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International Conference
Advances in Applied Mathematics
in memoriam of Professor Saul Abarbanel, Tel Aviv University, December 18 - 20, 2018
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
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Opening by the Rector of Tel Aviv University, Prof Yaron
Oz
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9:30am — 10:00am
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Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland, USA)
Emergent behavior in collective
dynamics (presentation
slides)
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10:00am — 10:30am
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Matania Ben-Artzi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Conservation laws on the sphere:
From Shallow-Water to Burgers (presentation
slides)
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10:30am — 11:00am
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Coffee break
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11:00am — 11:30am
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Alina Chertock (North Carolina State University, USA)
Structure preserving
numerical methods for hyperbolic system of balance laws (presentation
slides)
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11:30am — 12:00pm
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Alexander Kurganov (Southern University of Science and
Technology, China, and Tulane University, USA)
Central-Upwind
Schemes for Shallow Water Models (presentation slides)
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12:00pm — 1:30pm
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Lunch
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1:30pm — 2:00pm
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Doron Levy (University of Maryland, USA)
Modeling the
chemotherapy-induced selection of drug-resistant traits during tumor growth
(presentation
slides)
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2:00pm — 2:30pm
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Shlomo Ta’asan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Challenges in Modeling
Polycrystalline Materials (presentation
slides)
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2:30pm — 3:00pm
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Coffee break
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3:00pm — 3:30pm
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Michael Sever (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
A source of uncertainty
in computed discontinuous flows (presentation
slides)
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3:30pm — 4:00pm
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Hillel Tal-Ezer (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Computing function of
a matrix times a vector via Newton interpolation approach (presentation slides)
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4:00pm
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Adjourn for the day
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Wednesday, December 19 (all sessions in Yaglom Auditorium)
9:00am — 9:30am
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Eli Turkel (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Obstacle location and
identification using Time Reversal and Machine Learning (presentation slides)
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9:30am — 10:00am
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David Levin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Some ideas in
multivariate approximation (presentation slides)
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10:00am — 10:30am
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Semyon Tsynkov (North Carolina State University, USA)
Synthetic aperture
imaging through a turbulent ionosphere (presentation slides)
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10:30am — 11:00am
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Coffee break
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11:00am — 11:30am
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Thomas Hagstrom (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Hermite Methods for
Waves (presentation slides)
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11:30am — 12:00pm
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Dan Givoli (Technion, Israel)
Absorbing Boundary
Condition for Anisotropic Elasticity (presentation slides)
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12:00pm — 1:30pm
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Lunch
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1:30pm — 2:00pm
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Gunilla Kreiss (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Cut Finite Element
methods and immersed boundary Finite Difference methods (presentation slides)
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2:00pm — 2:30pm
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Sigal Gottlieb (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
USA)
Developing Time
Filtering using a General Linear Method Approach (presentation slides)
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2:30pm — 3:00pm
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Moshe Goldberg (Technion, Israel)
Radii
of Elements in Finite-Dimensional Power-Associative Algebras (presentation slides)
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3:00pm — 3:20pm
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Coffee break (20 minutes)
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3:20pm — 4:00pm
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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)
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4:00pm — 5:00pm
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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)
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5:00pm — 6:30pm
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Break
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6:30pm — 8:30pm
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Memorial dinner at Canaan, Ahad Ha'Am St 14, Tel Aviv
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Thursday, December 20 (all sessions in Yaglom Auditorium)
9:00am — 9:30am
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Jan Hesthaven (EPFL, Switzerland)
Adaptive
discontinuous Galerkin method for tsunami modeling and prediction on a global
scale (presentation slides)
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9:30am — 10:00am
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Adi Ditkowski (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Error inhibiting schemes
for differential equations (presentation slides)
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10:00am — 10:30am
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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)
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10:30am — 11:00am
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Coffee break
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11:00am — 11:30am
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Gadi Fibich (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
A Spline-Based Approach to
Uncertainty Quantification with Applications to Density Estimation (presentation slides)
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11:30am — 12:00pm
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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)
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12:00pm — 1:30pm
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Lunch
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1:30pm — 2:00pm
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Isaac Harari (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Spectral Performance of
Nitsche's Method (presentation slides)
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2:00pm — 2:30pm
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Mark Sussman (Florida State University, USA)
A hierarchical block
structured space-time spectral element method for simulating complex
multiphase flows (presentation slides)
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2:30pm — 3:00pm
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Coffee break
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3:00pm — 3:30pm
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David Sidilkover (Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Israel)
A relationship
between the Shock-Capturing and Vorticity Confinement methods (presentation slides)
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3:30pm — 4:00pm
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Dalia Fishelov (Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of
Engineering, Israel)
An embedded Cartesian
scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations (presentation slides)
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4:00pm
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Meeting adjourn
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