Workshop: Emerging Applications and Future Directions of the Boundary Element Method

这笔赠款为2010年9月1日至3日在俄亥俄州阿克伦的阿克伦大学举办的关于边界元方法(BEM)的新兴应用和未来方向的研讨会提供资金。研讨会将为学生、研究人员和工程师提供为期两天的短期课程，内容包括边界元公式、求解技巧、格林函数、对称伽辽金方法和求解边界元方程的快速方法。在短期课程之后，为期一天的研讨会将集中讨论边界管理的新兴应用和未来方向。六位受邀的演讲嘉宾是世界领先的研究人员，他们将就边界管理的各个重要方向展开主题和领导讨论。来自美国大学的15名学生将获得奖学金，以支持他们参加这次研讨会。将为学生举办海报展示比赛，并将根据研讨会期间的讨论编写一篇评论文章。边界元在过去十年中的快速发展极大地拓宽了其应用范围。显然有必要对学生、研究人员和工程师，特别是美国的学生、研究人员和工程师进行关于BEM最新发展的培训，以帮助进一步推进BEM的研究和应用。这次研讨会将使领先的研究人员齐聚一堂，讨论BEM的新兴应用，讨论BEM的未来方向，帮助培养新一代本科生和研究生，他们将有兴趣和动力在BEM以及整个计算科学和工程领域开展研究。

This grant provides funding for a workshop on Emerging Applications and Future Directions of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) to be held at University of Akron in Akron, Ohio from September 1st through 3rd, 2010. The workshop will start with a two-day short course for students, researchers and engineers on the BEM formulations, solution techniques, Green's functions, symmetric Galerkin approaches, and fast methods for solving the BEM equations. Following the short course, a one-day symposium will focus on discussions of emerging applications and future directions of the BEM. Six invited speakers who are leading researchers in the world will open the topics and lead discussions on various important directions in the BEM. Scholarships will be given to 15 students from US universities to support their participation in this workshop. A competition of poster presentations for students will be held and a review article will be prepared based on the discussions during this workshop. Rapid developments of the BEM in the last decade have significantly broadened its applications. There is an apparent need for training students, researchers and engineers, especially those in the US, on the recent developments in the BEM, to help further advance the BEM research and applications. This workshop will bring leading researchers together to discuss the emerging applications and debate the future directions of the BEM, help train a new generation of undergraduate and graduate students who will be interested and motivated in conducting research in the BEM and in computational science and engineering in general.