Program: Springschool

Monday, 23 March 2009

9.00-10.30: Harald Garcke
Modelling of interfaces and free boundaries I

Coffee break

11.00-12.30: Harald Garcke
Modelling of interfaces and free boundaries II

Lunch

14.30-16.00: Eduardo Casas
Optimization with PDEs I

Coffee break

16.30-18.00: Eduardo Casas
Optimization with PDEs II

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

9.00-10.30: Charlie Elliott
Numerical approaches for interfaces and free boundaries I

Coffee break

11.00-12.30: Charlie Elliott
Numerical approaches for interfaces and free boundaries II

Lunch

Program: Conference

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

14.15 Opening

14.30-15.20: Eduardo Casas
Some Remarks about the Numerical Approximation of Boundary Control Problems of Elliptic Equations
15.20-15.45: Oleg Volkov
A unified approach to solving direct and inverse free-boundary problems in fluid mechanics
15.50-16.15: Bartosz Protas
Adjoint-based optimization of PDEs in moving domains

Coffee break

16.50-17.15: Günther Grün
Mathematical aspects of electrowetting
17.20-17.45: Martin Bernauer
Motion Planning for the Two-Phase Stefan Problem in Level Set Formulation
17.50-18.15: Piotr Rybka
A singular weighted mean curvature flow in the plane: a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with an unusual free boundary

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

9.00-9.50: Charlie Elliott
Diffuse interface approach to surface PDEs
9.50-10.15: Uli Sack
Numerical Simulation of Binary Alloys

Coffee break

10.50-11.15: Andreas Melcher
A phase-field model for crack-propagation in polycrystals
11.20-11.45: Sandra Rasche
Control of surface diffusion modeled by a Cahn-Hilliard equation
11.50-12.15: Axel Voigt
Shape optimization using a Cahn-Hilliard equation

12.45-19.00 Excursion: Weltenburg Abbey with brewery, a boat tour through the Danube Gorge,
and the Liberation Hall at Kelheim

Thursday, 26 March 2009

9.00-9.50: Klaus Deckelnick
Approximate controllability for an eikonal equation
9.50-10.15: Dan Tiba
Existence and approximation in optimal design

Coffee break

10.50-11.15: Benedikt Wirth
Elastic shape averaging and the corresponding models of variation
11.20-11.45: Rene Schneider
Shape optimisation for Navier Stokes by the discrete adjoint approach
11.50-12.15: Karsten Eppler
On the Well-Posedness of Free Boundary Problems

Lunch

14.15-16.30: Introductions to the posters
(each 3 minutes and subsequently the poster session with coffee)

  Toni Lassila
  Shape Optimization in the Class of Convex Shapes - an Approach to Crystal Shape Identification
  Sunday Reju
  Optimal Control Model of Energised Waves
  Orestis Vantzos
  Natural gradient flow discretization of viscous thin films on curved geometries
  Simon Bechmann, Michael Frey
  Comparison of regularization techniques for state constrained optimal control problems with PDEs
  Martin Butz
   A primal-dual active set method for Cahn-Hilliard variational inequalities
  Lavinia Sarbu
  A Primal-Dual Active Set Strategy for Solving the Allen-Cahn Equation
  Manoj Kumar
  Numerical Methods for Interface Problems
  Jan Marburger
  Optimal control using particle methods
  Martin Mevissen
  Semidefinite programming techniques for solving nonlinear boundary value problems
  Margarita Naldzhieva
On a coupled free boundary problem for the crystal-melt interface in the vincinity of the triple point
  Rülpsü Tütüncü
  title to be announced

16.30-16.55: Christian Meyer
Optimal control of static plasticity with hardening
17.00-17.25: Hicham Tber
A relaxation-regularization approach for local volatility identification in American option pricing
17.30-18.15: Michael Hintermüller
Optimal control and design subject to variational inequalities

19.30: Nightly guided tour through Regensburg

Friday, 27 March 2009

9.00-9.25 Ralf Massjung
An h-p-convergence analysis of a Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the elliptic interface problem
9.30-9.55: Winnifried Wollner
On the influence of the interface in solid interactions to adaptive mesh refinement
10.00-10.25: Farid Bozorgnia
Numerical algorithms for spatial segregation of competitive systems

Coffee break

11.00-11.25: Sabine Repke
Optimal Control of a 2-D Stokes Flow with Free Surface
11.30-12.15: Martin Rumpf
PDE constraint optimization and natural gradient flow discretization
12.20-12.30: Closing