International Workshop on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation - IPAM

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

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Opening remarks, dedication of new lecture room
Session Chair: Christian Ratsch
09:00-09:50
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)
Instabilities in financial markets
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
William Morokoff (Standard and Poor's)
Evaluation of Performance Measures for Probability of Default and Related Credit Risk Assessment Models
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Tony Chan (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Image Denoising Using Mean Curvature of Image Surface

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Stan Osher
14:00-14:50
John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Numerical simulation of endocytosis
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:20
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Geometric methods in image processing, networks, and machine learning
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:35
Sam Howison (University of Oxford)
Swinging 60: a kiiking tribute to Russ Caflisch
17:45-19:00
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Tom Hou
09:00-09:50
David Levermore (University of Maryland)
Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Bruce Cohen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Improving the Efficiency of Kinetic Simulation of Plasmas
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Mike Siegel (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
An efficient boundary integral method for stiff 3D interfacial flow problems

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
Session Chair: Hongkai Zhao
14:00-14:50
Christian Ratsch (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics)
A Levelset Method for Modeling Epitaxial Growth
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Lorenzo Pareschi (Heriot-Watt University)
Numerical fluid dynamic limit of the Boltzmann equation and beyond
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Thomas Hou (California Institute of Technology)
Recent Progress on the Search of 3D Euler Singularities
18:00-20:30
Banquet - UCLA Faculty Center
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