Kinetic descriptions play a critical role in the physical, social, and biological sciences, and have expanded into diverse applications of cutting-edge technology ranging from microfluidics, semiconductors, polymers and plasma to traffic networking and swarming.

Modern kinetic theory captures fundamental issues in the modeling and simulation of phenomena across length and time scales, from the atomistic to the continuum. In the context of kinetic theory mathematical approaches help the design of numerical methods and, conversely, numerical simulations help improve the quantitative understanding of underlying complex problems.

This workshop is targeting primarily researchers at an early stage of their career. It will focus on recent developments in the modeling and simulation of multiscale phenomena via kinetic methods. These include, for example, analytic techniques for the passage from particle systems to macroscopic descriptions in classical and quantum mechanical settings; computational methods for multiscale problems in materials science and fluid dynamics; and the asymptotic analysis of kinetic equations to describe macroscopic behaviors (homogenization of transport problems, diffusion limit, hydrodynamic limits).

http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/frg/frg0903/

We are at the dawn of the nanotechnology era, where scientific and technological advancements in many fields strongly demand the investigation of problems involving small or multiple scales. In such problems, the hydrodynamic theory is often invalid, and one has to apply the more fundamental laws of physics, such as kinetic theory (Boltzmann equation), molecular dynamics (Newton’s second law or the Liouville equation), or even quantum mechanics (Schrodinger equation). This requires the development of new mathematical and computational methods for physical laws at these scales, or a mixture of them, which is facilitated by the improvements of modern computers. Mathematical understanding of the scaling limit from one scale to another plays an important role, and interweaves with the development of new multiscale computational methods. This program will focus on the mathematical analysis, computational challenges and new applications of quantum and kinetic transport theory. It will invite both senior leading figures and young researchers in these directions. Besides applied mathematicians, special attention will be paid to invite researchers in other fields in science and engineering, representing academic, national lab and industrial research.

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/kt2009/

Speakers:
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton): The parametrization of rings of small rank
John Conway (Princeton): The genus of a quadratic form
Noam Elkies (Harvard): Theta functions of lattices
Jonathan Hanke (Georgia): Quadratic forms and automorphic forms
Raman Parimala (Emory): Some aspects of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms

http://swc.math.arizona.edu/

This conference will be held March 27-29, 2009 at the University of Kentucky with guest speaker Richard Stanley. Participating students will have the opportunity to give a talk or present a poster and network with other students from across the country. Please visit our website for more information and to register. Partial travel support may be available.

http://www.ms.uky.edu/~gscc/

Invited Speakers:
Richard Anstee, University of British Columbia
Anthony Bonato, Ryerson University
Willem Haemers, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Qing Xiang, University of Delaware
TBA

http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~holzmann/combday6/

The following is a preliminary list of topics for the introductory minicourses:

1. Analytic spaces and their e'tale cohomology (Vladimir Berkovich)
2. Rigid cohomology (Elmar Große-Klönne)
3. Drinfel'd symmetric domain and uniformization (Ehud de Shalit)
4. Period domains and their cohomology (Sascha Orlik)
5. p-adic representations of p-adic groups (Peter Schneider)
6. p-adic Galois representations (Laurent Berger)
7. Applications to number theory (Amnon Besser)

http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/conf/minerva_09.html

This workshop will focus on computational modeling of kinetic transport models that arise in various kinetic transport problems, in particular Boltzmann kinetic or transport equations with applications in astrophysics, planetary atmospheres, medical imaging, semiconductor-devices, and plasmas. The numerical methods to be discussed include direct simulation Monte-Carlo methods, particle methods, moment closure techniques, deterministic finite difference, finite element, and spectral methods. Hybridization of computational schemes linking multi-scale and multi-physics will also be addressed. Examples are microscopic to mesoscopic linking of quantum systems to semiclassical models for semiconductor device simulations, coupled kinetic and fluid models for hypersonic vehicles, and coupling of Monte Carlo and deterministic numerical methods.

The aim of this workshop is to examine the current states of computational transport, and to foster interdisciplinary interactions among researchers from mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and related disciplines.

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/ktws1/

CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering. CSIE 2009 consists of the following Technical Symposiums:

Communications & Mobile Computing Symposium
Computer Applications Symposium
Computer Design & VLSI Symposium
Data Mining & Data Engineering Symposium
Intelligent Systems Symposium
Multimedia & Signal Processing Symposium
Software Engineering Symposium

CSIE 2009 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and all papers in the proceedings will be included in EI Compendex, ISTP, and IEEE Xplore.

http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009/