Spring Symposium Agenda
May 6th, 2012
Sesssion 1A: HPC
Organizers: Nancy Amato and Lawrence Rauchwerger
Building 2 - Room 5209
8:30 AM: Dimitris Lagoudas (TAMU) and Theocharis Baxevanis (TAMU)
9:00 AM: Igor Chikalov and Mikhail Moshkov (KAUST)
9:30 AM: Xingfu Wu (TAMU)
10:00 AM: BREAK
10:30 AM: Panos Kalnis (KAUST)
11:00 AM: Lawrence Rauchwerger (TAMU)
11:30 AM: Xiangliang Zhang (KAUST)
12:00-1:30 PM: LUNCH
Session 1B: Ecological Modeling
Organizers: Jay Walton and Marc Genton
Building 3 - Room 5209
8:30 AM: Xabier Irigoien (KAUST)
9:00 AM: Christian Voolstra (KAUST), Conny Roder (KAUST), Maren Ziegler (KAUST), and Daniel Roelke (TAMU)
10:00 AM: BREAK
10:20 AM: Georgiy Stenchikov (KAUST)
Quantifying dust effect on the Red Sea
10:50 AM: Masami Fujiwara (TAMU)
11:20 AM: Michael Berumen (KAUST) and Marc Genton (TAMU)
Ecology of Whale Sharks and Butterflyfishes in the Red Sea
12:00-1:30 PM: LUNCH
Session 2A: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Organizer: Wolfgang Bangerth
Building 2 - Room 5209
1:30 PM: Jean-Luc Guermond (TAMU)
2:15 PM: Sanghyun Lee (TAMU)
Towards the Numerical Simulation of Kaye Effect
3:00 PM: BREAK
3:20 AM: Bojan Popov (TAMU)
Entropy Viscosity Techniques for Nonlinear Conservation Equations
3:50 PM: Timo Heister (TAMU)
Simulating Convection in the Earth Mantle
Session 2B: Uncertainty Quantification
Organizers: Bani Mallick, Yalchin Efendiev, Ibrahim Hoteit and Raul Tempone
Building 3 - Room 5209
1:30 PM: Yalchin Efendiev (TAMU)
2:00 PM: Ibrahim Hoteit (KAUST)
2:30 PM: Bagci (KAUST)
3:00 PM: BREAK
3:20 PM: Mike King (TAMU)
Combined Uncertainty and History Mathcing Study of a Deepwater Turbidite Reservoir
3:50 PM: Suojin Wang (TAMU)
Poster Session
KAUST Library
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Dinner
Yacht Club
6:30pm
May 7th, 2012
Session 3A: Ecological Modeling
Organizers: Jay Walton and Marc Genton
Building 2 - Room 5220
8:30 AM: Rana Parshad (KAUST) and Jay Walton (TAMU)
9:15 AM: Ulrich Stingl (KAUST)
Biodiversity and Metabolic Adaptations of Bacteria in the Red Sea
9:45 AM: Thomas Lacher (TAMU)
10:15 AM: BREAK
10:30 AM: Panel Disccusion & Breakout Sessions
12:00-1:30 PM: LUNCH
Session 3B: Visualizatin, Seismology, and Hydrology
Organizers: Craig Douglas and Chuck Hansen
Building 3 - Room 5220
8:30 AM: Jim Calvin (KAUST)
Science at KAUST and the Kingdom
8:55 AM: Markus Hadwiger (KAUST)
9:20 AM: Alyn Rockwood (KAUST)
9:45 AM: BREAK
10:10 AM: Gerard Schuster (KAUST)
10:35 AM: Tom Missimer (KAUST)
Hydrogeology of Wadis Aquifers: Artificial Recharge with Wastewater
11:00 AM: Yu Han (KAUST/IAMCS)
Wadis and Seismology
11:25 AM: Shuyu Sun (KAUST)
1:30 PM: Craig Douglas (Wyoming)
12:00-1:30 PM: LUNCH
Session 4A: Uncertainty Quantification
Organizers: Bani Mallick, Yalchin Efendiev, Ibrahim Hoteit and Raul Tempone
Building 2 - Room 5220
1:30 PM: Raul Tempone (KAUST)
2:00 PM: Martin Mai (KAUST)
Uncertainty Quantification in Earthquake Source Inversion
2:30 PM: Boubaker Smii (KFUPM)
Feynmam Graph Representatives to the Solution of a SPDE driven by Levy Noise
3:00 PM: BREAK
Session 4B: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Organizer: Wolfgang Bangerth
Building 3 - Room 5220
2:00 PM: David Ketcheson (KAUST)
2:30 PM: Sanghyun Lee (TAMU)
Towards the Numerical Simulation of Kaye Effect
3:15 PM: Raytcho Lazarov (TAMU)
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