Program

Southern Ontario Numerical Analysis Day

     Timings

Program and Abstracts

9:00-9:30

Welcome, coffee and refreshments, and opening remarks
9:30-9:15 Invited talk 1: Prof. Matt Knepley (University at Buffalo) Mesh Representation and Transformation
10:15-10:35 Contributed talk 1: Prof. Alexey Kuznetsov, Computing Barnes double gamma function
10:35-11:0 Coffee break
11:00-11:20 Contributed talk 2: Shenghao Yang, Local Graph Clustering Using Flow Diffusion
11:20-11:40 Contributed talk 3: Prof. Blaise Bourdin, Phase-field approximation of diffusion-driven fracture
11:40-12:00 Contributed talk 4: Chendi Ni
12:00-12:20 Contributed talk 5: Dawei Wang, Study of high-order time-stepping schemes with
non-smooth initial conditions
12:20-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:25 Invited talk 2: David Brown (ANSYS Canada) New algorithms in computational multi-physics
2:25-2:45 Contributed talk 6: Greg Wang, Space-time hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for advection-dominated advection-diffusion on deforming domains
2:45-3:05 Contributed talk 7: Elkin Ramirez, Singularity formation in the deterministic and
stochastic fractional Burgers equation
3:05-3:25 Contributed talk 8: Marc Chen, A Neural Network Based Approach for Determining an Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Decumulation Strategy
3:25-3:50 Coffee break
3:50-4:10 Contributed talk 9: Ray Wu, The combination method for multidimensional Black-Scholes partial differential equations
4:10-4:30 Contributed talk 10: Lidan Liao, Comparisons and improvements of three block preconditioners for time-harmonic parabolic optimal control problems
4:30-4:50 Contributed talk 11: Alexey Smirnov, High order and asymptotically TVD methods for scalar conservation laws in 2D
4:50-5:10 Contributed talk 12: Fauzia Jabeen, Second Order Sensitivities of Stochastic Discrete Models of Biochemical Systems
5:10-5:30 Contributed talk 13: Zewen Shen, Is polynomial interpolation in the monomial basis unstable?