ICNAAM 2011

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 22/7/2011. In the Proceedings of ICNAAM 2011 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 2011 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 (UPDATED)

1) Title: "The 6th 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!):

Full versions of selected papers presented during the symposium will be published in a special issue of Applied Mathematics and Computation (ISI Web of Science).

The URL address of the Symposium can be found here. 

3) Title: "8-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.

4) Title: "2nd Symposium on 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.

5) Title: "Statistics and Modelling II"

Organizer: Dr. Milan Stehlík, Institut für angewandte Statistik, Freistädter Straße 315, A-4040 Linz, Austria

E-mail: Milan.Stehlik@jku.at

URL of the Symposium: http://ifas.jku.at/icnaam, http://ifas.jku.at/icnaam11

Description of the topic of the session:

This session will address a recent developments in statistics and modelling. In particular also applications will be considered.

The URL of the Symposium is here

Organizers: Dr. Mohammad Siddique, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fayetteville State University, NC, USΑ, URL: http://faculty.uncfsu.edu/msiddiqu     
  

E-mail: msiddiqu@uncfsu.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

Ordinary differential equations arise in many scientific disciplines. An important part of numerical analysis is the study of numerical solution of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Many famous mathematicians have studied differential equations and made significant contribution to the numerical solution of ODEs. The study of differential equations makes a bridge between mathematics and its applications to scientific disciplines. The advent of computers has made the field more important than ever because it facilitates the computation of numerical solutions to equations which before could be discussed only qualitatively.

The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for further discussion of the numerical achievements and advancement received in the numerical solution of stiff and non-stiff initial values problems of ODEs, communication, collaboration, and exchange of new ideas.

7) 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, URL: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares, Phone: +351 22 508 1487 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.

8) Title: "Nonlinear Waves in Heterogeneous Media"

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

E-mail: igor_andrianov@hotmail.com

Description of the topic of the session:

A lot of the modern investigations are devoted to developing of new models, methods and solutions that can predict non-local dynamic behaviour of nonlinear composite (nanocomposite in particular) materials. From the practical standpoint it is very interesting to determine and formulate the links between, on the one side, structure and properties of heterogeneous media and, on the other side, characteristics of nonlinear waves (or vibrations). The obtained solutions will provide information about the inner structure of the materials, which, in principle, can never be extracted from the analysis of only static properties. Monitoring nonlinear behaviour of composites can give a possibility to detect even very small variations of the microstructure. Thus, the results of such investigations are expected to be suitable for the development of new, more precise technologies of non-destructive testing and acoustic diagnostic in engineering, geophysics, biomechanics and other fields dealing with heterogeneous media and structures.

The aim of the Symposium is to gather experts working on various actually important aspects of developing and application of analytical and numerical approaches for dynamical problems of heterogeneous media: pure mathematicians, applied mathematicians, mechanics and software experts.

The Symposium covers the following subjects:

9) 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, numerical methods.


Topics of the Symposium include:

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: "Recent Advances and Current Research on the Difference Equations and its Applications"

Organizers: Professor Dr. Seifedine Kadry, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. Telephone: + (965) 2225 1400 - Fax: + (965) 22251427   
  

E-mail: skadry@gmail.com

Description of the topic of the session:

Difference Equation or discrete dynamical system is a very interesting subject because they are central to the analysis of many models of dynamic programming and we can derive many complex behavior based on simple formulation.
 

The aim of this symposium is to discuss the new developments in the field of difference equations, and their applications.
 

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

12) Title: "Third Big Challenge Symposium - Dark Universe, Gravitation and Cosmology"

Organizers: Professor Christian Corda, Institute for Basic Research, P. O. Box 1577, Palm Harbor, FL 34682, USA and International Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics Einstein-Galilei, Via Santa Gonda, 14 - 59100 Prato, ITALY; Professor Ruggero Maria Santilli, Institute for Basic Research, P. O.Box 1577, Palm Harbor, FL 34682, USA; Professor Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta, Instituto de Cosmologia, Relatividade e Astrofisica (ICRA-BR) Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF) Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

E-mail: cordac.galilei@gmail.com, ibr@verizon.net and herman@icra.it
 

Symposium devoted to the Memory of Darryl Jay Leiter, February 25, 1937 - March 4, 2011,
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyprogress/obituary.aspx?n=darryl-jay-leiter&pid=149107270"
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The fields of research of Gravitation and Cosmology are very exciting and rapidly advancing from theoretical, observational and experimental points of view.

The Standard Model of the Universe shows anomalies like the so-called Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Another unsolved problem is the Pioneer anomaly which consists in the observed deviation from predicted trajectories and velocities of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft which visit the outer Solar System.

In fact, scientists understand only the five percent of the Universe made up of atoms, compared to the 95 percent that they think is composed of Dark Matter, i.e. matter which is supposed to exist from Newtonian (but not relativistic) effects on visible matter and background radiation, but is undetectable by emitted or scattered electromagnetic radiation and Dark Energy, which is a hypothetical form of energy that is supposed to permeate all of space and to tend to increase the rate of expansion of the Universe.

An alternative approach is to have a better understanding of the Gravitational Physics which govern the global evolution of the Universe.

Modifications to the standard (Maxwell) electrodynamics were proposed in the early days of the XXth century in order to avoid infinite physical quantities from theoretical descriptions of electromagnetic interactions.

Born and Infeld, for instance, proposed a model in which the infinite self energy of point particles (typical of Maxwell's electrodynamics) are removed by introducing an upper limit on the electric field strength, and by considering the electron as an electric particle with finite radius. Along this line, other models of nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED) Lagrangians were proposed by Plebanski, who also showed that Born-Infeld model satisfies physically acceptable requirements. Consequences of nonlinear electrodynamics have been studied in many contexts, such a, for example, non-singular cosmological models by Corda, Mosquera Cuesta, Novello and others, removing black holes singularities, by Corda and Mosquera Cuesta, wormhole physics, primordial magnetic fields in the Universe by Mosquera Cuesta and Lambiase, gravitational baryogenesis by Mosquera Cuesta and Lambiase, and astrophysics by Mosquera Cuesta and others.

The goals of this Symposium, which arrives at the Third Edition, is an open discussion and debate of the recent findings on the composition of the Universe, its structures its dynamics, and the various unsolved problems.
 

13) Title: "The second miniSymposium on Nonlinear Computational Techniques with Applications"

Organizer: Prof. Daniele Bertaccini, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Dipartimento di Matematica, Viale della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma (I), URL: 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 require the solution of large scale nonlinear problems. Nonlinear PDEs, nonlinear least squares and unconstrained optimization and combinations of them are only a few examples of flexible (and very popular) tools used in these models.

In order to get reliable and fast simulations, the use of appropriate techniques for the solution of the discretized version of the underlying model -usually a large system of nonlinear equations and the systems of linear equations generated during various linearization steps- is very important.
 

This session aims to bring together some scientists that devise new realistic nonlinear models and some who introduce efficient and reliable computational techniques for the numerical solution with a rigorous analysis on the other.

14) Title: "Dynamical systems: a Framework for Robot Locomotion"

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. Industrial Electronics, 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.

 

15) 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:

16) Title: "Advances in Impedance Boundary Conditions for Frequency Selective Surfaces"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Christian Daveau, CNRS (UMR 8088) and Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Département de Mathématiques, 2 avenue Adolphe Chauvin, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France, http://www.u-cergy.fr/~daveau

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

Description of the topic of the session:

Frequency selective surfaces (FSS) have wide applications in many electromagnetic devices, such as reflectors in antenna system or else radomes. This session provides an opportunity for scientists and engineers to present recent advances and to discuss current problems, future needs and prospects in the area of FSS modeling.
 

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), Boite courrier 187, 75252 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 Schrödinger). The transfer of knowledge from one field to another could benefit to both communities. The presentations will mainly, but not exclusively, focus on:

18) Title: "The 2-nd symposium on "Semigroups of Linear Operators and Applications"

Organizer: Dr. Ludovic Dan Lemle, Faculty of Engineering of Hunedoara, Politehnica University of Timisoara, 5, Revolutiei street, 331128 Hunedoara, Romania
 

E-mail:  dan.lemle@fih.upt.ro
 

URL : http://www.fih.upt.ro/personal/dan.lemle/Lemle_Simpozion_2011.htm
 

Description of the topic of the session:

The 2-nd Symposium on Semigroups of Linear Operators and Applications brings together researchers from all the world to present new results in the theory of linear operators and its applications. Besides scheduling talks from established mathematicians, we will give opportunity to junior researchers to present their works.

The topic covered by Symposium include (but is not limited to):

19) 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:
 

20) Title: "Operational Research"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Fernanda A. Ferreira and Prof. Dr. Flávio Ferreira, School of Management and Industrial Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and Center of Mathematics of the University of Porto, 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 Operational Research, its application in Industrial Organization, and its practice, in order to further communication, collaboration, and exchange of new ideas.

This symposium welcomes all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as students interested in any branch of operational research.

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

21) Title: "Numerical Functional Analysis"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Allaberen Ashyralyev, Fatih University, Turkey

E-mail:  aashyr@fatih.edu.tr

Description of the topic of the session:

The Symposium is directed to leading experts in both Numerical Functional Analysis and Operator Theory, as well as their applications, thereby contributing to an inter-disciplinary collaboration. The main aim of this symposium is to provide impetus, motivation and to bring together researchers and scientists working in the fields of Numerical Functional Analysis and Operator Theory and Applications by providing a forum for the academic exchange of ideas and recent research works.

The areas of interest include but are not limited to:

22) Title: "Applied Statistics for Rankings and Ratings"

Organizer: Dr. Michaela Saisana, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Unit of Econometrics and Applied Statistics, Enrico Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy, http://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/,

http://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/CVMSaisana.htm

E-mail:  michaela.saisana@jrc.ec.europa.eu

Description of the topic of the session:

In recent years, numerous approaches to measure complex issues at the local and global scale have emerged in the form of aggregate measures. Some advantages of aggregate measures (else composite indicators) include their ability to summarize multidimensional issues, generate ranked lists, track progress over time, facilitate public communication, gauge policy analysis, and promote accountability. On the other hand, aggregate measures may invite simplistic policy conclusions, disguise serious failings in certain dimensions and consequently hamper implementation of proper remedial action, and give rise to inappropriate policies if difficult-to-measure indicators of performance are ignored from the conceptual framework.

While the debate between advocates and detractors may never be settled, policy analysts will continue to develop rankings and ratings (e.g., Brand et al., 2007), and policymakers will continue to rely on them for decision-making. To maximize their utility and minimize their misuse, developers must be based on the best available evidence, design the composite indicators with transparent structures, and assess the composite indicators using appropriate multivariate and sensitivity analyses (Saisana et al. 2005, Tarantola et al., 2006). Sensitivity analysis acknowledges various methodological assumptions that are intrinsic to policy research and assesses whether results change substantially when those assumptions vary over a reasonable range of possibilities (Saltelli et al. 2008, OECD, 2008, , Saisana and Tarantola 2002).

Despite the importance of this methodological stage, critical issues of uncertainty, sensitivity and robustness receive minimal attention in the majority of available rankings and ratings. Most index creators provide no evidence on, for instance, the choice of linear aggregation over multiplicative aggregation or the need for multiple levels of aggregation. The same is true for the logic behind indicator weights, indicator re-scaling, handling of missing values, and so forth. In particular, questions of indicator weighting and linear aggregation require cautiousness due to the potential for indicator compensation. Overall, rankings and ratings need to consider and incorporate findings from disciplines such as econometrics and statistics to manage problems of uncertainty introduction, to strengthen index validity and to advance the methodological quality of those indices (Cherchye et al., 2008, Munda et al., 2009).

Up to now, most indices remain in academic settings with limited applied exposure - except indices developed by large institutions such as the United Nations or the World Health Organisation. In order to move beyond theoretical discussions of indices and their validity, it is necessary to implement the most promising indices as tools for detecting, monitoring and benchmarking performance in the relevant fields of interest. Only rigorous usage by the practitioner community will ultimately uncover reliability and feasibility flaws.
The session will invite papers of methodological and/or application content along the issues sketched above. The final goal is to propose an analytical framework for index evaluation that allows for the identification of scientifically sound and methodologically robust approaches.
 

References:

Brand D. A., M. Saisana, L. A. Rynn, F. Pennoni, A. B. Lowenfels, 2007, Comparative Analysis of Alcohol Control Policies in 30 Countries. PLoS Medicine 4(4), 752-759.
Cherchye L., W. Moesen, N. Rogge, T. Van Puyenbroeck, M. Saisana, A. Saltelli, R. Liska, S. Tarantola, 2008, Creating Composite Indicators with DEA and Robustness Analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index. Journal of Operational Research Society 59, 239-251.
Munda G., Nardo M., Saisana M., 2009, Measuring uncertainties in composite indicators of sustainability. Int. J. Environmental Technology and Management 11, 7-26.
OECD, 2008, Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators. Methodology and user Guide, OECD Publishing, ISBN 978-92-64-04345-9. Authored by Nardo M., Saisana M., Saltelli A., Tarantola S., Hoffman A., Giovannini E.Saisana, M., Saltelli, A., Tarantola, S. (2005) Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis techniques as tools for the analysis and validation of composite indicators, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 168(2), 307-323.
Saisana M., Saltelli A., Tarantola S., 2005, Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis techniques as tools for the analysis and validation of composite indicators. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 168(2), 307-323.
Saisana, M., Tarantola, S., 2002, State-of-the-art Report on Current Methodologies and Practices for Composite Indicator Development, EUR Report 20408 EN, European Commission, JRC, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Ispra, Italy, 72 pp.
Saltelli A., M. Ratto, T. Andres, F. Campolongo, J. Cariboni, D. Gatelli, M. Saisana, S. Tarantola, 2008, Global sensitivity analysis. The Primer, John Wiley & Sons, England.
Tarantola S., Nardo M., Saisana M., Gatelli D., 2006, A new estimator for sensitivity analysis of model output: An application to the e-business readiness composite indicator. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 91(10-11), 1135-1141.

 

23) Title: "1st Symposium on Analysis of Quantum Field Theory"

Organizer: Dr. Ralf Hofmann, Privatdozent, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 HEIDELBERG, Tel.: (06221) 549422

E-mail:  hofmann@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de

Description of the topic of the session:

The intention of this meeting is to bring together physicists and mathematicians working on analytically limitable and then numerically addressable aspects of interacting quantum field theories (preferably but not exclusively gauge theories) to discuss novel and fruitful ideas in this field. For more information on ICNAAM 2011 and how to register, please see

http://www.icnaam.org/index.htm

The talks shall be given on 20/21/22 September 2011
Presently, the following 1-hour oral contributions are foreseen:

Still, there are open slots for talks. People interested in giving a 30-to-60minute oral presentation of their work please contact the symposium organizer at r.hofmann@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de 

Fractal-based techniques lie at the heart of multiscale modeling, as fractals are inherently multiscale objects. Fractals have increasingly become a useful tool in real-world applications; they very often describe such phenomena better than traditional mathematical models. Fractal-based methods attempt to discover and exploit inter-scale relationships for modeling, prediction and control of phenomena.

Inverse problems arise naturally in many application areas where the values of some model parameters or the very structure of the model must be obtained from the observed data. Fractal-based image compression was popularized by Barnsley, but research in imaging has moved beyond compression to other types of image processing (denoising, edge detection, deblurring, watermarking, information hiding, etc.) and to the broader notion of multiscale image analysis. Fractal-based methods have also been used to solve a wide variety of inverse problems arising in models described by systems of differential equations, partial differential equations, integral equations, and inclusions, in deterministic, random, and stochastic settings.

This conference session will bring together people working on fractal-based theory and methods, with applications to biomedicine, imaging, economics, physics and engineering.

 

26) Title: "Plant Growth Modeling: theory and applications"

Plant growth modeling is scientifically and technically a challenging topic that finds its applications in many fields of research, in particular in plant biology, agronomy and forestry. Great effort is made today in developing new agronomical practices, as well as in improving plant production through breeding programs, in order to supply food to a growing population. Scientists aware that these practices must at the same time minimize the impact on the environment, limiting the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. For this purpose, new approaches based on computational - or numerical – plants have been recently developed, which are an interesting alternative to time consuming (several years to several decades) and expansive experimental studies.

The main objective of this symposium is to give an overview on ongoing research on plant modeling, from aggregated process based models to more advanced structural-functional growth models that take into account physiological and architectural knowledge at several levels from a single plant to a whole landscape.

The main covered topics are concerned with:

27) Title: "Advanced Computational and Lie-group Methods for Dynamics and Control of Multibody Systems"

Numerical multibody dynamics relies on highly efficient and reliable formulations and computational methods. Real-Time applications and the need for detailed models of complex engineering systems have been the driving forces behind recent developments and high-performance implementations. Taking into account the geometrical aspects of the non-linear dynamics, reliable and highly accurate numerical methods are being developed for the simulation of multibody systems. The geometric mathematical framework, including Lie-group methods, allows for numerical analyses of multibody and non-linear control systems with an unprecedented fidelity.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together experts working in the broad area of computational mechanics, multibody dynamics and control with the special focus on numerical and geometric methods.

Contributions are solicited, but not limited, in the following areas:

28) Title: "Numerical Approaches to Variational and Optimal Control Problems"

The calculus of variations and optimal control offer a huge number of difficult numerical problems. Most of these numerical problems are challenging, but very important in applied mathematics, engineering, and economic models.

29) 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, University of Minho, Department of Mathematics and Applications, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal

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.

30) Title: "Computer Languages, Implementations, and Tools"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Zoran Budimac, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg D. Obradovića 4, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Research on programming languages is among the core and ‘classic’ disciplines of computer science. Today the term computer languages usually encompass not only programming languages but also all sorts of artificial languages for different purposes whose ‘sentences’ can be processed by a computer.

The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments in areas that include all aspects of computer languages, their implementations, and related tools.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to the following:
 

31) Title: "Linear and Nonlinear Operators and Applications"

Organizer: Professor Gheorghe Morosanu, Department of Mathematics and its Applications, Central European University, Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest, HUNGARY

The goal of the Symposium is to bring together researchers investigating properties of linear and nonlinear operators, including (but not limited to) accretive and monotone operators defined on Banach spaces, and/or working on problems involving such operators. The following subjects will be covered: theoretical results on compact, accretive or monotone operators, related results on convex functions, linear and nonlinear operator semigroups, difference equations, proximal point algorithms, optimization problems, variational inequalities, evolution equations associated with such operators, applications to boundary value problems, including eigenvalue problems, existence and regularity results for various boundary value problems associated with parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential systems, stability results, singular perturbation problems, approximation and numerical results, applications to specific problems in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, etc.

32) Title: "Fractional Dynamics And Its Applications"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Dumitru Baleanu, Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey and Prof. Dr. Luis Vázquez Martínez, Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Fractional Calculus deals with the study of so-called fractional order integral and derivative operators over real or complex domains and their applications.

Fractional order differential equations, that is, those involving real or complex order derivatives, have assumed an important role in modelling the anomalous dynamics of numerous processes related to complex systems in the most diverse areas of Science and Engineering and nonlocal sytems either in time (with delay) or in space.

Topics discussed include but are not limited to:

33) Title: "Numerical methods for time-dependent PDEs"

URL address: http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/~meister/ICNAAM/
 

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Siniša Crvenković, Chair of General Algebra and Theoretical Computer Science, Kabinet 34, DMI/2, (+381 21) 485 2859, cell phoe: +381 63 800 7246, Personal site: http://sites.dmi.rs/personal/crvenkovics

Within the scope of the Symposium on General Algebra, Theoretical Computer Science and Applications, the subject areas are diverse and may originate from a variety of scientific disciplines theoretical as well as the applied. It will include the following topics:

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Mohammed Mostafa El-Borai, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Moharram Beck, Department of Mathematics, Alex, Egypt, http://www.webspawner.com/users/mahmoudelborai/

E-mail: m_m_elborai@yahoo.com and m.m.elborai@sci.alex.edu.eg

The symposium on Stochastic Differential Equations and related topics brings together researchers from all world to present new results in the theory of stochastic analysis and stochastic differential equations. Also stochastic partial differential equations. Besides numerical stochastic solutions.

The topics covered by Symposium include (but is not limited to):

36) Title: "Mathematical Methods for Constitutive Models of Evolutionary Type in FE-Computations"

Organizer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anton Matzenmiller, Institute of Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kassel, Moenchebergstr. 7, 34109 Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany, Tel.: +561 / 804-2044, Fax: +561 / 804-2720, Secretary: Lore Kluender, Tel.: +561 / 804-2043

The symposium is devoted to solution methods for constitutive equations of inelastic material behaviour of continuous media.

In material theory, it is widely accepted that internal variables are introduced to describe the stress response as a function in addition to the strains during the process history. Therefore, evolution or rate-equations in the form of ordinary differential equations complete the stress-strain-relations for the time development of the internal variables. In addition, algebraic equations may arise in constitutive modelling as in the case of failure criteria, yield surfaces, plane stress conditions or the like.

The internal variables may be plastic strains and hardening variables for plasticity models, inelastic strains as in the theory of visco-elasticity, continuity variables in continuum damage mechanics, volume fractions in phase transition problems, the coordinate of chemical reactions such as the cure in hardening processes, fracture parameters for crack growth, relative lengths to describe the contraction of a collagen fibre and many others.

Either numerical procedures or functional representations, e.g. as in linear visco-elasticy, are used for the time integration of the resulting system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or in addition algebraic equations (DAEs), which play an important role in the solution of boundary value problems of deformable bodies with the finite element method. A paradigma for the solution of the system of nonlinear DAEs in material theory is the stress update algorithm of elasto-plasticity with a yield criterion. Numerous solution schemes without proofs of convergence or error analysis have been proposed and implemented into commercial and inhouse finite element codes. Large scale finite element computations restrict any solution algorithm to high efficiency such as unconditional stability, vectorization and parallel computing performance.

The objective of the symposium is to bring together scientists working in constitutive theory of evolutionary type and with the analytical and numerical solution methods for the resulting material relations. These fields of research include existence proofs, stability and bifurcation investigation, spontaneous symmetry breaking of the solution as well as error and convergence analysis of the numerical schemes and the generation of efficient algorithms and coding of the solution.

Organizer: Dr. Sandra Pinelas, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade dos Açores, Rua da Mãe de Deus, Apartado 1422, 9501-801Ponta Delgada, Açores - Portugal

The main aim of the symposium is to promote, encourage, cooperate, and bring together researchers in the fields of differential & difference equations. All areas of differential & difference equations will be represented with special emphasis on applications. In this symposium we will have main speakers (one hour) and regular speakers (30 minutes). It will be a 7 days symposium (3 hours a day).

Organizer:  Prof. Dr. Khairia El-Said El-Nadi, Faculty of Science , Alexandria University, Alexandria , Egypt

The international symposium on Advances in Queuing theory and applications will feature research topics inspired by the contributions of researchers from all world to present new and important results in Queuing theory and the difference differential equations related to general stochastic processes. Areas such as distribution theory , realibility and lifetime data analysis , concerning methodology , order data analysis are also considered. It aims to bring together researchers interested in theory as well as applications in industry and to discuss recent developments and to suggest future research directions.

The topics covered by symposium include (but not limited to):

Organizer:  Dr. Bongué-Boma Malika, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

The objectives of this symposium are to foster research on the modelling of materials with microstructure. Liquid crystals, porous media and polymers for instance have an underlying structure that directly influences the macroscopic properties (strength, stiffness, permeability…), and their modelling cannot be accurately performed by using the principles of usual continuum mechanics.

We invite original research contribution covering the broad area of modelling continua with microstructure.

Subjects will include methods of kinematical enrichment, as proposed by theories of generalized continua. We will also put great interest in multi-scale descriptions explicitly describe the influence of processes occurring at the microscopic scale, on the macroscopic one.

40) Title: "The 3rd Symposium on Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Problems"

Organizers: Dr. Annamaria Barbagallo, Department of Mathematics and Applications “R. Caccioppoli”, University of Naples “Federico II”, Via Cintia - 80126 Naples, Italy and Dr. Maria Alessandra Ragusa, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy  
  

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

Description of the topic of the session:

The theory of Variational Inequalities was born in Italy in order 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, it has many applications in several equilibrium type problems deriving by 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. Moreover, 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.

The aim of the Minisymposium is to present the development of the Variational Inequalities Theory and its applications on the Equilibrium Problems, in particular those related to network design.

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

41) Title: "Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems"

Organizer: Mr. Ali Sanayei, Member in Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics, American Physical Society; Mechatronics Research Laboratory, QIAU, Iran. Tel: +98 912 319 81 45
  

E-mail: sanayeiali8@gmail.com ; ali.sanayei@mailaps.org

URL address of the symposium: https://sites.google.com/site/complexsystems11 

Description of the topic of the session:

"Complex systems" theory deals with dynamical systems containing a very large number of variables, showing a plethora of emergent features, arising in a broad range of contexts. Consequently, the main aim of this symposium is to bring researchers working on complex systems in some way. In this context, we invite scientists, researchers, engineers, and students to submit their works (papers or posters) based on the following interest topics (but not limited):

42) Title: "2nd Session on Spaceflight Dynamics and Control"

Organizer: Organizer: Dr. Francisco Miranda, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Avenida do Atlântico, 4900-348 Viana do Castelo, Portugal, Fax: +351 258 827 636, URL: http://www.estg.ipvc.pt/; http://matematica.estg.ipvc.pt 
  

E-mail: fmiranda@estg.ipvc.pt

URL address of the symposium:

http://matematica.estg.ipvc.pt/ICNAAM2011/Session_ICNAAM2011.htm

Description of the topic of the session:

This section is organized with the purpose to join several specialists in spaceflight dynamics. The section activities will include the discussion of actual problems of dynamics and control of space systems, where will be presented theoretical studies and experimental results. The topics include, but are not limited to:

43) Title: "Session-Workshop on Analysis, Inequalities and Homogenization Theory and Applications"

Organizers: Prof. Lars-Erik Persson (http://www.ltu.se/inst/mat/staff/larserik), Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden and Dr. Natasha Samko (http://natashasamko.digiways.com), CEAF de Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa, Portugal
  

E-mail: larserik@sm.luth.se and nsamko@ualg.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

Analysis, Inequalities and Homogenization Theory are increasingly important areas for various kinds of applications both to other fields of Mathematics and to other sciences, e.g. physics, material science, numerical analysis and geophysics.

The main aim of the session is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds and interests in all aspects of these areas of mathematics and plan for future cooperation and new directions of joint research. As background the participants will present the newest developements and present “status of the art” of their research fields. Special meetings with informal discussions will be organized, where in particular various kinds of applications will be highlighted.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Summing up, we invite all interested researchers in the areas described above to participate.

44) Title: "Advances in Numerical Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations and Systems"

Organizers: Doctor Alicia Cordero and Professor Juan R. Torregrosa, Instituto de Matemática Multidisciplinar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022-Valencia, SPAIN. Telephones: +34963879554 (A. Cordero), +34963879782 (Juan R. Torregrosa), Fax: +34963877199
  

E-mail: acordero@mat.upv.es (A. Cordero), jrtorre@mat.upv.es (Juan R. Torregrosa)

Description of the topic of the session:

The construction of iterative methods for approximating the solution of nonlinear equations or systems is an interesting task in numerical analysis and applied scientific branches. During the last years, numerous papers devoted to the mentioned iterative methods have appeared in several journals. The existence of an extensive literature on these iterative methods reveals that this topic is a dynamic branch of the numerical studies with interesting and promising applications (the study of dynamical models of chemical reactors, radioactive transfer, preliminary orbit determination, etc)

The aim of this symposium to share the new trends in the field of iterative methods for nonlinear problems. Specific topics of interest included (but not limited to):

45) Title: "The First Symposium on Advances in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (ACSAM 2011)"

Organizers: Dr. Marjan Kuchaki Rafsanjani, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer, Shahid Bahonar, University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, Postal Code: 76197‐14111. Phone: +98 913 191 1246, Fax: +98 341 322 1080 and Mr. Chenglian liu, Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Fuqing Branch of Fujian Normal
University, Fuqing 350300, China.
  

E-mail: marjankuchaki@yahoo.com & kuchaki@mail.uk.ac.ir and chenglian.liu@gmail.com

Description of the topic of the session:

Advances in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Symposium focuses on new methods, technologies and applications of computer and mathematics science.

The aim is to amalgamate some recent theoretical and empirical contributions that reflect current results in these areas.
Topics
Papers that address in Symposium on ACSAM 2011 related to the following category are welcomed. Some of key areas of focus are (but not limited):

46) Title: "Adaptive Finite Elements in the Discretization of Parabolic Equations"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Kunibert G. Siebert, Numerische Mathematik, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany. http://www.numa.uni-due.de
  

E-mail: kg.siebert@uni-due.de

Description of the topic of the session:

The mathematical modeling of many phenomena leads to parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). Such equations may be solved numerically by means of finite elements.

Moreover, adaptivity can be employed to increase efficiency.

In the mean time the theory of adaptive finite elements for elliptic PDEs is well established. This includes a variety of error estimators, adaptive strategies, and the convergence and optimality analysis of the adaptive loop. In contrast to this, the theory of adaptive finite elements in the discretization of parabolic PDEs is by far not that well established. In particular the design of efficient adaptive methods and the convergence analysis requires substantially more research.

An optimality analysis for standard methods is currently out of reach.

The objective of this minisymposium is to stimulate a discussion on various aspects of adaptive finite elements for parabolic equations. This includes a posteriori error estimation, algorithm design, convergence analysis, and applications.

Anyone being interested to contribute with a talk to the minisymposium should send a title together with a short abstract of the talk to kg.siebert@uni-due.de.
 

47) Title: "New Numerical Methods with Applications"

Organizers: Prof. Raffaella Pavani- Dipartimento di Matematica. Politecnico di Milano, Milano - Italy and Dr. Stefan Stefanov - Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia - Bulgaria
  

E-mail: raffaella.pavani@polimi.it

Description of the topic of the session:

The rapidly developing micro and nano technologies suggest new challenges for investigation of original microsized mechanical system working in a medium that no longer can be treated as continuum. Moreover, the relevant experimental work should be supported by a subtle theoretical and computational analysis taking into account the non-equilibrium and non-continuum effects in the micro system. The presentations of new results and applications of numerical methods such as molecular dynamics method, direct Monte Carlo simulation (DSMC) , lattice Boltzmann equation method and extended continuum dynamics approaches, applicable to multiscale flows under similar conditions , are in the scope of the session.

Moreover, the session aims at collecting new results and numerical applications of more general stochastic differential models and of peculiar numerical differential methods.
 

48) Title: "The second ICNAAM symposium on Recent Developments in Hilbert Space Tools and Methodology for Scientific Computing"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Metin Demiralp, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga Campus, Maslak-34469, Istanbul, Turkey, http://www.be.itu.edu.tr/~metin.demiralp
  

E-mail: metin.demiralp@be.itu.edu.tr and metin.demiralp@gmail.com

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium covers even many diverse fields where the Hilbert space based conceptual approaches and tools are used in methodology for scientific computing. It will cover the following items although it is not restricted to these only.

49) Title: "ICNAAM 2011 - Special Session in Biomathematics"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Maira Aguiar, CMAF, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003, Lisboa, Portugal and Prof. Dr. Ezio Venturino, Dipartimento di Matematica "Giuseppe Peano", via Carlo Alberto 10, Universita' di Torino, 10123 Torino, Italia
  

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

Description of the topic of the session:

The ICNAAM conference this year will take place  September 19th-25th, in Halkidiki, (or Chalkidiki) Greece.

This year the Special Session in Biomathematics will celebrate its fifth anniversary. Since 2007 a session around the topics of the application of mathematics to biological and medical problems has been continuously organized.

Biomathematics aims at the mathematical representation,  treatment and modeling of biological processes, using a variety of applied mathematical techniques and tools.  It has both relevant theoretical and practical applications in biological, biomedical and biotechnology research.

This event will be organized as a forum for discussion between mathematicians, physicists, ecologists, medical doctors, biologysts and epidemiologists alike. Of particular relevance  are topics in ecology, population dynamics epidemiology and epidemic spread, evolutionary epidemiology and advanced mathematical techniques in dynamical systems. Various mathematical and computational approaches, both deterministic and stochastic, can be used for their modeling.

We call for participations to make this event a success as it has been in the past few years. Specific topics on which welcome contributions can be considered are:

conceptual mathematical modeling in population dynamics  and epidemiology, numerical simulations of nonlinear models for understanding the evolution of complex systems involving (several) populations and/or diseases, models for the impact of infectious diseases on interacting populations.

Also the imporant phenomenon of invasion of an environment by an alien population and the mechanisms that underlie it will be emphasized. Further, spatiotemporal patterns in ecological settings whose formation may be described both with deterministic and stochastic tools.

We will consider also contributions aimed at specific applications of mathematics in medicine.

50) Title: "Advanced Computation and Information in Natural and Applied Sciences"

Organizer: Dr. rer. nat. Claus-Peter Rückemann, Leibniz Universität Hannover / Westälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU) / North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), Germany
  

E-mail: ruckema@uni-muenster.de

Description of the topic of the session:

This Symposium on Advanced Computation and Information in Natural and Applied Sciences focusses on architectures and methods for high end computational and numerical applications.

Up to date computing and information systems (software, communication, and architectures) are an undispensable tool for progress in various scientific fields.

We invite scientists and engineers using and implementing computation and information systems, High Performance Computing, Coud Computing, and Grid Computing for scientific research, engineering, education, and future internet applications.

Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers for Peer Review, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, the following topic areas of this Symposium.

51) 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:

52) Title: "Stochastic Systems Computations"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Magdy A. El-Tawil, Cairo university, Faculty of Engineering, Engineering Mathematics Department, Giza, Egypt
  

E-mail: magdyeltawil@yahoo.com

Description of the topic of the session:

The computations of probability density function (P.D.F.) or statistical moments of solutions of many stochastic systems are not always available in an analytical sense. One has to describe approximate methods to get approximate solutions for such uncertain systems. The high developments in computers, in general, and mainly in symbolic computations enlarge the usability of old and modern techniques which are computationally tedious, Pickard approximations for example.

The aim of this session is to present some of such methods and techniques adapted to stochastic systems, for example: stochastic finite element (SFEM), stochastic finite difference, Pickard approximation, variational iteration method (VIM) and its modification, Adomian decomposition method (ADM), homotopy analysis method and WHEP technique.
Interested researchers in this mini symposium are invited to submit their manuscripts for the organizer through E-mail. They will be E-mailed with the next steps after reviewing.

 

53) Title: "Solid micromechanics and Thermodynamics Aspects of Modeling of Advanced Materials and Structures"

Organizer: Dr. hab. Lidiia Nazarenko, Leading Researcher, S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, address: Nesterov str. 3, 03057 Kiev, Ukraine
  

E-mail: lnazarenko@yandex.ru

Description of the topic of the session:

Strength of materials and constructions is one of the main problems of modern industry. A lot of modern investigations are devoted to study and modeling of the performance and behaviour of advanced materials and structures, to developing the new models, methods for prediction of their micromechanical properties of such materials and strength of construction.

The aim of the Symposium is to discuss the various actually important aspects of developing and application of analytical and numerical approaches in the fracture and damage mechanics, mechanics of materials, including micromechanics, multiscale mechanics, thermodynamics as well as improved engineering and design of new materials and constructions.

Topics:

54) Title: "Optimality Conditions and Application to Equilibrium Problem"

Organizer: Dr. Maria Bernadette Donato, Department of Mathemtics, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres n. 31, 98166 Messina.
  

E-mail: mbdonato@unime.it

Description of the topic of the session:

The Minisymposium is devoted to present an overview of the optimality conditions and their applications to equilibrium problems as economic and financial equilibrium problems, network equilibrium problems, migration equilibrium problems, obstacle problems and elastic plastic torsion problems both in the static case and dynamic case.

Recent years have witnessed important developments in the variational inequality theory and an enormous amount of papers and books have been devoted to this topic.

The variational analysis has been fully recognized as a powerful tool for modeling optimization problems. In fact, the above applied equilibrium problems can be formulated in terms of variational inequalities, which allows us to efficiently describe the structure and
features of models and often leads to a better understanding of problems.

Also  the lagrangean and duality theory is useful to understand the behaviour of the considered problems and for the calculus of solutions. For this reason, particular emphasis will be given to the development of these topics.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

55) Title: "Robust Multilevel and Multiscale Methods"

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Johannes Kraus, Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz and Prof. Dr. Svetozar Margenov, Director of Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
 

E-mail:  johannes.kraus@oeaw.ac.at and  margenov@parallel.bas.bg

Description of the topic of the session:

This minisymposium is in the field of numerical methods and large scale scientific computing. The main focus is on the interplay between robust subspace correction (multilevel, multigrid, domain decomposition) methods and multiscale techniques (adaptive discretization, upscaling, and phase separation) that can lead to new methods which are built by taking the best from these complementary numerical tools. The topics of interest also include issues of scalable implementation on advanced high-performance  computer architectures.

Examples of such applications are found in numerical models used in heat and mass transfer, computational fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, elasticity as well as related coupled problems.

56) Title: "Simulation of Complex Material Behavior with the Finite Element Method"

Organizer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Mahnken, M.Sc., University of Paderborn, Chair of Engineering Mechanics (LTM), Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
 

E-mail:  rolf.mahnken@ltm.upb.de

Description of the topic of the session:

The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scientists from various disciplines, especially engineers and mathematicians.
 

It covers topics in multiscale and macrocale modeling in order to simulate deformation and failure in metals, alloys, intermetallics and polymers at various length scales. Related subjects are homogenization, finite element techniques, error controlled adaptive procedures, localization, parameter identification and optimization. Possible areas of applications are engineering problems, including forming processes, crash simulation, creep, deformation of thin films, nanoindentation, composites, dislocation-crack interaction, textures in polycrystals and problems involving twining and shape memory behavior and many more.

57) Title: "Symposium on Mathematical Tools for Dependability Modeling and Analysis of Industrial Applications"

Organizer:  Eng. Ferdinando Chiacchio, Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, CTI217 Research Group, web: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~chiacchio/ and Dr. Gabriele Manno, University of Catania, Viale Andrea Doria, 6, 95125, Catania (CT), Web: www.dmi.unict.it/gmanno    
 

E-mail:  chiacchio@dmi.unict.it and gmanno@dmi.unict.it

Description of the topic of the session:

Nowadays, technology and technological systems are at the core of any industrial process.

In such context, the demand of more effective and precise risk assessments and performability evaluations has highlighted the necessity to diffuse the knowledge of the methods of the dependability and the development of new techniques, able to capture effectively the dynamic behavior of modern systems, which could be characterized by several interdependencies and interactions.

The aim of this special session is to present applications of these methods and to discuss novel ideas, algorithms and tools devoted to the evaluation of dependability measures for different classes of systems.

Contributes may include (but are not limited to):

58) Title: "Symposium on Dirac operators, Harmonic analysis on manifolds and automorphic forms"

Organizer:  PD Dr. Sören Kraußhar, Fachbereich Mathematik, Arbeitsgruppe Algebra, Geometrie, und Funktionalanalysis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schloßgartenstraße 7, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany, Tel: + 49 6151 16 3815, Fax: + 49 6151 16 6030

http://www3.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/en/hp/algebrageometrieundfunktionalanalysis/krausshar-soeren/startseite.html
 

E-mail:  krausshar@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de

URL of the Symposium:
http://www3.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/hp/algebrageometrieundfunktionalanalysis/krausshar-soeren/startseite/symposium-on-dirac-operators-harmonic-analysis-on-manifolds-and-automorphic-forms.html
 

Description of the topic of the session:

One important area within Harmonic analysis is the study of boundary value problems on Riemannian manifolds. In the particular context of spin manifolds, the Dirac operator serves as an important tool in the study of harmonic spinors. The latter operator is endowed with a powerful function theoretic toolkit that allows us to treat many PDEs on these manifolds with analytic methods.

Closely connected with the study of Dirac operators on manifolds, is the theory of holomorphic and harmonic automorphic forms. Besides their classical applications in analytic number theory such as L-functions, Dirichlet series, Hecke algebras and number theoretical identites, they also appear as integral kernels for the Cauchy and Poisson problem of Dirac operators on conformally flat spin manifolds. Moreover, they explicitly appear in many concrete problems of modern mathematical physics, such as Yang-Mills theory, quantum field theory and quantum gravity. These studies create an important interface between different central topics of Harmonic analysis, differential geometry and concrete objects from number theory.

The symposium aims to bring different research groups in these related areas together and to explore new connections between these research areas.

We invite scientists working in

and other scientists and with interest in these research fields to contribute to the symposium.

59) Title: "Young Researchers Symposium on Numerical Methods for Differential Problems of Practical Interest"

Organizers:  Dr. Lidia ACETO, Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata "U. Dini", Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 1/C, 56127 Pisa - Italy, Tel.: +39 050 2213836, Fax: +39 050 2213802 and Dr. Paolo NOVATI, Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Via Trieste, 63, 35121 Padova - Italy, Tel.: +39 049 827 1424 Fax: +39 049 827 1392
 

E-mail:  l.aceto@dma.unipi.it and novati@math.unipd.it

Description of the topic of the session:

The main goal of the symposium is to bring together young researchers working on the numerical treatment of differential problems of particular interest in the applications. The attention is devoted to the numerical analysis of equations modeling real-life phenomena arising from science and engineering. We expect a fruitful collaboration and exchange of new ideas among the participants.

The principal subjects covered by the symposium are listed below:

60) Title: "Multiobjective Optimization and Applications"

Organizers:  Prof. Dr. Isabel Espírito Santo, Algoritmi R&D Centre, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal and Prof. Dr. Lino Costa, Algoritmi R&D Centre, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
 

E-mail:  iapinho@dps.uminho.pt and lac@dps.uminho.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

Multiobjective optimization problems are those having more than one objective, in general conflicting. These objectives have to be satisfied at the same time. Therefore, for multiobjective problems, no single solution that is optimal with respect to all objectives exists. Instead, there is a set of optimal solutions, known as Pareto optimal solutions, reflecting trade-offs between objectives. This kind of problems arises from various real world applications. Several algorithms have been proposed to multiobjective optimization.

61) Title: "Modeling Cardiac Function and Dysfunction"

Organizer:  Natalia Trayanova PhD, FHRS, FAHA, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, William R. Brody Faculty Scholar, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Hackerman Hall Room 216, Baltimore, MD 21218, office phone: 410-516-4375, office fax: 410-516-5294, website: http://www.jhu.edu/trayanova/ 
 

E-mail:  ntrayanova@jhu.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

Simulating cardiac electromechanical function is one of the most striking examples of a successful integrative multi-scale modeling approach applied to a living system directly relevant to human disease. Today, thanks to nearly fifty years of research in the field and the rapid progress in numerical methods and high-performance computing, we stand at the threshold of a new era: anatomically-detailed tomographically-reconstructed models that integrate from the protein level of the ion channel or sarcomere to the electromechanical interactions in the intact heart are being developed. Such models hold high promise for interpretation of clinical and physiological measurements in terms of cellular mechanisms; for improving the basic understanding of the mechanisms of dysfunction in disease conditions, such as reentrant arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia, and heart failure; and for the development and performance optimization of medical devices. The goal of this symposium is to bring together and present recent advances in numerical methods and mathematical modeling of cardiac function and dysfunction, from representations of cellular and sub-cellular excitation processes and tension development, to the electromechanical interactions in the intact heart.

62) Title: "High Accuracy Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations"

Organizer:  Prof. Dr. Murli M. Gupta, Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA 

E-mail:  mmg@gwu.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

This symposium brings together a number of researchers from all over the world who have been working on High Accuracy Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, with varied applications that include problems of viscous fluid flows.

63) Title: "Dynamical Systems Approaches in Neuroscience"

Organizer:  Shigetoshi NARA, Prof., Dr., Department of Elec. & Electronic Engineering, The Graduate School of Nat. Sci. & Tech., Okayama University, Tsushima-naka, 3-1-1, Okayama 700-8530 JAPAN, Tel : +81-(0)86-251-8139, FAX : +81-(0)86-251-8261

E-mail:  nara@elec.okayama-u.ac.jp

Description of the topic of the session:

For the last few decades, extensive research has been continuing in neuroscience supported by great development of experimental techniques (fMRI, PET, EEG, ECoG, EMG, Optical Recording, etc.) and/or computer experiment technologies. In a large number of works, many applied mathematical or physical approaches have been proposed, in particular, dynamical systems approaches are quite remarkable ones because of the fact that, more the experimental technologies to observe neural or brain activities in microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic scales progress, more the observed results indicate complex dynamical characteristics. In these situations, we, Dynamic Brain Group (H. Fujii, M. Tsukada, S. Nara, I. Tsuda, K. Aihara), have been insisting that dynamic viewpoint about mechanisms of brain functions is quite important. The main aim of the proposed Mini-Symposium is to bring people who are interested in dynamical systems approaches together and to invoke discussions between gathered people to develop research activities furthermore about penetrating into dynamic mechanisms of brain functions, and neural systems as well. The proposed Mini-Symposium will be organized by Dynamic Brain Group and will consist of several invited speakers and selected speakers among authors of submitted papers after reviewing. The reviewing will be done by the organizer.

64) Title: "Group Methods and Applications for Differential Equations"

Organizers:  Prof. Dr. Maria Luz Gandarias, Prof. Dr. Maria Santos Bruzon, Department of Mathematics, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real, 11510, Spain, Phone: +34-956-016306/09, Prof. Mariano Torrisi and Prof. Rita Tracina, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania (Italy), http://www.dmi.unict.it/~torrisi/

 

E-mail:  marialuz.gandarias@uca.es and torrisi@dmi.unict.it

Description of the topic of the session:

Nowadays science and engineering rely on processes which are usually modeled by differential equations. The studies of ordinary and /or partial differential equation models have received an increasing interest, especially due to their frequent applications in various research fields, such as industrial mathematics, mathematical biology, mathematical finance, and fluid mechanics to cite few. Usually it is difficult to obtain exact solutions for these models.

The group method offers to the researchers a wide set of tools to investigate from different points of view these models.

The aim of this session is to bring together scientists working in this area interested in group methods developments as well as in symmetry methods developments applied to nonlinear models in the various field of science and engineering.

65) Title: "Theory and Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms"

Organizer:  Prof. Dr. Jesús-Antonio Hernández-Riveros, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Campus Medellín City, Facultad de Minas. Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Cra. 80, 65 – 223, Bloque M8, C.P.: 050034. Medellín, Colombia, Tel: +57 +4 425 5260, Fax: +57 +4 234 1002, http://www.unal.edu.co, http://www.medellin.unal.edu.co
 

E-mail:  jahernan@unal.edu.co

URL address of the Symposium TAEVA: http://www.minas.medellin.unal.edu.co/taeva/

Description of the topic of the session:

Evolutionary Algorithms are a heuristic widely studied because have shown a very good performance in noisy, random variability, multiobjective and multimodality problems. Although some theoretical approaches have been proposed to explain their behaviour or some new methods have been presented, they continue being an open researching field. Nowadays, its application on several disciplines continues increasing. Recent tendencies in AE leave away genetics and this direction have proved successful.

The aim of the session, bringing together scientists and engineers with different backgrounds, is to stimulate a discussion on various areas of interest for the evolutionary computation community and plan for future cooperation.

Interested researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts for the organizer through E-mail.
Keywords: GA, ES, EP, GP, DE, MOEA, LCS, ACO, PSO, MA, EDA, MAGO

Topics of contributions are (but not limited to):

66) Title: "Nature Inspired Methods in Science and Applications"

Organizers:  Halina Kwasnicka: Professor at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Deputy Director for Scientific Researchers of Institute of Informatics, Head of Artificial Intelligence Division, ul. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland; Witold Kosinski: Professor at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, PJWSTK, Head of Intelligent Systems Department, ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008 Warszawa, Poland; Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Institute of Mechanics and Applied Computer Science, ul. Chodkiewicza 30, 85-064 Bydgoszcz, Poland
   

Description of the topic of the session:

The aim of this session is to bring together researchers working on methods developed as a lesson from nature, to exchange latest research, ideas and numerical results of applications. The researches on theoretical aspects as well as practical applications of different approaches that are inspired by natural systems are welcomed.

Observations of behavior of social colonies (ants, bees) and the adaptation ability of biological species stimulate scientists in developing new algorithms and methods. The most popular nature inspired algorithms are population-based. Evolutionary Computation covers a number of techniques inspired by theory of evolution. This field can be divided into a number of approaches, e.g., Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Gene Expression Programming, Evolutionary Strategies. In general, evolution of a population of potential solutions to a problem, by a process of selection according to ‘fitness’ criteria and reproduction with some genetic operators as mutation and crossover produce better solutions, most capable of solving the problem. Ant Colony Optimization is a metaheuristic that takes inspiration from the behavior of real ant colonies. They are useful in solving discrete optimization problems. A number of simple agents reveal interesting, intelligent behavior as the whole system. Artificial Immune Systems is an approach that tries to borrow ideas from vertebrate immune system, especially the learning and memory characteristics. They include pattern recognition, hyper-mutation and clonal selection for B-cells, and negative selection of T-cells. Artificial Life is a number of techniques close to the ideas of evolutionary computation. It covers simulation and/or emulation of governing principles of life. Important issue is deeper understanding of life itself. Other interesting population based and stochastic method is the Particle Swarm Optimization. It is based on behavior of bird flocking or fish schooling. This method is similar to evolutionary computations, where particles (possible solutions) ‘fly’ through the space of the problem trying to follow the current optimum particles.

Another paradigm is used in Cellular Computing. Cellular Computing consists of three principles: simplicity, vast parallelism, and locality. These three principles are highly interrelated, attaining vast parallelism, for example, is facilitated by the cells’ simplicity and local connectivity. Simplicity means that a single cell (the fundamental unit) is very simple, it can do very little, usually it depends on the states of its neighbor cells. We told about ‘vast parallelism’ because the huge number of cells (simple processors) are used in cellular computing comparing with classical parallel computing. Locality means that each cell shares information only with the cells physically closest to it.

Above only the most popular approaches are mentioned. All nature inspired methods are useful in numerous problems. Beyond some theoretical problems connected with the methods itself, their properties as generality, efficiency, etc., some questions connected with applications must be answered. For example, what classless of computational tasks are most suited to the particular methods? Important issue is connected with matching the specific properties (behaviors) of a given model to a particular class of problems.

Topics are included, but not limited to:

Academic researches and industrial (practical) applications of nature inspired methods:

67) Title: "Non Linear Control"

Organizer:  Ma. Aracelia Alcorta Garcia, Doctor in Industrial Physical Engineering, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, México, Faculty of Physical and Mathematics Sciences, Coordinator of Graduate Program on Sciences with Orientation in Mathematics, Ave. Universidad s/n, San Nicolás de los Garza N.L. > CP. 66451, Nuevo León, México
   

Description of the topic of the session:

Since the linear control problem was solved, numerous problems and difficult have been presented to obtain the control equations when the state contains non linear function in its drift term. Some Differents methodologies have been presented for to find a solution in some cases for example deterministic case, stochastic case, with delays, discrete case, etc. The develop of this theory is very important for to avoid lost of information in the processes when is took linear approximation.

68) Title: "Differential Equations over Algebras"

Organizer:  Ma. Aracelia Alcorta Garcia, Doctor in Industrial Physical Engineering, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, México, Faculty of Physical and Mathematics Sciences, Coordinator of Graduate Program on Sciences with Orientation in Mathematics, Ave. Universidad s/n, San Nicolás de los Garza N.L. > CP. 66451, Nuevo León, México
   

Description of the topic of the session:

In this time, the difficulty and large procedures for to solve classical differential equations has been the goal to develop some methodologies using linear associative commutative algebra A in a field F. This technique is based on reducing variables by using variables in algebras.

When you can identify the algebra which belong the differential equation, the solution is more easy to find. This methodology is based in that such algebra has associated a set of partial differential equations called Cauchy Riemann.

69) Title: "Applications of Max Plus Method"

Organizer:  Ma. Aracelia Alcorta Garcia, Doctor in Industrial Physical Engineering, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, México, Faculty of Physical and Mathematics Sciences, Coordinator of Graduate Program on Sciences with Orientation in Mathematics, Ave. Universidad s/n, San Nicolás de los Garza N.L. > CP. 66451, Nuevo León, México
   

Description of the topic of the session:

In the max plus algebra, the addition is maximization and the  multiplication operation is what one usually refers to addition.

Recently max plus algebra has been applied in problems various in which the solution has been expressed in easy form.  The develop and mathematical operations have been simple. Some applications of max plus algebra are: Non linear control and estimation, since the control is maximizing some accumulated cost.

Others applications can be find in delays, stability measures, and  network, etc.

70) Title: "Asymptotic Preserving Schemes and Applications"

Organizer:  Dr. Pauline Lafitte, Université Lille 1 and SIMPAF Project, INRIA Lille Nord Europe, France
   

Description of the topic of the session:

For more than a decade, asymptotic preserving schemes have allowed to gain a considerable amount of computational time in multiscale modelling, maintaining a balance between the phenomena described by the original equation and its asymptotics.

This minisymposium aims at gathering experts and exchanging views on the use of asymptotic preserving schemes, as they develop extensively in several domains, for hyperbolic, elliptic, parabolic equations, ranging from radiative transfer to porous media.

71) Title: "Well-Posedness or Lack of such for Thin Layer Equations in Fluid Mechanics"

E-mail: mrenardy@math.vt.edu and didier.bresch@univ-savoie.fr

Description of the topic of the session:

Many problem in fluid dynamics involve flow domains which are “thin” in one or two directions. Examples include oceanic and atmospheric flows, biological films and all forms of pipeline transport. In many situations it is reasonable to make approximations based on thinness, such as the hydrostatic approximation. The resulting thin layer equations, however, are not always widely used in analysis and numerical simulation. The reason for this is that these equations are not necessarily well-posed. Research into well-posedness of thin layer equations has been a very active area over the past decade, leading both to the characterization of cases where well-posedness holds and results showing ill-posedness in other cases.

The goal of the symposium is to give an overview of this fascinating and challenging topic.

72) Title: "Computational Challenges from the Biological Sciences"

E-mail: r.e.beardmore@exeter.ac.uk

Description of the topic of the session:

Advances in scientific computation and numerical analysis are driven by a relatively traditional body of applications. Moreover, research is driven by the need to exploit some structure in an infinite dimensional problem that yields an efficient and accurate algorithm that can rapidly compute an approximate solution.

The last two decades has seen an explosion of data-driven mathematical research applied to the experimental life sciences. Systems biology, for example, uses tools classically associated with the engineering disciplines to study the dynamics of "cells", be them eukaryotic, mammalian and fungal cells, or the prokaryotic bacterial cells that constitute the "good and bad" commensal and pathogenic bacteria that we all encounter throughout our daily lives.

At the core of systems biology are ordinary differential equations of intermediate dimension, the latter being greater than three and, usually, less than infinity. This minisymposium is dedicated to the challenge of understanding what key mathematical structures are present in dynamical models of living cells that can be exploited by the numerical analyst/scientific programmer/computational dynamicist to produce algorithms that can quickly and reliably elucidate the behaviour of these large, nonlinear models.

Some models can be PDE-like, with most model components (genes, enzymes, metabolites) interacting with just a few others, but models can be non-local, whereby all components interact with all others. This minisymposium will provide a forum in which numericists and quantitative biologists can discuss and begin to address the future algorithmic and computational requirements of fields like systems biology.

73) Title: "Nanosystems: Mathematical Results and Modeling"

E-mail: popov@mail.ifmo.ru

Description of the topic of the session:

The Symposium on “Nanosystems: Mathematical results and modeling”, organized by the 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM), provides an opportunity for scientists to present recent advances and to discuss current problems, future needs and prospects in the area of mathematical methods for nanoscience. Topics include all mathematical aspects in the field from mathematical background of methods of nanosystem behavior description to mathematical modeling of particular nanodevices.
The goal of the meeting is bring together physicists and mathematicians working in different fields of nanoscience and to give researchers the opportunity to exchange ideas and to find new applications to various mathematical methods and models. Works concerning to electronic, magnetic, mechanical properties of nanosystems are welcome.
The Proceedings of the Symposium will be published in the special issue of the journal “Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics”.

74) Title: "Imaging and Inverse Problems"

E-mail: carpio@mat.ucm.es and marialuisa.rapun@upm.es

Description of the topic of the session:

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75) Title: "Numerical Linear Algebra for High Performance Computing"

E-mail: ferronat@dmsa.unipd.it and janna@dmsa.unipd.it

Description of the topic of the session:

Because of the increasing availability of significant computational resources at accessible costs and the development of the multi-core processor technology, parallel computers with both shared and distributed memory architectures are becoming more and more popular among the practitioners.

However, fully exploiting their potential might not be trivial and novel numerical algorithms are often necessary. For example, Krylov subspace methods for the solution of sparse  linear systems or eigenproblems involve matrix-vector products, dot products and vector updates only, so they can be almost ideally implemented on parallel computers, but the computation and application of an effective preconditioner often is not, and currently this is one of the most debated issues in scientific computing.

The present symposium aims at highlighting the most recent advances in the field of the numerical linear algebra for high performance computing. The covered topics include:

Both novel algorithms and parallelization of known methods with applications in Science and Engineering are welcome.

76) Title: "Models in Nano and Biomaterials"

E-mail: bonilla@ing.uc3m.es

Description of the topic of the session:

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77) Title: "Distribution Theory and Estimation"

E-mail: cmac@fct.unl.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

In this session are expected papers in the broad areas of Distribution Theory and Estimation:

78) Title: "State of the Art of Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Wind Turbines "

Description of the topic of the session:

Wind energy has steadily established itself as one of the most reliable and affordable renewable energy resources. Therefore research in that field must be continuous and interdisciplinary.

Wind turbine and component design have to be improved continually, i.e. basic research in aerodynamics, structural dynamics, dynamic forces, new materials, feasibility studies into new systems, determination of noise and its reduction methods, optimization methods, etc.

Moreover, some additional problems need to be solved for offshore wind energy, such as designing reliable foundation structures, monitoring of operation and maintenance, and controlling for early failure detection, especially corrosion problems.

The main and analyzed subject in this session is highlighted by the topics of wind turbine: design, aerodynamic and aeroelasticity characteristics estimation, performance prediction using mathematical modelling and numerical techniques, improving wind turbine operational efficiency.
Therefore all papers including wind energy topics are welcomed.

Our session includes but is not limited to:
 

79) Title: "Discrete and Continuum Modelling of Dislocation Systems"

E-mail: M.Zaiser@ed.ac.uk

Description of the topic of the session:

The growing importance of micromechanical devices and of materials with tailored microstructures has, in conjunction with progress in micron-scale mechanical testing, led to a renewed interest in the fundamentals of plastic deformation on micron and sub-micron scales. While it is clear that crystal plasticity is governed by the stress-driven dynamics of interacting dislocations, the mathematical modelling of dislocation systems continues to pose intriguing conceptual problems. The symposium brings together experts from mathematics, mechanics and computational materials science with the intent of addressing a series of fundamental questions:

80) Title: "Parameter Inversion: Theory, Numerical Methods and Applications"

E-mail: zws@lsec.cc.ac.cn

Description of the topic of the session:

Many problems in physics and engineering result in parameter inversion. For example, reconstructing geologic structures in geophysical inverse problem is an essentially problem of velocity inversion.

To provide a high-level international forum for researchers in the interdisciplinary field of inverse problems and their applications, within the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2011 (ICNAAM 2011, http://www.icnaam.org/), there is a special workshop on parameter inversion: theory, numerical methods and applications.

The related topics include:

Contributions on these respects but not limited to these are very welcome. The Proceedings of ICNAAM 2011 will be published in the very famous AIP (American Institute of Physics) Conference Proceedings. More information can be found at: http://www.icnaam.org/proceeding.htm. 

81) Title: "Computational Methods for Designing Functional Material"

E-mail: talat@physics.ucf.edu

Description of the topic of the session:

82) Title: "Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis"

E-mail: toliveir@univ-ab.pt

Description of the topic of the session:

The Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis Session (SMDAS2011) aims to bring together researchers dealing with modelling and data analysis in all fields of Science, emphasizing the broad range of statistical model development and fostering multi-disciplinary research. The session provides recent research results in data analysis, hierarchical modelling, classification, discrete discriminant analysis and multivariate data analysis, highlighting perspectives for new scientific developments within these areas which are important cornerstones in many scientific fields. Special attention is given to applications or new theoretical results having potential of solving real life problems.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:
 

83) Title: "Symposium on the Numerical Solution of Differential Equations and their Applications"

Organizer: Dr. Zacharias A. Anastassi, Department of Sciences, School of Pedagogical & Technological Education (ASPETE), N. Heraklion, GR-14121 Athens, Greece
  

E-mail: zackanas@gmail.com, zackanas@hotmail.com      

Description of the topic of the session:

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

The types of Differential Equations include:

84) Title: "Mini-symposium on Meshfree Methods: Applications and Theory"

Organizer: Dr. Edward J Kansa, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA and Convergent Solutions, LLC, 5218 Theresa Way, Livermore, CA 94550 USA, Phone: (925)455-1642 and Dr. Alexender I. Fedoseyev, Sr. Principal Engineer, CFD Research Corporation, 215 Wynn Drive, USA, Phone: (256) 726-4928
  

E-mail: ejkansa@ucdavis.edu, ek@rbf-pde.org and aif@rbf-pde.org

Description of the topic of the session:

A variety of meshfree methods have been developed over that past decades with applications to partial differenential equations, integral equations, bifurcation analysis, inverse problems, neural networks and artificial intelligence, approximation methods, and many other applications. The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) has been dominated by either finite difference methods (FDM), finite element methods (FEM), and finite volume methods (FVM). These methods can be derived from the assumptions of the local interpolation schemes. These methods require a mesh to support the localized approximations; the construction of a mesh in three or more dimensions is a non-trivial problem. Typically with these methods only the function is continuous across meshes, but not its partial derivatives.

Scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are invited to present their work at this mini-symposium and meet with others at this beautiful location.

Please send a one-page abstract of your talk to either:
Alexandre Fedoseyev, email : aif@cfdrc.com
or Edward Kansa, email: ejkansa@ucdavis.edu  or edwardjkansa@netzero.com
 

85) Title: "Innovative Numerical Methods and Analysis for Free Surface and Complex Flows"

Organizer: Professor Vitoriano Ruas, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Couloir 55-65, 4eme etage. 4 palce Jussieu, Paris cedex 05. France. Ph. nr. 33-144275259. Home ph. nr.33-149570436.
  

E-mail: vitoriano.ruas@upmc.fr

Description of the topic of the session:

The goal of this symposium is to bring together experts in the computer simulation of complex fluid flow with or without a free surface, for exchanges on innovative ideas for solving coupled fluid dynamics and morpho-dynamics. This includes a wide range of models such as multi-layer and depth averaged equations governing coastal hydrodynamics or yet the flow of complex fluids, such as polymer melts and biological fluids. Contributions on the mathematical understanding of the numerical tools, either based on stability and convergence analyses, or yet on comparative studies with other existing methods and on the validation of numerical schemes in problems with known exact solution or well-established benchmarks, are particularly welcome. Emphasis is given to the methodology itself and its properties, rather than to specific applications, but illustration of novel numerical methods in the solution of real life problems is to be viewed as an added-value feature of performance evaluation.

Topics to be addressed in this symposium include:

86) Title: "Old and New formulations in PDE and Applications to Some Nonlinear Models in Physics and Image Process"

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Rakotoson Jean Michel, Universit? de Poitiers, LMA, UMR 6086 du CNRS, T?l?port 2 Boulevard Marie et Pierre Curie, BP 30179, 86 962 Futuroscope Chasseneuil.
  

E-mail: Jean-Michel.Rakotoson@math.univ-poitiers.fr

Description of the topic of the session:

In this conference, the speakers are concerned with new results related to some formulations (very weak solutions, multivalued formulations, formulation in BV spaces) . These formulations are related to either PDE equations or minimization problems. Applications to Shallow water problem, Stokes problem, image process or population dynamics models should be discussed.