October 2-3, 2015
Speakers
- Gerard Awanou, University of Illinois Chicago
- Xiaobing Feng, The University of Tennessee
- Brittany Froese, NJIT
- Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
- Tom Lewis, University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Jean-Marie Mirebeau, Universite Paris--Dauphine
- Ricardo Nochetto, University of Maryland, College Park
- Adam Oberman, McGill University
- Abner Salgado, The University of Tennessee
- Iain Smears, INRIA Rocquencourt
Registration and Support
Please use this link to register for the conference.
Location
The location of the conference will be Posvar Hall 3911. The schedule is given below.
Schedule |
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| Friday, October 2 | ||
| 8:00-8:45am | Coffee | |
| 8:45-9:00am | Welcome | |
| 9:00-9:50am | Oberman PDE and Linear Programming Approach to the Optimal Transportation Problem |
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| 10:00-10:30am | Break | |
| 10:30-11:10am | Mirebeau Computing shortest paths on manifolds: algorithms and applications |
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| 11:20am-12:00pm | Froese
Meshfree finite difference methods for nonlinear elliptic equations |
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| 12:00am-2:00pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:50pm | Nochetto Discrete Alexandroff estimate and rates of convergence for FEMs |
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| 3:00-3:30pm | Coffee | |
| 3:30-4:20pm | Glowinski On the numerical solution of some Eikonal systems by penalty/operator-splitting methods |
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| Saturday, October 3 | |
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| 8:00-9:00am | Coffee |
| 9:00-9:50am | Feng Semi-Lagrangian methods for the second order fully nonlinear Monge-Ampere type equations |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-11:10am | Lewis Generalized monotone finite difference methods for approximating viscosity solutions |
| 11:20am-12:00pm | Smears hp-version DGFEM for Hamilton—Jacobi—Bellman equations with Cordes coefficients |
| 12:00-2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00-2:40pm | Awanou Discrete Aleksandrov solutions of the Monge-Ampere equation |
| 2:50-3:30pm | Salgado Finite element approximation of the Isaacs equation |
Local Information and Accommodations
Map
A map of various landmarks on campus can be found here.
Hotels
Directions
The Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) is 20.5 miles away from the University of Pittsburgh (25-45 minutes driving time depending on the time of day). There are several options to get to campus from the airport.- Yellow Cab (412-321-8100). The average taxi fare from the airport to campus is approximately $45.
- Express Shuttle Service (1-800-991-9890). A shuttle service between the airport and the downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland areas. The fare is $25 one way and $43 round trip.
- SuperShuttle (1-800-258-3826). Another shuttle service that serves the airport and the Oakland/Downtown area.
- Public Bus Transportation
with Port Authority Transit 28X Airport Flyer. The trip cost is $3.75 one way and
exact change is required. The bus runs every 30 minutes from the airport at gate #6,
and the duration of the trip is typically 50 minutes.
See the flyer
for more details.
Parking
If you need to park on campus, you might want to park at the following garages:- Soldiers and Sailors (SO): The rates are 0-1 hour $4; 1-2 hours $5; 2-4 hours $7; 4-6 hours $8; 6-8 hours $10; 8-10 hours $12; Over 10 hours $14.
- O'Hara (OH) : The rates are 0-1 hour $4; 1-2 hours $5; 2-4 hours $8; 4-6 hours $9; 6-8 hours $10; 8-10 hours $14; Over 10 hours $17.
- All garages are listed on this map.