Numerical Analysis Seminar Talks, Spring 2008


January 30, 2008

Speaker: Rainer Wehrse
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Title: The Poisson Point Process: an effective tool for radiative transfer problems

Monday, February 18, 2008

Speaker: Edriss Titi
University of California, Irvine
Title: Alpha Sub-grid Scale Models of Turbulence and Inviscid Regularization
Place: Blocker 627.
Note: This is a Joint NA/ Applied Math Seminar. Note the unusual time and place.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Speaker: Ivan Yotov
Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Title: Mortar Couplings of Discontinuous Galerkin and Mixed Finite Element Methods
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Place: Blocker 627
Note: Note the unusual day, time and place

February 27, 2008

Speaker: Pierre Gremaud
Dept. of Mathematics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
Title: Numerical simulation of cerebral blood flow

March 5, 2008

Speaker: Reda Bouamra
Institut Francais du Petrole, IFP
Title: Polyhedral Grains in Viscous Flow

March 7 - 8, 2008

Finite Element Rodeo, LSU

March 19, 2008

Speaker: Clint Dawson
UT of Austin
Title: Modeling coastal hydrodynamics using h-p adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods

Monday, March 24, 2008

Speaker: Roger Temam
Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics
Indiana University
Title: TBA
Note: Cancelled due to extenuating circumstances.

March 26, 2008

Speaker: Matthias Heinckenschloss
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
Title: Domain Decomposition and Model Reduction for the Optimal Control of Coupled Systems with Local Nonlinearities


Thursday, March 27, 2008

Speaker: Richard Sanchez
CEA and Georgia Tech. University
Title: The inverse source problems for the linear transport equation
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Place: Blocker 627
Note: This is a Joint NA/Applied Math Seminar. Note the unusual day, time and place.


April 2, 2008

Speaker: Ricardo Nochetto
University of Maryland
Title: Adaptive FEM for the Laplace-Beltrami Operator and Applications to Geometric Flows


Friday, April 11, 2008

Speaker: Michail D. Todorov
Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX and Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Title: Collision Dynamics of Coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Place: Blocker 628
Note: This is a Joint ISC/NA Seminar. Note the unusual day, time and place.


April 23, 2008

Speaker: Vidar Thomee
Title: On Maximum-Principles in Elliptic and Parabolic Finite Element Problems

April 30, 2008

Speaker: Peter Minev
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta, Edmonton
Title: Links between low order DG methods and finite difference schemes for the Stokes problem

May 7, 2008

Speaker: Blanca Ayuso
Madrid University
Title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for advection-diffusion-reaction problems

May 14, 2008

Speaker: Francisco-Javier Sayas
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) & University of Minnesota
Title: BEM-FEM operators in the resolvent set of the Laplacian and scattering of transient waves

May 21, 2008

Speaker: Bernd Flemisch,
University of Stuttgart
Title: Multi-scale Multi-physics Modeling of Flow and Transport Processes in Porous Media

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