| January 22: | Stability of Flat Interfaces During Semidiscrete Solidification |
| Dr. Andreas Veeser (Dipartimento di Mathematica), Universita Di Milano, ITALY | |
| January 29: | Numerical Analysis and Simulation of a Solutal Phase-Field Model |
| Dr. Daniel Kessler (Department of Mathematics), University of Maryland | |
| February 5: | Numerical Models of Accretion Flows Around Black Holes (SPECIAL SEMINAR joint with the Physics Colloquium and the Scientific Computing Seminar) PHYSICS 1410, 4 PM, refreshments at 3:30 PM |
| Professor James Stone ((Astronomy Department)), University of Maryland, College Park, jstone@astro.umd.edu | |
| February 12: | Two-scale Regularity and Sparse Grids for Homogenization Problems |
| Professor Christoph Schwab (Applied Mathematics, ETHZ ), Zurich, Switzerland | |
| February 19: | Moving Mesh Methods Based on Harmonic Maps |
| Pingwen Zhang (Department of Scientific and Engineering Computing), Peking University (visiting Princeton University) | |
| February 26: | Solving 3D Incompressible Navier-Stokes via Parallel Block Preconditioning |
| Victoria E. Howle (Sandia National Laboratories), Livermore, CA 94550 | |
| March 5: | TBA |
| Mark Embree (Rice University) | |
| March 12: | Recovery Techniques of the Finite Element Method |
| Prof. Zhimin Zhang (Department of Mathematics), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, zzhang@math.wayne.edu | |
| March 19: | Approximation by Quadrilateral Finite Elements |
| Richard S. Falk (Department of Mathematics), Rutgers University | |
| March 19: | Multi-mesh finite element methods for coupled systems of PDEs with applications to thermo-elasticity and problems with phase transitions Special Time 2PM, Joint with the SC Seminar |
| Prof. Alfred Schmidt (Zentrum fuer Technomathematik, FB3), Universitaet Bremen, Germany | |
| April 2: | Boundary Element Methods for Maxwell Equations in Lipschitz Domains |
| Prof. Tobias von Petersdorff (Department of Mathematics), UMCP | |
| April 9: | Fast Multipole Methods for the Helmholtz Equation: New Fast Translation Operators |
| Drs. Nail A. Gumerov and Ramani Duraiswami (Perceptual Interfaces and Reality Laboratory, UMIACS), UMCP | |
| April 16: | On Principles for the Selection of Shape Functions for the Generalized Finite Element Method |
| Professor John Osborn (Department of Mathematics), UMCP | |
| April 23: | A Fourth Order Numerical Solver for the PlaneGeostrophic Equations Using Staggered Grid |
| Dr. Cheng Wang (Department of Mathematics), Indiana University, cwang@indiana.edu | |
| May 2: | A New Paradigm for Parallel Adaptive Meshing Algorithms (Special Time: Thur. 3:30PM Applied Math. Colloquium |
| Prof. Randolph E. Bank (Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego), La Jolla, CA 92093-0112 | |
| May 3: | Multigrid: From Fourier to Gauss |
| Prof. Randolph E. Bank (Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego), La Jolla, CA 92093-0112 | |
| May 7: | Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Multiphysics Problems (Special Time: Tu 2PM, joint with Scientific Computing Seminar) |
| Prof. Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720 | |
| May 14: | Fully Localized A Posteriori Error Estimators and Barrier Sets for Contact Problems |
| Prof. Kunibert Siebert (Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, Universitaet Freiburg), Freiburg, Germany (visiting UMCP) |