Moving Interfaces and Threshold Dynamics - IPAM

Moving Interfaces and Threshold Dynamics

Part of the Long Program Geometrically Based Motions
May 9 - 11, 2001

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, May 9, 2001

Morning Session

09:00-09:30
Registration
09:30-09:40
Eitan Tadmor (UCLA / University of Maryland)
Opening Remarks
09:40-10:30
Andrew Majda (New York University)
Theory and Modeling for Turbulent Reactive Fronts
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Markos Katsoulakis (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Mesoscopic theories for particle systems with long range interactions

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Janko Gravner (University of California at Davis)
Convergence to asymptotic shapes in threshold growth and related models
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Takis Souganidis (University of Chicago)
threshold dynamics and moving fronts

Thursday, May 10, 2001

Morning Session

09:30-10:30
Barry Merriman (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Wherefore Art Thou Convolution Generated Motion?
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Steven Ruuth (Simon Fraser University)
Convolution-based Methods for Interface Problems

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
13:15-13:45
David Griffeath (University of Wisconsin)
Adventures in Clustering (computer demo)
14:00-15:00
Roberto Schonmann (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Metastability and critical droplets in Ising models
15:00-15:30
Break