Flash Workshop on kinetics of mixtures and plasmas

Wednesday February 13, morning time - POB 4.304

9:00 to 9:15 – coffee

9:15 to 9:45 - Clark Pennie (UT Austin-Math) "Spectral Methods for Fokker-Planck-Landau Type Equations"
 
9:50 to 10:20 - Anna Szscekutowicz  (UT Austin-Math) “Velocity dependent Coulomb logarithm in the Landau limit of the Boltzmann equation” 

10:20 to 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 to 11:20 - Jeff Haack (LANL) "Consistent BGK models for plasma mixtures".

11:20 to 11:50pm Erik Torres - UMinn-Twin Cities (ASE) Direct molecular simulation of dissociating nitrogen in an adiabatic reactor"

11:50 to 12:20 George Oblapenko - (UT Austin-ASE) “A velocity-space hybridization approach to modelling rarefied gas flows".

12:20 to 12:50 Yasvanth Poondla – (UT Austin-ASE) “Modeling of Chemical Reactions using Quasi-Particle Simulation (Quips) “

Thursday February 14, morning time - POB 4.304

9:00 to 9:15 – coffee

9:15 to 9:45am – Milana Pavic-Colic (U Novi Sad-Math - Serbia) - “The Cauchy problem for spatially homogenous Boltzmann flows: an unified approach for monatomic gas mixtures and polyatomic gas”
 
9:50 to 10:20am  - Erica de la Canal, (UT Austin-Math) “Generation and propagation of Lp polynomially weighted norms for gas mixtures”
 

10:20 to 10:50 am - Liu Liu, (UT Austin - ICES) “An asymptotic-preserving scheme for two-species collisional kinetic equations with disparate masses”

10:50 to 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 to 11:50pm - Alessandro Munafo, (UIUC-ASE)"Modeling of Laser-Plasma Interactions in Non-equilibrium Plasmas"

11:50 to 12:20pm - Thierry Magin, (VKI, Belgium, ASE) “Semi-classical kinetic approach for internal energy.”
 

12:20: 12:50pm – Irene M. Gamba (UT Austin-Math&ICES) “ a few comments on the convergence and error estimates for a Conservative Spectral method for Boltzmann Equations”