NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences - "Finite Element Exterior Calculus"

该奖项将支持NSF/CMBS区域会议，该会议将于2012年夏天在罗德岛州普罗维登斯的数学计算与实验研究所举行，主题是有限元外部微积分。主讲人将是道格拉斯·阿诺德，明尼苏达大学麦克奈特总统数学教授。该奖项将支持25名处于职业生涯不同阶段的参与者。有限元外部微积分（FEEC）是最近发展起来的一种理论，它为理解和构造用于求解偏微分方程的数值方法提供了一个框架。它涉及许多不同的数学领域，包括微分几何、代数拓扑和同调代数。本次会议将展示如何将这些数学领域联系在一起，以更好地理解潜在问题的结构并开发计算方法。

This award will support an NSF/CMBS regional conference to be held at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics in Providence, Rhode Island in the summer of 2012 on the topic of finite element exterior calculus. The principal speaker will be Douglas Arnold, McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. This award will support 25 participants at different stages of their careers.Finite element exterior caluculs (FEEC) is a recently developed theory that provides a framework for understanding and constructing numerical methods that are used for solving partial differential equations. It touches on many different fields of mathematics, including differential geometry, algebraic topology, and homological algebra. This conference will demonstrate how these areas of mathematics can be linked together to better understand the structure of underlying problems and develop computational methods.