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Fall 06 Schedule of the Numerical Analysis Seminar

September 12: Generating Numerical Algorithms Using Computer Algebra
Professor Walter Gander (Department of Computational Science, ETH Zurich)
September 19: Efficient Preconditioning of the Navier-Stokes Equations with the Free Surface Condition
Dr. Milan Mihajlovic (Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland)
September 26: Three-Dimensional Viscoelastic Flows with Complex Free Surfaces: Numerical Simulations and Mathematical Analysis of Simplified Problems
Dr. Andrea Bonito (Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland)
October 10: Are the Computational Results Reliable?
Professor Ivo Babuska (Institute for Computational Science and Engineering), University of Texas at Austin
October 17: Convergence and Optimality of an AFEM for General Second Order Linear Elliptic PDE
Dr. Manuel Cascon (Math Dept, UMCP)
October 24: hp-FINITE ELEMENTS FOR MAXWELL EQUATIONS: Discrete Compactness and hp-Convergence for Maxwell Eigenvalues
Professor Leszek Demkowitz (Institute for Computational for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics), The University of Texas at Austin
October 31: Numerical simulations of rarefied gases in curved channels: thermal creep, circulating flow, and pumping effect
Professor Luc Mieussens (Mathematiques pour l'Industrie et la Physique, Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse)
November 07: Modeling and simulations of gas bubbles in a fluid
Dr. Alexei Lozinski (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston)
November 14: Some Aspects of the Theory of Long-Step Interior Point Methods Beyond Symmetric Cone Programming
Ms. Olena Shevchenko (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland at Baltimore County)
November 21: Case Studies in Shape and Trajectory Optimization: Catenary Problem CANCELLED. To be reschedueled.
Professor Igor Griva (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland at Baltimore County)
November 30: Optimal Illumination in Array Imaging This is the lecture in the PDE/Applied Math seminar at 3:30pm given in connection with the Aziz lecture, which is on 11/30.
Professor George Papanicolaou (Department of Mathematics, Stanford University)
December 01: Imaging in Random Media This is the Aziz lecture; time 3pm.
Professor George Papanicolaou (Department of Mathematics, Stanford University)
December 05: Convergence of Adaptive Finite Element Methods for $p$-Laplace Equation
Dr. Christian Kreuser (Department of Mathematics , University of Augsburg , Germany)
December 12: The Super Fast Spectral Method for Multiscale PDEs
Dr. Jing Zou (Center for Sientific Computation and Methematical Modeling , Universiy of Maryland)