UPDATE: Given recent developments in the COVID-19 outbreak, the CCSE leadership has regretfully decided to cancel the CCSE Annual Symposium. We plan to reschedule the Symposium for sometime in fall 2020, and will keep you posted.

The Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE) invites graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and other CCSE-affiliated researchers to a symposium highlighting research in computational science and engineering at MIT. The symposium will feature student research demonstrating the development of computational methods and diverse applications of computational tools in engineering, science, and social sciences, ranging from supply chain management and economics to aeronautical engineering and fluid dynamics. There will also be talks from MIT faculty along with a keynote lecture.

The event will be located at the Boston Marriott Cambridge on 50 Broadway on the third floor. Talks will be in Salon 3 and the poster session and reception will be in Salons 1 & 2.


Student poster session

Student poster session from the 2014 CCE Symposium

Graduate students are encouraged to submit a poster as an opportunity to present their research to peers, professors, and members of the CCSE community.

Event is open to the public.

Poster Signup


Keynote Lecture

Lloyd N. Trefethen

Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford

From the Faraday Cage to Lightning Laplace and Helmholtz Solvers

We begin with the story of the Faraday cage used for shielding electrostatic fields and electromagnetic waves. Feynman in his Lectures claims the shielding is exponential with respect to the gap between wires and that it works with wires of infinitesimal radius. In fact, the shielding is much weaker than this and requires wires of finite radius (which is why it's hard to see into your microwave oven). How can we compute the field inside a 2D cage? This brings us to the numerical heart of the talk. When the boundaries are smooth, series expansions (going back to Runge in 1885) converge exponentially. When there are corners and associated singularities, the new technique of lightning Laplace and Helmholtz solvers, depending on rational or Hankel functions with poles exponentially clustered near the corners, converges root-exponentially. The name "lightning" comes from the fact that this method exploits the same mathematics that makes lightning strike at sharp points. Lightning solvers and the related AAA approximation algorithm are bringing in a new era of application of rational functions and their relatives to PDEs, conformal mapping, and other numerical problems.


AGENDA (Postponed until Fall 2020)

All events are located in the Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway

POSTER SET-UP & RECEPTION

3:00 pm | Salons 2 & 3

WELCOME REMARKS

3:30 pm | Salon 1

MIT FACULTY SPEAKERS

3:40 pm | Salon 1
3:40 PM: Bilge Yildiz, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering & Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
4:10 PM: Raffaele Ferrari, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography
4:40 PM: Wim van Rees, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

KEYNOTE LECTURE

5:15 pm | Salon 1
Lloyd Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford

PRESENTATION OF CCSE MATHWORKS PRIZES

6:15 pm | Salon 1

POSTER SESSION & RECEPTION

6:30 pm | Salons 2 & 3