Original conference website: http://people.math.sfu.ca/~pnwnas/speakers.php (Online as of July 2020)
Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar
September 30, 2006
The Twentieth Annual Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. The meeting will run from 10:00am to 5:00pm at the IRMACS (Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences) Center, (maps, directions) followed by dinner at the Pink Pearl Restaurant.
The PNWNAS has been an annual event since 1987, held on a Saturday each fall. Click here for past meetings.
Organizers: Adam Oberman, Steve Ruuth and Bob Russell.
10:00-10:30 Registration and refreshments
10:30-11:15 Uri Ascher, Symplectic and multisymplectic schemes for the KdV and Boussinesq equations
11:15-11:45 Refreshments
11:45-12:30 Razvan Fetecau, A Hamiltonian regularization of the Burgers equation
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break (self-service)
2:00-2:45 Randy LeVeque, Logically Rectangular Grids and Finite Volume Methods for PDEs in Circular and spherical Domains
2:45-3:30 Malgorzata Peszynska, Adaptive multiscale methods for flow and transport in porous media
3:30-4:00 Refreshments
4:00-4:45 Satish Reddy, Pricing and Risk Analysis of Financial Instruments
4:45-5:30 Jared Tanner, The surprising structure of Gaussian point clouds and its implications for signal processing
6:00-7:30 Dinner at the Pink Pearl Restaurant (1132 Hastings Street East, 2nd block after Clark Dr.)