NSF-CBMS Conference
Program and Activities

[Monday, June 3] [Tuesday, June 4] [Wednesday, June 5] [Thursday, June 6] [Friday, June 7]

Reception and other Special Activities Planned Outside of Conference


Monday, June 3

Lectures in the Student Center, Ballrooms D and E
8:15 - 8:30 Welcoming Remarks
8:30 - 9:30
Monk Lecture 1
Introduction to electromagnetic scattering
9:30 - 10:10 Invited Lecture
Greg Kriegsmann (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
An S-matrix based hybrid method
10:10 - 10:40 Refreshments
10:40 - 11:20 Invited Lecture
Eliane Becache (INRIA)
The diffraction of acoustic waves by moving obstacles and the fictitious domain method
11:20 - 12:00 Invited Lecture
Ivan Graham (University of Bath)
Numerical aspects of diffraction coefficient computations
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Monk Lecture 2
Variational theory for the cavity problem
2:30 - 3:10 Invited Lecture
John Sylvester (University of Washington)
Diagonalizing the Born approximation
3:10 - 3:40 Refreshments
3:40 - 4:00 Contributed Lecture
Yu Chen (New York University)
Merging and splitting for forward and inverse scattering
4:00 - 4:40 Invited Lecture
Oliver Dorn (University of British Columbia)
A level set method for shape reconstruction in medical and geophysical imaging
5:00 - 7:30pm Reception
Coolbaugh House



Tuesday, June 4

Lectures in the Student Center, Ballrooms D and E
8:30 - 9:30 Monk Lecture 3
Finite elements
9:30 - 10:10 Invited Lecture
Ralf Hiptmair (University of Bonn)
Discrete differential forms
10:10 - 10:40 Refreshments
10:40 - 11:20 Invited Lecture
Daniele Boffi (Universita di Pavia)
Quadrilateral finite element approximation of vector fields
11:20 - 12:00 Invited Lecture
Monique Dauge (Universite de Rennes 1)
Regularization with weight for Maxwell equations in domains with corners
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Monk Lecture 4
Finite elements for cavity problems
2:30 - 3:10 Invited Lecture
Jay Gopalakrishnan (University of Florida)
Some iterative techniques for time harmonic Maxwell equations
3:10 - 3:40 Refreshments



Wednesday, June 5

Lectures in the Student Center, Ballrooms D and E
8:30 - 9:30 Monk Lecture 5
The coupled integral equation - finite element method
9:30 - 10:10 Invited Lecture
Christophe Hazard (ENSTA)
The corner paradox for Maxwell-like problems
10:10 - 10:40 Refreshments
10:40 - 11:10 Contributed Lecture
Lucia Gastaldi (Universita di Brescia)
Edge elements: from Maxwell equations to photonic crystals
11:10 - 12:10 Monk Lecture 6
Higher frequency problems
Free Afternoon Please see the Sights and Activities page for things to do.



Thursday, June 6

Lectures in the Student Center, Ballrooms D and E
8:30 - 9:30 Monk Lecture 7
Introduction to inverse scattering
9:30 - 10:10 Invited Lecture
Eric Darve (Stanford University)
The Fast Multipole Method applied to electromagnetic scattering
10:10 - 10:40 Refreshments
10:40 - 11:20 Invited Lecture
Johannes Tausch (Southern Methodist University)
Multipole translation theory in the wavelet domain
11:20 - 12:00 Invited Lecture
Leonid Kunyansky (University of Arizona)
Fast, high order solution of surface scattering problems in 3-D
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Monk Lecture 8
The linear sampling method
2:30 - 3:10 Invited Lecture
Roland Potthast (Universitat Goettingen)
The no response test - a sampling method for inverse scattering problems
3:10 - 3:40 Refreshments
3:40 - 4:20 Invited Lecture
Fioralba Cakoni (University of Delaware)
The direct and inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for partially coated obstacles
4:20 - 5:00 Invited Lecture
Peter Petropoulos (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Perfectly matched layers as absorbing boundary conditions for the numerical solution of the time-domain Maxwell equations
6:00 Conference Dinner
Table Mountain Inn



Friday, June 7

Lectures in the Student Center, Ballrooms D and E
8:30 - 9:30 Monk Lecture 9
More on the linear sampling method
9:30 - 10:10 Invited Lecture
Simon Chandler-Wilde (Brunel University)
Direct and inverse scattering by rough surfaces
10:10 - 10:40 Refreshments
10:40 - 11:10 Contributed Lecture
Darko Volkov (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Wave propagation in waveguides and periodic structures. Discrete conservation laws
11:10 - 12:10 Monk Lecture 10
Open problems and the future



Special Activities, June 3 - 6

Monday, June 3
5:00 - 7:30pm Reception
Coolbaugh House (see map - building #2, square G (corner of 17th and Maple))
Wednesday, June 5
12:15pm Free Afternoon
Sights and Activities in and around Golden
Thursday, June 6
6:00pm Conference Dinner
Table Mountain Inn (corner of Washington and 14th)

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