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Kinetic Description of Multiscale Phenomena

Kinetic FRG Young Researchers Workshop

March 2-5, 2009

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

Monday, March 2	-
9:00 - 9:25	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Dionisios Margetis (University of Maryland, College Park)
9:25 - 9:30	Eitan Tadmor (Director, CSCAMM) Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10	Vladislav Panferov (California State University, Northridge) "A Vlasov-Type Kinetic Model for Swarms"
10:15 - 10:55	Dongming Wei (University of Wisconsin - Madison) "Weak Solution and Critical Thresholds for the One-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson Equations"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Sébastien Motsch (University Paul Sabatier, Toulous) "From Individual to Macroscopic Models in Animal Displacements"
12:15 - 2:00	*LUNCH BREAK* *(hosted by CSCAMM)*
AFTERNOON SESSION	**Chair: Dionisios Margetis** (University of Maryland, College Park)
2:00 - 2:40	Benjamin Seibold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Optimal Prediction for Radiative Transfer: A New Perspective on Moment Closure"
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:15 - 3:55	Gaël Raoul (CMLA – Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan) "Nonlocal Aggregation Models"
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Tuesday, March 3	-
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	*Chair:* Antoine Mellet (University of Maryland, College Park)
9:30 - 10:10	Clemens Heitzinger ( Wolfgang Pauli Institute - University of Vienna) "Multiscale Modeling of Field-Effect Nano-Sensors"
10:15 - 10:55	Maria Emelianenko ( George Mason University) "Kinetic Theories in Multiscale Modeling of Polycrystals"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Alexandros Sopasakis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) "Stochastic Traffic Flow Models and Hierarchical Closures"
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION	*Chair:Antoine Mellet*** (University of Maryland, College Park)
2:00 - 2:40	Maria Gualdani (University of Texas at Austin) "A Kinetic Approach in Price Formation"
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:15 - 3:55	Juhi Jang (Courant Institute - New York University) "Acoustic Limit for the Boltzmann Equation in Optimal Scaling"
*EVENING ACTIVITIES*
6:30	*DINNER*
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Wednesday, March 4	-
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	*Chair:* Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland, College Park)
9:30 - 10:10	Yi Mao ( Michigan State University) "Multiscale Simulations of Protein Engineering in Bioluminescence Systems"
10:15 - 10:55	Pak-Wing Fok ( California Institute of Technology and UCLA) "Accelerated DNA Repair by Charge Transport: Stochastic Analysis and Deterministic Models"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Alethea Barbaro (UCLA) "An Interacting Particle Model For Animal Migration"
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH (hosted by CSCAMM)
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00 - 3:00	Round Table Discussion
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Thursday, March 5	-
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	**Chair: Eitan Tadmor** (CSCAMM – University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Zhongming Wang ( University of California, San Diego) "A Bloch Band Based Level Set Method for Computing The Semiclassical Limit of Schrodinger Equations"
10:15 - 10:55	Xu Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Eulerian Gaussian Beam Methods in Quantum Mechanics"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	David Levermore (University of Maryland College Park) "Kinetic Equations, Moment Closures, and Fluid Regimes"
12:15 - 2:00	CLOSING
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