Computational Science and Engineering
Annual Research Symposium

9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Room 2240, Digital Computer Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61801

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Linda Petzold — University of California, Santa Barbara

Prof. Jan Hesthaven* — Brown University

AGENDA
Time Speaker Affiliation Title of Presentation
 8:30 Registration/Coffee
 8:55 Michael Heath Director, CSE Welcoming Remarks
 9:00 Linda Petzold UCSB Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Systems
10:00 Break
10:10 Eric Cyr CS Goal-Oriented Adaptivity for the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation
10:35 Teck Tan MatSE Materials by Design: Predicting Thermodynamic Properties of Real Materials from First-Principles Methods
11:00 Behzad Sharif ECE Advances in Parallel Cardiac MRI with Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Modeling
11:25 Bernard Ghanem ECE Phase Based Model for Dynamic Textures
12:00 Lunch ( To reserve a lunch, contact grittend@uiuc.edu )
 1:10 William Fendt Physics New Directions in Cosmological Parameter Estimation
 1:35 Evan VanderZee Math Well-Centered Triangulation Via Mesh Optimization in Two and Three Dimensions
 2:00 Kyoungsoo Park CEE Parallel Wave Propagation and Topological Operators for Simulating Microbranching and Fragmentation
 2:25 Daniel Turner CEE Stabilized Finite Element Formulations for Flow Problems
 2:50 Break
 3:00 Jan Hesthaven* Brown U. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods: The Right Tool for CSE?
 4:00 Adjourn

*Guest speaker co-sponsored by Student Chapter of SIAM.