MGA Workshop II: Multiscale Geometry in Scientific Computing

Part of the Long Program Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions
October 19 - 23, 2004

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Illumination Room)
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
George Fann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Multiresolution Solvers in MADNESS

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30
Robert Harrison (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Chemistry in many dimensions
PDF Presentation

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Eric Michielssen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Plane Wave Time Domain Accelerated Integral Equation Solvers: Multiscale Aspects

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Richard Tsai (Princeton University)

Visibility Optimizations

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

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
Thomas Hou (California Institute of Technology)

Multiscale computations for flow in strongly heterogenous media

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00

To Be Announced
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30
5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Vladimir Rokhlin (Yale University)

Moore's Law and ``Fast'' Numerical Techniques
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00
Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University)

Extracting low order stochastic models from large-sized dynamical data sets.

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Friday, October 22, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Peter Schröder (California Institute of Technology)

Conforming hierarchical adaptive refinement methods (CHARMS)" and their application in the context of thin-shell simulation with the subdivision element method.

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15
Yannis Kevrekides (Princeton University)

Equation-Free Modeling for Complex Multiscale Systems

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30
Yuval Rabani (Technion, Haifa, Israel)

Quasisymmetric embeddings, the observable diameter, and expansion properties of graphs
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Nathan (Nati) Linial (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

Clustering - Can we tame the beast?

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30
Leonard Schulman (California Institute of Technology)

Deterministic Clustering with Data Nets

5:30 - 6:30
Santosh Vempala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Random Sampling for Matrix Projection and Approximation
PDF Presentation

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Near Neighbor Search in High Dimensions via Locality Sensitive Hashing

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

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30