems and Related Interface Models
PDF Presentation

Friday, May 11, 2001

Morning Session
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:15 Concluding Remarks