Fall 2008 Schedule, Numerical Analysis Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park


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Fall 2008 Schedule of the Numerical Analysis Seminar

September 9:	Modeling and Simulation of Heteroeptixial Growth
	Prof. Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
September 16:	New Finite Element Methods for Fourth Order Partial Differential Equations
	Dr. Bin Zhang (Penn State University)
September 23:	Block Preconditioners for Saddle Point Linear Systems
	Prof. Chen Greif (University of British Columbia)
September 30:	Tension-activated membrane channels
	Prof. Sergei Sukharev (Biology, University of Maryland)
October 7:	Embedded-boundary methods for fluid-structure interactions in biological flows Note Room: CSCAMM Seminar Room, CSIC 4122
	Elias Balaras (Bioengineering, UMD)
October 21:	A new algorithm to simulate the dynamics of a glacier
	Prof. Jacques Rappaz (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
October 28:	Robust and Fast Multigrid methods for Newtonian and non-Newtonian equations
	Prof. Young Ju Lee (Rutgers University)
November 4:	Truly multi-D simulations of flows and transport in porus media
	Prof. Margot Gerritsen (Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University)
November 11:	Time Stepping methods for Stochastic Differential Equations
	Prof. Jonathan Goodman (New York University)
November 13:	Diffractive behavior of the wave equation in periodic media Aziz Lecture
	Prof. Gregoire Allaire (Ecole Polytechnique)
November 14:	Topology optimization of structures Aziz Lecture
	Prof. Gregoire Allaire (Ecole Polytechnique)
November 18:	Numerical solution of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation
	Dr. Guy Baruch (Tel Aviv University)
December 2:	Local Approximation Error for Generalized FEM for Problems with Piece Wise Constant Coefficients
	Prof. Robert Lipton (Louisiana State University)
December 9:	AFEM for Geometric Equations and Coupled Fluid-Membrane Interaction
	Dr. Sebastian Pauletti (University of Maryland)