ICNAAM 2010

Procedures for the approval of a proposal for a session-workshop or minisymposium:

1. The organizer must send us a proposal for the organization of a session-workshop or minisymposium
2. The organizer must give us a small description of his/her proposal (no more than 150 words)
3. The organizer must give us his/her short CV
4. The organizer must inform us about the procedures which will follow for the promotion of this session-workshop or minisymposium (the organizer is responsible for the promotion)
5. The organizer must give us full affiliations of his/hers with an e-mail in which someone can send a paper on the subject of the session-workshop or minisymposium.

After approval the organizer will be the responsible person for the selection of the papers. The papers must be send to us until 22/7/2010. In the Proceedings of ICNAAM 2010 the session-workshop or minisymposium will be in a separate section of the Volume with a Preface written by the organizer. From time to time the organizer must inform us about the participation of his/her session. If a session consists of 6 registrations at least then the registration of the organizer in ICNAAM 2010 is free. If a symposium consists of 8 registrations at least then the organizer will have free registration and at least a participation in the accommodation.
 

If a participant wants to send a paper to a Symposium mentioned below the e-mail addresses of the organizer(s) must be used.

SESSIONS AND MINISYMPOSIA WHICH

HAVE BEEN APPROVED

1) Title: "The 5th Symposium on Numerical Analysis of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer"

E-mail: Pawel.Kosinski@ift.uib.no
 

Description of the topic of the session:

 Understanding fluid dynamics has been one of the major advances of mathematics, physics and engineering. Single- and multiphase flow technology is increasingly important in the energy and manufacturing industries. Heat transfer is of particular interest to engineers, who attempt to understand and control the flow of heat through the use of heat exchangers or thermal insulation, and other devices. Pollution control, pneumatic transport, combustion, development of new materials, engine design, as well as many other engineering applications will benefit from the fundamental engineering design application and research in the field. The objective of the session is to bring together scientists working on numerical and also experimental issues. They are called upon to present their research. Topics of interest include (but not limited!):

3) Title: "7-th Symposium on Clifford Analysis and Applications"

Description of the topic of the session:

Clifford analysis as refinement of harmonic analysis and generalization of the one-dimensional complex function theory plays an increasing role in different areas of mathematics, physics, computer science and engineering. The symposium aims to reflect the state of the art in pure and applied Clifford analysis and to give ideas for new developments.

We invite scientists and engineers working by means of quaternionic or Clifford analysis in

to contribute to the symposium.
 

Organizers: Prof. Dr. MOHAMMAD SIDDIQUE, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison Road, Fayetteville, NC. 28301, USA,

URL: http://faculty.uncfsu.edu/msiddique    
  

E-mail: msiddiqu@uncfsu.edu 

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Eduardo Casas, Dept. Matematica Aplicada y Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Cantabria, Av. Los Castros S/N, 39005 Santander (Spain)
 

Organizers' E-mails: eduardo.casas@unican.es

Description of the topic of the session:

Recent results and new trends in the field of Optimal Control Theory of problems governed by partial differential equations as well as their applications will be discussed in this symposium. The main topics to be considered in the talks are

6) Title: "Bioinformatics"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Maíra Aguiar, Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais CMAF, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal and Prof. Dr. Ezio Venturino, Dipartimento di Matematica, via Carlo Alberto 10, Universita’ di Torino, 10123 Torino, Italia
 

E-mail: maira@ptmat.fc.ul.pt and ezio.venturino@unito.it
 

8) Title: "Automated Computing"

Organizers: Dr. A. Logg, Center for Biomedical Computing, Simula Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 134, 1325 Lysaker, Norway, Garth N. Wells, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom

E-mail: logg@simula.no and gnw20@cam.ac.uk  
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The writing of scientific software is often both tedious and error-prone, leading to long development cycles and unreliable software. To further complicate matters, development of efficient scientific software requires specialization, both to the hardware and the application at hand. However, manual labor may in many cases be replaced by automated code generation, ultimately leading to automated development of efficient scientific software. Current examples include automated generation of libraries for signal processing (SPIRAL) and linear algebra (FLAME, ATLAS), as well as generation of application-specific code for the solution of partial differential equations (FEniCS).

This symposium aims at bringing together experts on all aspects of automated computing, including, but not limited to:

9) Title: "Industrial Organization and Game Theory"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Fernanda A. Ferreira and Prof. Dr. Flávio Ferreira, School of Management and Industrial Studies, Porto Polytechnic Institute, Mathematics Department, Rua D. Sancho I, 981, 4480-876 Vila do Conde, Portugal

E-mail: fernandaamelia@eu.ipp.pt and flavioferreira@eu.ipp.pt
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds and interests in all aspects of Game Theory, its applications in Industrial Organization, and its practice, in order to further communication, collaboration, and exchange of new ideas.

The topics include, but are not limited to the following:

10) Title: "Advances in Turbulence Modeling"

Organizers: Professor Marcel Ilie, University of Central Florida, Dept. of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., P.O.Box 162450, Orlando, FL 32816-2450, USA

E-mail:  milie@mail.ucf.edu
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The Symposium on “Advances in Turbulence Modeling”, organized by the 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM), provides an opportunity for scientists and engineers to present recent advances and to discuss current problems, future needs and prospects in the area of turbulence modeling.

The Symposium on “Advances in Turbulence Modeling” solicits papers covering all aspects of turbulence modeling. Of particular interest are papers dealing with interdisciplinary topics in which turbulence plays a predominant role. Also considered will be state of the art applications
that significantly challenge current Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) capabilities and give insight to algorithms and methodology characteristics. The major emphasis of the symposium will be on new or improved algorithms and implementations for the computational analysis of fluid dynamics problems.

Technical topics and categories include but are not limited to:

1. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulation (RANS)

2. Large-eddy simulation (LES)

3. Approaches to make turbulence simulations more efficient including:
    

4. Instability and transition to turbulence

5. Modeling and simulation of complex flows

6. Turbulence and separation control

7. Turbulence in reacting and multiphase systems

8. Noise generation and fluid-structure interactions

9. Biological, biomedical and clinical flows

10. Environmental and geophysical turbulence
     

11) Title: "Asymptotic and Numerical Modelling of Composite Materials"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Igor V. Andrianov, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
 

E-mail: igor_andrianov@hotmail.com    
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The rapidly increasing popularity of composite materials and structures in recent years has been seen through their incorporation in the mechanical and civil engineering, aerospace, automotive and marine applications, as well as in biomedical and sport products. Success in practical application of composites largely depends on a possibility to predict their mechanical properties and behavior through the development of the appropriate mechanical models. The micromechanical modeling of composite structures however, can be rather complicated as a result of the distribution and orientation of the multiple inclusions and reinforcements within the matrix, and their mechanical interactions on a local (micro-) level. Therefore, it is important to establish such micromechanical models that are neither too complicated to be developed and applied, nor too simple to reflect the real mechanical properties and behavior of the composite materials and structures.

The aim of the Symposium is to gather experts working on various actually important aspects of developing and application of homogenization in Composite Materials: pure mathematicians, applied mathematicians, mechanics and software experts.

The Symposium covers the following subjects:

12) Title: "Mathematical Methods in Biophysics and Genomics"

Organizers: Prof. Julie C Mitchell, Departments of Mathematics and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison WI 53703 USA, http://mitchell-lab.org and Prof. Stefanella Boatto, Departamento de Matmeatica Aplicada, Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, www: http://www.labma.ufrj.br/~lella 
  

E-mail: jcmitchell@wisc.edu and lella@im.ufrj.br

Description of the topic of the session:

Quantitative methods can offer important insights into the study of biological systems, for example by predicting their evolution, as hoped when dealing with cancer therapy. The goal of the minisymposium is to present a broad spectrum of mathematical approaches and applications to epidemiology, protein structures, protein coding, cancer modeling. Topics of interest include:

13) Title: "Second Big Challenge Symposium - The Big Challenge of Cosmological Understanding: Gravitation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Towards New Scenarios"

Organizers: Dr. Christian Corda, Associazione Scientifica Galileo Galilei,Via Pier Cironi 16, I-59100 Prato ITALY, Dr. Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta, Instituto de Cosmologia, Relatividade e Astrofisica (ICRA/BR) Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF) Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Address: Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, Urca - CEP: 22290-180 and Alexander G. Polnarev, Astronomy Unit (AU) at Queen Mary, University of London

E-mail: cordac.galilei@gmail.com, herman@icra.it, A.G.Polnarev@qmul.ac.uk
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The accelerated expansion of the Universe, which is today observed, shows that cosmological dynamics is dominated by the so-called Dark Energy field which provides a large negative pressure. This is the standard picture, in which such new ingredient is considered as a source of the right hand side of the field equations. It should be some form of non-clustered non-zero vacuum energy which, together with the clustered Dark Matter, drives the global dynamics. This is the so-called “concordance model” (ACDM) which gives, in agreement with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR), dim Lyman Limit Systems (LLS) and type la supernovae (SNeIa) data, a good framework to understand the today observed Universe. However, it presents several shortcomings as the well known “coincidence” and “cosmological constant” problems .

An alternative approach is to have a better understanding of the energy concept in General Relativity and also to change the left hand side of the field equations, and check if observed cosmic dynamics can be achieved by extending general relativity. In this different context, it is not required to search candidates for Dark Energy and Dark Matter, which till now have not been found. Rather, one can only stand on the “observed” ingredients: curvature and baryon matter, to account for the observations. Considering this point of view, one can think of that gravity is not scale-invariant. The goal of this Symposium is is to obtain a tapestry of the present status of theory and observations concerning Gravitation and Dark Universe.

14) Title: "Chaotic Dynamics of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Nikolai Magnitskii, Head of Laboratory of Chaotic Dynamics, Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, 9, Prospect 60-let Oktyabrya, Moscow 117312, Russia   
 

E-mail: nmag@isa.ru and mag@su29.ru
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Presence of dynamical or diffusion chaos is the main property of the majority of complex developing physical, chemical, biological and social systems and processes described by nonlinear systems of ordinary and partial differential equations.

The aim of the Session is to discuss last theoretical and numerical achievements received in this important and interesting direction of researches of nonlinear systems of differential equations.

Topics include (but not limited):
 

15) Title: "The 2nd Symposium on Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Problems"

Organizers: Dr. Annamaria Barbagallo, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy and Dr. Maria Alessandra Ragusa, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy  
  

E-mail: barbagallo@dmi.unict.it and maragusa@dmi.unict.it     

Description of the topic of the session:

Variational Inequalities have been introduced to solve a group of nonlinear boundary value problems for partial differential equations of elliptic or parabolic type, as, for example, the Signorini problem, the obstacle problem and the elastic-plastic torsion problem. Now, they represent a very useful and powerful tool for analyzing and studying many equilibrium type problems in Economics, Engineering, Operations Research, Statistics, Financial Networks and Mathematical Physics. In particular, Variational Inequalities, for example, provide a unifying framework for the study of diverse problems as price equilibrium problems, traffic network equilibrium problems, oligopolistic market equilibrium problem, vaccination problem, migration problem and financial equilibrium problem.

In additional, several classical and new theories, such as those of Evolutionary Projected Dynamical Systems and Infinite Dimensional Duality, as well as research in discretized computational methods, have received a decisive impulse in order to offer effective solutions to hither to unsolved problems. For this reason, the aim of the Minisymposium is to present the development of the Variational Inequalities Theory, as for example the research of regularity results and their use to the computational procedure, and its applications on the Equilibrium Problems, in particular those related to network design.

Specifically, topics of interest include, but not limited to:

16) Title: "Graphs"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Vojislav Petrovic, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad, Trg D. Obradovica 4, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia, Tel. +381 64 2873110.

E-mail: vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs; vojpet@gmail.com

Description of the topic of the session:

Graph Theory is one of the major mathematical disciplines today. Its rapid development is initiated by both pure mathematical interest and numerous possibilities for applications (computer science, electrical and other networks, chemistry, biology etc). The aim of the session is to present new results in various branches of Graph Theory including their applications.

Topics:

17) Title: "Three-dimensional numerical solvers for Navier-Stokes equations, non-linear Schrödinger and Gross-Pitaevskii equations using high-order methods"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Ionut DANAILA, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Universitι Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), 175 rue du Chevaleret, 75013 Paris,France. http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~danaila
  

E-mail: danaila@ann.jussieu.fr

Description of the topic of the session:

Surprising though it may be, there exists few 3D numerical codes for the study of the physics governed by non-linear Schrödinger-type equations, as the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The latter equation describes the dynamics and vortex equilibrium states in a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a very hot topic of modern physics. On the other hand, 3D numerical codes are very frequent when dealing with Navier-Stokes equations describing classical fluid flows.

The idea of this Symposium is to discuss in parallel high-order methods used to simulate 3D classical fluids (Navier-Stokes) and super-fluids (non-linear Schroedinger). The transfer of knowledge from one field to another could benefit
to both communities. The presentations will mainly, but not exclusively, focus on:

Organizers: Professor Dr. Seifedine Kadry, Computer Science Departement, Chairman of Master's program, Arts Sciences and Technology University in LEBANON. University Building, Commodore Street, Hamra, Beirut, Telephone: +961 (01) 34 32 22 - Fax: +961 (01) 34 02 19  
  

E-mail: seifdine.kadry@aul.edu.lb, skadry@gmail.com     

Description of the topic of the session:

The aim of this session is to discuss the latest and advanced research of the applications, improvement and solutions of the Stochastic Finite Element method. It is common practice for mathematical models to be studied under the assumption that data defining the models are precisely understood. In reality, however, this simplifying assumption is often not valid, and there is considerable uncertainty in specification of models. Sources of uncertainty include geological properties of transporting media, material properties of structures, and unknown aspects of boundary conditions.
One approach for addressing this issue is to treat poorly specified data as random variables having some given statistical properties such as means and higher order moments, and then to determine analogous statistical properties of solutions. The basic representation of uncertain parameters in the underlying models is obtained by introducing random variables or fields. Different kinds of analysis accounting for uncertainties can be carried out. The stochastic finite element method (SFEM) is an approach well suited to analysis involving random fields. It has received a lot of attention in recent years. This method transforms a stochastic PDE into a number of coupled deterministic PDEs. It has been successfully applied in several engineering disciplines, for example structural mechanics, fluid dynamics and thermal engineering. Its applicability can further be enhanced by developing efficient numerical solution techniques for solving the coupled problems.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:
 

19) Title: "Boundary value problems and integral equations with applications"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Pavel Krutitskii, Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Department 4, Miusskaya Sq. 4, Moscow 125047, Russia
  

E-mail: biem@mail.ru 

Description of the topic of the session:

The symposium is devoted to advances in analysis of both boundary value problems and integral equations. Applications to practical problems in different fields of physics, mechanics, engineering will be discussed. Integral equation method is a constructive method for solving boundary value problems for differential equations. It enables us to obtain integral representation for a solution of a boundary value problem, to reduce the problem to the integral equation, to study asymptotic behaviour of a solution, and to suggest a computational scheme for finding a numerical solution.

This general approach is applicable to practical problems in many applications such as acoustic scattering, electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, elasticity, thermodynamics, theoretical physics, etc.
Other constructive methods for analysis of both boundary value problems and integral equations are included to this symposium as well, for instance, asymptotic methods, functional analitic methods, construcion of explicit solutions, analysis of singularities of solutions.

Topics of the Symposium include:

20) Title: "Numerical Methods for Eigenvalue Problems"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Paolo Bientinesi, Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES), RWTH Aachen, Schinkelstrasse 2, 52056 Aachen, GERMANY, phone: +49 241 8099134, fax: +49 241 80628498 and Dr. Edoardo Di Napoli, Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES), RWTH Aachen, Schinkelstrasse 2, 52056 Aachen, GERMANY
 

E-mail: pauldj@aices.rwth-aachen.de and dinapoli@aices.rwth-aachen.de

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium aims at bringing together scientists and computational experts to present advances in the development and implementation of numerical methods for eigenvalue problems.

Many of the problems within the scope of numerical analysis are well understood and have been solved in their entireness. The challenge now lies in the interrelation between numerical methods and the applications to physics and engineering. The eigenvalue problem is ubiquitous in computational sciences; problems of ever growing size arise in applications as varied as quantum chemistry, ab initio molecular simulations, finite element modeling and pattern recognition.

In many disciplines the scientific problems investigated possess several properties and information that are left unexploited. The latest trend is to take advantage of this additional intelligence to design and improve the eigensolvers.

Short papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and applications in this field.

21) Title: "The Applications of Wavelet and Fractal Theory in Data Processing"

Organizers: Dr. Maaruf Ali AKC BEng(Hons) PgCTHE PhD CEng MIEE SMIEEE FHEA(UK), Senior Lecturer in Telecommunications Engineering & Media Technology, Department of Computing and Electronics, School of Technology, Oxford Brookes University, Wheatley Campus, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, OX33 1HX, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)1865 483446, Fax: +44 (0)1865 483637

E-mail: mali@brookes.ac.uk    
 

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium will cover the application of fractal mathematics to process data and signals. The topics covered include but is not limited to:

22) Title: "Modeling, Simulation and Industrial Mathematics"

Organizers: Dr. Thomas Götz and Dr. Martin Bracke, Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, PO.Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany, Phone: + 49 631 205 - 4133 (T. Götz), +49 631 205 - 2262 (M. Bracke), Fax: + 49 631 205 - 4986  

E-mail: goetz@mathematik.uni-kl.de and bracke@mathematik.uni-kl.de 
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Mathematical Models and Computer Simulations have a huge impact on modern technology and industrial processes. The aim of this minisymposium is to give insight to the recent development and application of mathematical models and simulations for industrial and technological processes. Topics that can be covered within the minisymposium can be:
 

23) Title: "Numerical Optimization"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Ana Isabel Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Instituto Politécnico de Braganca, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão - Gabinete 54, 5301-857 Bragança - Portugal and Prof. Dr. M. Fernanda P. Costa, Department of Mathematics and Applications, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal  
  

E-mail: apereira@ipb.pt  and mfc@mct.uminho.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

Numerical Optimization Session emphasizes modeling, theory and study of numerical algorithms for solving optimization problems. Because of the wide and growing use of optimization in science, engineering, economics, finance and industry, it is important to develop an understanding of optimization algorithms. Knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of these algorithms leads to a better understanding of their impact on various applications, and points the way to future research on improving and extending optimization algorithms and software. Our goal in this session is to give a description of the some powerful, techniques for solving continuous optimization problems.

24) Title: "Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Witold Kosiński, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008 Warszawa, Poland and Dr. Stefan Kotowski, ph. +48-22-5844-513, fax:+48-22-5844-501, and Skype Id: wit.kosinski   

E-mail: wkos@pjwstk.edu.pl and skot@pjwstk.edu.pl
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The aim of this Mini-symposium is to bring researchers, developers, practitioners, and users to present their latest research, results, and ideas in the areas of Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Evolutionary Computation (EC). After more than 40 years of development of Evolutionary Computation the theoretical background and results are rather unsatisfying. We hope that theory and successful applications will be presented at this Mini-symposium and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners who want to know about both theoretical advances and latest applied developments in Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation . As such, the Mini-Symposium will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues. Papers related to theories, methodologies, and applications in science and technology in this theme are especially solicited. Topics covering industrial issues/applications and academic research are included, but not limited to:

25) Title: "Physical Properties Preserving Numerical Schemes for Differential Equations"

Organizers: Professor Dr. Jean M-S Lubuma, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa, Fax +27-12-4203893; Tel +27-12-4202222

E-mail: jean.lubuma@up.ac.za 
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Differential equations that model real-life problems in science and engineering enjoy essential physical properties such as the following:

The symposium is devoted to the design, analysis and implementation of numerical methods which, apart from being convergent, replicate essential physical properties of the involved problems. In particular, contributions related to the non-standard finite difference method that has shown great potential in this regard are welcome.
 

26) Title: "Modelling and Simulation of Thin-film Flow and Droplet Motion Involving Micro- and Nano-scale Features"

Organizers: Dr. Yeaw Chu Lee, School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

E-mail: y.c.lee@leeds.ac.uk  

Description of the topic of the session:

Considerable attention has been focussed recently on the modelling of micro- and nano-scale flows to provide novel solutions to many difficult engineering related problems and those observed in nature. Notably, fluid flow interactions at these small-scales can have a significant impact on the overall large-scale functional characteristics. in particular, the presence of small-scale features influence considerably the local flow phenomena where interfacial tension, viscous and free-surface effects play a major role in controlling flow behaviour. A better fundamental understanding of these properties and how they can be harnessed/controlled is essential. Their impact in relation to potential savings in resources and manufacturing cost in the industrial sector have yet to be fully realised; their use in relation to forming novel functional coatiings for applications in the process engineering, transport, environmental science and micro-electronics fields is at an early stage. The aim of the Mini-Symposium is to provide a forum, bringing together researchers, scholars and experts, to review recent advances, theoretical and computational, concerning the analysis of the fluid dynamics of micro- and nano-scale flow phenomena. The topics covered include, but are not limited to:

27) Title: "Numerical Aspects in Mathematical Modelling"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Vasile BERINDE, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences North University of Baia Mare, Victoriei Nr. 76, 430122 Baia Mare ROMANIA, Tel. 0040-262-276059; Fax: 0040-262-275368  

E-mail: vberinde@ubm.ro and vasile_berinde@yahoo.com 
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Any mathematical model is designed to offer the solution of the problem it is describing. In most cases this solution cannot be obtained exactly, but approximately, that is, by means of a numerical algorithm. Therefore, the main aim of the present Symposium is to attract contributions on any kind of numerical approaches to mathematical modelling.

28) Title: "Symposium on DAEs, PDAEs and their Applications"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. C. Tischendorf, Mathematical Institute, University of Cologne, Weyertal 86-90, 50931 Koeln, Germany, Tel.: +49 221 470-6080, Fax: +49 221 470-6076, WWW: http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~ctischen

E-mail: tischendorf@math.uni-koeln.de
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The symposium intends to reflect new trends in the research field of Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs). In many application fields, for example in telecommunication, automotive industry and medicine, the simulation of multiphysical problems becomes more and more important. The modeling of such systems often leads to Partial Differential Algebraic Equations (PDAEs). Partial differential equations for describing spatially distributed processes are combined
with DAEs reflecting complex processes by reduced 0D models. The aim of this symposium is to bring together mathematicians with interests in the mathematical theories, numerical methods, and applications of DAEs and PDAEs.

Topics include

29) Title: "Development, Validation and Application of DFT in Chemistry"

Organizer: Dr ILARIA CIOFINI, LECIME, Laboratoire d’Electrochimie, Chimie des Interfaces et Modelisation pour l’Energie, UMR7575, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, F-75231 Paris CEDEX05, France, tel: +33 (0) 1 44 27 67 28, fax: +33 (0) 1 44 27 67 50
 

E-mail: ilaria-ciofini@enscp.fr   
 

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium will focus on the application and development of methods routed on the Density Functional Theory (DFT) to model properties and reactivity of molecular systems of interest in Chemistry.

Even if DFT has nowadays reached a mature state allowing an accurate description of molecular systems of increasing complexity both in term of size (ie number of atoms) and in term of properties, it is still showing a rapid growing in terms of fields of applications and methodological development.

Both aspects will be tackled by this symposium especially focusing on the developments of new functionals and algorithms for the description of properties and reactivity on chemically interesting compounds.

A particular emphasis will be given on the problems related to the setup of validation protocol within the framework of DFT developments.
 

30) Title: "Mathematics in Cell Biology"

Organizer: Dr Yongfeng Li, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications(IMA), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A.
 

E-mail: yonli@ima.umn.edu    
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Cell is the basic component of living organisms. Cell biology is to study cells for their physiological properties, which are important for understanding how cells interact with the surrounding environment and react to the environmental changes to affect their life cycles, growth, division and death. Inside the cell, many biological processes, such as signal transduction, mitosis, metabolism and so, involves in some biochemical reactions. Therefore, in some sense, these biological processes can be characterized by the dynamical behavior of the corresponding biochemical reaction systems.
Besides biological experiments in the laboratory, much attention has be drawn on mathematical modeling as an auxiliary tool to study such a biological system for decades. To some extent, mathematical modeling brings a different insight into the cell and the qualitative analysis on a good model will provide a guideline for designing biological experiments and be very valuable for better understanding of cell functioning as well. This symposium will provide a stage to show how mathematics can contribute to cell biology and play an important role in it.

Topics include mathematical modeling, analysis and numerical simulation on the dynamical behaviors arising from

31) Title: "Minisymposium on geometric flows and applications"

Organizer: Dr. Marc Droske, mental images GmbH / NVIDIA, Fasanenstrasse 81, 10623 Berlin
 

E-mail: Marc.Droske@gmx.de     
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The symposium aims to bring together researchers to present and discuss recent trends on geometric methods and their applications in various different fields of research, including image and geometry processing. It will be particularly devoted to geometric modeling, numerical aspects, variational formulations, regularization methods for free boundary problems and parametrization methods.

32) Title: "Anisotropic mesh generation: Theory and practical aspects"

Organizer: Dr. A. Agouzal, Institut Camille Jordan, Université Loyn1, Bat. Braconnier, 69100. Villeurbanne, France 

E-mail: agouzal@univ-lyon1.fr
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The adaptive mesh methods significantly improve accuracy of simulations and allow to solve large problems appearing in engineering applications. The majority of these methods use meshes with regular shaped elements. However, it was shown that anisotropic simplexes may significantly improve accuracy of simulations, once you get a robust method for adaptive generation of unstructured anisotropic meshes. The goal of this minisymposium is to discuss modern trends in adaptive anisotropic mesh generation. The contributed talks will cover both the implementation issues and theoretical aspects of adaptivity.

33) Title: "Numerical treatment of integral equations and applications"

Organizer: Dr. Manuel Ruiz Galan, University of Granada, Department of Applied Mathematics, E.U. Arquitectura Tecnica, c/ Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada (Spain), Tel.: ++34 958246146 

E-mail: mruizg@ugr.es
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The aim of this section would to show the recent development of this area and its applications to different fields.

34) Title: "Symposium on Mathematical Medicine"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Corina S. Drapaca, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Member, Penn State Center for Neural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building, office 307D, University Park, PA 16802, USA, Tel: 814-867-2313  

E-mail: csd12@psu.edu
 

Description of the topic of the session:

In recent years the field of mathematical medicine has emerged as a distinct discipline which lies at the interface between the biomedical and mathematical sciences where the greatest scientific advances are expected to arise. The field ranges from experimental research linked to mathematical modeling to the development of more abstract mathematical frameworks in which observations about the real world can be interpreted and, as a result, new hypotheses for testing can be generated. Progress in the field of mathematical medicine can help understand how the human body works and generate improved medical diagnoses and treatment strategies and protocols. The aim of the present symposium is to bring together researchers working on the development of theoretical and computational methods used in the mathematical modeling of direct and inverse problems of clinical relevance. Blood circulation and cardiovascular modeling, biomechanics of soft tissues, tumors classification and growth processes, medical image analysis, regularization methods for inverse problems in imaging and tissue elastography, brain neuro-mechanics, lung mechanics are a few examples of topics that will be addressed during this symposium.

35) Title: "Symposium on Matrix Analysis and Applications"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Morteza Seddighin, Indiana University East, School of Science and Mathematics, 2325 Chester Boulevard, Richmond, Indiana, USA. Tel: 765-973-8285, Fax: 765-973-8485 

E-mail: mseddigh@indiana.edu
 

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium will bring together researchers with different backgrounds and interests in all areas of matrix analysis and applications from across the glob for further communication, collaboration and exchange of ideas. The topics include but are not limited to the following:

36) Title: "Nonlinear Dynamics and Geometry of Collective Motions of Complex Molecular  Systems"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Tomohiro Yanao, Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan, Phone: +81-3-5286-8123 

E-mail: yanao@waseda.jp
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Collective motions play pivotal roles in a wide variety of conformational transitions of molecular systems, ranging from chemical reactions of small molecules to functions of biological macromolecules. This interdisciplinary symposium aims at exploring the mechanisms and applications of collective motions of molecular systems by bringing together researchers from different backgrounds. The symposium highlights the methods of nonlinear dynamics to elucidate the geometry of multidimensional phase space of complex molecular systems. The symposium also focuses on the methodologies for dimension reduction and multi-scale integrations to provide insights into collective motions of macromolecular systems with hierarchical structures. Major topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:

37) Title: "Modern solvers for inverse problems arising in large-scale applications"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schuster, Helmut Schmidt University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg, GERMANY, phone: +49 40 6541 3540, fax: +49 40 6541 2690, URL: www.hsu-hh.de/mb-mathe/  

E-mail: schuster@hsu-hh.de
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Inverse problems consist of the determination of unknown quantities and parameters from indirect observations and they appear in a variety of applications in industry, natural sciences, medical imaging and even finance. Typical examples are the reconstruction of tomographic data (computerized tomography, vector field tomography, thermoacoustic tomography), inverse scattering, determination of material laws and parameter identification problems for partial and stochastic differential equations. Especially the tackling of large-scale applications, that means problems in three or four dimensions that need discretizations leading to high-dimensional systems of unknown variables, belong to the most challenging fields in applied mathematics. E.g. such problems are 3D and 4D tomographic imaging, large-scale inverse scattering problems, identification problems for the elastic wave equation in three dimensions, high-dimensional imaging processing techniques among others. The fact that a solver for such problems does not only need to be stable with respect to noise-contaminated data but has also to be efficient to obtain a real-time solution requires the development of novel, problem-oriented solvers. Those solvers could combine modern regularization techniques with well-established methods from optimization, control or variational approaches.

This symposium thus is to combine the presentation of innovative solvers for inverse problems with a strong relationship to real-world problems.

38) Title: "Computational Bioimaging and Visualization"

Organizers: Dr. João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Phone: +351 22 508 1487, URL: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares and Dr. R. M. Natal Jorge, IDMEC-Polo FEUP, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Phone: +351 22 508 1720

E-mail: tavares@fe.up.pt and rnatal@fe.up.pt 
 

Description of the topic of the session:

In recent years extensive research has been performed in numerical modelling of objects and visualization for several distinct areas of science, namely, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics, medicine and physics. A major application of numerical modelling of objects and visualization is in medicine. For instance, it is possible to use computational procedures from medical imaging data to build numerical models and visualize human organs. These procedures can have different goals, such as shape reconstruction, segmentation, motion and deformation analyses, registration, simulation, visualization, etc.
The main goal of the proposed Minisymposium is to bring together researchers involved in the related fields (Image Acquisition, Image Segmentation, Objects Tracking, Objects Matching, Shape Reconstruction, Motion and Deformation Analysis, Medical Imaging, Scientific Visualization, Software Development, Grid Computing, etc.), in order to set the major lines of development for the near future.
The proposed Minisymposium will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Biomechanics, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Mathematics, Medical Imaging, Scientific Visualization, Statistics, etc. The Minisymposium endeavors to make a contribution to achieving better solutions for more realistic computational “living” models, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians and researchers from these diverse fields.
 

39) Title: "Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics"

Organizer: Dr. Sandra Rugonyi, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA. URL: http://www.bme.ogi.edu/~rugonyis/index.html

E-mail: rugonyis@ohsu.edu  
 

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium will discuss novel approaches and advances in the computation of fluid and structural responses. Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to:
 

40) Title: "Dynamical Systems in Robotics"

Organizers: Dr. Carla M.A. Pinto, Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto and Center of Mathematics of the University of Porto, Rua Dr António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal and Dr. Cristina M.P. Santos, University of Minho, Dept. Electronics and Industrial, Campus de Azurem, 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal

E-mail: cpinto@fc.up.pt and cristina@dei.uminho.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

Robot locomotion for any type of robots has been an interesting and challenging research issue in the last few years. The increasing use of robots to perform difficult tasks in dynamic and hard environments, sometimes unaccessible to humans, makes this study very important and relevant.

In this symposia, we focus on the use of the dynamical systems theory to address some still open questions regarding locomotion skills in robots. Dynamical systems exhibit some properties which makes them well suited to real-time robotic applications, such as movement generation for legged; modular and wheeled platforms; balance control; grasping; reaching, etc.

The organizers aim to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world can present and discuss the latest achievements, future challenges and exciting new dynamical systems models that will enable to improve the locomotion skills of future robots.
 

41) Title: "Computational techniques for evolutionary nonlinear PDEs with applications to image restoration and disease prevention"

Organizer: Prof. D. Bertaccini, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", Dipartimento di Matematica, Viale della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma (Italy), http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/bertaccini

E-mail: bertaccini@mat.uniroma2.it

Description of the topic of the session:

Realistic mathematical models in many strategic fields such as human disease prevention and image processing are based on nonlinear evolutionary PDEs. In order to get reliable and fast simulations, the use of appropriate techniques for the solution of the discretized model -usually a large system of nonlinear equations and the systems of linear equations generated during the inexact Newton step- is very important. Rigorous analysis and computational results with realistic
time-dependent models implementing various effective strategies in different fields will be proposed.

42) Title: "The recent advances in the numerical methods for the inverse problem resolution"

Organizers: Dr. Anton Sushchenko, Professor of Mathematics, EPMI, 13 bvd. De l'Hautil, 95092 Cergy-Pontoise, France, Tel. : +33(0)1.30.75.60.44, Port. : +33(0)6.07.14.08.38 and CNRS (UMR 8088) and Department of Mathematics, University of Cergy-Pontoise, 2 avenue Adolphe Chauvin, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France, Tel : (33) (0)1 34 25 66 65, Fax : (33) (0)1 34 25 66 45, Port: (33) (0)6 07 14 08 38 and Professor Larisa Beilina, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University, SE 42196 Gothenburg, Sweden

E-mail: Anton.Suschenko@u-cergy.fr and larisa.beilina@chalmers.se 

Description of the topic of the session:

Recent methods and new trends in the field of inverse problems and their applications will be discussed in this symposium. The different physical nature and wide spectre of applications of the inverse problem will be observed from the numerical point of view. The main topics to be considered in the talks are:

43) Title: "Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems in Geosciences"

Organizers: Dr. Ibrahim Hoteit, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology- KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Dr.George Triantafyllou, Hellenic Center of Marine Research - HCMR, Anavissos, Greece
 

E-mail: ibrahim.hoteit@kaust.edu.sa

Description of the topic of the session:

Data assimilation and inverse methods combine numerical models and observations to make the best possible estimates of the state and/or the parameters of a dynamical system. With the development of complex numerical models in almost every area of geosciences, these methods are increasingly becoming a necessary component to achieve more accurate predictions and reanalysis. The high complexity, nonlinearity and large dimension make the application of data assimilation and inverse methods to geophysical systems a quite challenging effort.

The aim of this mini-symposium is to gather and discuss recent theoretical and practical progress relevant to data assimilation and inverse problems in all areas of geosciences. This includes applications in atmosphere, ocean, climate, solid earth geophysics, hydrology, and petroleum engineering, etc. Contributions discussing new developments of operational systems are also of interest. Special emphasis will be put on methods and new developments of mathematical aspects of data assimilation and inverse problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

44) Title: "Mechanics of Composite Structures"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Richard Degenhardt, DLR, Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems, Braunschweig, Germany and Prof. Dr. Francisco C. de Araújo, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
 

E-mail: richard.degenhardt@dlr.de and fcelio@em.ufop.br

Description of the topic of the session:

Nowadays composites have been widely employed to construct engineering systems in many different industry fields, not only in the aircraft industry, where they were initially applied, but also in the automotive, ship, civil-construction industries, and others. Particularly in the aircraft industry, for instance, it is worth mentioning that the next generation planes B787 and A350 should be constructed with more than 50% of composite materials. General advantages of composites over traditional materials are e.g. high strength and light weight, and the design of composite structures has increasingly attracted the attention of the engineering community posing many challenging issues.

In this mini-symposium, contributions on the mathematical modelling and computational simulation of general composite structures and materials, including their macro- and micromechanical analysis, are welcome. The following topics are of particular interest in this mini-symposium:
 

45) Title: "Complex non-Newtonian fluids flows modelling and simulation"

Organizers: Dr. Pierre Saramito, Research Director at CNRS, Lab. J. Kuntzmann, B.P. 53, 38043 Grenoble cedex 9, http://www-ljk.imag.fr/membres/Pierre.Saramito 
 

E-mail: pierre.saramito@imag.fr

URL: http://www-ljk.imag.fr/membres/Pierre.Saramito/icnaam2010

Description of the topic of the session:

Complex fluids, such as suspensions, granular materials, liquid foams or emulsions, can not be described by the Navier-Stokes equations, suitable for water or air. Complex fluids are described by non-Newtonian models, e.g. viscoelastic of viscoplastic constitutive equations. The development of numerical methods for the prediction of complex fluids flows is of major importance for application to environment (mud and volcanic lava flows, snow avalanches), to biology (blood flow, micro-flow, cell and cytoskeleton modelling), to industry (plastic and metal forming and injection). The objective of the session is to bring together scientists working on mathematical modelling (including micro-macro approaches), numerical methods and also experimental issues related to complex flows.

46) Title: "Computational Drug Design"

Organizers: Dr. Marcus Weber, Head of "Computational Drug Design", Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Takustrasse 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany 
 

E-mail: weber@zib.de

Description of the topic of the session:

In Computational Drug Design one is interested in simulating the interaction of small, drug-like molecules with a larger molecular system, which is very often a protein with a known crystal structure and a known biological function. All aspects of this simulation need modern mathematical tools and concepts. These aspects include the modeling and efficient computation of the physical properties of the molecular system, the bridging of different time-scales during the simulation, the efficient generation of statistical thermodynamics data, and finally the evaluation of the produced simulation data. In the symposium, new mathematical concepts and their theoretical background in the field of Computational Drug Design will be presented and discussed.

47) Title: "Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Communication and Distributed Systems"

Organizers: Dr. Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, P.B. 134, 1325, Oslo, Norway 
 

E-mail: xin@simula.no 

Description of the topic of the session:

Recent advances in electronic and computer technologies have paved the way for the proliferations of ubiquitous wireless networks and distributed systems. Wireless networks, as well as other communication systems, necessitate efficient implementation of communication primitives to carry out more complex communication tasks. This in return propels new algorithmic challenges in the theory of distributed computing and wireless communication. Topics that are related to ad hoc and sensor networking, cognitive radio and mesh networks, mobile computing, and wireless and mobile security have been extensively studied recently. Potential applications of these networks include search and rescue, smart homes, battlefield surveillance, environment monitor, resource allocation and optimization, information encryption and decryption, and so forth. In response to the above demand for wireless networks and distributed systems, this symposium aims at providing a timely and concise collection of the current activities and findings in the relevant technical fields, as well focuses on the state-of-the-art and up-to-date efforts in the algorithmic aspects of wireless networks and distributed systems include location management, modeling of the interference and mobility, fault-tolerant communication, latency-efficient protocol design, topology control and coverage, security and privacy, scalable design, cross-layer design, clustering methodologies, resource optimization, QoS and so on (but not limited).

48) Title: "Generating functions of special numbers and polynomials and their applications"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Yilmaz Simsek, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Art &Science, Department of Matehmatics, 07058 Antalya-TURKEY

E-mail: ysimsek63@gmail.com

Description of the topic of the session:

The goal of the Symposium is to bring together all the researchers working in various fields of Mathematics, Mathematical Physics and related areas such as Analysis, Non-linear Analysis, Number Theory, Apply Algebra, p-adic Analysis, Special Functions, q-Analysis, Mathematical Physics and their applications. Our main aim is also to bring together theorical, numerical and apply analyst, number theorists, (quantum) physicist working in the areas of generating functions of the special numbers and polynomials and their applications. All of the participants will likely lead to significant uncover new connections on these fields which are Bernoulli, Euler, Genocchi, Stirling, Bell numbers and polynomials, the others, and also Riemann zeta functions, Hurwitz zeta functions, Lerch zeta functions, and Dirichlet L-functions.

49) Title: "The new trends in the field of Discontinuous Galerkin method and their applications"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Christian Daveau, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Département de Mathématiques, Saint Martin II, Bat E - 5e etage, Bureau 5.29, Site Saint Martin, BP 222, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise, France

E-mail: christian.daveau@math.u-cergy.fr, Christian.Daveau@u-cergy.fr 

Description of the topic of the session:

50) Title: "Transition to turbulence in two-dimensional and three-dimensional boundary layers"

Organizers: Prof. Jitesh.S.B. Gajjar, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

E-mail: j.gajjar@manchester.ac.uk

URL: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~gajjar/ICNAAM/

Description of the topic of the session:

The main aims of the symposium are to explore the latest developments in laminar-turbulent transition in two- and three-dimensional boundary layer flows, and to provide a forum for discussion by leading researchers in the field. The main emphasis will be on the mathematical and numerical aspects covering:
 

51) Title: "Computational Finance"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Yuying Li, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1. URL: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~yuying/

E-mail: yuying@uwaterloo.ca

Description of the topic of the session:

Computational finance is playing an important role in valuation and risk management in financial market. The goal of the Minisymposium is to discuss recent computational methods in derivative pricing/hedging, risk management, model calibration and portfolio optimization. This includes computational techniques involving solving partial differential equations, Monte Carlo simulations, and optimization methods used in financial modeling.

52) Title: "Numerical Approximation and Extrapolation Methods for Ordinary Differential and Volterra Integral Equations"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Pedro Lima, Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal and Prof. Dr. Maria Teresa Romãozinho Marques Diogo, Member of the Research Centre CeMat, Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, URL: www.math.ist.utl.pt/~tdiogo

E-mail: plima@math.ist.utl.pt and tdiogo@math.ist.utl.pt

URL of the Symposium: www.math.ist.utl.pt/~plima/ICNAAM2010

Description of the topic of the session:

The aim of this Symposium is to bring together researchers working on different topics of applied mathematics and physics which involve the numerical solution of ordinary differential and Volterra integral equations. The scope of the meeting is the analysis and implementation of effective computational methods for the approximation of such equations. Concerning Ordinary Differential Equations, we will consider initial and boundary value problems, as well as free boundary problems. We will focus on the most recent techniques for error control and improving the convergence of computational methods. In particular, we will be interested in extrapolation methods, as a way to accelerate the convergence of different discretization algorithms. Moreover, special attention will be devoted to singular equations and adequate methods to deal with them.
 

53) Title: "Modern Heuristics and Hybrid Algorithms for Engineering Problems Resolution"

Organizers: Prof. Oscar Begambre , Civil Engineering School, Industrial University of Santander – Campus Central, Calle 9 Carrera 27 Bucaramanga, Colombia

E-mail: ojbegam@uis.edu.co

Description of the topic of the session:

During the last three decades, heuristic optimization methods based on imitating natural, biological, social or cultural processes in a computational way had been extensively used by the scientific community, due to its ability to explore multimodal and high-dimensional solution spaces. Despite all the works reported in the international literature, most of the heuristic algorithms still suffer of poor precision, low stability and reduced confidence. In this context, the aim of this session is to present new improved algorithms that perform better and faster in several areas of engineering and to bring together scientists and engineers from different communities having experience in resolution of engineering problems using these algorithms.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

54) Title: "Continuum Mechanics and Microstructure"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Salvatore Federico, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada; tel: +1-403-220-5790, fax: +1-403-282-8406

E-mail: salvatore.federico [at] ucalgary.ca

Description of the topic of the session:

Materials with high level of microstructural complexity can be modelled within the framework of Continuum Mechanics, by means of a variety of possible approaches, e.g., mixture theory, Cosserat’s theory of generalised continua, fractal theory, etc. This Symposium aims at bringing together researchers (engineers, physicists, mathematicians) in Continuum Mechanics, and at stimulating the discussion of theoretical and computational approaches to the modelling of microstructured media.
Topics include, but are not limited to

55) Title: "Computational Nanoelectronics: the Next Paradigm in Nano Scale Device Simulations"

Organizers: Dr. Sayeef Salahuddin, 515 Sutardja Dai Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720

E-mail: sayeef@eecs.berkeley.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium will host papers on computational methods and simulation results of Nano scale electronic, spintronic and electro-mechanical systems. Novel process and materials process simulation methods will also be a part of this symposium.

56) Title: "Liquid Crystal Modelling: the Present and the Future"

Organizers: Dr Apala Majumdar, Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St.Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB

E-mail: majumdar@maths.ox.ac.uk

Description of the topic of the session:

The field of liquid crystal research has grown substantially in the last two decades due to the booming liquid crystal display industry, new material technologies and the onset of novel liquid crystalline mesophases. The mathematical modelling of liquid crystals poses fascinating problems in the calculus of variations, theory of partial differential equations, homegenization theory and numerical analysis. Our minisymposium will consist of a collection of short talks on the state-of-the-art in liquid crystal modelling and the main challenges for future development. Liquid crystal research is very interdisciplinary and the talks will cover a breadth of contemporary topics in liquid crystal research, such as:

The minisymposium will be concluded with a short discussion session and this discussion session will be open to all participants.

57) Title: "Inference and Estimation in Mixed Linear Models"

Organizers: Dr. Carlos A. Coelho, Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology, The New University of Lisbon
 

E-mail: cmac@fct.unl.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

In this Session we intend to have up-to-date presentations on the Topic of Inference and Estimation in Mixed Linear Models, namely:

58) Title: "Modelling and Numerics of Complex Societal Problems"

Organizers: Dr. Laura Scrimali, Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy, Tel.: +39 095 7383063; Fax +39 095 330094,

Home page: http://web.dmi.unict.it/Pagina/It/Didattica/Docenti_e_corsi/Scrimali_Laura.aspx

E-mail: scrimali@dmi.unict.it

Description of the topic of the session:

Recently, there has been a sharp increase in interest in modelling complex societal problems in order to tackle real-life situations, such as environmental problems, traffic congestion, infrastructure problems, electric power supply problems and global safety problems. The approach needed for dealing with such difficult and challenging problems encompasses different fields, ranging from societal disciplines to mathematics and operations research. The aim of the Symposium is to bring together scholars working on both theoretical and computational issues, present results having potential of solving concrete problems, and thus try to fill the gap between theory and practice.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

59) Title: "Scientific Computing and Stochastic Problems"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Hermann G. Matthies, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Hans-Sommer-Str. 65, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany, Tel. +49 (0)531/391-30 00, Fax:+49 (0)531/391-30 03

E-mail: wire@tu-bs.de

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium is to focus on the computational problems of stochastic problems. Lately there has been a vigorous development of methods which use ideas from the area of partial differential equations – in contrast to the more common direct integration methods like Monte Carlo simulation. This includes – but is not limited to – methods using functional approximation such as stochastic Galerkin and collocation, sparse and low rank representation, and optimal approximation subspaces. Applications will include problems from stochastic ordinary differential equations, and stationary and instationary partial differential equations.

60) Title: "Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Evolutionary Problems"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Mechthild Thalhammer, Department of Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 13, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

E-mail: Mechthild.Thalhammer@uibk.ac.at

Description of the topic of the session:

The symposium on Numerical methods for nonlinear evolutionary problems shall provide an occasion for experts in the field and young scientists to present recent advances in space and time discretisations of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations and initiate the discussion of current issues and future perspectives in numerical analysis and practical implementation.

61) Title: "Computational Geometric Methods in Multibody System Dynamics"

Organizers: Prof. dr. Zdravko Terze, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lucica 5, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia and Dr. Andreas Müller, University Duisburg–Essen, Chair of Mechanics and Robotics, Lotharstrasse 1, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany

E-mail: zdravko.terze@fsb.hr and andreas-mueller@uni-due.de

Description of the topic of the session:

To meet new challenges, different fields of engineering merge together, that were conventionally divided or loosely coupled in the past. This is evident especially in the area of multibody system (MBS) dynamics and control, a branch of computational mechanics dealing with modelling principles and computational methods for the dynamic analysis, simulation and control of various complex mechanical systems. Dynamical models and time-integration procedures provide the basis for dynamic analysis and virtual prototyping of innovative applications in mechanical engineering such as vehicle and railway systems, aeronautics space systems, robotic manipulators, autonomous systems, smart structures, and biomechanics applications.
 

In the framework of MBS dynamics, it is possible today to analyse, simulate and control complex engineering systems by utilizing advanced mathematical models in conjunction with efficient numerical simulation methods. All these tools are subject of extensive ongoing researches.

The aim of the symposium is to bring together experts working in the broad area of computational mechanics and multibody dynamics and numerical methods for control and simulation in particular.

Contributions are solicited, but not limited, on the following topics

62) Title: "Symposium on Multi Phase Flow, Interfaces and Phase Transition"

Organizers: Dr. Maren Hantke, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Institut für Analysis und Numerik, Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany, Phone: +49 391 67 12027, Fax: +49 391 67 18073

E-mail: Maren.Hantke@OVGU.de

URL Address: http://www-ian.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~hantke/ICNAAM/icnaam.htm

Description of the topic of the session:

Modeling and simulation of compressible multi phase flows are an interdisciplinary challenge for mathematicians, physicists and engineers. Special attention is required to the thermodynamic processes at the phase interfaces, e.g. phase transitions or heat transfer.

The symposium aims to bring together researchers working on numerical as well as on analytical or physical issues to discuss recent results, current problems and give ideas for new developments. They are invited to present their research.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

63) Title: "Symposium on Algorithm and Software Development for Modeling and Simulation of Protein/Ion Interactions with Implicit Solvent"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Dexuan Xie, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA and Prof. Dr. Dirk Gillespie, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology, Rush University, Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA

E-mail:  dxie@uwm.edu and Dirk_Gillespie@rush.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

Ions and proteins always interact and many proteins react to the ion concentrations around them. For example, some proteins are activated by specific ions (e.g., thrombin by Na⁺). Other proteins move ions across membranes; ion channels move ions passively down their electrochemical potential gradients and pumps use ATP to move ions against their concentration gradients. Even these proteins are regulated by ions (e.g., the ryanodine receptor calcium channel is both activated and inactivated by small and large concentrations of Ca²⁺, respectively).
 
Mathematical modeling and simulation of ion/protein interactions has developed rapidly recently. To sharply reduce the computational complexity, the implicit solvent approach is often used in modeling and simulation. While molecular dynamics is a powerful tool in simulating a detailed atomic model, density function theory of fluids, the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equation, and the Monte Carlo simulation method are widely used in developing various reduced continuum models. Numerical solution of these models has given rise to many new numerical analysis issues. Great challenges remain to reduce the complexity of these models, to enhance the reliability of these models, and to improve the efficiency of the numerical algorithms for solving these models.
This symposium intends to bring together experts from numerical analysis, applied mathematics, scientific computing, biophysics, and biochemistry to report and discuss the latest advances in numerical algorithms and software packages for modeling and simulation of proteins and ions in an implicit solvent. It will cover a wide range of topics that include, but are not limited to:

64) Title: "Dynamics, Control and Optimization of Mechatronic Systems in Theory and Experiment"

Organizers: Prof. Heinz Ulbrich, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching, Germany and Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Villgrattner, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching, Germany
 

E-mail:  ulbrich@amm.mw.tum.de and villgrattner@amm.mw.tum.de 

Description of the topic of the session:

The research field "Mechatronic" combines the various engineering and scientific topics of mechanics, electronics, physics, mathematics, computer sciences and biological findings into an integrated approach. This extremely interdisciplinary view on technical issues enables the improved design of sophisticated systems meeting the increasing demands on performance, size, weight, and intelligence. Almost any research topic in this exciting field comprises new developments or optimization in general using state-of-the-art-techniques.

The primary proposes of the symposium are to promote scientific and technological exchange between researchers from around the world and to enhance the understanding and the dissemination of relevant research tropics of mechatronic systems, including but not limited to:

65) Title: "Symposium on Applications of Graphs to Non-Linear Differential Equations"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Boubaker Smii, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. Box 82, Tel: +966530603701. Fax:+96638602340
 

E-mail:  boubaker@kfupm.edu.sa

Description of the topic of the session:

The Symposium on "Applications of graphs to non-linear differential equations," organized by the 8th International conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2010) bring together researchers from all the world to present new results in the Feynman graphs expansion of the solution of Partial differential equations(PDE's), stochastic differential equations(SDE's) , stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE's),...
 

Recent interesting results will be presented in the Symposium, in fact it was shown that a solution of a SPDE is given in terms of generalized Feynman graphs and rules in the spirit of Parisi-Wu method.
 

Solutions of more general non-linear differential equations, such that Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equations, will be given in terms of a special types of graphs called rooted trees.
 

The topic covered by the Symposium include, but not limited to:

66) Title: "Approximation of Set-Valued Functions"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Marian Muresan, Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, 1, M. Kogalnicanu str., 400048 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 

E-mail:  mmarian@math.ubbcluj.ro, mmarianus24@yahoo.com

Description of the topic of the session:

The approximation of functions is a huge and continuously developing domain. The scientific curiosity as well as the questions raised by more concrete topics (we mention just image processing) opened the gate of research on set-valued approximation. The set-valued approximation deals with approximation (in a metric of a hyperspace) of a set-valued function by a set-valued approximant or by a sequence of such objects. Because in this setting we have subsets instead of points (usually they are compact and convex), operations with sets instead of operations with points, and other metrics, new challenging approximation problems arise. We hope that this symposium will bring to the attention of participants new and interesting contributions on this topic.

67) Title: "High Performance Computing Methods"

Organizer: Professor Dr. Ralf Gruber, École Polytechnique Fédérate de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
 

E-mail:  ralf.gruber@epfl.ch

Description of the topic of the session:

The arrival of high performance parallel computer architectures including new multi-processor many-core nodes make code development rather difficult. The Symposium accepts papers that present solutions to reach efficient implementations on parallel computer architectures based upon the new Intel and AMD architectures, the Cell, GPU, FPGA, or others. Also solutions of problems related to processor performance, main memory bandwidth, network latency and bandwidths, as well as those reducing the overall energy consumption are welcome. Monitoring and complexity studies that lead to application improvements are also eligible for publication.

68) Title: "Advances in Numerical Methods for Stochastic Simulation"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Ivo Sbalzarini, MOSAIC Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Dr. Hong Li, Computational Science and Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
 

E-mail:  ivos@ethz.ch and hongli@cs.ucsb.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

Stochastic simulation methods are key to studying natural and manmade systems for which the continuity assumption does not hold or where correlated fluctuations exist. Examples of such applications range from intracellular transport to ecological and economical modeling. The computational complexity of the resulting simulations has inspired continuous improvements in the computational methods available. This symposium will bring together leading experts from the field, presenting the most recent advances in efficient stochastic simulation algorithms and their applications. This includes numerical methods for the chemical master equation (kinetic Monte-Carlo and SSA-type of algorithms), but also spatiotemporal simulation methods, e.g. for stochastic reaction-diffusion dynamics.

69) Title: "Computational Nanooptics"

Organizer: Dr. Frank Schmidt, Head of „Computational Nanooptics“, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Takustrasse 7, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
 

E-mail:  frank.schmidt@zib.de

Description of the topic of the session:

Fast and reliable simulation of electromagnetic fields in three space dimensions remains one of the key challenges of scientific computing. Especially in nanooptics where the feature size of components is often in the sub-wavelength region but the overall size may reach hundreds or thousands of wavelengths, continuously improved simulation methods or new techniques are required. Topics of interest include (but not limited!):

70) Title: "Multiscale Stochastic Modelling"

Organizers: Dr. Carsten Hartmann, Institut für Mathematik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany and Dr. Wilhelm Huisinga, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
 

E-mail:  chartman@mi.fu-berlin.de and wilhelm.huisinga@nuim.ie

Description of the topic of the session:

An important aspect in the modelling and simulation of systems with multiple scales concerns the necessary level of details that is needed in order to capture certain effects. The aim of this minisymposium is to review recent developements in the stochastic modelling of multiscale problems with a particular focus on biological applications. Typical issues range from Markov state models and systematic coarse-graining of biomolecular dynamics to numerical methods for the chemical master equation and parameter estimation of multiscale systems. Topics of interest include:

71) Title: "Symposium on Flexible Multi Body Systems"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Carsten Proppe and Dr. Hartmut Hetzler, Institut für Technische Mechanik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Kaiserstraße 10, 76131 Karlsruhe
 

E-mail:  carsten.proppe@kit.edu and hetzler@itm.uka.de

Description of the topic of the session:

Flexible multi body systems are important models for the dynamics of lightweight structures, manipulators, vehicles and many others. This symposium aims to bring together researchers working on development of new and application of existing methods in flexible multibody dynamics. Major attention will be drawn upon:

72) Title: "Efficiency and Applications"

Organizer: Prof. Univ. Dr. Vasile Postolică, Romanian Academy of Scientists, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău, Romania, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Web: www.postolica.ambra.ro

E-mail:  vpostolica@ambra.ro

Description of the topic of the session:

We invite you to participate at this new scientific area of research which includes, without limits, the next subjects and their immediate projections:
 

73) Title: "Analytical and Numerical Tools of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems & their Applications"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Joaquim M.C. Correia, DMAT, Universidade de Évora, Colégio Luís Antº Verney, R. Romão Ramalho, nº59, 7000-671 ÉVORA, Portugal, Tel (+351) 266 745 370, Fax (+351) 266 745 393 and Prof. Dr. Rafael Sasportes, DCeT, Universidade Aberta, Rua Fernão Lopes, 9 - 2D, 1000-132 Lisboa, Portugal, Tel. (+351) 21 315 0186, fax (+351) 21 315 0183. URL of the Symposium: http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jcorreia/icnaam2010.html

E-mail:  jmcorreia@uevora.pt and rafael@univ-ab.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

Objective: Present and discuss experimental, analytical or numerical research on nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations and closely related fields, emphasizing their importance in scientifical and technical problems as well as their relevance in economical, social and environmental issues.

The purpose of the Symposium is to bring together people working on these issues and welcome talks on state of the art, relevant applications, open problems, directions of research.
 

74) Title: "Mathematical Analysis in Shape Spaces and Computational Anatomy"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Laurent Younes, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Core Faculty member of the Center for Imaging Science, Core Faculty member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, Telephone: 410 516 5103

E-mail:  laurent.younes@jhu.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

The analysis of shapes, or of more general deformable structures, as mathematical objects, and its application to specific domains in imaging, including computational anatomy, has been the subject of an expanding scientific interest in the past few decades, motivated by the development of image acquisition methods and segmentation algorithms in which shapes could be extracted as isolated objects and analyzed as such.

The proposed one‐day minisymposium will explore new theoretical, numerical and statistical methods in the analysis of shapes, as well as novel applications, with a special focus on medical imaging.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

75) Title: "Simulation of Cardiac Excitation"

Organizer: Dr. Martin Weiser, Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustr. 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany, phone: +49 30 84185 170, web: http://www.zib.de/weiser/ 

E-mail:  weiser@zib.de

Description of the topic of the session:

Fast and accurate numerical simulation of the electric excitation of the human heart has the potential to improve many kinds of cardiac therapies, including drug design and delivery, ablation, and design of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. Cardiac excitation is described by the bidomain model consisting of a reaction-diffusion equation with an  elliptic constraint and a set of pointwise ODEs describing ion transport across the cell membranes. Different spatial and temporal scales make this model a challenge for numerical integration schemes. Topics to be covered in this session include

76) Title: "Mathematical Optimization in Modern Medicine"

Organizers: Dr. Flavius Pater, Department of Mathematics, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, P-ta Regina Maria n 1, 300004 (Romania) and Dr. med. Dr. Serban Rosu, Department of Oral and Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “V. Babes” Timisoara, Bd. Take Ionescu, 300062 (Romania) 

E-mail:  flaviuspater@gmail.com and serbanrosu@gmail.com

Description of the topic of the session:

Computer aided medical planning and simulation is a rapidly evolving research field that is going to alter dramatically the way practitioners perform their job. Mathematical models and computer simulations have a huge impact on modern medicine both in the treatment and financial planning processes. Some of the challenges lie in the modeling of the behavior of hard and soft tissue bringing together researchers from mathematics, medicine, economics, computer science and engineering. Some other challenges consist in simulating the behavior of pathogens or the evolution of a certain disease. Last but not least, modern medicine implies best treatment with cost effective optimization.

Our minisymposium addresses issues related but not limited to:

77) Title: "High Performance Computational Methods for Geophysical Flow"

Organizers: Dr. Jörg Wensch, Technische Universität Dresden, Fachrichtung Mathematik, Institut für wissenschaftliches Rechnen, 01062 Dresden, Germany and Dr. Matthias Läuter, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB), Takustraße 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany 

E-mail:  joerg.wensch@tu-dresden.de and laeuter@zib.de

URL: http://www.math.tu-dresden.de/~wensch/icnaam.html

Description of the topic of the session:

Geophysical fluid dynamics modeling is the foundation of applications in meteorology, oceanography and climate sciences. The nonlinear structure of these flow problems leads to
complex interaction processes between multiple temporal and spatial scales.

Geophysical flow phenomena are governed by the Navier-Stokes equations including fundamental forcing terms, e.g. gravitational and diabatic terms. Important feature can be observerd already for filtered dynamical equations with reduced complexity, e.g. incompressible, anelastic, hydrostatic and shallow water equations.

To cover the high demands in applications on the spatial resolution and/or long time integration intervals, numerical models need to cover important properties like high-order accuracy, discrete conservation, numerical balance and parallel computational efficiency. Appropriate numerical methods for a wide range of models (e.g., mesoscale, regional, global) are based on Galerkin, Godunov, and particle-based methods and include the sensitive treatment of fast modes gravity and sound waves modes for timestepping.

The goal of this section is to address these important issues from numerical analysis and high performance computing.

78) Title: "Algorithmic and Modeling Issues of Probability Density Function (PDF) Methods"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Patrick Jenny, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, ETH-Zentrum ML H38, Sonneggstrasse 3, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland, +41-44-632 6987

E-mail:  jenny@ifd.mavt.ethz.ch

Description of the topic of the session:

PDF methods, while attractive for many modeling tasks in various fields of science and engineering, are in particular interesting for turbulent reactive flow simulations. This is mainly due to the fact that the computed joint statistics leads to a higher level of closure than moment methods, e.g. in joint velocity-composition PDF methods no modeling is required for turbulent convection nor for averaging reaction source terms. Despite these obvious advantages, however, PDF methods are not as widely used as one may expect. This is mainly related to the relatively high computational cost and numerical difficulties of existing solution algorithms and codes. Although recent developments in the right direction show that robustness and efficiency of PDF solution methods can dramatically be improved, much more research and development is required. From a modeling view point, molecular mixing and its proper coupling with general and efficient reaction models, but e.g. also multi-phase combustion, remain major challenges.

The goal of this mini-symposium is to address both algorithmic and modeling issues of PDF methods and therefore to further promote this attractive modeling approach for turbulent combustion, porous media flow and other application areas.

79) Title: "Operator Theory, Harmonic Analysis, and Applications"

Organizer: Dr. Ilie Valusescu, Institute of Mathematics Simion Stoilow of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box 1-764, Bucharest 014700, Romania

E-mail:  ilie.valusescu@yahoo.co.uk and Ilie.Valusescu@imar.ro

Description of the topic of the session:

This Symposium is dedicated to researches in the topics listed below, and theoretical, or practical applications of these topics in various other domains.

The topics include, but are not limited to the following:
 

80) Title: "Numerical Simulations in Food Process Engineering"

Organizers: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich J. Windhab (Main Organizer) and Natalie Germann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETH), Schmelzbergstrasse 9, LFO-E18, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland +41 44 6325348 (direct), +41 44 632 5359 (secretary), +41 44 632 1155 (fax), Prof. Dr. Kathy Feigl and Prof. Dr. Franz Tanner, Dept. Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, 211 Fisher Hall, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA
 

E-mail:  windhab@ilw.agrl.ethz.ch, natalie.germann@ilw.agrl.ethz.ch,

feigl@mtu.edu and tanner@mtu.edu
 

Description of the topic of the session:

Food Process Engineering connects the areas of Process Engineering (1) and Food Material Science (2). In both areas numerical simulation research work is required in order to either describe mass-, heat and momentum transfer under dynamic processing conditions and/or give an improved description of the complex material behaviour (e.g. non-Newtonian rheology) on various length scales, applying molecular-, Brownian- or Continuum Dynamics approaches.

Within the ICNAAM Mini-symposium on „Numerical Simulations in Food Process Engineering“ (ICNAAM-SFPE) we are interested to bring scientists together who are interested in focussing on numerical simulation in engineering or material science aspects of food or related model systems.
The work to be presented shall not only address numerical methods, but particularly show their application in food or other biomaterial related engineering and material science problem solving.

 

81) Title: "Convex Optimization and Monotone Operators"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Alfredo Noel Iusem, IMPA, Estrada Dona Castorina 110, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 22460-320, Brazil, Phone: (55-21)-529-5129, FAX: (55-21)-529-5129
 

E-mail:  iusp@impa.br
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The syposium encompasses state-of the-art research in convex optimization, monotone variational inequalities, and their extensions. Special emphasis will be given to:

82) Title: "Discrete and Continuous Integrable Systems"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Yousuke Ohyama, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-machi, Toyonaka, 560-0043, Japan
 

E-mail:  ohyama@math.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
 

Description of the topic of the session:

This session devoted to recent progress of on difference or differential integrable equations and related topics. The study of integrable systems has undergone an astounding evolution for past thirty years. Moreover, integrable systems have a close relationship with many branches of mathematics and physics, such as algebraic geometry, representation theory, differential Galois theory, differential geometry, the theory of special functions, quantum field theory, general relativity, and so on. Topics of the session include:

83) Title: "Deterministic and Stochastic Behaviour in Applied Nonlinear Dynamics"

Organizer: Dr. Diogo Pinheiro, CEMAPRE, ISEG, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Rua do Quelhas, 6, 1200-781 Lisboa, Portugal, Tel: (+351) 213 925 874 (Ext. 3874), Fax: (+351) 213 922 781
 

E-mail:  dpinheiro@iseg.utl.pt
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The aim of the symposium is to discuss the strong interplay between stochastic and deterministic nonlinear dynamics and its applications to a variety of subjects, such as:

Different points of view on the subject are welcome, including theoretical, numerical and experimental studies on which stochastic and deterministic effects combine to create non-trivial dynamics.