EPSRC Symposium Workshop on New directions in computational partial differential equations

Monday 12 - Friday 16 January 2009

Organisers: John Barrett (Imperial College), Charlie Elliott (Warwick) Chris Schwab (E.T.H.), Endre Süli (Oxford)

All talks will be in Lecture Room B3.02, Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building

Monday 12 January 2009

09:00 Registration in the Mathematics Research Centre Room B1.37
11:30 E. Cances (INRIA) PDEs and electronic structure calculations
12:30 Lunch in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
14:00 K. Deckelnick (Magdeburg) Approximation of axisymmetric solutions of Willmore flow under Dirichlet boundary conditions
15:00 Tea in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
15:45 A. Szepessy (Stockholm) Stochastic molecular dynamics derived from the time-independent Schrödinger Equation
16:30 M. Rumpf (Bonn) Natural discretization of gradient flows - Applications to viscous thin films and Willmore flow
17:15 C-B. Schoenlieb (Cambridge) Fourth-order PDEs for image restoration
18:00 Wine & Snacks in Common room

Tuesday 13 January 2009

09:30 B. Stinner (Warwick) Elastic biomembranes involving lipid separation
10:15 Coffee in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
11:00 J. Lowengrub (Irvine) Multiscale models of solid tumour growth and angiogenesis
11:45 Short talks
12:30 Lunch in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
13:30 Discussion
15:15 Tea in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:00 R. Nurnberg (Imperial) Numerical approximation of gradient flows for curve networks and surface clusters
16:45 R.H. Nochetto (Maryland) AFEM for geometric biomembranes and fluid-membrane interaction

Wednesday 14 January 2009

09:30 K. Kunisch (Graz) Semi-smooth Newton methods for optimal control of variational inequalities
10:15 Coffee in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
11:00 M. Hintermueller (Berlin) Recent advances in optimal control of variational inequalities
11:45 M. Hinze (Hamburg) Optimization with PDEs in the presence of constraints - tailored discrete concepts and error analysis
12:45 Lunch in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
14:30 A. Kunoth (Paderborn) Space-time adaptive wavelet methods for control problems constrained by parbolic PDEs
15:15 Tea in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:00 M. Luskin (Minnesota) Mathematical foundations for predictive and efficient quasicontinuum methods
16:45 Short Talks

Thursday 15 January 2009

09:30 S. Ganesan (Imperial) An accurate finite element solution of interface flows with surfactants
10:15 Coffee in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
11:00 I. Graham (Bath) Multiscale finite elements for high-contrast elliptic interface problems
11:45 A. Prohl (Tübingen) Fabrication of aluminium – modeling, analysis, and numerics
12:45 Lunch
14:30 O. Lakkis (Sussex) Error control via elliptic reconstruction in some evolution equations pdf of abstract
15:15 Tea in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
Change of Lecture Room to MS.01 16:15 A. Quarteroni (Milan) Domain decomposition methods and partial differential equations
Evening Workshop Dinner in Kenilworth

Friday 16 January 2009

09:30 C. Ortner (Oxford) Analysis of quasicontinuum methods
10:15 Coffee in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
11:00 A. Voigt (Dresden) PDE's on surfaces - a diffuse interface approach
11:45 E. Zuazua (Madrid) Dispersive methods for linear and nonlinear Schrödinger equations
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Closing Discussion
15:20 Tea in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:00 Departmental Colloquium A. Quarteroni (Milan) Mathematical modelling and the Galileo legacy
17:15 Wine & Cheese in Common room