This NSF grant provides funds in support of the International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods which will be held in June 2014, in Salt Lake City, Utah. This conference series brings together researchers and practitioners with an interest in the theoretical, computational and applied aspects of high-order and spectral methods for the solution of differential equations impacting increasingly diverse and important applications. Subjects of the meeting include, but are not limited to spectral methods, high-order finite difference methods, p- and h-p type finite element methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods, ENO/WENO methods, high order methods for integral equations, wavelet-based methods, stochastic methods, efficient solvers and preconditioners for high order methods, efficient time-stepping methods, as well as computational aspects for modern hardware environments. The format of the meeting includes both invited papers as well as submitted contributions in order to encourage wider participation especially from young scientists and under-represented minorities. Target of funding to women and minorities facilitates their engagement in this important field of computational mathematics.
This NSF grant provides funds in support of the International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods which will be held in June 2014, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The conference engages a broad group of researchers at all career stages representing the mathematical sciences and engineering, as well as practitioners from multiple industrial and government communities, with research interests impacting a number of important scientific domains. These include topics such as aeroacoustics, bioengineering, electromagnetics, ocean and climate modeling, seismology, turbulent flows, non-Newtonian flows, nonlinear optics, plasma dynamics, image processing and uncertainty quantification. The format of this moderately-sized conference provides an opportunity for networking and career advancement for junior academics. NSF funding is targeted to provide fellowships for minorities and women, particularly those who are at early career levels and facilitates their exposure to important application areas for research.
The International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM) took place in Salt Lake City Utah from June 23 to June 27, 2014, www.icosahom2014.org/. This conference series brings together researchers and practitioners with an interest in the theoretical, computational and applied aspects of high-order and spectral methods for the solution of differential equations impacting increasingly diverse and important applications. It engages a broad group of researchers at all career stages representing the mathematical sciences and engineering, as well as practitioners from multiple industrial and government communities. The format of the meeting includes both invited papers as well as submitted contributions in order to encourage wider participation especially from young scientists and under-represented minorities. There were 295 attendees at the meeting, of whom 104 (35%) paid a student rate for attendance. The meeting also had a broad impact, 188 of the attendees were from overseas. Most attendees gave talks, in total 288 talks, of which 8 were 50 minute plenary presentations, 196 were given in 30 minutes slots in the 19 mini symposia and 84 were contributed talks scheduled for 20 minutes. Fellowship support for junior attendees was advertised on the conference web site, as well as through multiple electronic digests, including NA-digest and several SIAM activity groups: Computational Science and Engineering, Linear Algebra, Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Imaging Science, Uncertainty Quantification, and Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. Communications were also emailed to a list of past conference participants. In advance of the meeting, three diversity awards of $1500 each were made, fourteen awards of $1000 to domestic applicants, six awards also of $1000 to international applicants and a further 6 awards for registration only made to local (Arizona and Utah) trainees. Two of the awardees did not attend. The domestic and international awardees were randomly selected from the total pool of 40 applicants, who applied in response to the online application system. Subsequent to the meeting, after all costs had been determined a further 6 awards were made to trainees from the initial pool of applicants and who had not received funding. In total there were 3 diversity awards of 1500, 27 awards of 1000, 6 awards covering local students for registration, and all funds for the 8 plenary attendees. External support of the meeting was obtained from several funding agencies, including the NSF $35000, AFOSR $10000, ONR $10000 and ARO $25000. In total this provided the funding for the plenary speakers, registration fees for the scientific committee, all fellowship awards, and audio visual costs which were charged to the ARO award. The NSF funding was mainly targeted to junior participants and plenary speakers.
