SYMPOSIUM

ON

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE

May 13-15, 1998

organized by

The Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences

American University of Beirut

The Faculty of Science, Lebanese University

And with support from

The Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LNCSR)

With the cooperation of

The Université de Reims, France

Scope of the Symposium

The purpose of this meeting is to promote exchanges in the fields of computational sciences between scientists in Lebanon and the international scientific community.

The symposium will consist of invited talks and shorter presentations by participants.

This symposium will take place at the Center for Mathematical Sciences on the campus of the

American University of Beirut.

Topics

Scientific computing : environments and algorithms, Computational Fluid Dynamics,

Quantum Field Theory, Material sciences,

Water resources, Image analysis, Wave propagation, Seismology and geophysics, Fractals.

Guest speakers

T. Abboud (Ecole Polytechnique ,France), M. Balabane (Paris XIII, France), B. Baltagi ( Texas, USA)

G. Batrouni (Univ. Nice, France), J. Shatah (New York, USA), F. Chatelin(Toulouse, France)

P.Chartier(INRIA, France), D. Duke (SCRI, USA),R. Edwards (SCRI, USA),

C. Farhat (Colorado, USA), T.Jongen(EPFL, Suisse), P. Levy-Bruhl(Reims, France),

J. Rappaz(EPFL,Switzerland), J. Touma (Austin, USA)

Scientific Committee

K. Bitar (AUB , Lebanon), J. Descloux (EPFL, Switzerland),

H. Kobeissi (LNCSR, Lebanon), J.Nourrigat (Reims, France), A. Sfeir (LAU, Lebanon)

Organizing Committee

Mounib El-Eid, (AUB, Lebanon), - meid@aub.edu.lb

M. Jazar, (Lebanese University, Lebanon)

W. Jureidini, (AUB, Lebanon), - wadi@aub.edu.lb

N.Nassif, (Univ. Reims, France )- nabil.nassif@univ-reims.fr