Mid Atlantic Numerical Analysis Day 2017

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

Friday, 3 November 2017

 

Keynote Speaker

Ilse Ipsen,
North Carolina State University

 

Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

 

Abstract

The emergence of massive data sets, over the past fifteen or so years, has lead to the development of Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra. Fast and accurate randomized matrix algorithms are being designed for applications like machine learning, population genomics, astronomy, nuclear engineering, and optimal experimental design.
We give a flavour of randomized algorithms for the solution of least squares/regression problems and, if time permits, for the computation of logdeterminants. Along the way we illustrate important concepts from numerical analysis (conditioning and pre-conditioning) and statistics (sampling and leverage scores).

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.
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 conference announcement poster.

Schedule

9:15- 9:50 Registration and breakfast (provided)
9:50-10:00 Opening remarks
10:00-11:00 Presentations (Discontinuous Galerkin)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 Presentations (Analysis of Numerical Methods for PDEs)
12:15-13:30 Posters and lunch (provided)
13:30-14:30 Keynote lecture (Ilse Ipsen)
14:30-14:45 Coffee break
14:45-15:45 Presentations (Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization)
15:45-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:20 Presentations (Numerical Schemes and Applications)
17:20-17:30 Closing remarks
18:00-20:00    Group dinner (attendance optional)

Speakers

Discontinuous Galerkin
Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet New York University An HDG solver for the Grad-Shafranov equation: the fixed-boundary problem
Shukai Du University of Delaware A new HDG projection and its applications
Xiaofeng Cai University of Delaware A high order semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin method for Vlasov-Poisson simulations without operator splitting
Analysis of Numerical Methods for PDEs
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard New York University Pseudo-spectral methods on surfaces of genus one
Kevin Andrew    Williamson           University of Maryland Baltimore County A-posteriori error estimation and mesh refinement for the Stokes-Brinkman problem
Christian Glusa Sandia National Laboratories Adaptive FEM for the fractional Laplacian: a-priori and a-posteriori error estimates, efficient implementation and multigrid solver
Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization
Jose Garay Temple University Asynchronous optimized Schwarz method for Poisson's equation in rectangular domains
Jimmy Vogel Purdue University Hierarchical matrices and control systems
Azam Asl New York University Failure of the gradient method on nonsmooth functions
Numerical Schemes and Applications
Kevin Aiton University of Delaware A 2D partition of unity adaptive refinement Chebyshev polynomial method
Seye Adekanye Howard University Attaining dynamical consistency using nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) schemes
Thomas Brown University of Delaware Optimal control of transient waves in piezoelectric media
Yingxiang Zhou University of Delaware Inference of transition rates in a birth-death chain from conditional extinction times

Posters

Jiajie Chen University of Delaware A new type of semi-Lagrangian WENO scheme with applications in Vlasov and incompressible Euler simulations
Samuel Eskridge    Cogar University of Delaware Modified transmission eigenvalues in inverse scattering theory
Hasan Eruslu University of Delaware Numerical analysis of viscoelastic wave models
Wei Guo Texas Tech University A sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin method for the transport simulations
Jacob Jacavage    University of Delaware A nonconforming saddle point least squares approach for elliptic interface problems
Arkadz Kirshtein Penn State University Energetic variational approach to multi-component flows
Kathryn Lund Temple University Block harmonic methods for matrix functions
Giordano Tierra Temple University On mixtures of nematic-isotropic flows with anchoring and stretching effects
Dong Zhou Temple University Order reduction in Runge-Kutta schemes for initial boundary value problems

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.