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International Conference Advances in Applied Mathematics in memoriam of Professor Saul Abarbanel, Tel Aviv University, December 18 - 20, 2018


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All conference sessions will be held at Yaglom Auditorium located in the George S. Wise Senate Building of Tel Aviv University (building U9 on this map)


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Tuesday, December 18 (all sessions in Yaglom Auditorium)

9:10am — 9:30am

Opening by the Rector of Tel Aviv University, Prof Yaron Oz

9:30am — 10:00am

Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland, USA)

Emergent behavior in collective dynamics (presentation slides)

10:00am — 10:30am

Matania Ben-Artzi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Conservation laws on the sphere: From Shallow-Water to Burgers (presentation slides)

10:30am — 11:00am

Coffee break

11:00am — 11:30am

Alina Chertock (North Carolina State University, USA)

Structure preserving numerical methods for hyperbolic system of balance laws (presentation slides)

11:30am — 12:00pm

Alexander Kurganov (Southern University of Science and Technology, China, and Tulane University, USA)

Central-Upwind Schemes for Shallow Water Models (presentation slides)

12:00pm — 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm — 2:00pm

Doron Levy (University of Maryland, USA)

Modeling the chemotherapy-induced selection of drug-resistant traits during tumor growth (presentation slides)

2:00pm — 2:30pm

Shlomo Ta’asan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Challenges in Modeling Polycrystalline Materials (presentation slides)

2:30pm — 3:00pm

Coffee break

3:00pm — 3:30pm

Michael Sever (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

A source of uncertainty in computed discontinuous flows (presentation slides)

3:30pm — 4:00pm

Hillel Tal-Ezer (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Computing function of a matrix times a vector via Newton interpolation approach (presentation slides)

4:00pm

Adjourn for the day


Wednesday, December 19 (all sessions in Yaglom Auditorium)

9:00am — 9:30am

Eli Turkel (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Obstacle location and identification using Time Reversal and Machine Learning (presentation slides)

9:30am — 10:00am

David Levin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Some ideas in multivariate approximation (presentation slides)

10:00am — 10:30am

Semyon Tsynkov (North Carolina State University, USA)

Synthetic aperture imaging through a turbulent ionosphere (presentation slides)

10:30am — 11:00am

Coffee break

11:00am — 11:30am

Thomas Hagstrom (Southern Methodist University, USA)

Hermite Methods for Waves (presentation slides)

11:30am — 12:00pm

Dan Givoli (Technion, Israel)

Absorbing Boundary Condition for Anisotropic Elasticity (presentation slides)

12:00pm — 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm — 2:00pm

Gunilla Kreiss (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Cut Finite Element methods and immersed boundary Finite Difference methods (presentation slides)

2:00pm — 2:30pm

Sigal Gottlieb (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)

Developing Time Filtering using a General Linear Method Approach (presentation slides)

2:30pm — 3:00pm

Moshe Goldberg (Technion, Israel)

Radii of Elements in Finite-Dimensional Power-Associative Algebras (presentation slides)

3:00pm — 3:20pm

Coffee break (20 minutes)

3:20pm — 4:00pm

Abarbanel Prize Award Ceremony and Talk by the Winner of the Prize, Boaz Nadler of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (YouTube video) (TAUWebCast video)

4:00pm — 5:00pm

Memorial session: Joshua Jortner, Haim Ben-Shahar, Giora Yaron, Itamar Rabinovich, Dany Leviatan, Shoshana Kamin. Additional speakers: Eli Turkel, Alina Chertock for Alexandre Chorin, Jeff Danowitz, Semyon Tsynkov (YouTube video) (TAUWebCast video)

5:00pm — 6:30pm

Break

6:30pm — 8:30pm

Memorial dinner at Canaan, Ahad Ha'Am St 14, Tel Aviv


Thursday, December 20 (all sessions in Yaglom Auditorium)

9:00am — 9:30am

Jan Hesthaven (EPFL, Switzerland)

Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for tsunami modeling and prediction on a global scale (presentation slides)

9:30am — 10:00am

Adi Ditkowski (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Error inhibiting schemes for differential equations (presentation slides)

10:00am — 10:30am

Jennifer Ryan (University of East Anglia, UK, and Heinrich Heine University, Germany)

Utilizing Geometry of Smoothness-Increasing-Accuracy-Conserving (SIAC) filters for reduced errors (presentation slides)

10:30am — 11:00am

Coffee break

11:00am — 11:30am

Gadi Fibich (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

A Spline-Based Approach to Uncertainty Quantification with Applications to Density Estimation (presentation slides)

11:30am — 12:00pm

Wai Sun Don (Ocean University of China)

Space-Time Adaptive Hybrid WENO-Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with High Order Shock Detectors (presentation slides)

12:00pm — 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm — 2:00pm

Isaac Harari (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Spectral Performance of Nitsche's Method (presentation slides)

2:00pm — 2:30pm

Mark Sussman (Florida State University, USA)

A hierarchical block structured space-time spectral element method for simulating complex multiphase flows (presentation slides)

2:30pm — 3:00pm

Coffee break

3:00pm — 3:30pm

David Sidilkover (Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Israel)

A relationship between the Shock-Capturing and Vorticity Confinement methods (presentation slides)

3:30pm — 4:00pm

Dalia Fishelov (Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Israel)

An embedded Cartesian scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations (presentation slides)

4:00pm

Meeting adjourn