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IMA Workshop:

Future Challenges in Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Organizers:

Thomas Yizhao Hou
Department of Applied Mathematics
California Institute of Technology
hou@ama.caltech.edu
http://www.acm.caltech.edu/~hou

and

Mitchell Luskin
School of Mathematics
University of Minnesota
luskin@math.umn.edu
http://www.math.umn.edu/~luskin/

Description:

Multiscale modeling and simulation has emerged as a new research area which has already had a significant impact on many scientific and engineering disciplines. There have recently been many significant, but problem-specific, advances in multiscale analysis, modeling, and simulation. Despite considerable progress in a wide range of the sciences, and a growing awareness of the importance of multiscale approaches, currently there is fragmentation in multiscale methodology and its rigorous analysis across its areas of application. Breakthroughs in specific domains could be applicable in a broader context, but remain isolated. As a result, multiscale descriptions are nowhere near their potential level of impact, including in education and industry.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring leading experts together to discuss the latest developments in their disciplines and to describe the future challenges in multiscale modeling and simulation. The workshop will also provide a special opportunity to connect domain experts from scientific and engineering disciplines with specialists in mathematical and computational analysis. The workshop will also help integrate isolated efforts and diverse developments in different disciplines and provide a unique opportunity to make significant advances.

  Schedule

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:30	Registration and Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:05-9:20	(IMA, Thomas Yizhao Hou/Mitchell Luskin)	Opening Remarks
9:20-9:50	Richard D. James University of Minnesota	Deformable Thin Films: from Macroscale to Microscale and from Nanoscale to Microscale Slides:   pdf
10:00-10:30	Felix Otto Universitaet Bonn	The Onset of Switching in Thin Film Ferromagnetic Elements: A Bifurcation Analysis by Gamma-Convergence
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
11:10-11:40	Emily A. Carter Princeton University	Challenges for Quantum-Mechanics-Based Multiscale Modeling Slides:   pdf
12:00	Lunch Break
2:00-2:30	Andrew Stuart University of Warwick	Conditional Path Sampling of SDEs and the Langevin MCMC Method Slides:   pdf
2:40-3:10	James P. Sethna Cornell University	Deriving Plasticity: Attempts at a Theory for Dislocation Patterning and Work Hardening Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt Movie:   avi
3:20-3:50	Coffee Break
3:50-4:20	Yannis G. Kevrekidis Princeton University	Some Computational Examples of Equation-Free Modeling Slides:   html    pdf   ps    ppt
4:30-5:00	Open Discussion (moderated by Richard D. James)
5:00-5:15	Group photo
5:15	IMA Tea/James D. Murray Reception (with POSTER SESSION) 400 Lind Hall Kumud S. Altmayer University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Multi-scale Modeling for a Premalignant Mutation Equation html    pdf    ps    doc Ravi Chinnappan Ford Motor Company First-Principles Calculation of Stable and Metastable Precipitate Phase Solvus Boundaries in Al-Cu Alloys Matthias K. Gobbert University of Maryland, Baltimore County Multiscale Models for Production Processes in Microelectronics Manufacturing Slides:   ps Luigi La Ragione Cornell University The Initial Incremental Response of a Random Aggregate of Identical Spheres Slides:   pdf Journal:   pdf Frédéric Legoll IMA Analysis of a Prototypical Multiscale Method Coupling Atomistic and Continuum Mechanics Slides:   pdf Xiantao Li IMA Heterogeneous Multiscale Method for the Modeling of Dynamics of Solids at Finite Temperature Robert P. Lipton Louisiana State University Multi-Scale Stress Analysis for Composite Media Dionisios Margetis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Continuum Theory of Interacting Steps on Crystal Surfaces in (2+1) Dimensions Daniel Onofrei Worcester Polytechnic Institute The Periodic Unfolding Method and Applications to the Homogenization in Perforated Materials and Neumann Sieve Peter Philip IMA Simulation and Control of Sublimation Growth of SiC Bulk Single Crystals Slides:   pdf Yi Sun Princeton University Heterogeneous Multi-scale Methods for Interface Tracking of Combustion Fronts Li-Lian Wang Purdue University Efficient Spectral Methods Using Generalized Jacobi Polynomials Slides:   pdf Olaf Weckner MIT The Effect of Long-Range Forces on the Dynamics of a Bar Poster:   pdf
IMA Public Lecture Series: Math Matters: James D. Murray (University of Oxford) The Marriage Equation A Practical Theory for Predicting Divorce and a Scientifically-Based Marital Therapy 7:00 pm, Smith Hall 100
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
9:00	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:20-9:50	Bjorn Engquist Princeton University	Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods
10:00-10:30	Thomas Yizhao Hou California Institute of Technology	Multiscale Modeling and Computation of Incompressible Flow
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
11:10-11:40	Olivier Pironneau Université Paris VI	Nuclear Waste Safety of Repository Vaults: A Multi-Scale Problem Slides:   pdf
12:00	Lunch Break
2:00-2:30	Russel Caflisch UCLA	Multiscale Modeling of Epitaxial Growth Processes Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt
2:40-3:10	Weinan E Princeton University	Simple Concepts in Multiscale Modeling
3:20-3:50	Coffee Break
3:50-4:20	Ken A. Dill University of California - San Francisco	Protein Folding as a Global Optimization Problem
4:30-5:00	Open Discussion (moderated by Mitchell Luskin)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
9:00	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:20-9:50	Yalchin Efendiev Texas A&M University	Upscaling of Geocellular Models for Flow and Transport Simulation in Heterogeneous Reservoirs
10:00-10:30	Achi Brandt University of California - Los Angeles	From Fast Solvers to Systematic Upscaling Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
11:10-11:40	Linda R. Petzold University of California - Santa Barbara	Multiscale Stochastic Simulation Algorithm with Stochastic Partial Equilibrium Assumption for Chemically Reacting Systems Slides:   html    pdf    ps    ppt
12:00	Lunch Break
2:00-2:30	Zhiming Chen Academy of Sciences	On the Upscaling of a Class of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations  pdf
2:40-3:10	Grégoire Allaire Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique	Examples of Multiscale Methods in Shape Optimization Slides:   pdf
3:20-3:50	Coffee Break
3:50-4:50	Panel Discussion (moderated by Thomas Yizhao Hou) Panel Members: Masao Doi, Bjorn Engquist, Christopher Wolverton
4:50-5:00	Concluding Remarks

  Participants

NAME	DEPARTMENT	AFFILIATION
Gregoire Allaire	Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées	École Polytechnique
Kumud Altmayer	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Douglas Arnold	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Donald Aronson	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Patricia Bauman	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Daniel Bentil	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of Vermont
Keith Berrier		Rice University
Achi Brandt	Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science	Weizmann Institute of Science
Russel Caflisch	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Maria-Carme Calderer	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Enrico Capobianco		Boston University
Tony Carlson		University of Minnesota
Emily Carter	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Qian-Yong Chen	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Zhiming Chen	Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing	Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ravi Chinnappan	Department of Materials Science and Engineering	Ford
Shue-Sum Chow	Department of Mathematics	Brigham Young University
L. Pamela Cook	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Diane Denny	Department of Mathematics	University of Wyoming
Brian DiDonna	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Ken Dill	Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry	University of San Francisco
Masao Doi	Department of Applied Physics	University of Tokyo
Georg Dolzmann	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Maryland
Weinan E	Department of Mathematics and Applied Computational Mathematics	Princeton University
Yalchin Efendiev	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Bjorn Engquist	Department of Mathematics	University of Texas at Austin
Mark Forest	Department of Mathematics	University of North Carolina
Gilles Francfort	Institut Galilee	Université de Paris XIII (Paris-Nord)
Laura Frink	Department of Computational Biology	Sandia National Laboratories
Matthias Gobbert	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of Maryland Baltimore County
Robert Gulliver	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Rohit Gupta	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
Takumi Hawa	Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Michael Heroux	Mathematical Software Research Group	Sandia National Laboratories
David Horntrop	Department of Mathematical Sciences	New Jersey Institute of Technology
Thomas Hou	Department of Applied Mathematics	California Institute of Technology
Yinlun Huang	Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	Wayne State University
J. Mac Hyman	Department of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard James	Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics	University of Minnesota
Sookyung Joo	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Ning Ju	Department of Mathematics	Oklahoma State University
Chiu-Yen Kao	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Markos Katsoulakis	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of Massachusetts
Yannis Kevrekidis	Department of Chemicial Engineering	Princeton University
Abdul Qayyum Khaliq	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin
Mi-Young Kim	Department of Mathematics	Inha University
Bernhard Klampfl	Department of Materials Science	Klaiss Inc.
Richard Kollar	Institute of Mathematics and its Application	University of Minnesota
Martin Kruzik	Institute of Information Theory and Automation	Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences
Matthias Kurzke	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Yuen Yick Kwan	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Luigi La Ragione	Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics	Cornell University
Christopher Larsen	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Seong Lee	Reservoir Simulation	Chevron Corporation
Frédéric Legoll		University of Minnesota
Richard Lehoucq	Computational Mathematics and Algorithms	Sandia National Laboratories
Debra Lewis	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Bo Li	Department of Mathematics	University of California, San Diego
Shengtai Li	Theoretical Division	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Xiantao Li	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Xiaofan Li	Department of Applied Mathematics	Illinois Institute of Technology
Fanghua Lin	Department of Mathematics	New York University
Robert Lipton	Department of Mathematics	Louisiana State University
Chun Liu	Department of Mathematics	Pennsylvania State University
Zuhan Liu	Department of Mathematics	Xuzhou Normal University
Helen Lou	Department of Chemicial Engineering	Lamar University
John Lowengrub	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Irvine
Mitchell Luskin	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Dionisios Margetis	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Mucha	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Onofrei	Department of Mathematics	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Felix Otto	Institute for Applied Mathematics	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Miao-Jung Ou	Department of Mathematics	University of Central Florida
Eun-Jae Park	Department of Mathematical Sciences	BK21 Mathematical Science Division
Jinhae Park	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Linda Petzold	Department of Computer Science	University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Philip	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Olivier Pironneau	Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions	Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)
Petr Plechac	Mathematics Institute	University of Warwick
Vincent Prantil	Department of Mechanical Engineering	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Keith Promislow	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
Rolf Ryham	Department of Mathematics	Pennsylvania State University
Arnd Scheel	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Gilberto Schleiniger	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
George Sell	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
James Sethna	Department of Physics	Cornell University
Dongwoo Sheen	School of Mathematical Sciences	Seoul National University
Jianhong Shen	Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences	University of Minnesota
Jie Shen	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Tien-Tsan Shieh	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Shagi-Di Shih	Department of Mathematics	University of Wyoming
Suzanne Shontz	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Devashish Shrivastava	Department of Radiology	University of Minnesota
Valery Smyshlyaev	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Bath
Peter Sternberg	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Andrew Stuart	Mathematics Institute	University of Warwick
Yi Sun	Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics	Princeton University
Birgit Suttner	Department of Siimulation and Risk Management	Siemens
Vladimir Sverak	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Peter Takac	Fachbereich Mathematik	Universität Rostock
Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of Massachusetts
Igor Tsukerman	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Akron
Eric Vanden-Eijnden	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	New York University
Kodakkal Viswanathan	School of Mathematics	Seoul National University
David Voss	Department of Mathematics	Western Illinois University
Li-Lian Wang	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Zhi-Qiang Wang	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Utah State University
Stephen Watson	ESAM	Northwestern University
Olaf Weckner	Department of Mechanical Engineering	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christian Wernz	Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	University of Massachusetts
Jon Wilkening	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	New York University
Steven Wise	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Irvine
Christopher Wolverton	Physical and Environmental Sciences Department	Ford
Baisheng Yan	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
Emmanuel Yomba	Faculty of Science	Ngaoundere University
Yanis Yortsos	Department of Chemicial Engineering	University of Southern California
Peng Yu	Department of Mathematics	Pennsylvania State University
Giovanni Zanzotto	DMSA	Università di Padova