Monday, July 1, 2002

8:00 am Opening Remarks
Invited Presentations
8:30 am "Deferred Correction Methods for Initial-Boundary Value Problems"
Bertil Gustafsson
Department of Scientific Computing
Uppsala University
Sweden
9:20 am "Grid Computing for Physics and other Sciences"
Ben M. Segal
CERN - Information Technology Division
Switzerland

10:10 am Coffee Break
Mini-Symposium IV
10:30 am
Optimization and Applied Mathematics in Engineering and Physics
Organizers: Claudia A. Sagastizábal
Speakers: Edmundo Rofman, Carlos Martin, José P. Tamagno, Claudia A. Sagastizábal
Brazil
12:35 am Lunch
Invited Presentations
2:00 pm "Optimal Design of Interconnect Structures"
Robert Suaya
Chief Scientist, PEV Division
Mentor Graphics Corp.
Grenoble, France

Contributed Papers Section IV
2:50 pm A Genetic Approach to the Determination of Polynomial Zeros
Luiz C. G. Lopes
Department of Mathematics
University of Madeira
Portugal
3:15 pm

Applications of NURBS Interrogation Surfaces in the Automotive Industry
Flabio Gutierrez Segura
National University of Piura
Peru

Andres Iglesias, Akemi Galvez, Jaime Puig Pey
Cantabria University
Spain

3:40 pm Bounds for the Zeros of Polynomials: A Computational Comparison
Luiz C. G. Lopes
Department of Mathematics
University of Madeira
Portugal
4:05 pm Coffee Break
4:25 pm Formation Process of Free Biological Base Pairs Studied by a Monte Carlo Method, Based on Geometrical and Energetic Probabilistic Principles
Sani de Carvalho Rutz da Silva, Dimitrios Samios, Álvaro Luiz de Bortoli
UFRGS - Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics
Brazil
4:50 pm G2-Cubic Contours
Francisco Tovar, Figueroa Giovanni
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Facultad de Ciencias
Centro de Computacion Grafica y
Geometria Aplicada.
5:15 pm Haar Wavelets With Vanishing Moments Defined Over a Tetrahedrical Grid
Liliana B. Boscardín, Liliana R. Castro, Silvia M. Castro
Depto.de Matemática
Universidad Nacional del Sur
Argentina
5:40 pm Identification Structures Using Rational Wavelets: Examples of Application
Liliana R. Castro, Osvaldo E. Agamennoni, Carlos E. D'Attellis
Depto. de Matemática
Universidad Nacional del Sur
Argentina
6:05 pm Good Quality Point Sets and Error Estimates for Moving Least Square Approximations
Carlos Zuppa
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad Nacional de San Luis
Argentina