Recent Developments in Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications

Banff International Research Station Workshop 08w5024

September 1 - 5, 2008

This web page provides links to the talks that were given at the workshop. The workshop's main web page provides other information, including the list of participants.

Talks are listed in the order in which they were given. This order (and the talks) may not correspond with the preliminary program. In cases where the talk has not yet been made available, only the speaker's name is listed. Corrections or comments about this web page should be sent to Ian Mitchell.

• Monday
  • Randall J. LeVeque (Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle). "Quadrilateral Grids and Finite Volume Methods on the Sphere".
  • Remi Abgrall (Universit� de Bordeaux I and INRIA). "Non-oscillatory Very High Order Residual Distribution Schemes for Steady Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Preliminary Results".
  • Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University). "High Order Shock Capturing Schemes --- An Overview".
  • Jian-Guo Lin.
  • Chiu-Yen Kao (The Ohio State University). "Cell Cycle Control at the First Restriction Point and its Effect on Tissue Growth".
• Tuesday
  • Ian Mitchell (University of British Columbia). "The Flexible, Extensible & Efficient Toolbox of Level Set Methods and The Ellipsoidal Particle Level Set Method".
  • Hongkai Zhao.
  • Alexander Kurganov (Tulane University, Mathematics Department). "Interface Tracking Method: Applications to Compressible Multifluids and to Flows in Domains with Moving Boundaries".
  • Tour and free afternoon.
• Wednesday
  • Shi Jin.
  • Jianliang Qian (Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University). "Eulerian Gaussian beams for Schrodinger equations in the high frequency regime".
  • H. Pino Martin (Princeton). Numerical Challenges for Direct and Large-Eddy Simulations of Highly Compressible Turbulence.
  • Yongtao Zhang.
  • Alexander Vladimirsky.
  • Tao Tang.
  • Christian Claudel (brief talk).
• Thursday.
  • Pierre Degond (Institute of Mathematics of Toulouse, University of Toulouse and CNRS). "Fluid models for Complex Systems".
  • Roberto Ferretti (Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma Tre). "Stability of large time-step schemes and relationship between semi-Lagrangian and Lagrange-Galerkin techniques".
  • Yingjie Liu (School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology). "Hierarchical Reconstruction for Discontinuous Galerkin Method on Triangular Meshes with a WENO-type Linear Reconstruction".
  • Irene M. Gamba (Department of Mathematics and ICES, The University of Texas at Austin). Spectral-Lagrangian solvers for non-linear non-conservative Boltzmann Transport Equations".
  • Raymond Spiteri.
  • Susana Serna.
• Friday.
  • Informal discussions.

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