SIAM National Student Chapter Conference 2012
(SNSCC12)
Timetable
18th May 2012.
Alan Turing Building
University of Manchester
A list of talks and posters for the conference can be found below. Abstracts and download links for all talks can be found here. Please click here to return to the main conference page.
List of Talks
| Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Registration | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Prof. Nick Trefethen (Oxford) - How Chebfun Solves ODEs and Eigenvalue Problems | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Edvin Deadman (NAG) - A Recursive Blocked Schur Algorithm for Computing the Matrix Square Root | |
| 11.00 - 11.20 | Coffee | |
| Room 1 | Room 2 | |
| 11.20 - 11.40 | Martin Takac (Edinburgh) - How to Climb a Billion Dimensional Hill using a Coin and a Compass and Count the Steps Before Departure | Nicholas Bird (Reading) - A Velocity-Based Moving-Mesh Finite Element Method |
| 11.40 - 12.00 | Waqquas Bukhsh (Edinburgh) - Local Solutions of Optimal Power Flow | Damon McDougall (Warwick) - Uncertainty Quantification in Lagrangian Data Assimilation |
| 12.00 - 12.20 | Andreas Papayiannis (Manchester) - Continuous-Time Revenue Management in Carparks | Tommaso Biancalani (Manchester) - Stochastic Patterns in Population Models |
| 12.20 - 12.40 | Mingliang Cheng (Manchester) - Real Options with Cash Holding - The Forgotten Dimension | Robin Thompson (Cambridge) - Modelling the Biological Control of Crop Disease |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | Lunch and Poster Session | |
| Room 1 | Room 2 | |
| 14.00 - 14.20 | Dmitry Savostyanov (Moscow) - Superfast Inversion of Triangular Toeplitz Matrices in QTT Format with Applications to Fractal Calculus | Simon Gaulter (Reading) - Acoustic Trapped Modes of a Slowly Varying 3D Waveguide |
| 14.20 - 14.40 | Shengxin Zhu (Oxford) - Which is the Most Important Kernel for Sparse Linear Solves on Heterogeneous Supercomputers? | Christopher Rowlatt (Cardiff) - On the Immersed Boundary (IB) Method and its Applications to a Viscoelastic Fluid |
| 14.40 - 15.00 | Nick Dingle (Manchester) - Reducing the Influence of Tiny Normwise Relative Errors on Performance Profiles | Maria Veretennikova (Warwick) - Control Fractional Dynamics |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | Bubacarr Bah (Edinburgh) - Compressed Sensing with Sparse Random Matrices from Expander Graphs | Andrew Lam (Warwick) - Diffuse Interface Modelling of Surfactants in Two-Phase Flow |
| 15.20 - 15.50 | Coffee | |
| 15.50 - 16.20 | Prof. Ernesto Estrada (Strathclyde) - An Invitation to Complex Networks | |
| 16.20 - 16.50 | Dr Will Parnell (Manchester) - Elastodynamic Cloaking - How to Make an Invisible Building | |
| 16.50 - 17.00 | Awards for talks/posters sponsored by NAG | |
List of Posters
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Samuel Groth | Frequency Independent Models for Scattering Atmospheric Particles |
| Martin Takac | A Randomized Coordinate Descent Method For Large-Scale Truss Topology Design |
| Waqquas Bukhsh | An MILP Model for Preventative Islanding of Power Systems |
| Ndifreke Udosen | Automated Optimisation of Measurement Locations to solve Meta Inverse Problems |
| Pablo Gonzalez-Brevis | A Natural Stabilized Column Generation Method |
| Yiming Yan | Optimal Active-Set Prediction for Interior Point Methods |
| Nick Dingle | GPU-Accelerated Solution of Systems of Sparse Linear Equations |
| Haojie Lin | Sensitivity Analysis and Shape Optimisation with an Isogeometric Boundary Element Method |