A conference honoring James H. Bramble:
50 years of scientific research
May 2-3 2008
Texas A&M University


Speakers should plan their talks to be at most 22 minutes. All sessions will be in the Koldus building, Room 110.

Friday, May 2

8:30am COFFEE, PASTRY and FRUIT
SESSION 1 Chair:Rick Falk
9:00am Welcome: Al Boggess, Dept. Head (Mathematics)
9:15am Constantin Bacuta: Multilevel discretization for saddle point systems without discrete stability assumption (Abstract)
9:40am Joe Pasciak: The Computation of Elastic Waves via the Perfectly Matched Layer. (Abstract)
10:05am COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
10:30am Ragnar Winther: Smoothed projections in finite element exterior calculus (Abstract)
10:55am Panayot Vassilevski: Finite volume/DG schemes based on constrained minimization function recovery (Abstract)
11:20am John Osborn: Quadrature for Meshless Methods (Abstract)
11:45am Vidar Thomee: Maximum-norm stability in parabolic finite element problems. (Abstract)
12:10pm LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 2 Chair:Lars Wahlbin
2:00pm Tong Sun: Consistency & Numerical Smoothing => Convergence and Error Estimates --- An Alternative of the Lax -- --Equivalence Theorem (Abstract)
2:25 Al Schatz: (to be announced)
2:50pm Peter Oswald: A counterexample for finite element projectors (Abstract)
3:15pm TEA and COFFEE BREAK
3:40pm Rick Falk: Approximation by Quadrilateral and Hexahedral Finite Elements (Abstract)
4:05pm Tzanio Kolev: Efficient algebraic preconditioners for large-scale electromagnetic problems (Abstract)
SESSION 3 Chair:Raytcho Lazarov
4:30pm Non-scientific session. (Talks to be announced).
BANQUET Texas A+M Faculty Club
6:30pm Rudder Tower


(to be announced)

Saturday, May 3

8:30am COFFEE, PASTRY and FRUIT
SEESSION 4 Chair:Joe Pasciak
9:00am Andrew Knyazev: Gradient flow approach to geometric convergence analysis of preconditioned eigensolvers (Abstract)
9:25am Todd Dupont: Recent Advances In Symmetric Error Estimates For Time-Dependent Problems (Abstract)
9:50am TEA and COFFEE BREAK
10:15am Lars Wahlbin: Splitting the time-space errors in fully dicrete parabolic approximations. (Abstract)
10:40am Raytcho Lazarov: Hybridization of discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximations (Abstract)