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Final Program

Systems of Conservation Laws and Related Topics:
A Conference Celebrating Burt Wendroff's 70-th Birthday
Los Alamos, March 8-10, 2000

March 8, 2000, Wednesday, 7.15 am - Badge Office Opens (Non-US Citizens Only)

All non-U.S. citizens who visit the Laboratory will be issued an identification badge which should be worn at all times while on Laboratory property. A passport is required to get a badge issued. On the first morning, please go to the Badge Office, prior to the opening of the conference. The Badge office opens at 7:15am and is located next to the Study Center (Meeting Location).

Registration Desk Opens 8.00 am

March 8, 2000, Wednesday March 9, 2000, Thursday March 10, 2000, Friday
First session 9.00-10.30
chair M. Shashkov
First session 9:00-10:30
chair J. Dendy
First session 9:00-10:30
chair L. Margolin
9:00 Bill Press, Alan Bishop Welcome    
9:15-10:15 Stan Osher "From Lax-Wendroff to TVD, ENO, WENO, Level Set Methods, Ghost Fluids & Back Again" 9:00-10:00 P. Lax "Positive Schemes for Symmetric and Symmetrizable Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws in Several Space Variables" 9:00-10:00 Eitan Tadmor "Central Schemes: Convergence and Error Estimate for High Resolution Methods"
10:15-11:00 James J. Quirk "A Rough Guide to The Darker Side of CFD - From Carbuncles to Kinked Mach Stems" 10:00-10:30 Herb Kranzer "Nonstrictly Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Singular Shocks" 10:00-10:30 Bruce Stewart "The Virtues of Computational Toolkit for Dynamical Systems"
11:00-11:15 Break 10:30-10:45 Break 10:30-10:45 Break
Second session 11:00-12:30
chair M. Shashkov
Second session 10.45-12.15
chair J. Dendy
Second session 10:45-12:15
chair L. Margolin
11:15-12:15 Herb Keller "A Rank Theory of DAE's" 10:45-11:45 Jerry Brackbill "The Immersed boundary Method: Some successes and Challenges" 10:45-11:45 Heinz Kreiss "The Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Time Dependent Partial Differential Equations"
12:15-12:30 Open 11:45-12:15 James M. Hyman "Minimizing Numerical Errors Introduced by Operator Splitting Methods" 11:45-12:45 Norman Bleistein "High Frequency Imaging: from String Construction to Micro-Local Analysis"
12:30-1:45 Lunch 12:15-1:30 Lunch 12:45-2:00 Lunch
Third session 1:45-3:15
chair B. Swartz
Third session 1:30-3:15
chair M. Hyman
Third session 2:00-3:45
chair M. Hyman
1:45-2:30 W.J. Rider and L.G. Margolin "Entropy Consistency through Nonlinear Dispersion" 1:30-2:00 Reuben Hersh "Arbitrary High Accuracy Approximations for a General Well-posed Linear Initial-value Problem" 2:00-3:00 Bill Morton "Vorticity-preserving Lax-Wendroff Schemes on Arbitrary Meshes"
2:30-3:15 Seymour Parter "Preconditioning Spectral Collocation Methods for Elliptic Problems" 2:00-3:00 Richard Liska "Composite Schemes for Conservation Laws" 3:00-3:45 Mikhail Shashkov "Discrete Vector Analysis"

3.15-3.30 Break 3:00-3:15 Break 3:45-4:00 Break
Fourth session 3.30-5:00
chair B. Swartz
Fourth session 3:15-5:15
chair M. Hyman
Fourth session 4:00-5:00
chair M. Hyman
3.30-4.30 Vidar Thomee "Maximum-norm Estimates for Parabolic Finite Element Equations" 3:15-4:15 Randy LeVeque "Three-dimensional wave-propagation algorithms for hyperbolic systems: some upwinded and limited variants of Lax-Wendroff" 4:00-4:45 Len Margolin and P.K. Smolarkiewicz "Large Eddy Simulations of Convective Boundary Layers Using Nonoscillatory Differencing"
4.30-5:00 Blair Swartz "Ham Sandwiches in Interface Reconstruction" 4:15-5:15 Joel Smoller "Cosmology with a shock-wave" 4:45-5:00 Concluding Remarks

  7.00 - BANQUET  

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Richard Liska
2000-03-03