NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR

Spring 1995 Schedule

Jan. 26: Thermocapillary Migration of a Liquid Droplet on a Non-uniformly Heated Surface

Dr. Douglas Huntley, University of Minnesota

Feb. 2: Cartesian Grid Methods for Compressible Flow in Complex Geometries

Prof. Marsha Berger, Courant Institute

Feb. 9: Some New Results in Numerical Analysis of Conservation Laws

Prof. Pierre Gremaud, North Carolina State University

Feb. 14 (TUESDAY, 9:30 am ):
On the Computations of the Thermodynamics of a Crystalline Phase Transformation

Dr. Petr Kloucek, University of Minnesota

Feb. 16: Countably Normed Spaces and Their Application to Approximation for Elliptic Problems over Nonsmooth Domains in R^3

Prof. B. Guo, University of Manitoba, Canada

Feb. 23: On the Computation of Higher-Order Derivatives with the Boundary Element Method

Prof. W. L. Wendland, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Mar. 2: On Generalized Finite Element Methods

J. M. Melenk, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP

Mar. 9: Hamiltonian Systems, Symmetry and Computational Models of DNA Supercoiling

Prof. J. Maddocks, Dept. of Mathematics and IPST, UMCP

Mar. 14 (TUESDAY, 9:30 am, DIFFERENT ROOM: AVW 3258):
A Generalized Jacobi-Davidson Iteration Method for Linear Eigenvalue Problems

Prof. H. van der Vorst, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Mar. 30: Nonlinear Heat Conduction in Anisotropic Media

Prof. M. Krizek, Czech Academy of Sciences

Apr. 6: The Cell-Vertex Finite Volume Method for Convection-Diffusion Problems

Dr. M. Stynes, Cork, Ireland

Apr. 13: Discrete Helmholtz Decompositions And Applications

Prof. R. Falk, Rutgers University

Apr. 20: Domain Decomposition Algorithms for Spectral Elements in Three Dimensions

Prof. L. Pavarino, University of Pavia, Italy

Apr. 27: Wavelet Boundary Element Methods with Mesh Refinement

Prof. T. von Petersdorff, Dept. of Mathematics, UMCP

May 4: The Determination of Internal Flaws from Electrostatic Boundary Measurement

Prof. M. Vogelius, Rutgers University