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Final Program SIAM 2014 Events Mobile App Scan the QR code to the right with any QR reader and download the TripBuilder® EventMobile app to your iPHONE, iPAD, ITOUCH, or ANDROID mobile device. You can also visit www.tripbuilder.com/siam/2014events Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3600 Market Street, 6th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688 USA Telephone: +1-215-382-9800 Fax: +1-215- 386-7999 Conference E-mail: [email protected] Conference Web: www.siam.org/meetings/ Membership and Customer Service: (800) 447-7426 (US & Canada) or +1-215-382-9800 (worldwide) 2 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting General Information Table of Contents Ronnie Sircar Hotel Check-in and Princeton University, USA General Information ...................................2 Check-out Times Anna-Karin Tornberg Exhibitor and Sponsor Information ............7 Check-in time is 3:00 PM. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden AWM Workshop .........................................10 Check-out time is 11:00 PM. Lennaert Van Veen Workshop Celebrating Diversity ..............11 University of Ontario, Canada Student Days .............................................12 Stefan Wild Childcare Special Events ...........................................16 Argonne National Laboratory, USA For local child care information, please Invited Speakers & Stephen Wirkus contact the concierge at the Palmer House Special Lectures....................................17 Arizona State University, USA for up-to-date recommendations: +1-312- 726-7500. General Information Prizes and Awards Luncheon ..................22 AN14 Program Schedule ..........................29 AN14/AWM Poster Session .......................70 SIAM Registration Desk SIAM Corporate/Institutional AN14 Speaker & Organizer Index .........113 The SIAM registration desk is located in Members Conference Budget ..... Inside Back Cover the State Room on the 4th Floor. It is open SIAM corporate members provide their Hotel Floor Plan ........................ Back Cover during the following hours: employees with knowledge about, access to, and contacts in the applied mathematics and computational sciences community through Sunday, July 6 their membership benefits. Corporate Organizing Committee 7:30 AM - 8:00 PM membership is more than just a bundle Co-chairs Monday, July 7 of tangible products and services; it is an expression of support for SIAM and its Margot Gerritsen 7:15 AM - 4:30 PM programs. SIAM is pleased to acknowledge Stanford University, USA Tuesday, July 8 its corporate members and sponsors. In recognition of their support, non-member 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Esmond Ng attendees who are employed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Wednesday, July 9 following organizations are entitled to the 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM SIAM member registration rate. Organizing Committee Thursday, July 10 Edmond Chow 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Corporate/Institutional Amr El-Bakry Friday, July 11 Members Exxon-Mobil, USA 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM The Aerospace Corporation David Gleich Air Force Office of Scientific Research Purdue University, USA AT&T Laboratories - Research Chen Greif Bechtel Marine Propulsion Laboratory University of British Columbia, Canada Conference Location The Boeing Company Kirk Jordan Technical sessions and all other events will CEA/DAM IBM T.J. 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