University of Oxford, 17-19 September 2012
| 14:00 - | Rooms at St Antony's available for check-in; checkout time is 10:00 on day of departure |
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| 17:00 - | 19:00 | Registration and drinks reception at St Antony's |
| 8:00 - | 9:00 | Coffee and registration |
| 9:00 - | 9:50 | Plenary talk 1: Nick Trefethen, U. of Oxford, "Chebfun and Beyond" |
| 10:00 - | 11:00 |
Contributed talks Lecture theatre: Alex Townsend, U. of Oxford "Chebfun2: Bivariate function approximation the ACA way" John Boyd, U. of Michigan "Roots, extrema and contours for bivariate polynomials" Second room: Mark Richardson, U. of Oxford "Chebyshev interpolation for functions with endpoint singularities" Szymon Jaroszewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences "PaCAL: a library for probabilistic computation" |
| 11:00 - | 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 - | 12:20 |
Plenary talk 2: Daan Huybrechs, KU Leuven "Computing with functions on non-rectangular domains" |
| 12:30 - | 2:00 | Lunch (provided at St Antony's) |
| 2:00 - | 2:30 | Tour of some recent Chebfun developments |
| 2:30 - | 3:20 |
Plenary talk 3: Nick Hale, U. of Oxford "Differential equations in Chebfun: Who, what, when, and how?" |
| 3:30 - | 4:00 |
Contributed talks Lecture theatre: Anders Logg, U. of Oslo ""The FEniCS Project" Second room: Jean-Paul Berrut, U. of Fribourg "Boole's summation formula and features of jump singularities" |
| 4:00 - | 4:30 | Tea |
| 4:30 - | 5:30 |
Discussion: (1) Moving up to two dimensions [chair: Leslie Greengard, scribe: Asgeir Birkisson] |
| 9:00 - | 9:50 | Plenary talk 4: Toby Driscoll, U. of Delaware, "Chebfun Beyond the Ordinary" |
| 10:00 - | 11:00 |
Contributed talks Lecture theatre: Dmitry Savostyanov, Russian Academy of Sciences "Cross approximation in three dimensions" Jos Gesenhues, U. of Bonn, "Incremental approximation" Second room: Sheehan Olver, U. of Sydney, "Sparse and stable spectral methods" Divakar Viswanath, U. of Michigan "Spectral integration of linear boundary value problems" |
| 11:00 - | 11:30 | Coffee and poster session |
| 11:30 - | 12:20 |
Plenary talk 5: Folkmar Bornemann, TU Munich "Noise: Blessing or curse? (and other tales of a Chebfun user)" |
| 12:30 - | 2:00 | Lunch (provided at St Antony's) |
| 2:00 - | 3:00 |
Contributed talks Lecture theatre: Paul Fischer, Argonne Natl Lab "High-Order Methods for Scalable Simulations of Turbulence" Johan Helsing, U. of Lund "Accurate solvers for boundary value problems in 2D domains" Second room: Koen Poppe, KU Leuven "CHEBINT: a MATLAB/Octave toolbox for fast multivariate Chebyshev approximation" Ricardo Pachón, Credit Suisse "Chebfun for financial risk management" |
| 3:10 - | 4:00 | Plenary talk 6: Cleve Moler, MathWorks Inc.,"My experience with Chebfun" |
| 4:00 - | 4:30 | Tea |
| 4:30 - | 5:30 |
Discussions (in parallel): (2) Software challenges [chair: Cleve Moler, scribe: Mohsin Javed] (3) High-end spectral discretizations [chair: Jie Shen, scribe: James Lottes] |
| 18:30 - | 19:15 | Drinks reception, Wadham College |
| 19:15 - | 22:00 | Banquet, Wadham College [after-dinner speaker: Colin Macdonald] |
| 9:00 - | 9:50 |
Plenary talk 7: Leslie Greengard, New York U. "Quadrature by expansion: A new method for the evaluation of layer potentials" |
| 10:00 - | 11:00 |
Contributed talks Lecture theatre: Ásgeir Birkisson, U. of Oxford "Extending Chebfun's nonlinear ODE algorithms to find multiple solutions" Jie Shen, Purdue U "Fast spectral-Galerkin methods for high-dimensional PDEs and applications" Second room: Falko Marquardt, TU Munich "Clenshaw-Curtis quadrature in double exponential transformations" Jörg Waldvogel, ETH Zurich "Fast construction of the Fejér and Clenshaw-Curtis quadrature rules" |
| 11:00 - | 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 - | 12:20 |
Plenary talk 8: Nick Higham, U. of Manchester "Challenges in exploiting higher precision floating point arithmetic" |
| 12:30 - | 2:00 | Lunch (provided at St Antony's) |
| 2:00 - | 3:00 |
Contributed talks Lecture theatre: Yann Le Du, CNRS - Chimie ParisTech "Electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPR-I) with Chebfun" Olivier Sète, TU Berlin, "Zeros of complex rational harmonic functions" Second room: Ben Adcock, Simon Fraser U. "Numerically stable function approximation with infinite frames" Rodrigo Platte, Arizona State U. "Accurate representation of Fourier transforms of piecewise smooth functions" |
| 3:00 - | 4:00 |
Discussion: (4) Numerical algorithms for operators [chair: Nick Higham, scribe: Alex Townsend] |
| 4:00 - | 4:30 | Tea |
| 4:30 - | 5:30 |
Panel discussion: "Chebfun and Beyond" Chair: Nick Trefethen Panel: Folkmar Bornemann, John Boyd, Paul Fischer, Tanya Morton Scribe: Mark Richardson |
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Manuel Filipe de Alba, U. Nacl de Colombia "Comparative study between spectral methods and Petrov-Galerkin formulation for problems with dominant convection" Gabriela Malenova, Czech Republic "Chebyshev tau methods for computing spectra of quantum graphs" Thorsten Dahmen, U. Konstanz "Minimum-time pacing strategies on 3-dimensionally modeled cycling tracks" Thomas Schmelzer "Ricci Flow and Euclidean Quantum Gravity" Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet, U. of Delaware "Implementation of the equal area method for first order conservation laws in Chebfun" |