Mid Atlantic Numerical Analysis Day 2014

A conference on numerical analysis and scientific computing for graduate students and postdocs from the Mid-Atlantic region.

Friday, 7 November 2014

 

Keynote Speaker

Eitan Tadmor,
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling
and Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland, College Park

Social Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Numerical Simulation

Abstract

We discuss the dynamics of systems of "agents" which are self-propelled by 'environmental averaging', namely, dynamics driven by the engagement of agents with their 'local neighbors.' Prototype examples include opinion dynamics in human networks, flocking, swarming and bacterial self-organization in biological organisms or rendezvous in mobile systems.

Two natural questions arise in this context: what happens when the time T tends to infinity and when the number of agents N tends to infinity.

The underlying issue is how different "rules of engagement" influence the formation of clusters realized as Dirac masses, and in particular, the tendency to concentrate into one cluster, reflecting a "consensus of opinions."

We shall discuss several key models, present the analysis of their large time formation of Dirac masses and describe numerical novel numerical methods, DG-based and velocity rescaling to simulate such Dirac masses.

 

 

The Conference

This one-day meeting will start at 10am to allow same-day travel.
It will be held in Room 617 Wachman Hall, Temple University, 1805 North Broad street, just north of Montgomery Avenue (see directions on right margin).
It will be an opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to present their research, and to meet other researchers.
There will be contributed talks and a poster session.

There will be no registration fee. In order to guarantee appropriate space in the lecture rooms, we ask every participant to please register in advance, even if you are not planning to give a talk.
Lunch will be provided.

Conference Poster

You can download a small conference poster.

Schedule

9:10- 9:50 Registration, coffee and bagels
9:50-10:00 Opening remarks
10:00-11:30 Presentations (Preconditioning)
11:30-13:30 Lunch and poster session
13:30-14:30 Keynote lecture (Eitan Tadmor)
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:30 Presentations (Models)
16:30-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:45 Presentations (Control and Optimization)
17:45-17:55 Closing remarks
18:30-20:00    Group dinner (attendance optional)

Speakers

Preconditioning
Yicong Ma Penn State University Robust preconditioner for a structure-preserving discretization of incompressible MHD equations
Kai Yang Penn State University Well-posedness and robust preconditioners for discretized fluid-structure interaction systems
Scott Ladenheim Temple University Indefinite preconditioning of the coupled Stokes-Darcy system
Models
Serap Tay University of Maryland Baltimore County Bounded confidence multidimensional opinion dynamics in continuous time
Ting Wang University of Maryland Baltimore County Efficiency of Girsanov transformation approach for parameter sensitivities of density dependent processes
Xiaochuan     Tian Columbia University Asymptotically compatible schemes for robust discretization of nonlocal models and their local limit
Control and Optimization
Mona Hajghassem     University of Maryland Baltimore County Near-optimal multigrid preconditioning for distributed optimal control problems constrained by first order ordinary differential equations
Tim Mitchell Courant Institute Fast approximation of the H norm via hybrid expansion-contraction using spectral value sets

Posters

Matthew Hassell         University of Delaware     Coupling of the boundary element and finite element methods in the time domain
Tianyu Qiu University of Delaware Time domain boundary integral equations for scattering of acoustic waves by a multiple layered
Tonatiuh     Sanchez-Vizuet University of Delaware Transient wave-structure interaction with deltaBEM
Dong Zhou Temple University Mixed finite element method for a pressure Poisson equations reformulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

Hotel Information

Please feel free to contact us for information on accommodation.

Contact

Email: naday -at- temple.edu

Organizers

Benjamin Seibold and Daniel B. Szyld

Sponsors

Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, the College of Science and Technology, and the Graduate School, Temple University.