Recent Advances on Theory and Applications of  Semi-Lagrangian Methods

Rome, 5 - 6 december 2011                

                preliminary program

Monday, December 5

 9:30 - 10:30   R. Ferretti (Universita' di Roma 3, IT)    

                     Tutorial: "An introduction to semi-Lagrangian schemes, I"

10:45 - 11:45  R. Ferretti (Universita' di Roma 3, IT)

                     Tutorial: "An introduction to semi-Lagrangian schemes, II"

12:00 - 13:00  L. Bonaventura (MOX - Politecnico di Milano, IT) 

                     Tutorial: "An introduction to semi-Lagrangian schemes, III"

  Lunch

14:30 - 15:00  Registration

15:00 - 15:45  N. Wood (Met Office, UK)

                    "A weather and climate modelling perspective on recent developments 

of the semi-Lagrangian method"

15:45 - 16:30 G. Russo (Universita' di Catania, IT)

                    "Level-set finite difference ghost-fluid method for incompressible Euler

  and Navier-Stokes equation"

  Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45 G. Tumolo (ICTP Trieste, IT)

                    "A semi-implicit, Semi-Lagrangian p-adaptive discontinous Galerkin method 

for the rotating shallow  water equations"

Tuesday, December 6

 9:30 - 10:15 E. Celledoni (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N)

                   "High order semi-Lagrangian exponential integrators"

 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:30 M. Mehrenberger(Université de Strasbourg, FR)

                   "Enhanced convergence estimates for semi-Lagrangian schemes with

                     application to the Vlasov-Poisson system"

12:00 - 12:30   H. Heumann (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis,FR)

                     "Semi-Lagrangian Methods for Advection-Diffusion for Differential Forms"

12:30 - 13:00  R. Mecca (Sapienza - Universita' di Roma, IT)

                     "A Semi-Lagrangian  scheme for Shape-from-Shading via Photometric Stereo"

  Lunch

14:30 - 15:15  A. Vladimirsky (Cornell University, USA)

                    "Semi-Lagrangian methods for multiobjective (and integral-constrained) optimal control"

15:15 - 16:00  R. Bermejo (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES) 

                    "A semi-Lagrangian particle level set finite element method for interface problems"