Program Information

• Program Schedule
• Speaker Index
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• Program Updates
• Invited Speakers
  • Plenary Speakers
  • Topical Speakers
  • Minitutorials
• Committees
  • Organizing Committee
  • Subcommittee

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Invited Speakers

Invited Plenary Speakers

Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University

Wavelets, Nonlinear Approximation and Compression
Friday, July 12, 2002, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Martin Grötschel, ZIB and TU, Berlin

Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Philip J. Holmes, Princeton University

How Nonlinear Is Science? Reflections on a Chaotic, Dynamical Century
Thursday, July 11, 2002, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Cleve B. Moler, The MathWorks

Fifty Years of Mathematical Software
Monday, July 8, 2002, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University

Imaging, Communication, and Stochastic Analysis
Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Keynote Address
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
7:00 PM-7:30 PM
Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation, will address SIAM50 attendees.

Invited Topical Speakers

Andrea Bertozzi, Duke University

Thin Films and Nonlinear PDE
Monday, July 8, 2002, 8:25 AM - 9:10 AM

Alberto Bressan, SISSA/Trieste

Viscosity Solutions for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
Thursday, July 11, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Volume-of-Fluid Methods for Fixed and Free Boundary Problems
Thursday, July 11, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Pierre Degond, CNRS, Toulouse

Macroscopic Limits of Kinetic Models Revisited: A Powerful Tool for Plasma and Semiconductor Physics Simulations
Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 8:25 AM - 9:10 AM

Michael Griebel, Universität Bonn

Multiscale Methods in Nano- and Biotechnology
Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

Martin Hanke, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität , Mainz

Electrical Impedance Tomography: How to Find Inhomogeneities Inside a Homogeneous Body
Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College

Some Combinatorial Aspects of Topological Graph Theory
Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Chris Johnson, University of Utah

Biomedical Computing and Visualization
Monday, July 8, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Ann Karagozian, University of California, Los Angeles

Numerical Simulations of Reactive and Non-Reactive Flows Relevant to Engine Environments
Thursday, July 11, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

Jonathan Keating, Bristol University

Characteristic Polynomials of Random Matrices and (½+it)
Friday, July 12, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

James Keener, University of Utah

A Mechanism for the Onset of Fibrillation following a Heart Attack
Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

Guenter Leugering, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Decomposition and Control of Partial Differential Equations
Friday, July 12, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Jorge Moré, Argonne National Laboratory

Optimization: Recent Developments and Challenges
Monday, July 8, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

Larry Schumaker, Vanderbilt University

The Impact of Splines in Applied Mathematics
Monday, July 8, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Craig Silverstein, Google

Mathematical Analysis of Hyperlinks in the World Wide Web
Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

Harry Swinney, University of Texas at Austin

Shocks in Supersonic Sand
Thursday, July 11, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

William Symes, Rice University

Seismic Inverse Scattering
Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Lloyd N. Trefethen, Oxford University

Spectra and Pseudospectra
Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

John Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Control of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: Molecules, Mechanisms, and Mathematical Models
Friday, July 12, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

David P. Williamson, IBM Almaden

Finding Provably Near-Optimal Solutions to Discrete Optimization Problems
Friday, July 12, 2002, 8:25 AM -9:10 AM

Invited Minitutorials

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Bernardo Cockburn, University of Minnesota
Monday, July 8, 2002, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Statistical Methods and Learning in Computer Vision

Donald Geman, Johns Hopkins University and ENS-Cachan
Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 10:30 am - 12:30 PM

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Neal Koblitz,University of Washington, Seattle
Friday, July 12, 2002, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Reverse Engineering Gene Networks

Jesper Tegnér, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Thursday, July 11, 2002, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Harmonic Analysis in Geometric Modeling

Denis Zorin, Courant Institute, New York University
Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Committees

Organizing Committee

Marsha J. Berger, Courant Institute, New York University

Heinz Engl, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz

Martin Golubitsky (co-chair), University of Houston

Walter Strauss, Brown University

Margaret H. Wright (co-chair), Courant Institute, New York University

Subcommittees

Minitutorial Selection Committee

Robert Calderbank, AT&T Research Laboratories
James J. Collins, Boston University
David E. Keyes, ICASE
David Mumford, Brown University
Fadil Santosa (Chair), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

SIAM Junior Member Focus Committee

Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University
Illya Hicks, Texas A&M University
C. Maeve McCarthy (Chair), Murray State University
Mary Pugh, University of Toronto
Mónica M. Romeo, Duke University