Workshop Announcement:

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   Stiff Sources and Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws
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                   April 4 to April 8, 2005

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/balancelaws.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will focus on
unifying techniques which were developed in different
application areas and exploring new application areas 
where existing techniques have not yet been applied.

Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws are being used for 
models in a variety of applications such as gas dynamics,
acoustics, optics, and geophysics. It turns out that in many 
areas of interest, the dynamics is driven by balance laws that
are conservation laws with source terms.

While numerical methods for conservation laws are well studied, 
the arising field of numerical methods for balance laws has been
under-explored.  The motivations for this workshop are:

1. Similar techniques were developed in different application areas.
2. There are new application areas where existing techniques have 
   not yet been applied.

It is the goal of this meeting to bring together researchers in 
these areas in order to classify and unify the current algorithms,
to clearly identify the open problems in this field and to discuss
future directions. 

The workshop is organized by
Doron Levy and Benoit Perthame.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/balancelaws.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than January 15, 2005. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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