Computational Methods in Transport - IPAM

Computational Methods in Transport

September 11 - 16, 2004

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Saturday, September 11, 2004

Afternoon Session

15:30-18:00
Registration
18:00-20:00
Dinner
20:00-20:15
Opening Talk
20:00-20:30
John Castor (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title not available

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Morning Session

08:00-08:30
Review Talks (Mountain Lake Room)
08:15-08:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
08:30-09:30
Warren Wiscombe (NASA)
Title not available
09:30-10:30
David Levermore (University of Maryland)
Transition Regime Models from Kinetic Equations
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Ivan Hubeny (University of Arizona)
Radiative Transfer in Astrophysical Applications

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Edward Larsen (University of Michigan)
Neutron (and Photon) Transport for Nuclear Reactor Applications
15:00-16:00
Barry Ganapol (University of Arizona)
A Coupled Leaf/Canopy Turbid Medium Radiative Transfer Model
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Marty Marinak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Simulations of High Energy Density Physics Experiments on Massively Parallel Architectures
18:00-20:00
Dinner

Monday, September 13, 2004

Morning Session

08:00-08:30
Atmospheric Physics/Oceanography/Plant Canopies (Mountain Lake Room)
08:30-09:15
Kuo-Nan Liou (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres: Diffusion Approximation and Monte Carlo Simulation for Thermal Emission
09:15-10:00
Frank Evans (University of Colorado)
The Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinate Method for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15
Sasha Marshak (NASA)
From simple plane-parallel to complex Monte Carlo calculations of solar fluxes and radiances for cloudy atmospheres
11:15-12:00
Anthony Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Effective Transport Kernels for Spatially Correlated Media - Application to the Cloudy Atmosphere

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Norm McCormick (University of Washington)
Computer Challenges In Optical Oceanography
14:45-15:30
George Kattawar (Texas A&M University - College Station)
Stokes Vector-Mueller Matrix Radiative Transfer in an Atmosphere-Ocean System
15:30-16:15
Jean-Luc Widlowski (Joint Research Center)
Vertical and horizontal transport of solar radiation in structurally heterogeneous canopies: issues and caveats
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Panel Discussion
18:00-20:00
Dinner

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Morning Session

08:00-08:30
Mathematics (Mountain Lake Room)
08:30-09:15
Barna Bihari (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
High Order Finite Volume Nonlinear Schemes for the Boltzmann Transport Equation
09:15-10:00
Guillaume Bal (University of Chicago)
Generalized diffusion models for transport in scattering and non-scattering regions
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15
Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Computations of Multivalued Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs
11:15-12:00
Rashit Shagaliev (VNIIEF)
Finite-Difference Methods For Solving Multidimentional Time-Dependent Transport Problems Implemented In SATURN Package

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-17:00
Poster Session
18:00-20:00
Dinner

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Morning Session

08:00-08:30
Neutron Transport/Astrophysics/High Energy Density Physics (Mountain Lake Room)
08:30-09:15
Marvin Adams (Texas A&M University - College Station)
Neutron Transport in Nuclear Reactors
09:15-10:00
Richard Procassini (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Design, Implementation and Optimization of a Parallel Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15
Tony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Neutrino Transport in Core Collapse Supernovae
11:15-12:00
Doug Swesty (SUNY Stony Brook)
Solving the Time-dependent Discrete-ordinates Boltzmann equation on Parallel Architectures

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Michael Norman (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Title not available
14:45-15:30
Jim Morel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Discrete-Ordinates Methods for Radiative Transfer in the Non-Relativistic Stellar Regime
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:45
Todd Urbatsch (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
The Jayenne Implicit Monte Carlo Project:
16:45-17:30
Paul Nowak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title not available
18:00-20:00
Dinner

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Morning Session

08:00-08:30
Summary (Mountain Lake Room)
08:30-08:50
Thomas Abel (Pennsylvania State University)
Summary I
08:50-09:10
Doug Swesty (SUNY Stony Brook)
Summary II
09:10-09:30
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Title not available
09:30-09:50
David Levermore (University of Maryland)
Summary IV
09:50-10:30
Panel Discussion
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
Closing Comments: Frank Graziani (LLNL) and Allon Percus (IPAM)

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
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