Numerical Analysis Seminar Talks, Fall 2008


August 27, 2008

Speaker: Jennifer K. Ryan
Assistant Professor
Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics
Delft University of Technology
Title: Local Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving (SIAC) Post-Processing for discontinuous Galerkin methods

Monday, September 01, 2008

Speaker: Wolfgang Bangerth
Texas A&M University
Title: Numerical methods for nonlinear inverse problems
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00pm
Place: Milner 317
Note: This is a special Promotion Colloquim. Note the unusual time and place

Monday, September 08, 2008

Speaker: Guido Kanschat
Texas A&M University
Title: Divergence-conforming finite elements for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00pm
Place: Milner 317
Note: This is a Promotion Colloquim. Note the unusual time and place

Wednesday September 17, 2008

Speaker: Juan Galvis
Texas A&M University
Title: Domain Decomposition Analysis for Heterogeneous Darcy's Flow

Monday, September 22, 2008

Speaker: Ulrich Langer
RICAM, Linz
Title: Fast Solvers for Non-Linear Time Harmonic Problems
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00pm
Place: Blocker 628
Note: This is a joint NA/ IAMCS-KAUST Seminar. Note the unusual time and place

Wednesday October 1, 2008

Speaker: Abner Salgado
Texas A&M University
Title: Finite element discretization of Darcy's equations with pressure dependent porosity

Wednesday October 8, 2008

Speaker: Seungil Kim
Texas A&M University
Title: Analysis of a Cartesian PML approximation to acoustic scattering problems in R2

Wednesday October 15, 2008

Speaker: Jean-Marie Linhart
Texas A&M University
Title: Computing the Logarithm of the Normal Distribution

Monday, October 27, 2008

Speaker: Nira Dyn,
School of Mathematical Sciences
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Title: Linear and nonlinear subdivision schemes in geometric modeling
Place: Milner 317
Note: This is a joint NA/Approximation Theory Seminar. Note the unusual time and place

Wednesday November 5, 2008

Speaker: Marco Verani
Politecnico di Milano
Title: A Safeguarded Dual Weighted Residual Method

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Speaker: Vivette Girault
Paris VI
Title: Discretizations of a Darcy's Model for Incompressible Flows with Pressure Dependent Porosity
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00pm
Place: Blocker 627
Note: This is a joint NA/ IAMCS-KAUST Seminar. Note the unusual time and place

Wednesday November 19, 2008

Speaker: Cory D. Hauck
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS)
Los Alamos
Title: A numerical regularization technique for multi-scale, linear transport models
Time: 4:15 pm - 5:15pm
Place: Blocker 627
Note: Note the unusual time

Wednesday November 26, 2008

Speaker: Laurette Tuckerman
Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles
Paris, France
Title: Bifurcation Analysis for Timesteppers
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30pm
Note: Note the unusual time

Wednesday December 3, 2008

Speaker: Caroline Nore
LIMSI/Paris 11 University
Title: Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics in axisymmetric heterogeneous domains using a Fourier/Finite Element technique and an Interior Penalty Method

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