High Frequency Wave Propagation

September 19 - September 22, 2005

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions

This workshop is part of the series of events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the University of Maryland

Tuesday, September 20
9:00 - 9:30	COFFEE
MORNING SESSION	Chair: François Castella (Université de Rennes 1)
9:30 - 10:10	Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin) "Hamiltonian-preserving schemes for the Liouville equation with discontinuous potentials"
10:15 - 10:55	Olof Runborg (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH) "A Fast Phase Space Method for Computing Creeping Rays"
11:00 - 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10	Hailiang Liu (Iowa State University) "Computational High-Frequency Wave Propagation Using the Level Set Method"
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine)
2:00 - 2:40	François Castella (Université de Rennes 1) "High-frequency Behaviour of the Helmholtz Equation: Radiation Condition at Infinity, Bounds, and a Counter-example"
2:45 - 3:25	Vladimir Oliker (Emory University) "High Frequency Wave Propagation and Discrete Geodesics"
3:30 - 4:00	COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:40	Stephen Langdon (University of Reading) "High Frequency Scattering by Convex Polygons"
4:45 - 5:15	James Sethian (University of California, Berkeley) "Escape Equation Methods for Multiple Arrivals"
EVENING ACTIVITIES
6:30	DINNER AT FRANKLIN'S RESTAURANT
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Wednesday, September 21
9:00 - 9:30	COFFEE
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Dave Levermore (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Oscar Bruno (California Institute of Technology) "New High-order, High-frequency Methods in Computational Electromagnetism"
10:15 - 10:55	Robert Burkholder (Ohio State University) "Asymptotic Phasefront Extraction of High Frequency Wave Components from a Numerical Mesh"
11:00 - 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10	Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology) "The Phase Flow Method"
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH  (hosted by CSCAMM)
AFTERNOON SESSION	FREE AFTERNOON
EVENING ACTIVITIES
6:00pm 1410 Physics Lecture Hall	In celebration of the international World Year of Physics The Story Behind The World's Most Famous Equation, E=MC2 A screening of the NOVA docudrama "Einstein's Big Idea" and a Q&A session with Professor S. James Gates and Ms. Paula Aspell
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