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Spring 2005 Schedule of the Numerical Analysis Seminar

February 1: Fast and Reliable Methods for Determining the Evolution of Uncertain Parameters in Differential Equations NA/CSCAMM Joint Seminar
Professor Donald Estep (Colorado State University), estep@math.colostate.edu
February 8: Global Regularity of the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations with Uniformly Large Initial Vorticity NA/PDE/CSCAMM Joint Seminar
Prof. Alexis S. Mahalov (Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering), Arizona State University, mahalov@asu.edu
February 15: Convergence rate of an adaptive algorithm for differential equations
Dr. Kyoung-Sook Moon (Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park), moon@math.umd.edu
February 22: Approximation of Harmonic Maps -- Gradient Flow Approaches vs. Iterative Minimization
Dr. Soeren Bartels (Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland and Humbold University (Germany)), sba@math.umd.edu
March 1: Electrostatic-Elastic Interactions
Prof. John A. Pelesko (Department of Mathematics), University of Delaware, pelesko@math.udel.edu
March 08: No NA seminar this week. There is a workshop on March 11-13.
March 11: Workshop Meshless Methods, Generalized Finite Element Methods, and Related Approaches March 11-13
March 15: AFEM for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on graphs: a posteriori error estimation and convergence
Khamron Mekchay (Department of Mathematics), University of Maryland, College Park, kxm@math.umd.edu
March 22: NO SEMINAR (Spring Break)
March 29: Universal Duality in Conic Convex Optimization
Simon P. Schurr (Department of Mathematics), University of Maryland, College Park, spschurr@math.umd.edu
April 05: Who invented the great numerical algorithms?
Prof. Nick Trefethen (Oxford University Computing Laboratory), Oxford University, England, LNT@comlab.ox.ac.uk
April 12: A Dozen Cautionary Tales from "Spectra and Pseudospectra"
Prof. Mark Embree (Computational and Applied Mathematics), Rice University, embree@caam.rice.edu
April 19: Adaptive Finite Element Simulations for Macroscopic and Mesoscopic Models of Steel
Prof. Alfred Schmidt (Zentrum fuer Technomathematik), Universitaet Bremen, Germany, schmidt@math.uni-bremen.de
April 26: Computational modeling of hot tearing and cold crack in metal casting
Dr. Jian Zhong Zhu (ESI US R&D Inc), Columbia, MD 21045, jz.zhu@esi-group-na.com
May 05: Derivation of particle, string and membrane motions from Born-Infeld Electromagnetism LECTURE CANCELLED
Prof. Yann Brenier (Laboratoire Alexandre Dieudonne), Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, brenier@math.unice.fr
May 06: String integration of some MHD equations LECTURE CANCELLED
Prof. Yann Brenier (Laboratoire Alexandre Dieudonne), Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, brenier@math.unice.fr
May 10: Computations of Singular and Nearly Singular Integrals in Boundary Integral Methods
Prof. Ramani Duraiswami (Computer Science Department and Institute of Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)), University of Maryland, College Park, ramani@umiacs.umd.edu