International Workshop on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

April 25 - 27, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Friday, April 25, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Opening remarks, dedication of new lecture room

Session Chair: Christian Ratsch
9:00 - 9:50
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)

Instabilities in financial markets
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Tony Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Image Denoising Using Mean Curvature of Image Surface
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Stan Osher
2:00 - 2:50
John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Numerical simulation of endocytosis
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:20
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Geometric methods in image processing, networks, and machine learning
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:35
Sam Howison (University of Oxford)

Swinging 60: a kiiking tribute to Russ Caflisch
PDF Presentation
5:45 - 7:00 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: Tom Hou
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Bruce Cohen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Improving the Efficiency of Kinetic Simulation of Plasmas
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Hongkai Zhao
2:00 - 2:50
Christian Ratsch (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics)

A Levelset Method for Modeling Epitaxial Growth
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
Thomas Hou (California Institute of Technology)

Recent Progress on the Search of 3D Euler Singularities

6:00 - 8:30 Banquet - UCLA Faculty Center

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: John Lowengrub
9:00 - 9:50
Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin)

Wasserstein metric and Texas oil

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Stan Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

What Sparsity and L1 Optimization Can Do For You
PDF Presentation