NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR

The Numerical Analysis Seminar is held on Tuesdays at 3:30 pm in the colloquium room of the Mathematics Department (MTH3206) (unless noted otherwise).

The seminar is sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

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Current Talks

September 4: Quasi-Optimal Convergence Rates for AFEM
Prof. José Manuel Cascón Barbero (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
September 11: Schur Complements on Hilbert Spaces and Saddle Point Systems
Prof. Constantin Bacuta (University of Delaware)
September 18: Uniform preconditioning for nearly singular elliptic problems
Prof. Ludmil Zikatanov (Pennsylvania State University)
September 25: Terascale on the Desktop: Fast Multipole Methods on Graphical Processors
Dr. Nail A. Gumerov (Fantalgo, LLC and University of Maryland College Park)
October 2: Fast Iterative Solution of Models of Incompressible Flow
Prof. Howard Elman (Computer Science Department, University of Maryland at College Park)
October 9: Fully nonlinear second order elliptic Partial Differential Equations: numerics and game interpretations
Prof. Adam Oberman (Simon Frazer University, Canada)
October 16: Quadrature for Meshless Methods
Prof. John Osborn (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park)
October 23: Modeling and Simulating the Fluid Dynamics of Electrowetting On Dielectric (EWOD) with Contact Line Friction
Dr. Shawn Walker (Courant Institute)
October 30: Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
Prof. Doron Levy (Department of Mathematics and CSCAMM, University of Maryland, College Park)
November 6: Nonlinear approximation in L¹
Prof. Jean Luc Guermond (Texas A&M University)
November 15: Near optimal recovery of arbitrary signals from incomplete measurements (THURSDAY) Applied Math Colloquium
Prof. Albert Cohen (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
November 16: Adaptive Approximation by Greedy Algorithms (FRIDAY 3:00pm) Aziz Lecture
Prof. Albert Cohen (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
November 20: Computations of Multivalued Solutions in Nonlinear PDEs
Prof. Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
December 4: Boundary Element Methods for the Last 30 Years
Prof. George Hsiao (University of Delaware)
December 11: Some open problems in numerical relativity
Prof. Manuel Triglio (Department of Physics and CSCAMM, University of Maryland, College Park)

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Directions

How to reach the Math Department by car or by Metro or from Airports

Special accomodations for individuals with disabilities can be made by calling in advance (301) 405-5048. It would be appreciated if we are notified at least one week in advance.

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