SIMAI 2010 AT A GLANCE

 

The conference will begin on the morning of Monday, June 21, 2010 with registration (from 8:30) and an opening ceremony starting at 9:00 at the Faculty of Engineering (Facoltà di ingegneria). Starting from the afternoon of June, 21 SIMAI 2010 will take place at the  Faculty of Architecture (Facoltà di Architettura). On late Monday afternoon, June 21 a welcome party/icebreaker will be offered at the Conference venue.

Two invited plenary lectures  will be given every morning from Monday through Friday, except Wednesday.  Oral presentations will be given on concurrent sessions from Monday through Friday except one mid-week afternoon (Wednesday), and Friday afternoon. Conference banquet will be held on Wednesday evening at 21:30.

The conference will close on at 14:00, on Friday June 25, 2010.

The scientific program will consists of plenary invited lectures, minisymposia, round tables, and individual talks.

For a full list of conference sessions and their schedule have a look here

A round table on L'Ingegneria Matematica in Italia: passato, presente e futuro
is scheduled on Wednesday 23, at 11:30. Panelist are L. Formaggia, P. Podio-Guidugli, L. Preziosi and B. Rubino.

Plenary conferences sessions will start at 10:30 on monday morning and at 9:00 every other day except Wednesday. Two invited plenary lectures are scheduled on each day.

Minisimposia parallell sessions are scheduled from 14:30 to 16:30 and from 17:00 to 19:00 on monday afternoon and from 11:30 to 13:30 and to 15:00 to 17:00 and from 17:30 to 19:30 every other day except Wednesday. On Wednesday morning minisimposia will start at 9:00 and continue until 11:00.

Plenary Invited Lectures

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Eight plenary talks will focus on selected areas of applied mathematics or on new interdisciplinary topics, describing today's context or applications, and discussing prospects for the future.

• Numerical models for geological evolution  - Luca Formaggia (Politecnico di Milano) - Tuesday, June 22
• Numerical approximation of nonconservative hyperbolic systems: applications and difficulties - Carlos Pares (Universidad de Malaga)  - Tuesday, June 22
• Multiphase and multiscale aspects of cancer modelling  -Luigi Preziosi (Politecnico di Torino)  - Friday, June 25
• From vehicular traffic to pedestrian motions and animal groups - Benedetto Piccoli (CNR IAC - Roma) - Thursday, June 24
• Numerical simulation of nonsmooth mathematical models - Peregrina Quintela (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) - Friday, June 25
• No protein is an island - Anna Tramontano (Sapienza Università di Roma) - Monday, June 21
• Porous medium flow with fractional diffusion - Juan Luis Vazquez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) - Monday, June 21
• Waves and Numerics - Enrique Zuazua (BCAM del Pais Vasco) - Thursday, June 24

 

Minisymposia, round tables, and contributed sessions

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Minisymposia and contributed presentations are 15 minutes with an additional 5 minutes of discussion. For a list of conference sessions have a look here.