ESF Research Conferences

ESF Mathematics Conference in partnership with EMS and ERCOM/INI

Highly Oscillatory Problems: From Theory to Applications

12-17 September 2010

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the European Research Centres on Mathematics (ERCOM) and the Isaac Newton Institute (INI)

Programme

Monday 13 September
08:45 - 09:00Welcome from the Chair, Arieh Iserles, Cambridge University, UK, the Co-Chair Claude Le Bris, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, FR, Sir David Wallace, INI Director,
and the ESF Rapporteur, Chus Sanz-Serna
09:00 - 10:00Ilaria Perugia, University of Pavia, IT
Non polynomial approximations of wave problems
10-00 - 11:00Edriss Titi, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
A Numerical Algorithm for Advancing Slow Features in Fast-Slow Systems without Scale Separation - A Young Measure Approach
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30Daan Huybrechs, K.U. Leuven, BE
Fourier series on triangles and tetrahedra
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch and break
14:00 - 14:30
Ludwig Gauckler, Universitaet Tuebingen, DE
Modulated Fourier expansions for the long-time analysis of Hamiltonian PDEs
14:30 - 15:00
Reinout  Quispel, La Trobe University, AU
Integral-Preserving Integrators
15:00 - 15:30
Herrmann Brunner, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA
On the numerical solution of first-kind Volterra integral equations with highly oscillatory kernels
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Multiple Integrals Under Differential Constraints: Two-Scale Convergence and Homogenization
17:00 - 18:00
Peter Markowich, University of Cambridge, UK
Lecture to be announced
18:00 - 18:30
Ekatarina Karatsuba, Russian Academy of Sciences, RU
On approximation of special oscillating series of quantum theory
18:30 - 19:00
Welcome drink
19:15 - 19:45
Dinner at Fitzwilliam College
Tuesday 14 September
09:00 - 10:00
Assyr Addulle, EPFL, CH
Lecture to be announced
10:00 - 11:00
Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University, US
Coarse-scale spaces for multiscale high-contrast problems and their applications
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
Caroline Lasser, Technische Universität München, DE
Computing expectation values and fluxes for quantum molecular dynamics
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Frederic Legoll, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, FR
Title: Variance reduction in stochastic homogenization using antithetic variables (co-authors: Xavier Blanc, CEA, FR; Ronan Costaouec, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, FR; Claude Le Bris, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, FR)
14:30 - 15:00
Gil Ariel, Bar-Ilan University, IL
Oscillatory systems with three separated timescales (co-authors Bjorn Engquist and Richard Tsai)
15:00 - 15:30
Matthew Dobson, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, FR
Developing Integrators for Highly Oscillatory Hamiltonian
Systems Using Homogenization
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Poster Session
16:30 - 17:00
Christiaan Stolk, University of Amsterdam, NL
Preconditioning the Helmholtz equation using rapidly oscillating functions
17:00 - 17:30
Timo Betcke, University of Reading, UK
Coercivity, Nonnormality and Numerical Range of boundary integral operators in high-frequency scattering
17:30 - 18:00
Ralf Hiptmair, ETH Zurich, CH
Tensor product method for radiative transfer
18:00 - 18:30
Lehei Banjai, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, DE
Runga-Kutta convolution quadrature: convergence theory and  applications to time-domain BIE of acoustic scattering
19:15 -19:45
Dinner at Fitzwilliam College
Wednesday 15 September
09:00 - 10:00

Christian Lubich, Universitaet Tuebingen, DE
Modulated Fourier expansions and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem

10:00 - 11:00
Tony Lelievre, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, FR
Metastability, rare events and sampling problems in molecular dynamics
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break and Group Picture
11:30 - 12:00
Andrea Moiola, ETH Zurich, CH
Approximation by plane waves
12:00 - 12:30
Malte Peter, University of Augsburg, DE
The generalised eigenfunction method and time-dependent linear water-wave impact on a vertical elastic plate
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Sheehan Olver, Oxford University, UK
Numerical solution of Riemann–Hilbert problems: Painlevé II
14:30 - 15:00
Jens Geier, TU Wien, AT
Efficient finite difference schemes for highly oscillatory linear ODE
15:00 - 15:30
Marianna Khanamirian, Cambridge University, UK
From oscillatory ODEs to oscillatory PDEs
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Chus Sanz-Serna, Universidad de Valladolid, ES
Optimal Tuning of Hybrid Monte Carlo
This is joint work with A. Beskos, N.S. Pillai, G.O. Roberts and A.M. Stuart.

17:00 - 18:00

Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick, UK
LThe Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm in High Dimensions

18:00 - 18:30
Olof Runborg, KTH, SE
Error Estimates for Gaussian Beam Superposition
19:30
Conference dinner
Thursday 16 September
09:00 - 10:00
Houman Owhadi, California Institute of Technology, US
Homogenization with non-separated scales and high contrast
10:00 - 11:00
Thanasis Fokas, University of Cambridge, UK
Lecture to be announced
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00
Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, University of Cambridge, UK
Higher-order total variation for oscillating patterns
12:00 - 12:30
Olena Mul, Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj National Technical University, UA
Oscillation Analysis of Some Hybrid Dynamical Systems of Transmission Pipelines
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30

Fatih Ecevit, Bogazici University, TR
Convergent high-frequency algorithms for single and multiple scattering

14:30 - 15:00
Wu Hao, University Paul Sabatier, FR
Bloch Decomposition-Based Gaussian Beam Method for the Schrodinger equation with Periodic Potentials
15:00 - 15:30
Liviu Ignat, Institute of Mathematics "Simon Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy, RO
Strichartz estimates for the Schroedinger equation on a tree and applications
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai, University of Texas at Austin
Upscaling of network models for porous media
16:30 - 17:00
Ricardo Perreira Silva, University of the State of São Paulo, BR
Thin domains with highly oscillating boundaries
17:00 - 17:30
Leopold Hermann, Czech Technical University, CZ
Oscillatory diffusion equation
17:30 - 18:00
Qin Sheng, Baylor University, US
An Effective Finite Difference Approach for Optical Beam Propagations
18:00 - 18:30
Pablo Alvarez-Caudevilla, Scuola Normale Superiore, IT
Global and Blow-up patterns of the Cauchy problem of a fourth-order thin film equation.
18:45 - 19:15
Dinner at Fitzwilliam College
Friday 17 September
09:00 - 10:00
Isabelle Terrasse, Aerospatiale Paris, FR
Applications of High Frequency Methods in Aeronautics: status and needs
10:10 - 10:40
Joaquim M. C. Correia, Universidade de Évora, PT
Nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws: diffusive-dispersive limits
10:40 - 11:10
Euan Spence, University of Bath, UK
Coercivity of boundary integral operators in high frequency scattering
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
Dario Bambussi, University of Milan, IT
Existence of approximate solitary waves in simplectic algorithms of integration (co-authors: Erwan Faou and Benoit Grebert)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch and departure

Poster List

Chiselev    Ana-MariaPressure field of acoustic sensors of order q
Cohen David    Stochastic Trigonometric Integrators
Darrigrand    Eric    Generalized combined field integral equations and fast multipole method for the solution of the Helmholtz equation in 3D
Erdem Özge    Energy preserving integrators for Hamiltonian ode’s with Poisson structure
Geier Jens    Efficient finite difference schemes for highly oscillatory linear ODE
Habibi    Zakaria    Homogenization of a Conductive, Convective and Radiative Heat Transfer Problem
Ishkhanyan    Hayk  
A physically realizable term-crossing model for cold atom association
Jha Shambhu Nath    On the Evaluation of Oscillatory Fields in Finite and Infinite Arrays in the Context of Radiation and Scattering Problems
Kim Tatiana    Hybrid numerical-asymptotic method for solving high-frequency acoustic scattering problems in two dimensions
Li Wencheng    Title not available
Lisitsa  Vadim    Stable and low-reflection local time-space mesh refinement for 3D finite-difference simulation of wave propagation
Lytvyn Oleg    The Theory of Interlineation and Interflatation of Functions of Many Variables and Its Applications including Highly Oscillatory Problems
Marchis    Iuliana    Homogenization and reduction of dimension for parametric variational inequalities on nocthed beams
Nechuiviter    Olesia
The optimal by the order of exactness method with using spline-interlineation on the lines of rectangulation and two dimensions highly oscillatory integrals
Persson Jens    Evolution-multiscale convergence and homogenisation of certain monotone parabolic problems
Protasov   
Maxim Igorevich 
Asymptotic inversion of multi-component surface seismic data
Tran Minh Binh    Parallel Schwarz Waveform Relaxation Algorithm for an N-Dimensional Semilinear Heat Equation