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Spring 01 Schedule of the Numerical Analysis Seminar

January 25: Finite Element Discretization for "Nonstandard" Boundary Conditions for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Baensch (Numerical Mathematics & Scientific ComputingWeierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics), Berlin (Germany), baensch@wias-berlin.de
February 1: Corner singularities, boundary layers, and interior layers
Prof. R. Bruce Kellogg (Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology), University of Maryland, College Park, kellogg@ipst.umd.edu
February 8: Positivity preserving finite element interpolation and applications to variational inequalities
Prof. Ricardo H. Nochetto (Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology), University of Maryland, College Park, rhn@math.umd.edu
February 15: Two dimensional turbulence with drag
Prof. Edward Ott (Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research and Department of Physics), University of Maryland, College Park, eo4@umail.umd.edu
February 22: An a posteriori error estimate and adaptivity for the mean curvature flow of graphs
Omar Lakkis (Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park), omar@math.umd.edu
March 1: Computation of microstructure and relaxation of energies
Prof. Georg Dolzmann (Department of Mathematics , University of Maryland, College Park), dolzmann@math.umd.edu
March 8: Fast Solvers for the 3-D Primitive Equations of the Atmosphere and Ocean Formulated in Mean Pressure Poisson Equation
Prof. Chen Wang (Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics and Department of Mathematics , Indiana University , Bloomington), cwang@indiana.edu
March 15: Simulations of Violent Free Surface Dynamics
Dr. William G. Szymczak (Physical Acoustics Branch, Code 7131 , Naval Research Lab ), Washington DC, 20375, szymczak@eeyore.nrl.navy.mil
March 22: NO SEMINAR (Spring break)
March 29: New asymptotic error expansions in the finite element method and Richardson extrapolation
Prof. Al Schatz (Department of Mathematics), Cornell University
April 5: Analysis of a Finite Element Method for Electromagnetic Scattering
Prof. Peter Monk (Department of Mathematical Sciences), University of Delaware, Newark, monk@math.udel.edu
April 12: Multiple Wave Interactions in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: Experiments and Models
Prof. Rajarshi Roy (Institute for Plasma Research, Department of Physics, and Institute for Physical Science and Technology ), Univerity of Maryland, rroy@glue.umd.edu
April 23: Recent approaches in the treatment of subgrid scales SPECIAL MATH COLLOQUIUM: AZIZ LECTURE (special day and time 3PM)
Prof. Franco Brezzi (Istituto di Analisi Numerica del CNR and Dipartimento di Matematica), Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, brezzi@dragon.ian.pv.cnr.it
April 24: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for elliptic problems: a general framework. APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM, 3:30PM
Prof. Franco Brezzi (Istituto di Analisi Numerica del CNR and Dipartimento di Matematica), Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, brezzi@dragon.ian.pv.cnr.it
May 3: Mathematical Modeling of Deposition Processes in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Prof. Matthias Gobbert (Department of Mathematics and Statistics ), University of Maryland, Baltimore County
May 10: Bits of numerical relativity -- (1) Spherical Harmonic Decomposition on a cubic grid, (2) Some current progress in numerical relativity at the Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany.
Prof. Charles Misner (Department of Physics), University of Maryland, College Park