Workshop I: Computational Kinetic Transport and Hybrid Methods - IPAM

Workshop I: Computational Kinetic Transport and Hybrid Methods

Part of the Long Program Quantum and Kinetic Transport: Analysis, Computations, and New Applications
March 30 - April 3, 2009

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, March 30, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
An Eulerian Gaussian Beam Method for High Frequency Waves
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Anton Arnold (Technische Universität Wien)
Asymptotically Correct Finite Difference Schemes for Highly Oscillatory ODEs
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Giovanni Russo (Università di Catania)
Semilagrangian Schemes for the BGK Model of the Boltzmann Equation

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Victor Batista (Yale University)
The MP/SOFT Method: Quantum Propagation of Wave Packets and Density Matrices
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Haobin Wang (New Mexico State University)
Multilayer Formulation of the Multiconfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree Theory
17:00-19:00
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Morning Session

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Russel Caflisch (New York University)
Simulation of Coulomb Collisions for Plasma Kinetics
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Frank Graziani (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Molecular Dynamics of Hot, Dense Radiative Plasmas
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Andrew Christlieb (Michigan State University)
A Conservative High Order Semi-Lagrangian WENO Valsov Solver Based on Point Value Evolution

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Jim Morel (Texas A&M University - College Station)
Preconditioners for Thermal Radiation Transport
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Robert Lowrie (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
The Structure of Radiative Shocks

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Morning Session

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University)
A Discontinuous Galerkin Solver for Boltzmann Poisson Systems in Nano Devices
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Jose Carrillo (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
A Deterministic Solver for a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Transport Model in NanoMOSFETs
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Kyle Novak (Air Force Institute of Technology)
A Semiclassical Transport Model for Quantum Barriers

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Eric Cances (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées)
Interacting Electrons in Semiconductors and Nanodevices: A Mathematical Introduction to Density Functional Theory
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Marie-Helene Vignal (Université de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier))
Asymptotic-Preserving Particle-In-Cell Method for the Vlasov-Poisson System Near Quasineutrality

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Morning Session

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Hailiang Liu (Iowa State University)
Recovery of High Frequency Wave Fields from Phase Space Based Measurements
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
William Dorland (University of Maryland)
Kinetic Effects in Fluid Turbulence
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Luc Mieussens (Institut de Mathematiques de Bordeaux)
On the Use of the Micro-Macro Decomposition to Design Multiscale Numerical Schemes for Kinetic Equations

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
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A Level-Set Method for Self-Organized Pattern Formation During Heteroepitaxial Growth
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Panel Discussion

Friday, April 3, 2009

Morning Session

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland)
From Particle to Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Descriptions of Flocking
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Henning Struchtrup (University of Victoria)
Beyond Hydrodynamics: Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flowses
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Manuel Torrilhon (ETH Zürich)
Globally Hyperbolic Moment Equations in Kinetic Gas Theory

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
15:30-16:00
Coffee and Light Dessert
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