Third
International Conference on Boundary Integral Methods: Theory & Applications
14-18
September 2004
University
of Reading, UK
Following
the success of the first two conferences in this series at the University of Salford in September
1997 and the University of
Bath in September 2000, the third conference was held
at the University of Reading, 14-18 September 2004.
The invited
speakers were: Peter
Bettess (University of Durham, UK), Marc Bonnet (Ecole Polytechnique,
France), Oscar Bruno (California Institute of Technology, USA),
Wolgang Dahmen (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Vladimir Maz'ya
(Linköping University, Sweden), William McLean (University of
New South Wales, Australia), Eric Michielssen (University of
Illinois, USA), David Natroshvili (Georgian Technical University,
Tbilisi), Jean-Claude Nedéléc (Ecole Polytechnique, France),
Roland Potthast (University of Göttingen, Germany), Christoph
Schwab (ETH, Zurich), Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck (University
of East Anglia, UK), Wolfgang Wendland (University of Stuttgart,
Germany).
Conference Organising and Scientific Committee:
Sia Amini (University
of Salford), Simon Chandler-Wilde (University of Reading, Chair), Ke
Chen (University of Liverpool), Penny Davies (University of Strathclyde),
Ivan Graham (University of Bath), Paul Martin (Colorado School of Mines).
Boundary
integral methods are an established technique for the solution of partial
differential equations in science and engineering, with applications
in many diverse areas including fluid mechanics, fracture mechanics,
acoustics, electromagnetics, inverse problems and free- and moving-boundary
problems.
This
meeting provided a forum for the exchange of ideas between academic
and industrial researchers in different disciplines whose common interest
is boundary integral methods.
The
conference discussed recent developments in the theory and numerical
analysis of integral equation methods for solving partial differential
equations. The meeting also encompassed applications of contemporary
relevance such as direct and inverse (medium and high frequency) scattering,
multi-scale problems, optimal design, anisotropic and chiral media,
and moving boundary problems in hydrodynamics and viscous flow. Modern
computational techniques was an additional theme, including multipole
methds, wavelets, panel clustering, preconditioners, domain decomposition
methods, coupled and hybrid methods, and adaptivity and error estimators.
In particular,
the conference featured an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Developments
in Boundary Element Methods for Acoustics and Electromagnetics,
supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,
and held on the 15-17 September, in parallel with other conference sessions.
Particularly attractive to research students and workers
new to the area, the meeting started on the morning of 14 September
with instructional lectures by William McLean, based on his recent
book `Strongly Elliptic Systems and Boundary Integral Equations'.
As
well as the Invited Lectures, the conference included contributed talks
and discussion sessions. Abstracts
of all the talks are listed below. Click here
for a record of the discussion sessions.
Programme
Abstracts
