EPSRC Symposium Capstone Conference

Tuesday 30 June 2009 – Friday 3 July 2009

Organisers: Ben Leimkuhler, Gareth Roberts, Andrew Stuart, Nick Trefethen

The conference will be immediately preceded by the Fox Prize on June 29th. Attendees of the Capstone Conference are warmly encouraged to attend this prize competition; the schedule for the prize day will incorporate, in the late afternoon, the first plenary talk from the Capstone Conference.

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Programme

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

•  Folkmar Bornemann (Technische Universität München)
•  Franco Brezzi (Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche del C.N.R., Pavia)
•  Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology)
•  Daan Frenkel (Cambridge)
•  Roland Freund (University of California - Davis)
•  Tom Hou (California Institute of Technology)
•  Eugenia Kalnay (University of Maryland)
•  Rupert Klein (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
•  Caroline Lasser (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
•  Tony Lelievre (CERMICS - ENPC)
•  Stan Osher (University of California - Los Angeles)
•  Michael Overton (Courant Institute)
•  Mike Shelley (Courant Institute)
•  Anna-Karin Tornberg (Courant Institute)
•  Eric Vanden Eijnden (Courant Institute)
•  Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle University)

Mini-Symposia

In addition to the invited plenary lectures, there will be a number of mini-symposia, of two hours duration, many related directly to the research areas represented by the plenary speakers. Mini-symposia include:

• Mike Allen (Warwick) Future Directions in Molecular Simulation
• Coralia Cartis (Edinburgh) Nonlinear Optimization 
  
• Steve Coombes (Nottingham) Mathematical Neuroscience
• Charlie Elliott (Warwick) PDEs in Imaging and Optimization
• Jason Frank (Amsterdam) Computational Methods for Atmospheric Dynamics
• Ben Leimkuhler (Edinburgh) Molecular Dynamics in and out of Equilibrium
• Nancy Nichols (Reading) Model Reduction
• Colin Cotter (Imperial College) Sophia Olhede (UCL) and Jonathan Lilly (Washington,Seattlle) Lagrangian structure, Lagrangian data 
  
• Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Barcelona) Stochastic modelling and computer-intensive inference in biology 
• Greg Pavliotis (Imperial) Numerical Methods for Multiscale Stochastic Systems
• Endre Suli (Oxford) Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Evolution Equations
• Jared Tanner (Edinburgh) Sparse Approximation and Compressed Sensing