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Conference Program

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Sunday, December 10:

  • 14:00 - 22:00: Arrival to Camino Real, registration

Monday, December 11:

  • 7:30 - Departure from Camino Real
  • 7:45 - Breakfast (Union Building)
  • 8:45 - Opening of the conference
  • 9:00 - 10:00: Ivo Babuska
  • 10:00 - 11:00: Rafi Muhanna
  • 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
  • 11:30 - 12:00: Thomas Paez
  • 12:00 - 12:30: Mitsuhiro Nakao
  • 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch (Union Building)
  • 14:00 - 14:30: Mladen Mestrovic
  • 14:30 - 15:00: Peter Moore
  • 15:00 - 15:30: Petr Svacek
  • 15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break + snacks
  • 16:00 - 16:30: Mark Taylor
  • 16:30 - 17:00: Lenka Dubcova
  • 17:00 - 17:30: Jose Avila
  • 18:00 - 21:00: Welcome party (Reading Room in Geology Building)
  • 21:15 - Departure from Campus

Tuesday, December 12:

  • 7:30 - Departure from Camino Real
  • 7:45 - Breakfast (Union Building)
  • 9:00 - 10:00: George Karniadakis
  • 10:00 - 11:00: Ted Belytschko
  • 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
  • 11:30 - 12:00: Slimane Adjerid
  • 12:00 - 12:30: Guido Kanschat
  • 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch (Union Building)
  • 14:00 - 14:30: Shuyu Sun
  • 14:30 - 15:00: Saurabh Srivastava
  • 15:00 - 15:30: Lubomir Banas
  • 15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
  • 16:00 - 16:30: Alexander Idesman
  • 16:30 - 17:00: Roland Klose
  • 17:00 - 17:30: Dmitri Kuzmin
  • 18:00 - 19:00: Classical guitar concert by Armin Harrison, Chair of Music Department at El Paso Community College (Fox Fine Arts recital hall). See flyer with program.
  • 19:30 - Departure from Campus

Wednesday, December 13:

  • 7:30 - Departure from Camino Real
  • 7:45 - Breakfast (Union Building)
  • 9:00 - 10:00: Pavel Bochev
  • 10:00 - 11:00: Ronald Cools
  • 11:15 - 12:30: Lunch (Union Building)
  • 12:30: Departure to White Sands Missile Range and La Vina Winery. (Expected arrival at Camino Real is 21:00)

Thursday, December 14:

  • 7:30 - Departure from Camino Real
  • 7:45 - Breakfast (Union Building)
  • 9:00 - 10:00: Arnold Neumaier
  • 10:00 - 10:30: Vladik Kreinovich
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Andrzej Pownuk
  • 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
  • 11:30 - 12:00: Barna Bede
  • 12:00 - 12:30: Nicolae Tarfulea
  • 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch (Union Building)
  • 14:00 - 14:25: Prof. Babuska receives the Rockwell Medal
  • 14:25 - 14:30: Presentation of Best Poster Award
  • 14:30 - 15:00: Jakub Cerveny
  • 15:00 - 15:30: Robert Kirby
  • 15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
  • 16:00 - 16:30: Mehdi Modares
  • 16:30 - 17:00: Bart Zalewski
  • 17:00 - 17:30: Oscar Garcia-Otero
  • 18:00 - Departure from Campus
  • Friday, December 15:

    • 7:30 - Departure from Camino Real
    • 7:45 - Breakfast (Union Building)
    • 9:00 - 9:30: Jack Chessa
    • 9:30 - 10:00: Ratnam Paskaramoorthy
    • 10:00 - 10:30: Dalibor Frydrych
    • 10:30 - 11:00: Yuu Miyagawa
    • 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
    • 11:30 - 12:00: Nicolas Leconte
    • 12:00 - 12:30: Jafarali Parol
    • 12:30: Closing of the conference
    • Lunch (Union Building)

    Poster presentations:

    • Michal Benes
    • Nicolas Leconte
    • Pavel Kus

    Announced book exhibits:

    FEM book exhibit by CRC Press.

Confirmed Invited Speakers

  • Ivo Babuska (ICES, UT Austin)
  • Ted Belytschko (Northwestern University)
  • Pavel Bochev (Sandia National Labs)
  • Ronald Cools (Universiteit Leuven)
  • George Karniadakis (Brown University)
  • Rafi Muhanna (Georgia Tech)
  • Arnold Neumaier (University of Vienna)



List of Participants

  • Slimane Adjerid (Virginia Tech)
  • Jose Avila (UTEP)
  • Lubomir Banas (Imperial College London, England)
  • Barna Bede (UTEP)
  • Michal Benes (Czech Technical University, Prague)
  • Jakub Cerveny (UTEP)
  • Jack Chessa (UTEP)
  • David Day (Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque)
  • Lenka Dubcova (UTEP)
  • Dalibor Frydrych (Technical U. of Liberec, Czech Republic)
  • Marc Gadbois (UGS Nastran)
  • Alexander Idesman (Texas Tech)
  • Jafarali Parol (National Inst. of Technology, Calicut, India)
  • Guido Kanschat (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Robert Kirby (University of Chicago)
  • Roland Klose (Konrad Zuse Institute, Berlin)
  • Vladik Kreinovich (UTEP)
  • Pavek Kus (UTEP)
  • Dmitri Kuzmin (University of Dortmund, Germany)
  • Nicolas Leconte (ONERA, France)
  • Mladen Mestrovic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
  • Yuu Miyagawa (Chiba University, Japan)
  • Mehdi Modares (University of New Hampshire, USA)
  • Peter Moore (Southern Methodist University)
  • Mitsuhiro Nakao (Kyushu University, Japan)
  • Jiri Nedoma (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
  • Oscar Garcia (University of Girona, Spain)
  • Thomas Paez (Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque)
  • Ratnam Paskaramoorthy (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
  • Andrzej Pownuk (UTEP)
  • Saurabh Srivastava (University of Buffalo)
  • Shuyu Sun (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Petr Svacek (Czech Technical University, Prague)
  • Nicolae Tarfulea (Purdue University)
  • Mark Taylor (Sandia Natioanl Labs, Albuquerque)
  • Bart Zalewski (Case Western Reserve University)

Posters and Exhibits

Poster presentations are encouraged. Proceedings papers based on posters will be subject to the same acceptance criteria as papers based on oral communications. Posters will be on exhibit during the entire conference. Best poster will be selected based on votes of all participants, and Best Poster Award will be presented on Thursday in the afternoon.

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Proceedings published

Summer 2007

Proceedings of FEMTEC 2006 were published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. We wish you a creative and successful time, and see you in December 2008!

Proceedings being finalized

April 2007

We should receive all final papers (PDF plus Latex sources and figures) no later than April 20, 2007.

January 2007

Deadline for submission of papers to proceedings extended to the end of February, 2007.
PROCEEDINGS: See the Welcome section for format and timing.
PHOTOS posted!

November 2006

Book of abstracts posted.
Final program posted.

July 2006

List of participants can be found in the Program section of this webpage.

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Preliminary list of participants posted

June 2006

See the Program section of this web page. A limited number of late abstracts can still be accepted.

Registration opened

November 1, 2005