Interphase 2001: Numerical Methods for Free Boundary Problems

INTERPHASE是一系列会议，主要致力于自由边界问题的数值和计算方面，在过去的8年里，每年在欧洲成功举行一次。INTERPHASE的明显拼写错误应该是为了强调这次会议的主要目的：促进科学家和工程师群体（“阶段”）之间的思想和方法的沟通和交流，否则他们可能不会互动，从而相互受益。事实上，界面出现在从材料科学和流体动力学到图像处理和金融的各种应用中，这些应用可能没有任何共同的根源和目标，但却由类似的偏微分方程描述，因此呈现出类似的困难、挑战和方法。该系列的第9次会议将于2001年9月在马里兰州的College Park举行，旨在鼓励更多美国研究人员的参与，并促进美国和欧洲同行在问题领域的思想交流，这些领域之间存在着兴趣区域之间的接口。我们计划邀请大约30名高级演讲者，12名初级演讲者，并举办海报会议。

INTERPHASE is a series of meetings, devoted mainly to numerical and computational aspects of free boundary problems, which have been held successfully once a year in Europe for the past 8 years. The apparent misspelling of INTERPHASE is supposed to emphasize the chief purpose of this meeting: facilitate the communication and exchange of ideas and methods between communities (`phases') of scientists and engineers that otherwise may not interact and thus profit from each other. In fact, interfaces arise in a variety of applications from materials science and fluid dynamics, to image processing and finance, which may not have any common roots and goals but however are described by similar partial differential equations and thereby present analogous difficulties, challenges, and methodology.The 9th conference of the series will be held in College Park, MD, in September 2001 with the intention of encouraging more participation of US researchers and stimulating the exchange of ideas between American and European peers in the area of problems where there is an interface between regions of interest. We plan to have about 30 senior speakers, 12 junior speakers, and a poster session.