Scientific and Social Program


Wednesday, Sept. 3
7:00 a.m. Registration opens [BUS]
8:00 Welcome and logistics information
8:10 Phil Colella     Block-structured AMR for classical partial differential equations
8:50 Robert Anderson     Adaptive Mesh Refinement for staggered grid Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian methods
9:10 Rosa Donat     Multi-scale representations as a tool for adaptive numerical schemes for systems of conservation laws
9:50 Aime Fournier     Multiresolution adaptive space refinement in geophysical fluid dynamics simulation
10:10 Coffee break
10:40 Tim Barth     A-posteriori error estimation for high order accurate Godunov finite volume methods
11:20 Stefano Micheletti     Anisotropic mesh adaptation in CFD
11:40 Kevin Olson     An overview of the PARAMESH AMR software package and some of its applications
12:00 p.m. Sponsor Presentation: Silicon Graphics, Inc.     Altix 3000 Family
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Nikos Nikiforakis     AMR for global atmospheric modelling and transport
2:40 Andrew Siegel     TBA
3:00 Bob Weaver     Massively parallel simulations with DOE's ASCI supercomputers: an overview of the Los Alamos Crestone Project (U)
3:40 Poster Session
4:00 Coffee break
4:30 Sam Falle     A hierarchical adaptive grid code for non-linear elastodynamics
5:10 Donna Calhoun     Solving hyperbolic problems on adaptive mapped grids in two and three dimensions
5:30 Sorin Mitran     Continuum-microscopic adaptive computation using BEARCLAW
5:50 General Discussion
6:30 Reception, Kent 120, Searle Laboratory building, followed by dinner on your own [BUS]
Thursday, Sept. 4
8:00 a.m. Welcome and logistics information [BUS]
8:10 Mike Norman     AMR in astrophysics and cosmology
8:50 Alexei Poludnenko     AstroBEAR: astrophysical fluid and magnetofluid dynamics with BEARCLAW
9:10 Robert Fisher     How to do subcycled self-gravitating hydrodynamics on an adaptive mesh: essential obstacles and fundamental methodology
9:30 Richard Klein     The collapse and fragmentation of turbulent molecular cloud cores:the formation of low mass stars
9:50 Coffee break
10:20 Louis Howell     A parallel AMR implementation of the discrete ordinates method for radiation transport
11:00 Pedro Velarde     Radiation transport in AMR
11:20 Ken Powell     Parallel, adaptive-mesh refinement MHD for global space-weather simulations
12:00 p.m. Clinton Groth     A block-based parallel implicit adaptive mesh refinement algorithm for compressible gas dynamics
12:20 Lunch
2:00 John Bell     Adaptive numerical simulation of low Mach number combustion
2:40 Michael Pernice     Towards Implicit Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics with Local Mesh Refinement
3:00 Bill Henshaw     Adaptive mesh refinement on overlapping grids
3:40 Poster Session
4:00 Coffee break
4:30 James Quirk     Software tools and management for scientific computing
5:10 Ralf Deiterding     Construction and application of an AMR algorithm for distributed memory computers
5:30 Zhiling Lan     Dynamic load balancing of AMR applications on parallel and distributed systems
5:50 General Discussion
7:00 Conference Dinner, Quadrangle Club [BUS]
Friday, Sept. 5
Friday's format will be less formal, and include a session on benchmarks for structured AMR implementations and a closing, summary session with panel discussion. The session will take place in the Flash Center, Research Institutes building, one block from the workshop venue at Searle Laboratory. Final details to come.
8:00 a.m. Welcome and logistics information [BUS]
  Morning Session I
8:10 Donna Calhoun
8:40 Ralf Deiterding
9:10 Kevin Olson, Peter MacNeice
9:40 Coffee break
  Morning Session II
10:10 Alexei Poludnenko, Sorin Mitran
10:40 Greg Weirs
11:10 Brian Van Straalen
11:40 Panel Discussion
12:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 Summary and Panel Discussion
3:00 Randy LeVeque     Closing Remarks
3:30 Workshop Ends [BUS]

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