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

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

08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:40
Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin)
Multiscale methods for dynamical systems
09:40-10:00
Break
10:00-10:40
Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University)
Shock capturing methods for CFD: a review of Osher's contributions
10:40-11:00
Break
11:00-11:40
Richard Tsai (University of Texas at Austin)
An Implicit Interface Boundary Integral Method for Poisson's Equation on Arbitrary Domains
11:40-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:40
Hongkai Zhao (Duke University)
Solving Partial Differential Equations on Point Clouds
12:40-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:40
Lawrence Carin (Duke University)
Nested Dictionary Learning for Hierarchical Organization of Imagery and Text
14:40-15:10
Break
15:10-15:50
Russel Caflisch (New York University)
The level set method for epitaxial growth
15:50-16:20
Break
16:20-17:00
Chiu-Yen Kao (Ohio State University)
Lax-Friedrichs Fast Sweeping Methods

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Peter Jones (Yale University)
Nearest Neighbor Algorithms and Applications in Image Processing
09:40-10:10
Break
10:10-10:50
Mark Green (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Steiner Polynomials, Wulff Flows, and Curvature Inequalities for Convex Plane Curves
10:50-11:20
Break
11:20-12:00
Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Stan Osher and Image Sciences

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:10
Eli Yablonovitch (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Shape Optimization for All Future Thin-Film Solar Cells
14:10-14:40
Poster Session & Break
14:40-15:20
Danping Peng (Luminescent Technologies)
Inverse Problems in Computational Lithography
15:20-15:50
Poster Session & Break
15:50-16:30
Wotao Yin (Rice University)
Augmented L1 and Nuclear-Norm Minimization with a Globally Linearly Convergent Algorithm
16:30-17:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
17:30-17:30
Walk to UCLA Faculty Center (only if attending banquet)
18:00-21:00
Event Banquet (UCLA Faculty Center)

Friday, April 6, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Ronald DeVore (Texas A&M University - College Station)
Is Greedy Good?
09:40-10:10
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:10
Ron Fedkiw (Stanford University)
Stanley Osher, UCLA Math, and Hollywood Special Effects
14:10-14:40
Break and Stan's Birthday Acknowledgement
14:40-15:20
Barry Merriman (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Genomes, Math and Money
15:20-15:50
Break
15:50-16:30
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Geometric methods in image processing and data fusion
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