Launch of the Transfer of Knowledge Project CENS-CMA,
sponsored by the European Commission's Marie Curie Programme

CMA, University of Oslo, Norway
May 24-25, 2005.

Introduction

The interdisciplinary CENS-CMA project will run from May 2005 to April 2009, carried out by CENS (Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, http://cens.ioc.ee) together with CMA, integrating modelling, theoretical and computational aspects of the research activities within both centers. Other important "features" are the transfer of knowledge in the acquisition and management of large research projects, especially in collaboration with industrial partners, the collection of educational material in topics related to the project and the participation in events furthering the popularization of science among school children and the general public.

As part of this project, research fellows from CENS will visit CMA for stays of 3-6 months, while CENS will hire international visiting research fellows to come and work in Tallinn. Annual seminars will be held by the project, alternating between Tallinn and Oslo.

Program

Tuesday May 24

0830 Welcome, Juhan Haravee, Ambassador of Estonia
0830-0900 Ewald Quak (CMA and CENS): Title: About the CENS-CMA project
0900-0930 Jüri Engelbrecht (CENS) Title: CENS and Complexity
0930-0945 **Coffee
0945-1015 Tarmo Soomere (CENS) Title: Fast ferries as wavemakers in a natural laboratory of monster waves
1015-1045 Hans Petter Langtangen (Simula Research Laboratory) Title: Simulation of Tsunamis Generated by Earth-Asteroid Collisions
1045-1100 **Break
1100-1130 Snorre Christiansen (CMA) Title: On charge conservation in simulations of Yang-Mills equations
1130-1200 Tor Dokken (SINTEF and CMA) Title: The GPU as a high end computational resource

1200-1300 **Lunch for all seminar participants

1300 Common Departure for those invited to the Abel Ceremony
1400-1500 The Abel Prize Ceremony in Universitetets Aula
1500-... Guided City Walk

1900 Dinner for guests and organizers of the CENS-CMA project

Wednesday May 25

0830-0930 Steering Committee Meeting for the CENS-CMA project
1000-1200 (?) The Official Abel Lectures (Georg Sverdrups building)

1300-1400 ** Lunch for all seminar participants

1400-1430 Tom Lyche (CMA) Title: Topics in Geometric Modelling
1430-1500 Jaan Kalda (CENS) Title Intermittent Geometry of Turbulent Diffusion
1500-1515 **Coffee
1515-1545 Bernt Øksendal (CMA) Title: The value of information in stochastic control and finance
1545-1615 Arvi Ravasoo (CENS) Title: Relaxation in Nonlinear Viscoelasticity
1615-1645 Knut-Andreas Lie (SINTEF) Title: Multiscale methods for flow in porous media

1900- ... The Abel Garden Party at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, for those who are invited

Organizing committee:

* Ewald Quak (CMA and CENS)
* Helge Galdal (CMA)