Uncertainty Analysis in Complex, Multi-Physics Applications

Stanford PSAAP Center
July 25-26 2008
Stanford University

Preliminary Agenda
Friday July 25, 2008 – Location Bldg 260, RM 113, Stanford University
08.30-08.50	Breakfast
08.50-09.00	Welcome	P. Moin	Stanford
09.00-09.40	Uncertainty Analysis in Turbulent Flow Simulations	G. Iaccarino	Stanford
09.40-10.20	Modeling Issues in uncertainty quantification: reduced models, multi-scale models, and probabilistic chaos	R. Ghanem	USC
10.20-10.40	Coffee Break
10.40-11.20	Polynomial chaos approach to uncertainty quantification in multi-scale flow models	O. Knio	J. Hopkins
11.20-12.00	V&V and UQ for PDEs with random coefficients	R. Tempone	Florida State
12.00-13.30	Lunch Break
13.30-14.10	Experiences with non-intrusive polynomial chaos and stochastic collocation methods for uncertainty analysis and design	M. Eldred	SANDIA
14.10-14.50	Uncertainty quantification in systems modeled by elliptic equations with random coefficients	B. Rozovsky	Brown
14.50-15-30	Probabilistic modeling of aerothermal and thermal protection material response uncertainties	M. Wright	NASA
15.30-15.50	Coffee Break
15.50-16.30	Use of adjoint operators in the sensitivity analysis for differential equations	D. Estep	Colorado State
16.30-17.10	A Multi-step uncertainty quantification approach for large scale multi-physics applications	C. Tong	LLNL
17.10-18.00	Open discussion

Saturday July 26, 2008 – Location Bldg 260, RM 113, Stanford University
08.30-09.00	Breakfast
09.00-09.40	Efficient UQ algorithms based on generalized polynomial chaos	D. Xiu	Purdue
09.40-10.20	Estimating the uncertainty in the coefficients of elliptic equations From sparse and noisy observations of the solution	G. Papanicolaou	Stanford
10.20-10.40	Coffee Break
10.40-11.20	Uncertainty quantification: error bars for simulation based design	J. Glimm	SUNY Stony Brook
11.20-12.00	A framework for analyzing the epistemic uncertainty in validation	J. Red-Horse	SANDIA
12.00-13.30	Lunch Break
13.30-14.10	Structure-exploiting Bayesian Inversion	O. Ghattas	U. Texas Austin
14.10-14.50	Low Rank Approximation of High Dimensional Stochastic Problems.	A. Doostan	Stanford
14.50-15.30	Quantified Metrics and Uncertainty - A Probabilistic Approach	T. Wallstrom	LANL
15.30-15.50	Coffee Break
15.50-16.30	Multimodel approach based on evidence theory for reducing uncertainty in simulations	S. Poroseva	Florida State
16.30-17.10	Computation of certification margins from Concentration of Measure Inequalities	H. Owhadi	Caltech
17.10-18.00	Open discussion and wrap-up

List of Confirmed Participants

Name	Affiliation
Alireza Doostan	Stanford University
Michael Eldred	Sandia National Laboratories
Don Estep	UC Boulder
Roger Ghanem	University of Southern California
Omar Ghattas	University of Texas Austin
James Glimm	SUNY Stony Brook
Gianluca Iaccarino	Stanford University
Omar Knio	Johns Hopkins University
Michael Ortiz	California Institute of Technology
Houman Owhadi	California Institute of Technology
George Papanicolaou	Stanford University
John Red-Horse	Sandia National Laboratories
Boris Rozovsky	Brown University
Raul Tempone	Florida state university
Tim Wallstrom	LANL
Dongbin Xiu	Purdue University