Program
3rd Annual JohnFest / SIAM Student Conference (2011)
Clemson University
The Student Senate Chambers
5th level of Edgar A. Brown University Union
Saturday, 19 February 2011

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TimeSpeakerInstitutionAdvisorTitle
8:30-8:45 Jeff Steward FSU Michael Navon Impact of Non-Smooth Observation Operators on Variational and Sequential Data Assimilation for a Limited-Area Shallow Water Equations Model
8:45-9:00 Zhu Wang Virginia Tech Traian Iliescu Variational Multiscale Proper Orthogonal Decomposition: Convection-Dominated Convection-Diffusion Equations
9:00-9:15 Chris Gillam Clemson Jeong-Rock Yoon Sensitivity Analysis of Viscoelastic Scalar Magnetic Resonance Elastography
9:15-9:30 Xi Chen FSU Max Gunzburger Numerical Methods for a Nonlocal Problem - Peridynamics Models in Material Science
9:30-9:45 Keith Galvin Clemson Leo Rebholz and Hyesuk Lee
9:45-10:00 --Coffee break-- --Coffee break-- --Coffee break-- --Coffee break--
10:00-10:15 Zhen Wang Emory Michele Benzi Numerical results on the coupled system of the velocity-vorticity-helicity formulation for the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
10:15-10:30 Marta D'Elia Emory Alessandro Veneziani A well-posedness result for Data Assimilation in computational fluid dynamics
10:30-10:45 Michal Palczewski FSU Peter Beerli Computing Bayes Factors in Population Genetics
10:45-11:00 Guannan Zhang FSU Max Gunzburger Accurate and Efficient Numerical Methods for Backward Stochastic Differential Equations
11:00-11:15 --Coffee break-- --Coffee break-- --Coffee break-- --Coffee break--
11:15-11:30 Abigail Bowers Clemson Leo Rebholz New connections between finite element formulations of the NSE
11:30-11:45 Ian Johnson FSU Gordon Erlebacher Real-Time Particle Simulations for Educational Games with OpenCL and Blender
11:45-12:00 Feng Bao Auburn Yanzhao Cao Numerical Scheme for Solving Parabolic SPDEs by Solving BDSDEs
12:00-12:15 Vitor Leite Nunes Virginia Tech Jeff Borggaard
12:15-12:30 Umberto Villa Emory Alessandro Veneziani Paladins: Parallel ALgebraic ADaptive Incompressible Navier Stokes
12:30-2:00 --Lunch-- --Lunch NOT provided-- --Lunch-- --You are on your own for lunch--
2:00-2:15 Catherine Burch White Clemson Jeong-Rock Yoon Sensitivity Analysis of Full Elasticisity with Magnetic Resonance Elastography
2:15-2:30 Unnamed Auburn student #2 Auburn Cao/Meir
2:30-2:45 Hans-Werner van Wyk VT Jeff Borggaard
2:45-3:00 Nick Wilson Clemson Leo Rebholz Convergence rate of grad-div stabilized Taylor-Hood solutions to Scott-Vogelius solutions for Stokes-type problems
3:00-3:15 Alexis Aposporidis Emory Alessandro Veneziani
3:15-3:30 --Coffee break-- --Coffee break-- --Coffee break-- --Coffee break--
3:30-3:45 Xiao Xiao U. South Carolina LiLi Ju Optimal and Stable Grid-upwind Finite Volume Approximations of Linear Elliptic Equations