WAVES 2017: 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL AND NUMERICAL ASPECTS OF WAVE PROPAGATION
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, May 15th Tuesday, May 16th Wednesday, May 17th Thursday, May 18th Friday, May 19th

Monday, May 15th

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09:00-09:15 Session 2: Welcome
Location: Coffman Theater
09:15-10:15 Session 3: Polarized Uncertainty Principles for the Inverse Source Problem

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
09:15
Polarized Uncertainty Principles for the Inverse Source Problem ( abstract )
10:45-12:45 Session 4A: Seismic Waves: Uncertainty Quantification in Imaging/Inversion Across Scales

Minisymposium

Location: President's Room
10:45
Estimating the Error Distribution of Recovered Changes in Earth Properties with Full-Waveform Inversion ( abstract )
11:15
Uncertainty Quantification of Velocity Models and Seismic Imaging ( abstract )
11:45
Uncertainty quantification for inverse problems with a weak wave-equation constraint ( abstract )
10:45-12:45 Session 4B: Contributed Talks
Location: Mississippi Room
10:45
A Sparsity Regularization and Total Variation Based Computational Framework for the Inverse Medium Problem in Scattering ( abstract )
11:15
The Detection of Defects at the Interface Between Two Materials ( abstract )
11:45
Electromagnetic Stekloff Eigenvalues in Inverse Scattering ( abstract )
10:45-12:45 Session 4C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
10:45
Discrete exterior calculus for electromagnetic scattering by massive particle clusters ( abstract )
11:15
OpenHmX, an open-source H-Matrix toolbox in Matlab ( abstract )
11:45
A Discontinuous Galerkin Difference Discretization of the Wave Equation ( abstract )
12:15
A nodal discontinuous Galerkin method with high-order absorbing boundary conditions and corner/edge compatibility ( abstract )
10:45-12:45 Session 4D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
10:45
Time harmonic acoustic radiation in a circular flow ( abstract )
11:15
The Generation of Inertial-Alfven Waves in Planetary Cores ( abstract )
11:45
On the well-posedness of Goldstein's equations for aeroacoustics in recirculating flows ( abstract )
12:15
Non-Equilibrium Magnetosonic Wave Motion ( abstract )
10:45-12:45 Session 4E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 326
10:45
Mathematical Studies of the Kuznetsov Equation ( abstract )
11:15
Waves in solids with slow dynamics: an internal-variable model ( abstract )
11:45
Numerical modeling of a time-fractional Burgers equation ( abstract )
12:15
On DGTD-Lawson exponential time integrators for time-domain electromagnetics ( abstract )
14:00-15:00 Session 5: Nonlinear models of lasers, noise, and the SALT equations

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
14:00
Nonlinear models of lasers, noise, and the SALT equations ( abstract )
15:30-17:30 Session 6A: Seismic Waves: Uncertainty Quantification in Imaging/Inversion Across Scales

Minisymposium

Location: President's Room
15:30
Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for modelling 3D seismic wave propagation in harmonic domains ( abstract )
16:00
Elastic full waveform inversion of reflection seismic data: migration based formulation ( abstract )
16:30
An Algorithm for Vector data Full Waveform Inversion ( abstract )
17:00
The application of discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin space-time discretizations and inexact Newton methods to seismic imaging ( abstract )
15:30-17:30 Session 6B: Contributed Talks
Location: Mississippi Room
15:30
Reconstructing the geometry of a local perturbation in periodic layers ( abstract )
16:00
Topological derivatives of leading- and second-order homogenized coefficients in bi-periodic media ( abstract )
16:30
Application of the Floquet-Transform to Scattering Problems from Locally Perturbed Bi-periodic Structures ( abstract )
17:00
The Unified Transform Method in Dispersive Quantization ( abstract )
15:30-17:30 Session 6C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
15:30
Convergence Analysis of Energy Conserving Explicit Local Time-stepping Methods for the Wave Equation ( abstract )
16:00
Regional computation of acoustic waves propagating from the near surface of the Sun ( abstract )
16:30
A Trefftz method whose shape functions are constructed thanks to a high-order DG finite element method ( abstract )
17:00
Parallel preconditioned boundary element methods for wave scattering problems ( abstract )
15:30-17:30 Session 6D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
15:30
Sparse modal spectral-element methods for binary neutron stars ( abstract )
16:00
Singular Solutions of Resonant Maxwell's Equations ( abstract )
16:30
A numerical scheme for the wave kinetic equation and its application to cross-polarization scattering in turbulent plasmas ( abstract )
17:00
Invisibility and perfect reflectivity in waveguides with finite length branches ( abstract )
15:30-17:30 Session 6E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 326
15:30
An Energy Based Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Hamiltonian Systems ( abstract )
16:00
On a three parameter family of Boussinesq systems for internal waves ( abstract )
16:30
Adiabatic invariants of the extended KdV equation ( abstract )
Tuesday, May 16th

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08:30-09:30 Session 8: Stable and unstable Airy-related caustics and beams

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
08:30
Stable and unstable Airy-related caustics and beams ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 9A: Gravitational Waves: Sources and Detection

Minisymposium

Location: Mississippi Room
10:00
Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics ( abstract )
10:30
Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays ( abstract )
11:00
Promise and progress of millihertz gravitational-wave astronomy ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 9B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
10:00
Full determination of the characteristics of elastic scatteres from some FFP measurements ( abstract )
10:30
Generalized Sampling Method with noisy measurements ( abstract )
11:00
Solvability of volume integral equations for elastodynamic scattering ( abstract )
11:30
Shape reconstruction of nanoparticles from plasmonic resonances ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 9C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
10:00
Impedance-Preserving Discretization for Modeling Unbounded Domains ( abstract )
10:30
Trefftz-DG approximation for elasto-acoustics ( abstract )
11:00
On the Preconditioning of the Hypersingular Operator via a Dual Haar Basis in the Stabilization of the Electric Field Integral Equation ( abstract )
11:30
A-stable high-order implicit time schemes ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 9D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
10:00
A two-level domain decomposition method for Helmholtz Equation ( abstract )
10:30
Domain decomposition with local impedance condition for the Helmholtz equation ( abstract )
11:00
A well-conditioned weak coupling between interior and exterior domains for harmonic electromagnetic scattering ( abstract )
11:30
High Order Farfield Expansions Absorbing Boundary Condition Coupled with High Order Finite Difference Methods ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 9E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 326
10:00
Homogenization of the spectrum of the Poincar\'e-Neumann operator ( abstract )
10:30
An eigensystem approach to the low-wavenumber expansion of Willis' effective constitutive relations in periodic media ( abstract )
11:00
Approximate models for transmission problems between homogeneous and homogenized half-planes ( abstract )
11:30
Effective dielectric tensor of a two-dimensional periodic medium in the low-frequency approximation ( abstract )
13:30-14:30 Session 10: Dispersive Quantization of Linear and Nonlinear Waves

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
13:30
Dispersive Quantization of Linear and Nonlinear Waves ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 11A: Gravitational Waves: Sources and Detection

Minisymposium

Location: Mississippi Room
15:00
Modeling Gravitational Waves with Numerical-Relativity Simulations ( abstract )
15:30
Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae ( abstract )
16:00
Using gravitational waves to understand the physics of neutron stars ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 11B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
15:00
Timelike Surfaces and the Wave Equation ( abstract )
15:30
Upwind discontinuous Galerkin space discretization and locally implicit time integration for Maxwell's equations ( abstract )
16:00
Electromagnetic Wave Diffraction of Perfect Electric Conducting Wedges with Arbitrary Linear Polarization ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 11C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
15:00
Modelling and design of nano-structures: multilayer nanoplasmonics configurations ( abstract )
15:30
Criteria for opening band gaps in periodic media ( abstract )
16:00
Mathematical Analysis of Plasmonic Nanoparticles ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 11D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
15:00
The Half-Space Matching Method for the diffraction by polygonal scatterers ( abstract )
15:30
An Adaptive DPG Method for High Frequency Time-harmonic Wave Propagation Problems ( abstract )
16:00
Local Time-Stepping for the Solution of the Helmholtz Equation via Controllability Methods ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 12A: Gravitational Waves: Sources and Detection

Minisymposium

Location: Mississippi Room
16:45
Searching for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation ( abstract )
17:15
Probing Fundamental Physics and Cosmology with Gravitational waves ( abstract )
17:45
Probing Extreme Gravity with Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Coalescences ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 12B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
16:45
Efficient boundary element schemes for the solution of high-frequency convex scattering problems ( abstract )
17:15
Stable implementation of embedding formulae for computation of far field patterns ( abstract )
17:45
A hybrid method combining boundary elements and ray tracing for high frequency diffraction. Application to NDT. ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 12C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
16:45
Local analysis of near fields in acoustic scattering ( abstract )
17:15
Coupling High-Frequency methods and Boundary Element techniques for scattering problems with several obstacles. ( abstract )
17:45
Boundary integral equations for scattering problems with mixed boundary conditions ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 12D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
16:45
Robin spectrum of quantum trees and orthogonal polynomials ( abstract )
17:15
Transmission Conditions for Non-Overlapping Schwarz Domain Decomposition Methods Applied to Time-Harmonic Elastic Waves ( abstract )
17:45
Domain Decomposition preconditioning for high-frequency Helmholtz and Maxwell problems with absorption ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 12E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 326
16:45
Uncertainty Quantification for Electromagnetic Scattering by 1D Perfect Electric Conducting Gratings ( abstract )
17:15
Wave Diffraction by Random Surfaces: Uncertainty Quantification via Sparse Tensor Boundary Elements ( abstract )
17:45
Bounds on the Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous and random media ( abstract )
18:45-19:15 Session : Social gathering at the Alumni Center

Pre-dinner Social

Location: McNamara Alumni Center
19:15-21:15 Session : Dinner at the Alumni Center

Banquet Dinner

Location: McNamara Alumni Center
Wednesday, May 17th

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08:30-09:30 Session 13: Surface Water Waves over Bathymetry

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
08:30
Surface Water Waves over Bathymetry ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 14A: Nonlinear Waves in Mechanical Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals

Minisymposium

Location: Mississippi Room
10:00
Adiabatically propagating phase boundaries in non-linear chains with twist and stretch ( abstract )
10:30
Nonlinear hysteretic propagation of torsional waves in a granular chain ( abstract )
11:00
Wave Stability and Invariance in Nonlinear Periodic Media ( abstract )
11:30
Resonant activation of Optoacoustic Functionalities in Phononic Crystals ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 14B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
10:00
Faraday cages, homogenized boundary conditions and resonance effects ( abstract )
10:30
Acoustic scattering by inhomogeneous media with piecewise smooth material properties ( abstract )
11:00
Scattering from a row of aligned cylinders of arbitrary cross-section; tail-end asymptotics for efficient evaluation of the periodic Green's function ( abstract )
11:30
Acoustic Scattering by Spheres and Spheroids in the Time Domain ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 14C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
10:00
A mixed quasi-reversibility approach to identify obstacles in an acoustic waveguide ( abstract )
10:30
Imaging defects in an elastic waveguide using time-dependent surface data ( abstract )
11:00
Time dependent inverse scattering in a waveguide ( abstract )
11:30
Efficient Forward and Inverse Algorithms for Guided Wave Inversion ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 14D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
10:00
On the Local Approximate Rank of Helmholtz Green’s Kernel ( abstract )
10:30
Eigenvalue analysis with the boundary element method and the contour integral method for periodic boundary value problems for Helmholtz’ equation in 3D ( abstract )
11:00
Transparent Boundary Conditions for the Wave Propagation in Fractal Trees ( abstract )
11:30
On the efficiency of an ADI splitting combined with a discontinuous Galerkin discretization ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 14E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 326
10:00
Elastic waves in a soft electrically conducting solid in a strong magnetic field ( abstract )
10:30
Minnaert Resonances for Acoustic Waves in Bubbly Media ( abstract )
11:00
Shear waves in prestrained poroelastic media ( abstract )
11:30
Semidiscrete evolution of elastic waves in a piezoelectric solid ( abstract )
13:30-14:30 Session 15: BVP and BIE Formulations for Scattering by Fractal Screens

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
13:30
BVP and BIE Formulations for Scattering by Fractal Screens ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 16A: Nonlinear Waves in Mechanical Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals

Minisymposium

Location: Mississippi Room
15:00
Breathers and Passive Wave Redirection in Forced Ordered Granular Networks ( abstract )
15:30
Localized time-periodic solutions of nonlinear wave equations ( abstract )
16:00
Analytic solutions to the extended Korteweg – de Vries equation ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 16B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
15:00
Quasi-Stable Dynamics of a Mode-Locked Laser ( abstract )
15:30
DPG Methodology for Wave Phenomena in Optical Fibers ( abstract )
16:00
Spectral analysis of cavities partially filled with a negative-index material ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 16C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
15:00
Transparent boundary conditions for general waveguide problems ( abstract )
15:30
Formulation of invisibility in waveguides as an eigenvalue problem ( abstract )
16:00
Complete radiation boundary conditions for the Helmholtz equation in waveguides ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 16D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
15:00
A study of the numerical robustness of single-layer method with Fourier basis for multiple obstacle scattering in homogeneous media ( abstract )
15:30
Performances of the boundary integral equations for transmission problems and the distributions of the complex fictitious eigenvalues ( abstract )
16:00
BEM with variable time step size for absorbing boundary conditions ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 17A: Contributed Talks
Location: Mississippi Room
16:45
An energy based discontinuous Galerkin method for acoustic-elastic waves ( abstract )
17:15
Normal modes and internal wave attractors ( abstract )
17:45
Solving the Homogeneous Isotropic Linear Elastodynamics Equations Using Potentials. The Case of the Free Surface Boundary Condition. ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 17B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
16:45
A Dispersion Optimized Mimetic Finite Difference Method for Maxwell's Equations in Metamaterials ( abstract )
17:15
Optoelectronic finite-element simulations of thin-film solar cells ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 17C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
16:45
Measuring Electromagnetic Chirality ( abstract )
17:15
Solution of the focusing Davey-Stewartson equations and the reconstruction of complex-valued conductivities ( abstract )
17:45
Two scale Hardy space infinite elements ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 17D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
16:45
High Order DG Overlapping Solution FEM for the Helmholtz Equation ( abstract )
17:15
An Efficient Flux-Lumped Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme for the 3D Maxwell Equations on Nonconforming Grids ( abstract )
17:45
Minimum-Uncertainty Squeezed States for the Simple Harmonic Oscillator ( abstract )
16:45-18:15 Session 17E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 326
16:45
A new discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method for elastic waves with physically motivated numerical fluxes ( abstract )
17:15
High Frequency Acoustic Scattering in Isogeometric Analysis ( abstract )
17:45
Reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimate for EFIE in electromagnetism ( abstract )
Thursday, May 18th

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08:30-09:30 Session 18: Imaging with intensities only

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
08:30
Imaging with intensities only ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 19A: Nonlinear Waves in Mechanical Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals

Minisymposium

Location: Mississippi Room
10:00
Vector solitons for elastic waves in architected soft solids ( abstract )
10:30
Reprogrammable nonlinear phononic metamaterials ( abstract )
11:00
Geo-Inspired Mechanical Metamaterials ( abstract )
11:30
Domain Evolution Kinetics of Mechanical, Phase-transforming Structures ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 19B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
10:00
The Doppler Effect for SAR ( abstract )
10:30
Generalized linear sampling method for active imaging of subsurface fractures ( abstract )
11:00
Analysis of an observers strategy for initial state reconstruction in unbounded domains ( abstract )
11:30
Imaging polarizable dipoles ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 19C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
10:00
A continuation method for building large invisible obstacles in waveguides ( abstract )
10:30
Modal expansion in elastic open waveguides with perfectly matched layers ( abstract )
11:00
Modeling the multimodal radiation from an open-ended waveguide ( abstract )
11:30
Identification of a time-dependent potential in a wave equation ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 19D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
10:00
A combined Bayesian optimization-finite element approach for isoperimetric inequalities ( abstract )
10:30
Fourth order explicit scheme for dissipative wave problems based on modified equation technique ( abstract )
11:00
High-order numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation for domains with reentrant corners ( abstract )
11:30
An efficient numerical algorithm for the 3D wave equation in domains of complex shape ( abstract )
13:30-14:30 Session 20: E.M. waves in magnetic plasmas

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
13:30
E.M. waves in magnetic plasmas ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 21A: Nonlinear Waves in Mechanical Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals

Minisymposium

Location: Mississippi Room
15:00
On the dynamic features of discrete lattices with nonlinear local resonators ( abstract )
15:30
Nonlinear Elastic Wave Dispersion in 1D Homogenous Media and Metamaterials ( abstract )
16:00
Acoustic metamaterials in moving inhomogeneous media ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 21B: Contributed Talks
Location: President's Room
15:00
Diffuse acoustic waves in a randomly stratified flow ( abstract )
15:30
Wave Attenuation Along a Rough Floating Elastic Beam ( abstract )
16:00
An Efficient Semi-Analytical Scheme for Determining the Reflection of Lamb Waves in a Semi-Infinite Waveguide ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 21C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
15:00
Inverse scattering with iterative determination of the regularization parameter ( abstract )
15:30
Non-linear Tikhonov Regularization for Inverse Scattering from Anisotropic Media ( abstract )
16:00
Adaptive Eigenspace Method for Inverse Scattering Problems in the Frequency Domain ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 21D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
15:00
Sobolev-dG a class of dG methods with tame CFL numbers ( abstract )
15:30
Accuracy and Pollution Errors of HDG Methods for the Helmholtz equation involving non-smooth solutions ( abstract )
16:00
Boundary Elements with Mesh Refinements for the Wave Equation ( abstract )
15:00-16:30 Session 21E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 326
15:00
Numerical Study of Fracture Connectivity Effect on Seismic Wave Propagation ( abstract )
15:30
Resolution Control in Half-space Time-reversal Wave Focusing ( abstract )
16:00
FEM-BEM coupling for transient acoustic scattering by thermoelastic obstacles ( abstract )
17:30-19:30 Session : WAVES Unplugged at the Weisman

Thursday Reception

Location: Weisman Art Museum
Friday, May 19th

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08:30-09:30 Session 22: Recent Advances in Optimized Schwarz Domain Decomposition Methods for Time-Harmonic Wave Problems

Plenary Lecture

Location: Coffman Theater
08:30
Recent Advances in Optimized Schwarz Domain Decomposition Methods for Time-Harmonic Wave Problems ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 23A: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 325
10:00
A Fourier Continuation-based solver for 3D elastic wave propagation ( abstract )
10:30
Low-Rank Separable Expansion for the Helmholtz Fundamental Solution with Absorption ( abstract )
11:00
High order accurate solution of the wave equation by compact finite differences and difference potentials ( abstract )
11:30
Low-Rank Properties in Schur Complements of Discretized Helmholtz Equations ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 23B: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 305
10:00
Adaptive finite-element simulation of surface-plasmon polaritons on 2D materials ( abstract )
10:30
Stochastic Boundary Integral Equations in Electromagnetic Scattering ( abstract )
11:00
Weight-adjusted discontinuous Galerkin methods for wave propagation in arbitrary heterogeneous media ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 23C: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 304
10:00
Asymptotic stability of the linearised Euler equations with long-memory impedance boundary condition ( abstract )
10:30
Discrete resonances of the complex scaled Helmholtz equation ( abstract )
11:00
Second Kind Boundary Integral Equation for Multi-Subdomain Diffusion Problems ( abstract )
11:30
3D metric-based anisotropic mesh adaptation for the fast multipole accelerated boundary element method in acoustics ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 23D: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 301
10:00
Computational complexity of artificial boundary conditions for Maxwell's equations in the FDTD method ( abstract )
10:30
Generalized Plane Waves, variable amplitude and vector valued equations ( abstract )
11:00
Wave energy delivery to multiple subsurface targets using time-reversal method ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 23E: Contributed Talks
Location: Room 324
10:00
Extensions of Complete Radiation Boundary Conditions to Dispersive Waves ( abstract )
10:30
Discontinuous Galerkin Discretizations for Maxwell’s equations in Nonlinear Kerr Media with Linear Lorentz Dispersion ( abstract )
11:00
On the Existence of a Weak Solution to the Hasegawa-Mima Equation in Periodic Sobolev Spaces ( abstract )