Cha-Cha Days 2006
An interdisciplinary workshop series
between the University of North Carolina

and the College of Charleston
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Cha-Cha Days will start off with a colloquium on Friday afternoon. All of Saturday and Sunday morning will be busy with talks, posters, and social activities. The 45 minute talks, by the Senior But Still Kicking, are color coded white below. The 25 minute talks, by the Bright Young Things, are color coded yellow.

Friday's talk will be in Maybank Hall Room 219. All talks will be held in Maybank Room 100 on Saturday and Sunday.
Breakfast and breaks will be in the hall outside of Maybank 100.
The evening poster session will be held in the hall of the Robert Scott Small Building, facing Maybank Hall.

Friday Afternoon
4:00-5:00 Chris Jones
(University of Norh Carolina)
Stability of Equilibria of Reaction-Diffusion Equations and the Morse Index Theorem
(Maybank Room 219)

Saturday

8:00-8:30

Breakfast (Hall outside Maybank Room 100)
8:30-8:35 Dr. Susan J. Morrison, Associate Provost, College of Charleston
Welcoming Remarks (Maybank Room 100)
8:35-9:25 Jonathan Mattingly
(Duke University)
Long term behavior of stochastic PDEs
9:25-9:55 Lingxing Yao
(University of North Carolina)
Stochastic simulation and inversion methods for microrheology
9:55-10:25 Anna Ghazaryan
(University of North Carolina)
On the  uniqueness of subsonic detonation waves in inert porous medium
10:25-10:55 Alexander Engau
(Clemson University)
Why not choose an ice cream cone?(to model preferences in multiple criteria decision making)
10:55-11:15 Coffee Break (Hall outside Maybank Room 100)
11:15-11:45 Barbara Ball & Clare Rodgers (College of Charleston)
Using Markov Chains to Cluster Data
11:45-12:15 Byron Huff
(University of North Carolina)
Dropping rocks in buckets of (stratified) water: is it safe?
12:15-12:45 Stefan Mancas
(University of Central  Florida)
Spatiotemporal Structure of Dissipative Solitons in the Cubic–Quintic Ginzburg–Landau Equations
12:45-2:15
Lunch Break

2:15-3:05 Cheol Park
(National Institute of Aerospace)
Carbon Nanotube Polymer Nanocomposites for Multifunctional and Structural Aerospace Applications
3:05-3:35 Tomasz Wlodarczyk
(University of Central Florida)
Multisymplectic Integrators for Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations
3:35-4:05 Lyan Liu
(University of North Carolina)
A method for assimilation Lagrangian data into a layered shallow water ocean model
4:05-4:30 Coffee Break (Hall outside Maybank Room 100)
4:30-5:00 Anjela Govan
(North Carolina State University)
Ranking National Footbal League teams using pagerank and other matrix recipes
5:00-5:30 Wei Liao
(Old Dominion University)
Gas Kinetic Scheme for Continuum and Near-Continuum Hypersonic Flows
5:30-6:00 Samet Kadioglu
(University of North Carolina)
A Fourth Order PPM Finite Volume Based Spectral Deferred Correction Method For Solving Conservation Laws



6:00-8:15

Dinner and Poster Set-Up

8:15-10:15

Evening Poster Session (Hall of Robert Scott Small Building, facing Maybank Hall)

Our growing list of poster presenters includes: Nick Dovidio (Davidson College), Ashwin Vaidya (UNC), John Chrispell (Clemson), Ke Xu (UNC) Luke Ingram (CofC),  Longhua Zhao (UNC), Jonathan Leto (UCF), Roxana Tiron (UNC), Nicole Kroeger (NCSU), Greg Gipson (UNC), Luke Owens (USC), Brandon Lindley (UNC), Emmie Douglas (CofC),  Jen Joyce (UNC), Veronica Islas (UCF), Jonathan Bode (GMU), Amber Sallerson (UNC), Vahagn Manukian (NCSU), Liz Bouzarth (UNC), Xingwang Chen (ODU), Kate Grayshan (UCF), Joyce Lin (UNC), Anthony Dixon (NCSU), Ian Stickles (CofC),  Swathi Guda (UNC),  Naomi Brownstein (UCF), Jonathan Toledo (UNC), Kyle Keepers (CofC), Wanda Strychalski (UNC).


Sunday

8:00-8:30

Breakfast (Hall outside Maybank Room 100)
8:30-9:20 Dan Anderson
(George Mason University) 
Liquid Droplet Dynamics: Variations on a Theme
9:20-9:50 Christel Hohenegger
(University of North Carolina)
Diffusion-Induced Bias in Near-Wall Velocimetry
9:50-10:20 Pietro Congedo
(National Institute of Aerospace)
Introduction to dense gas flows: exploitation of non-classical properties for energy applications
10:20-10:50 Jason Howell
(Clemson University)
Computing viscoelastic fluid flows at high Weissenberg number
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break (Hall outside Maybank Room 100)
11:20-11:50 Zhi (George) Lin
(University of North Carolina)
Non-Gaussianity in Passive Transport
11:50-12:20 Yan Peng
(Old Dominion University)
Comparison of the interpolated bounce-back and immersed boundary methods in LBE for laminar flow around a cylinder
12:20-1:10 Sorin Mitran
(University of North Carolina)
Continuum-microscopic computation of constitutive laws for viscoelastic flow