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Nonlinear and Adaptive Approximation:
       A workshop in honor of Wolfgang Dahmen on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Foyer Dahmen Reisensburg




Update: A list of participants (with email-addresses etc.) can be downloaded here, several images from the workshop can be found here.

The current state of the programme is also available as a PDF document here .


Wednesday, 30 September 2009

until 13:00Arrival
13:00Lunch
14:30Opening
14:45 D. Braess "From Heron to high-dimensional integrals
15:45Coffee
16:15 V. Temlyakov Greedy approximation in Banach Spaces
17:15 R. Stevenson Adaptive wavelet methods for solving operator equations: An overview and recent results
18:30Dinner

Thursday, 1 October 2009

09:15 A. Cohen Theory and algorithms for anisotropic triangulations
10:15Coffee
10:45 W. Hackbusch A new representation method for high-dimensional tensors
11:45 C. Canuto Adaptive Discretizations by High-Order Methods
12:45Lunch
14:30 C. Micchelli tba
15:30 R. Nochetto Quasi-optimal convergence rates for adaptive cG and dG methodsi
16:30Coffee
17:00 Nira Dyn Nonlinear Subdivision Schemes
18:00 J. Xu Fast Auxiliary Space Preconditioning(FASP) Method for Coupled Systems
19:00Dinner

Friday, 2 October 2009

09:15 C. Schwab Sparse adaptive tensor approximations for sPDEs
10:15Coffee
10:45 P. Binev Sparsity in Adaptive Approximation
11:45 P. Petrushev Nonlinear approximation from frames (needlets) induced by tensor product bases
12:45Lunch
14:30 R. DeVore Recovering functions in high dimensions
15:30Coffee
16:00 P. Oswald Nonlinear loop approximations: Local and global schemes
17:00 A. Reusken Finite element methods for two-phase incompressible flows
18:30Dinner and Evening event

Saturday, 3 October 2009

09:30 H. Harbrecht Wavelet boundary element methods for the polarizable continuum model in quantum chemistry
10:30Coffee
11:00 R. Schneider Numerical solution of the electronic Schroedinger equation
12:00Closing
12:30Lunch
14:00Departure