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Title: Workshop on PDE Constrained Optimization
Date: July 26 - 29, 2005
Site: Tomar, Portugal
Topic: Optimization problems governed by partial differential
equation (PDE)
constraints arise in many important applications. Progress in
computational and applied mathematics combined with the availability of rapidly
increasing computer power steadily enlarges the range of applications that can
be simulated numerically and for which optimization tasks, such as optimal
design, parameter identification, and control are being considered. For most of
these optimization problems, simple approaches combining off-the-shelf PDE
solvers and optimization algorithms often lack robustness or can be very
inefficient.
Successful solution approaches have to overcome challenges arising
from, e.g., the increasing complexity of applications and their mathematical
models, the influence of the underlying infinite dimensional problem structure
on optimization algorithms, and the interaction of PDE discretization and
optimization.
This workshop will combine a wide range of topics important to PDE
constrained optimization in an integrated approach, fusing techniques from a
number of mathematical disciplines including functional analysis, optimal
control theory, numerical optimization, numerical PDEs, and numerical
analysis and application specific structures.
Invited speakers:
M. D. Gunzburger (Florida State University),
R. H. W. Hoppe (University of Augsburg),
K. Kunisch (University of Graz),
G. Leugering (Univ. Erlangen-Nuernb.),
A. T. Patera (MIT),
R. Rannacher (University of Heidelberg),
E. W. Sachs (University of Trier).
A short course will be offered on the first day of the workshop by
F. Troltzsch (Technical University of Berlin) and M. Heinkenschloss
(Rice University) on properties of solutions and numerical approaches
to PDE constrained optimization problems.
Invited and contributed presentations will be scheduled during the
remaining three days. Participants who wish to present a talk are
invited to submit a title and an abstract to tt05_pde@mat.uc.pt by
April 30, 2005. Notification of acceptance will occur before May 20,
2005.
Additional information regarding registration, contributed talks,
deadlines, accomodation etc. is available from the workshop web site:
http://www.mat.uc.pt/tt2005/pde.
Organized by: Center for International Mathematics
Programme Committee: L. M. Fernandes, M. Heinkenschloss, and L. N.
Vicente
Contact: Professor Luís Merca Fernandes / TT2005
Address: Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Quinta do Contador,
Estrada da Serra, 2300-313 Tomar, Portugal
e-mail: tt05_pde@mat.uc.pt
Phone/Fax: +351 249 328187
URL: http://www.mat.uc.pt/tt2005/pde
Remarks: Support: Centro Internacional de Matemática,
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
Centro de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra,
Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar