Validation Challenge Workshop Technical Program Agenda
(tentative)

Workshop Overview

Sunday, May 21, 2006
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Reception, Fireplace Room
 
Monday, May 22, 2006
Room: Alvarado GH
8:00 am - 8:15 am
Workshop Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:45 am
Opening Remarks and Workshop Overview
Martin Pilch, Sandia National Laboratories
Thermal Challenge Problem Session, chair Kevin Dowding
8:45 am - 9:00 am
Overview of Thermal Problem
Kevin Dowding, Sandia National Laboratories
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Model Validation Metrics for the Thermal Challenge Problem
Sankaran Mahadevan, J. McFarland, and X. Jiang Vanderbilt University
9:45 am - 10:30 am
Model Validation, Calibration and Predictive Capability
Scott Ferson,
Applied Biomathematics
William L. Oberkampf, Sandia National Laboratories
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 11:45 am
A Bayesian Analysis of the Thermal Challenge Problem
   • F. Liu and J. Berger, Duke University
   • M. J. Bayarri, Valencia
   • R. Paulo, Bristol
   • J. Sacks, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS)
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Another Bayesian Analysis of the Thermal
Challenge Problem

Dave Higdon, and Charlie Nakhleh Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Lunch (provided), Alvarado F
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Thermal Problem Discussion
Structural Dynamics Problem Session, chair John Red-Horse
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Overview of Structural Dynamics Problem
John Red-Horse, Sandia National Laboratories
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
A Top-Down Approach to Calibration, Validation,
Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive
Accuracy Assessment

Tim Hasselman and George Lloyd, ACTA Inc.
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
On the Validation of Models for Structural Dynamic Analysis
and the Sandia 2006 Workshop Challenge

D J Ewins, C Zang, C Schwingshackl, and, E Petrov, Imperial College London
Monday, May 22, 2006
Evening, Franciscan Rm
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Evening Reception/Cash Bar
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Banquet Dinner (provided)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Poster Paper Sessions

Methodological Alternatives for the Regulatory Problem
Brian Rutherford, Sandia National Laboratories

Interval and p-Box Techniques for Model Validation:
On the Example of the Thermal Challenge Problem

Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso

Thermal Challenge Problem
Mark D. Brandyberry, University of Illinois Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets

Addressing the Thermal Validation Challenge Problem Using Polynomial Regression Models for Trends and Biases
Anthony A. Giunta, Sandia National Laboratories
 
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Room: Alvarado GH
7:30 am - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Structural Dynamics Problem Session (cont'd)
8:00 am - 8:45 am
NASA Langley’s Approach towards a Solution of the Sandia’s Structural Dynamics Challenge Problem
L.G. Horta, S.P. Kenny, K.B. Elliott, K.B. Lim, NASA Langley Research Center
L. Crespo, National Institute of Aerospace
J-S. Lew, Tennessee State University
8:45 am - 9:30 am
Presentation 4 (TBD)
Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Break
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Structural Dynamics Problem Discussion
Structural Statics Problem Session, chair Raul Tempone
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Overview of Statics Problem
Raul Tempone,
Florida State University
11:00 am - 11:45 am
A Decision-centric Analysis of the Sandia Structural
Mechanics Validation Challenge Problem

François M. Hemez,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch (provided), Alvarado F
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Probabilistic Assemsent of a Static Frame Model
Ramesh Rebba
and John Cafeo, General Motors R&D Center
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Contribution to the Validation Static Frame Challenge Problem by using Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Monte Carlo Simulation
G.I. Schuëller
and H.J. Pradlwarter, Leopold-Franzens University

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Probabilistic Models for Material Properties
Mircea Grigoriu,
Cornell University
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Structural Statics Problem Discussion
Wrap Up
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Open Discussion


Technical Program

- Conference Agenda
- Technical Program Agendas
-
List of Confirmed Speakers
  and Abstracts
- Call for Abstracts
    - Abstract Submission Form
    - Poster Session Details


     Last Updated: May 16, 2006