Summer School on Parallel Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

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StanescuDMS-0810890 This project helps support U.S. participants in the 2008Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Summer School. The schooleducates graduate students and junior faculty on the recentdevelopments in computational methods for partial differentialequations. This topic is of major importance in appliedmathematics and is key in developing a better understanding of,and prediction capability for, complex physical systems. Topicsto be covered at the intensive two-week summer school include:numerical methods for time-dependent problems, nodalDiscontinuous Galerkin Methods (theory and implementation),high-accuracy and spectral element methods on structured andunstructured meshes, introduction to parallel computing andhigh-performance computing on present-day architectures, andvarious applications such as fluid flow and weather prediction. The lecturers include Jan Hesthaven (Division of AppliedMathematics at Brown University, and Director of the Center forComputation and Visualization), Amik St-Cyr (National Center forAtmospheric Research), Henry Tufo (Colorado University-Boulderand National Center for Atmospheric Research), and Tim Warburton(Rice University). The school has an impact on the U.S. maintaining itsleadership role in computational science, by equipping U.S.graduate students with an understanding of the latestcomputational methods, preparing students to be able to performparallel computations on developing architectures, and enhancingtheir understanding of the important role that mathematicalmodeling and simulations plays in science. The summer school isheld just prior to the thematic year-long program onComputational Geosciences at NCAR, and thus prepares graduatestudents and junior faculty to participate more beneficially inthis program. This project also has a large impact on math andscience education in Wyoming, as some of the speakers andparticipants are guest lecturers at the local workshop "Thinkingand Doing Math and Science with Engineering," a program thatpresents Wyoming K-12 math and science teachers with feasibleways to make mathematics and science more pertinent and excitingto their students.