Program

Talks and discussions will be held in the Wolf room.
Breakfasts and lunches will be held in the Badger A/B room.
Dinners (14th & 15th) will be held in the Puma A/B room.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
8:00 - 8:50 am Breakfast & Registration
8:50 - 9:00 am Welcome - Clayton Webster, Sandia National Laboratories
9:00 - 9:50 am Sampling-Based Methods for Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis
Jon Helton, Sandia National Laboratories
Presentation
9:50 - 10:40 am

Designing Computer Experiments
Thomas Santner, Ohio State University
Presentation

10:40 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 12:00 pm Discussion 1: Experiences and Expectations of V&V
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 pm To Roll the Dice or Not; Fusing Statistical, Probabilistic, and Deterministic
Analysis Tools

Don Estep, Colorado State University
Presentation
2:20 - 3:10 pm Reliability of Computation Science
Raul Tempone, Florida State University
Presentation
3:10 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm Discussion 2: Daily Discussion
4:30 - 6:00 pm Break
6:00 - 8:00 pm Working Dinner
A Modern Computational Science and Engineering Effort in Nuclear Engineering

Dana Knoll, Idaho National Laboratory
Presentation

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 am Analyzing Sparse-Grid Uncertainty Quantification Techniques for Validation within Predictive Science
Clayton Webster, Sandia National Laboratories
Presentation
9:50 - 10:40 am Overview of an Approximation Theory for Validation
Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California
Presentation
10:40 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 12:00 pm Discussion 3: Experiences and Expectations of V&V
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 pm Uncertainty Quantification and Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Sub-surface Hydrology
Daniel Tartakovsky, University of California, San Diego
Presentation
2:20 - 3:10 pm

Uncertainty Quantification in Reacting Flow Computations
Habib Najm, Sandia National Laboratories
Presentation

3:10 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm Discussion 4: Daily DIscussion
4:30 - 6:00 pm Break
6:00 - 8:00 pm Working Dinner
Verification and Validation in Ocean Modeling
Traian Iliescu, Virginia Tech
Presentation

Thursday, August 16, 2007
8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 am Worst-Case Scenario Tools for Verification and Validation
Fabio Nobile, Politecnico di Milano
Presentation
9:50 - 10:40 am Verification and Validation Practice in Astrophysics
Tomasz Plewa, University of Chicago
Presentation
10:40 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 12:00 pm Discussion 5: New Research Directions and Technical Issues
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm Discussion 6: Educational Discussion

Short Talks