Each day of the conference, we will feature a distinguished invited speaker in the 8–9am timeslot.
Monday
Prof. Stanley Osher (UCLA)
Stanley Osher received his Phd degree in from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He is also an Associate Director of the NSF funded Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is one of the top 25 most highly cited researchers in both mathematics and computer sciences. He has received numerous academic honors and has co-founded three successful companies, each based largely on his own (joint) research. His current interests mainly involve information science which includes graphics, image processing, compressed sensing and machine learning.
He has co-invented and/or co-developed the following widely used algorithms:
- Essentially nonoscillatory (ENO), weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) and other shock capturing schemes for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws and their analogues for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
- The level set method for capturing dynamic surface evolution
- Total variation and other partiak differential based methods for image processing.
- Bregman iterative methods for L1 and related regularized problems which arrive in compressive sensing, matrix completion, imaging and elsewhere.
- Diffusion generated motion by mean curvature and other threshhold dynamics methods.
His website is http://www.math.ucla.edu/~sjo. His recent papers are on the UCLA Math Dep't CAM website: http://www.math.ucla.edu/applied/cam/index.shtml.
Tuesday
Prof. Rainald Löhner (GMU)
Rainald Löhner is the head of the CFD center at the department of computational and data sciences of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, in the outskirts of Washington, D.C. He received a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Technische Universität at Braunschweig, Germany, as well as a PhD and DSc in Civil Engineering from the University College of Swansea, Wales, where he studied under Profs. Ken Morgan and Olgierd Zienkiewicz. His areas of interest include numerical methods, solvers, grid generation, parallel computing, visualization, pre-processing, fluid-structure interaction as well as shape and process optimization. His codes and methods have been applied in many fields, including aerodynamics of airplanes, cars and trains, hydrodynamics of ships, submarines and UAVs, shock-structure interaction, dispersion analysis in urban areas and haemodynamics of vascular diseases. He is the author of more than 650 articles covering the fields enumerated above, as well as a textbook on Applied CFD Techniques.
Wednesday
Prof. Kozo Fujii (ISAS/JAXA)
Speaker's Bio coming soon...
Thursday
Dr. Miguel Visbal (AFRL)
Dr. Miguel Visbal is Principal Research Aerospace Engineer and Team Leader of Multidisciplinary Computational Aerodynamics at the Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory. He has conducted and led research in the fields of unsteady separation, flow topology, vortex breakdown, flow control, and high-order methods for large-eddy-simulation. Dr. Visbal is an Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow and a recipient of the Air Force Basic Research Award for the development of high-resolution numerical methods for multi-physics simulations. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 technical publications. He is a Fellow of AIAA, an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal, and has served as member of the Fluid Dynamics and Aero-acoustics Technical Committees. He also serves in the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Honors & Awards and CFD Technical Committees.
Friday
Prof. Spencer Sherwin (Imperial College)
Speaker's Bio coming soon...