Wayne Enright, Ken Jackson and Bob Russell

SciCADE is a biennial meeting that focuses on numerical methods and software for differential equations, including, but not limited to, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, differential algebraic equations, delay differential equations, stochastic differential equations and dynamical systems. Emerging numerical techniques in application areas are emphasized.

There were more than 100 researchers from across the globe who participated in this meeting, including a large number of graduate students.

Invited Speakers

Luca Dieci (Georgia Tech), Jason Frank (CWI), Daisuke Furihata (Osaka University), Des Higham (Strathclyde), Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara), Huazhong Tang (Peking University), Mechthild Thalhammer (Innsbruck)

Minisymposia and Contributed Talks

Several active research topics were addressed in the 11 Minisymposia and 16 Contributed sessions. The topics included stochastic ODEs, highly oscillatory problems, structure preserving methods, numerical bifurcation problems, validated methods, PDEs in finance, hyperbolic PDEs, spatial error estimation and grid refinement for PDEs, and problems arising in computational biology.

A two part MS was organized by Chris Budd as a memorial to Jan Verwer, a well-known researcher and an active member of the organizing committee, who passed away in February 2011.

Awards presented at the meeting

The Dahlquist Prize sponsored by SIAM.
The prize, established in 1995, is awarded for original contributions to fields associated with Germund Dahlquist, especially the numerical solution of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing. This award was presented to Steven Ruuth of Simon Fraser University by John Butcher (a member of SIAM's Dahlquist Prize committee).

John Butcher presents Steven Ruuth of Simon Fraser University with the Dahlquist Prize.

The New Talent Award Prize chosen by a SciCADE Committee.
Candidates must be under 35 as of 1 January 2011 and must have completed their PhD no more than four years ago (i.e., on or after 1 January 2007). This award was presented to Takaharu Yaguchi of Kobe University by Bob Russell.

The Butcher Prize sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society (ANZIAM).
All graduate students presenting a paper at the SciCADE conference are eligible to be considered for this award. This award was presented to Mohammad Shakourifar of the University of Toronto by John Butcher.