Advances in Scientific Computing, Imaging Science and Optimization: Stan Osher’s 70th Birthday Conference

April 4 - 6, 2012

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:40
Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin)

Multiscale methods for dynamical systems

9:40 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:40
11:40 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 12:40
Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Solving Partial Differential Equations on Point Clouds

12:40 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:40
2:40 - 3:10 Break
3:10 - 3:50
Russel Caflisch (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics)

The level set method for epitaxial growth

3:50 - 4:20 Break
4:20 - 5:00
Chiu-Yen Kao (Ohio State University)

Lax-Friedrichs Fast Sweeping Methods


Thursday, April 5, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40
9:40 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 10:50
10:50 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:00
Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Stan Osher and Image Sciences

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:10
Eli Yablonovitch (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Shape Optimization for All Future Thin-Film Solar Cells

2:10 - 2:40 Poster Session & Break
2:40 - 3:20
Danping Peng (Luminescent Technologies)

Inverse Problems in Computational Lithography

3:20 - 3:50 Poster Session & Break
3:50 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
5:30 Walk to UCLA Faculty Center (only if attending banquet)
6:00 - 9:00 Event Banquet (UCLA Faculty Center)

Friday, April 6, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40
Ronald DeVore (Texas A & M University)

Is Greedy Good?

9:40 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 10:50
Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)

Osher’s Bregman Iterations

10:50 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:00
Don Goldfarb (Columbia University)

An Accelerated Linearized Bregman Method

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:10
2:10 - 2:40 Break and Stan's Birthday Acknowledgement
2:40 - 3:20
Barry Merriman (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Genomes, Math and Money

3:20 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:30
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Geometric methods in image processing and data fusion