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Kinetic Description of Multiscale Phenomena

Kinetic FRG Young Researchers Workshop

March 3-5, 2009


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

Tuesday, March 3 -
9:00 - 9:25 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair:Antoine Mellet (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"
[Presentation Slides]

10:15 - 10:55 Dongming Wei  (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
"Weak Solution and Critical Thresholds for the One-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson Equations"

[Presentation Slides]
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10

Sébastien Motsch  (University Paul Sabatier, Toulous)
"From Individual to Macroscopic Models in Animal Displacements"
[Presentation Slides]

12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK (hosted by CSCAMM)
AFTERNOON SESSION Chair:Antoine Mellet  (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"
[Presentation Slides]
2:45 - 3:25 Gaël Raoul  (CMLA – Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan)
"
Nonlocal Aggregation Models"
[Presentation Slides]
3:30 - 3:45

COFFEE BREAK

3:45 - 4:25 Alethea Barbaro (UCLA)
"An Interacting Particle Model For Animal Migration"

[Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:10 Pak-Wing  Fok  (California Institute of Technology and UCLA)
"Accelerated DNA Repair by Charge Transport: Stochastic Analysis and Deterministic Models"

[Presentation Slides]

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Wednesday, March 4 -
9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair: Dionisios Margetis  (University of Maryland, College Park)
9:30 - 10:10 Clemens Heitzinger  ( Wolfgang Pauli Institute - University of Vienna)
"Multiscale Modeling of Field-Effect Nano-Sensors"

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10:15 - 10:55 Maria Emelianenko  ( George Mason University)
"Kinetic Theories in Multiscale Modeling of Polycrystals"

[Presentation Slides]
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"

[Presentation Slides]
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH (hosted by CSCAMM)
AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Thanos Tzavaras   (University of Maryland, College Park)
2:00 - 2:40

Maria Gualdani  (University of Texas at Austin)
"A Kinetic Approach in Price Formation"

2:45 - 3:25 Juhi Jang   (Courant Institute - New York University)
"Acoustic Limit for the Boltzmann Equation in Optimal Scaling"
[Presentation Slides]
3:30 - 3:45

COFFEE BREAK

3:45 - 4:25 Yi Mao  ( Michigan State University )
"Multiscale Simulations of Protein Engineering in Bioluminescence Systems"
[Presentation Slides]
EVENING ACTIVITIES
6:30 DINNER

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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"

[Presentation Slides]
10:15 - 10:55 Xu  Yang  (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Eulerian Gaussian Beam Methods in Quantum Mechanics"

[Presentation Slides]
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 David Levermore  (University of Maryland College Park)
"Kinetic Equations, Moment Closures, and Fluid Regimes"

[Presentation Slides]
12:15 - 2:00 CLOSING

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