Fifth International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications
May 18-May 21, 2006
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Short Course on Multigrid Methods, May 22, 2006
http://www.ualberta.ca/~sca2006/

This will be the fifth of a sequence of conferences on Scientific Computing and Applications held in the Pacific Rim region. All of them have the goal of bringing together mathematicians, scientists and engineers working in the field of scientific computing and its applications to solve scientific and industrially oriented problems and to provide a forum for the participants to meet and exchange ideas of common interest in an informal atmosphere.

The focus of this particular conference will be on the problems and methods related to image processing, financial applications and modelling of multiphase flows. The goal of the conference is twofold. The theoretical areas of interest include fundamental methods and algorithms for solving PDE's and linear systems of equations. On the other hand, it will try to attract the attention of the applied community, in particular the oil sands industry, banking and medical imaging, to present and discuss the applications of scientific computing to practical problems. The theoretical topics of interest are (but not limited to): Finite Element, Finite Volume Element and Finite Volume Methods for partial differential equations, splitting techniques and stabilized methods, iterative solvers and preconditioning techniques for large scale systems, methods for systems with a special structure, parallel algorithms and performance analysis.

Organizing committee:
W. Allegretto, Y. Lin, P. Minev and Y. Wong

Contact person:
Peter Minev, e-mail: minev@ualberta.ca, phone: 17804923398, fax: 17804926826.

Student support:
Limited funds are available for supporting students and postdoctoral fellows to attend the conference or the Short Course. For details please contact the organizers.

Plenary speakers:
Tony Chan, UCLA
Zhiming Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ivar Ekeland, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Olivier Pironneau, University of Paris VI

Invited speakers:
P. Bochev, Sandia National Laboratory
R. Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
T. Choulli, University of Alberta
K. Deng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
R. Elliott, University of Calgary
J.-L. Guermond, Texas A&M
B. Guo, University of Manitoba
Q. Huynh, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA
O. Mehdizadeh, Pratt & Whitney Canada
M. Noga, University of Alberta
T. F. Russell, National Science Foundation, USA
D. Sheen, Seoul National University
S. Sivaloganathan, University of Waterloo & Fields Institute
W. Sun, City University of Hong Kong
X.-C. Tai, University of Bergen
T. Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University
P. Vassilevski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
F. van de Vosse, Eindhoven University of Technology
J. Wang, National Science Foundation, USA
J. Wang, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao
J. Zhu, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Brazil
J. Zou, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:18:00 -0600 (MDT)
From: Y Wong <sca2006@ualberta.ca>