Midwest Numerical Analysis Days 2012
Conference Program


 

May 12, 2012

 

8:00-8:30 AM

Check-in/Name badge and conference handouts pick-up (154 Hurley Hall)
Refreshments (Hurley Hall Globe, 1st floor)

8:30-8:40 AM

Opening Remarks: Robert Bernhard, Vice President for Research, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
(Hayes-Healy Center 127)

8:40-9:30 AM

Plenary talk: Eitan Tadmor, Chair: Andrew Sommese (Hayes-Healy Center 127)

9:30-10:00 AM

Coffee Break (Hurley Hall Globe, 1st floor)

 


Session 1
(Hayes-Healy Center 127)

Chair: Yekaterina Epshteyn

Session 2
(Hayes-Healy Center 129)

Chair: Mark Alber

Session 3
(Hayes-Healy Center 229)

Chair: Bruce Wade

10:00-10:25 AM


Upwind-Difference Potentials Method for Patlak-Keller-Segel Chemotaxis Model

Yekaterina Epshteyn

Mathematics, University of Utah
epshteyn@math.utah.edu

The Effect of Antibody Attachment on a Diffusing Population of Virus

Alex Chen

Mathematical Biology, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
achen@samsi.info

Super Time Stepping for Parabolic and Mixed Systems: The Runge-Kutta-Legendre Method

Chad Meyer

Physics, University of Notre Dame
cmeyer8@nd.edu

10:25-10:50 AM


PDE vs ODE Dynamics

King-Yeung Lam

Mathematics, Ohio State University
lam.184@osu.edu

Experimental Design for Dynamics Identification of Biological Systems

Vu Dinh

Mathematical Biology, Purdue University
vdinh@math.purdue.edu

Framework for Stability Analysis of Grid Overlapping Algorithms

Yulia Peet

Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
peet@northwestern.edu

10:50-11:15 AM


Numerical Studies of the Focusing Davey-Stewartson II and Focusing Klein Gordon Equations

Benson Muite

Mathematics, University of Michigan
muite@umich.edu

A Python Finite Element Program Package for Solving Nonlocal Dielectric PDE Models

Yi Jiang

Mathematical Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
yijiang@uwm.edu

An ETD-Crank Nicolson Scheme for Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Bruce Wade

Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
wade@uwm.edu

11:15-11:40 AM


Efficient Numerical Techniques for Adaptive Total Variation Regularization in Image Processing

Surya Prasath

Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia
prasaths@missouri.edu

2D Swimming at Low Reynolds Number

Qixuan Wang

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
wangx825@umn.edu

An Optimal Convergence Rate Robin-Robin Domain Decomposition Method

Shangyou Zhang

Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
szhang@udel.edu

11:40AM-12:05 PM


An Entropy Satisfying Conservative Method for the Fokker-Planck Equation of the Finitely Extensible Nonlinear Elastic Dumbbell Model

Hui Yu

Computational and Applied Math, Iowa State University
legendyu@iastate.edu

A New Analysis of Electrostatic Free Energy Minimization and Poisson-Boltzmann Equation for Protein in Ionic Solvent

Dexuan Xie

Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
dxie@uwm.edu

Parallel Adaptive Tree-code for Computations of Micro Structure in Elastic Medium

Amlan Barua for Hualong Feng

Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
abarua@iit.edu

 

12:05-12:30 PM


 

Using Isogeometric Analysis with Non-Matching Discretizations to Simulate Operation of a Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device

Chris Long

Mathematics and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
cclong@ucsd.edu

Accelerating Spectral Deferred Correction method in ODE

Heejun Choi

Mathematics, Purdue University
choi104@purdue.edu

12:30-2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00-2:50 PM

Plenary talk: Suncica Canic, Chair: Zhiliang Xu (Hayes-Healy Center 127)

2:50-3:25 PM

Coffee Break (Hurley Hall Globe, 1st floor)

 


Session 1
(Hayes-Healy Center 127)

Chair: Scott Christley

Session 2
(Hayes-Healy Center 129)

Chair: Wenrui Hao

Session 3
(Hayes-Healy Center 229)

Chair: Dinshaw Balsara

3:25-3:50 PM


Using a Two-dimensional Continuum Mechanical Model to Predict Collective Cell Migration During Wound Healing

Julia Arciero

Mathematics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
jarciero@math.iupui.edu

Randomized Sparse Direct Solvers for Discretized PDEs

Jianlin Xia

Mathematics, Purdue University
xiaj@math.purdue.edu

Stable Kernel-based Methods for Approximation

Michael McCourt

Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
mccomic@mcs.anl.gov

 

3:50-4:15 PM


A Rescaling Scheme for Simulating Diffusional Evolution of Multiple Precipitates in Elastic Medium

Amlan Barua

Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
abarua@iit.edu

Efficient Spectral Methods for Coupled Elliptic Systems with Applications in Phase-field Modeling

Feng Chen

Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette
chen221@math.purdue.edu

Genuinely Multidimensional Riemann Solvers

Dinshaw Balsara

Physics, University of Notre Dame
dbalsara@nd.edu

4:15-4:40 PM


Computational Modeling Assistant: From Knowledge to Model Specification to GPU Code

Scott Christley

Computer Science, University of Chicago
schristley@uchicago.edu

First and Second Order Unconditionally Energy Stable Schemes for the Nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn Equations

Zhen Guan

Mathematics, University of Tennessee Knoxville
zguan@math.utk.edu

Fast Sweeping Methods for Steady State Problems for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Weitao Chen

Mathematics, Ohio State University
chen@math.ohio-state.edu

4:40-5:05 PM


Subcellular Elements Model for Bacteria Gliding on Graphics Cards

Cameron Harvey

Physics, University of Notre Dame
charvey2@nd.edu

Solve Nonlinear PDE Using Numerical Algebraic Geometry

Wenrui Hao

Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
whao@nd.edu

Super Convergence of Discontinuous Galerkin Method: Eigen-structure Analysis Based on Fourier Approach

Wei Guo

Mathematics, University of Houston
wguo126@math.uh.edu

5:05-5:30 PM


Numerical Simulation of Self-Assembled Magnetic Colloidal Structures Using GPUs

David Piet

Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
dlpiet@gmail.com

 

Parameterized Systems of Equations

Jonathan Hauenstein

Mathematics, Texas A&M University
jhauenst@math.tamu.edu

Some Simple Techniques for the Level-set Interface Capturing with the BFECC Method

Yingjie Liu

Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
yingjie@math.gatech.edu

5:30-5:55 PM


High Density Waves of the Bacterium Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Propagating Swarms Result in Efficient Colonization of Surfaces

Huijing Du

Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
hdu@nd.edu

Use of the String Method to Find Minimal Energy Paths of Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Kellen Petersen

Applied Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University
kellen@cims.nyu.edu

Superconvergence of Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Scalar Nonlinear Conservation Laws in One Space Dimension

Xiong Meng

Applied Mathematics, Brown University
xiong_meng@brown.edu

6:00-8:00 PM

Evening Reception (Hurley Hall Globe, 1st floor)

 

May 13, 2012

 

8:00-8:40 AM

Check-in/Name badge and conference handouts pick-up (154 Hurley Hall)
Refreshments (Hurley Hall Globe, 1st floor)

8:40-9:30 AM

Plenary talk: Chi-Wang Shu, Chair: Yongtao Zhang (Hayes-Healy Center 127)

9:30-10:00 AM

Coffee Break (Hurley Hall Globe, 1st floor)

 


Session 1
(Hayes-Healy Center 127)

Chair: Yongtao Zhang

Session 2
(Hayes-Healy Center 129)

Chair: Joseph Powers

Session 3
(Hayes-Healy Center 229)

Chair:  Jinjie Liu

10:00-10:25 AM


Triangle-based Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Shallow Water Equations

Vani Cheruvu

Mathematics and Statistics, University of Toledo
vani.cheruvu@utoledo.edu


An Adaptive ANOVA-Based Data-Driven Stochastic Method for Elliptic PDE with Random Coefficients

Guang Lin

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
guang.lin@pnnl.gov

Multi-frequency Iterative Method for the Shape Reconstruction of an Acoustically Sound-soft Obstacle Using Multiple Scatterers

Carlos Borges

Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
ceduardo@wpi.edu

10:25-10:50 AM


Some Aspects of High-order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Shallow Water Equations

Joannes Westerink

Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
jjw@nd.edu

Verified and Validated Inviscid and Viscous Calculation of Hydrogen-Air Detonation

Joseph Powers

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
powers@nd.edu

FDTD Techniques on Overlapping Cells and Moving Meshes

Jinjie Liu

Mathematical Sciences, Delaware State University
jliu@desu.edu

10:50-11:15 AM


Numerical Methods for Shallow Water Equations

Jason Albright

Mathematics, University of Utah
albright@math.utah.edu

Compressed Sensing with Partially Known Support

Fritz Keinert

Mathematics, Iowa State University
keinert@iastate.edu

Transformed Field Expansion for 3D Maxwell Equations

Lina Ma

Mathematics, Purdue University
ma6@purdue.edu

11:15-11:40 AM


Superconvergence and a Posteriori Error Estimation for the Local Discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) Method Applied to the Second-order Wave Equation

Mahboub Baccouch

Mathematics, University of Nebraska at Omaha
mbaccouch@unomaha.edu

 

Determining Critical Parameters of Sine-Gordon and Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with a Point-Like Potential Using Generalized Polynomial Chaos Methods

Debananda Chakraborty

Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo
dc58@buffalo.edu

Angular Distribution of Lyα Resonant Photons Emergent from Optically Thick Medium

Yang Yang

Applied Mathematics, Brown University
yang_yang@brown.edu

11:40AM-12:05 PM


Advantages of Locally Conservative Schemes in Coupled Flow and Transport Models

Steven Brus

Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
sbrus@nd.edu

Use of Model Reduction in Multi-fidelity Uncertainty Analysis

Oleg Roderick

Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne
roderick@mcs.anl.gov

A Robust Reconstruction for Unstructured WENO Schemes

Yuan Liu

Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
yliu7@nd.edu

12:05PM-12:30 PM


A Numerical Study of Traveling Wave Solutions for the Extended Generalized Regularized Long Wave-equation

Sanja Pantic

Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago
sanja.pantic@gmail.com

Modified Shepard's Algorithm for Scattered and Track Data Interpolation

Roberto Cavoretto

Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
roberto.cavoretto@unito.it

Boundary Detection for Singular Perturbation Problems

Weiqun Zhang

Mathematics, Wright State University
weiqun.zhang@wright.edu

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