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Program

The program is listed below.

Presentations that are part of Ian Sloan's birthday celebrations will be given on Tuesday in the sections labelled Advanced Computational Techniques and Computation and Complexity.

The final copy of the book of abstracts is available.

The plenary talks will be held in Manning Clark Centre Theatre 2. The workshop will be given in Copland G31 ( building 24 ). See the venue page for more information.

The Computational Mathematics Group meeting will be on Tuesday lunch time in MCC T6. All conference participants are welcome to attend.

The welcome reception will be given in the Drawing Room at University House. The conference dinner will be in the Great Hall of University House.




Sunday

  Sunday

4:00-6:00 pm Welcome Reception - University House

  Monday

8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Opening
MCC T2 MCC T5 MCC T6
9:00-10:00 Ulrich Rüde
Simulation of Complex Flows with the Lattice Boltzmann Method on Supercomputers
10:00-11:00 CFD Modelling Numerical Models Data Analysis
11:00-11:20 Morning Tea
11:20-12:40 CFD Modelling Numerical Models Data Analysis
12:40-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:40 Susanne Brenner
Nonconforming Methods for Electromagnetics
2:40-3:40 CFD Modelling Numerical Models High Performance Computing
3:40-4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:20 CFD Modelling Numerical Models Optimisation
7:00-8:30 David Keyes
Petaflops, Seriously

  Tuesday

MCC T2 MCC T5 MCC T6
9:00-10:00 Ernst Stephan
Efficient Coupling of Finite Elements and Boundary Elements/ Adaptive Procedures and Preconditioners
10:00-11:00 Advanced Computational Techniques Biological Models Numerical Linear Algebra
11:00-11:20 Morning Tea
11:20-12:40 Advanced Computational Techniques Biological Models Inverse Problems
12:40-1:40 Lunch
CMG Meeting
1:40-2:40 Ian Sloan
High-dimensional challenges for computational mathematics
2:40-3:40 Computation and Complexity Industrial Applications Variational Methods
3:40-4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:20 Computation and Complexity Industrial Applications General Computational Methods
6:30-8:30 Dinner - University House

  Wednesday

MCC T2 MCC T5 MCC T6
9:00-10:00 Larry Forbes
Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Free-Surface Problems in Fluid Mechanics
10:00-10:15 Discussion about CTAC Conference Proceedings - Geoff Mercer
10:15-11:15 General Computational Methods Numerical Models Numerical Linear Algebra
11:15-11:35 Morning Tea
11:35-12:55 General Computational Methods Variational Methods Function Approximations
12:55-1:55 Lunch
1:55-2:55 Linda Petzold
Computational Methods for Phase Response Analysis of Circadian Clocks
3:00 Conference Close
Thursday - Workshop

  Thursday - Workshop

9:00-10:30 David Keyes Introduction to domain decomposition methods
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 Susanne Brenner Interior penalty methods for second and fourth order problems
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Linda PetzoldMultiscale Simulation of Copper Electrodeposition
3:00-3:30 Afternoon Tea
3:30-5:00 Ulrich Rüde Hardware-aware programming


Monday

CFD Modelling (MCC T2)

10:00 AM Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Intermediate Froude Number Fountain Flow NICHOLAS WILLIAMSON
10:20 AM Flow Stability and Wall Shear Stress Profiles in Fusiform Aneurysms GREGORY SHEARD
10:40 AM Kelvin Type Instabilities of Batchelor Vortex Pairs With Differing Circulations CHRISTOPHER BUTLER
11:20 AM A Numerical Solution for Moving Boundary Shallow Water Flow in Parabolic Bottom Topography. JOE SAMPSON
11:40 AM A Three-Dimensional Finite Volume Method for Modelling Saltwater Intrusion Into Coastal Aquifers TIMOTHY MORONEY
12:00 PM Application of Method of False Transients to Generate Smooth Around a Body in Motion Grids EDDIE LY
12:20 PM A Boundary Integral Equation Method for Conformal Mapping MICHAEL KIRKPATRICK
02:40 PM Linear Stability Analysis of Counter-Rotating Unequal-Strength Batchelor Vortex Pairs JOINE SO
03:00 PM Model Turbulent Floods With the Smagorinski Large Eddy Closure DMITRY STRUNIN
03:20 PM Numerical Study of Flow Generated in a Lake and Experiment Using GPS MASAJI WATANABE
04:00 PM Purging of Saline Fluid From a Cavity by an Overflow of Fresh Water on a Channel Bend. NATALIE GILLAM
04:20 PM Revisiting the Transition to Unsteady Flow in an Open Cylinder With Rotating End Wall STUART COGAN
04:40 PM
05:00 PM


Numerical Models (MCC T5)

10:00 AM Longitudinal Dispersion in a Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetland: A Numerical Solution ERCILIA SOUSA
10:20 AM Modellin Travelling Waves in Spatially Constrained Environments FARAH AINI ABDULLAH
10:40 AM Time-Fractional Distributed Order Symmetric Space-Fractional Diffusion Equation QIANQIAN YANG
11:20 AM A Spring and Mass Model for Determining the Lowest Risk Path in a Threat Environment MARTIN ROWE
11:40 AM Testing Mode-Coupling Theory Predictions Near and on the Freezing Line of a Simple Fluid MAHADEVAN AHMED
12:00 PM Dynamic Hip Fracture Modelling DAVID RICHARDS
12:20 PM Scaled Boundary FEM Solution of Wave Diffraction by an Elliptic Cylinder LONGBIN TAO
02:40 PM Stochastic Subgrid Modelling for Atmospheric Large Eddy Simulations JORGEN FREDERIKSEN
03:00 PM AGREPS: ACCESS Global and Regional Ensemble Prediction Scheme TERENCE O'KANE
03:20 PM Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows LINDA STALS
04:00 PM A Fully Discrete Algorithm for High Frequency Acoustic Scattering in Three Dimensions STUART HAWKINS
04:20 PM Parameterization of Subgrid-Scale Energy Injection in Oceanic Flows MEELIS ZIDIKHERI
04:40 PM Soliton Solutions for KdV Equation by Homotopy Analysis Method HAO SONG
05:00 AM Mathematical Analysis of Microbial Depolymerization Processes of Xenobiotic Polymers MASAJI WATANABE

Data Analysis (MCC T6)

10:00 AM Classification of Human Activity From Accelerometer Data GARRY NEWSAM
10:20 AM Sensitivity of Block Entropy Based Complexity Metrics to Faulty Data JAY LARSON
10:40 AM Association Rule Mining in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Data FRANK DETERING
11:20 AM Estimating the Potential Predictability of West Australian Surface Temperature Using Monthly Data SIMON GRAINGER
11:40 AM A Method for Estimating the Potential Predictability of Precipitation Over Western Australia CARSTEN FREDERIKSEN
12:00 PM A Method for Evaluating the Modes of Variability in Global Climate Models SIMON GRAINGER
12:20 PM Automated Registration for Augmenting Micro-CT 3C Images SHANE LATHAM

High Performance Computing (MCC T6)

02:40 PM Efficient Solvers for Incompressible Flows in Geosciences ARTAK AMIRBEKYAN
03:00 PM Resource Allocation and Component Scheduling Considerations for Parallel Coupled Systems JAY LARSON
03:20 PM Using Scalapack to Parallelize Optimization on the Sphere PAUL LEOPARDI

Optimisation (MCC T6)

04:00 PM Computer Aided Optimisation of a Constant Shear-Rate Micro-Channel Contraction. SIMON HIGGINS
04:20 PM On ODE Estimation Algorithms MICHAEL OSBORNE
04:40 AM Visual Cortex Mapping by Conjugate Gradients DAVID SMITH
05:00 PM



Tuesday

Advanced Computational Techniques for 3D Problems (MCC T2)

10:00 AM Domain Decomposition Methods for Multiscale Elliptic PDEs IVAN GRAHAM
10:20 AM A Spectral Method With Quadrature for Navier-Stokes Equations on the Rotating Sphere QUOC THONG LE GIA
10:40 AM Simulation of Electromagnetic Interactions With Multiple Three Dimensional Particles MAHADEVAN GANESH
11:20 AM Numerical Solutions for Pseudodifferential Equations on the Sphere DUONG PHAM
11:40 AM Interpolation on the Sphere: A Fast Solution Technique THANH TRAN
12:00 PM Self-avoiding Random Walks on the Surface of a Sphere ZBIGNIEW STACHURSKI
12:20 PM

Computation and Complexity for Multivariate Problems (MCC T2)

02:40 PM Tractability of Multivariate Approximation: Smoothness Sometimes Hurts HENRYK WOZNIAKOWSKI
03:00 PM Approximating the Solution of the Chemical Master Equation by Aggregation MARKUS HEGLAND
03:20 PM New Averaging Technique for Approximating Weighted Integrals GRZEGORZ WASILKOWSKI
04:00 PM QMC for Finance Beyond Black-Scholes JAN BALDEAUX
04:20 PM Multilevel Monte Carlo for Discontinuous Payoffs MIKE GILES
04:40 PM Multivariate Density Estimation: A Sparse Grid Approach to reducing the Curse of Dimensionality STEPHEN ROBERTS
05:00 PM


Biological Models (MCC T5)

10:00 AM Characteristics of a Generalised Model of Host-Parasite Interactions STEVEN BARRY
10:20 AM Estimation of Parameters for Two Spotted Spider Mite With ASPRIHA CHAKRABORTY
10:40 AM Average and Deviation for Stochastic Fithugh-Nagumo System WEI WANG
11:20 AM A Numerical Approach to Modelling Avascular Tumour Evolution With White Noise KENG CHENG ANG
11:40 AM Changes in Flow and Wall Stresses Through Arterial Constrictions Offset From the Vessel Centre CHARLENE CHUA
12:00 PM The Validity of Axisymmetric Assumptions When Investigating Pulsatile Biological Flows R. AIDAN JAMISON
12:20 PM Poisson-Nernst-Planck Theory and Its Application to the Modelling of Neurons and Their Environment PAUL NANNINGA

Industrial Applications (MCC T5)

02:40 PM Annealing of Steel Coils STEVEN BARRY
03:00 PM Effective Diffusivities and Time Lag Through Multiple Layers ROSLYN HICKSON
03:20 PM Fluid Flow Between Active Elastic Plates DMITRY STRUNIN
04:00 PM Groundwater Response to Tidal Forcing in Phreatic Aquifers MELANIE ROBERTS
04:20 PM Air Flow Through a Wine Cork. STEVEN BARRY
04:40 PM Using FCM to Analyze the Customer Satisfaction in an Iranian Automotive Company SOMAYEH ALIZADEH
05:00 PM Using Memetic Algorithm to Learn FCM in Modeling Agile NPD Process SOMAYEH ALIZADEH

Numerical Linear Algebra (MCC T6)

10:00 AM A Restarted and Preconditioned Matrix Transfer Technique for Solving the Fractional Poisson Equation DANIEL SIMPSON
10:20 AM Acceleration of Inexact Inverse Iteration for Eigenvalue Problems ALAN ANDREW
10:40 AM Solution of Large Sparse Singular Systems IAN TURNER

Variational Methods (MCC T6)

02:40 PM Application of the Variational Iteration Method to the Bonhoeffer van der Pol Equation RICHARD PENNIFOLD
03:00 PM Discontinuous Galerkin Method for an Evolution Equation With Memory WILLIAM MCLEAN
03:20 PM Finite Element Methods for Nearly Incompressible Elasticity on Arbitrary Meshes BISHNU LAMICHHANE

General Computational Methods (MCC T6)

04:00 PM On The Recursive Theory of Computation STEPHEN BOYCE
04:20 PM Oscillatory Combustion Waves in a Chain-Branching Reaction Model HARVINDER SIDHU
04:40 PM Modelling the Cryogenic Treatment of Warts GEOFF MERCER
05:00 PM Controllability of a Class of Flexible Spacecraft With Nonlinear Terms FANG WANG

Wednesday

General Computational Methods (MCC T2)

10:15 AM A Petrov-Galerkin Method for an Integro-Differential Equation With a Memory Term KASSEM MUSTAPHA
10:35 AM Geometric Method for the 2-D Poisson Equation on an Irregular Domain With Mixed Boundary Conditions ZIAD JOMAA
10:55 AM Globally Stable Attitude Control of Underactuated Rigid Spacecraft FANG WANG
11:35 AM Exact Domain Walls and Their Stability ZLATKO JOVANOSKI
11:55 AM Application of Rational Chebyshev and Hermite Polynomials to Optical Problems ISAAC TOWERS
12:15 PM Surface Integral Equation Based T-Matrix Computations for Three Dimensional Acoustic Scattering STUART HAWKINS
12:35 PM Estimating Structural Equation Models Covariance Matrices Using Semi-Definite Programming. TANIA PRVAN

Numerical Models (MCC T5)

10:15 AM Numerical Particle-like Solution of the Extended Hamilton-Jacobi Equation DMITRY STRUNIN
10:35 PM


10:55 AM

Variational Methods (MCC T5)

11:35 AM Adaptive Augmented Gmres Method for Solving Ill-Posed Problems NAO KUROIWA
11:55 AM A Posteriori Error Estimates For H1-Galerkin Mixed Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Problems RAJEN SINHA
12:15 AM Hat basis function smoothing: the local character of the data functions PHIL WILLIAMS

Numerical Linear Algebra and Inverse Problems (MCC T6)

10:15 AM The Convergence of the Immersed Interface Method for Two Channels Dissipation Model With Discontinue Constants Velocity SUMARDI SUMARDI
10:35 AM Error analysis and numerical investigation of linear least squares methods for derivative estimation JOHN BELWARD
10:55 AM The Rheological Inverse Problem of Interconversion Between Relaxation to Creep ROBERT S. (BOB) ANDERSSEN

Functional Approximation (MCC T6)

11:35 AM Existence Uniqueness and Approximation of Solutions to Dynamic Equations on Time Scales ATIYA ZAIDI
11:55 AM Quantifying parametric uncertainty in differential equations JOHN JAKEMAN
12:15 PM The Total Quasi-Steady State Assumption: Its Justification by Singular Perturbation Theory and Its a CHIN FOON KHOO
12:35 AM