Monday, April 14, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-10:15

Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

10:15-10:50

Adam Oberman (Simon Fraser University)

Convergent difference schemes for the Monge-Ampere equation, the Pucci equation, and the convex envelope.

[ZIP]

11:00-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Olof Runborg (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))

A Fast Multiresolution Based Front Tracking Method

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

14:30-15:20

Alessio Figalli (ETH Zurich)

The optimal partial transport problem

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:50

Maria Gualdani (University of Texas at Austin)

Blow-Up of Solutions to Quantum Hydrodynamic Models in Bounded Domains

17:00-18:30

Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00

Continental Breakfast

09:00-09:50

Igor Mezic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))

Title not available

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Eldad Haber (Emory University)

A numerical method for optimal mass transport

[PDF]

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Kangyu Ni (HRL Laboratories, LLC)

Local Histogram based Segmentation using the Wasserstein Distance

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

14:30-15:20

Marc Bernot (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

How to achieve the best transport possible just by solving 1D optimal transport problems?

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:50

Marie-Therese Wolfram (Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM))

Mixed Finite Element Methods for Non-Linear Fokker-Planck Equations

[PDF]

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00

Continental Breakfast

09:00-09:50

Alexandra Landsman (ETH Zürich)

Epidemic extinction along the optimal path

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Tryphon Georgiou (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Metrics in spectral analysis

[PDF]

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Filippo Santambrogio (Université Claude-Bernard (Lyon I))

Transport with congestion: optimization, equilibria and a fast marching gradient numerical algorithm

[PDF] [MP3]

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

14:30-15:20

Maria del Mar Gonzalez (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya)

Some limit problems for fractional order operators

[PDF] [MP3]

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:00

Applied Math Colloquium

16:00-16:50

Allen Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Optimal Mass Transport in Medical Imaging

[PDF] [MP3]

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00

Continental Breakfast

09:00-09:50

Ibrahim Fatkullin (University of Arizona)

Diffusive transport in nematic liquid crystals

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Lorenzo Giacomelli (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

A regularity theory for the thin-film equation

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Chiu-Yen Kao (Ohio State University)

Shape Optimization for Elliptic Eigenvalue Problems

[PPT]

Afternoon Session

12:30-13:45

Lunch (on your own)

13:45-14:35

Axel Voigt (Technishche Universtitat Dresden)

Geodesic evolution laws - a level set approach

[ZIP]

14:45-15:00

Break

15:00-15:50

Haomin Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Stochastic Maxwell Equations in Photonic Crystal Modeling and Simulations

[PDF]

16:00-16:15

Break

16:15-17:00

Applied Math Colloquium

16:15-17:00

Neil Trudinger (Australian National University)

Optimal transportation and nonlinear elliptic PDE

Friday, April 18, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00

Continental Breakfast

09:00-09:50

Richard Tsai (University of Texas at Austin)

Exploratory path planning and target detection using visibility

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:05

Steve LaValle (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Minimal Sensing Structures for Designing Robot Motions

[PDF]

11:15-11:30

Break

11:30-12:20

Yann Brenier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

Optimal Transport, Convection and Magnetic Relaxation