NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR

Spring 1996 Schedule

Feb. 1: Conserving time integration schemes for holonomically constrained mechanical systems

Mr. Oscar Gonzales, Division of Applied Mathematics, Stanford University

Feb. 8: Computations of hydrodynamic free surface problems

Dr. Bill Szymczak, Information Sciences and Systems Branch, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Maryland

Feb. 15: Models, Algorithms, and Computations for Superconductivity

Prof. Qiang Du, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University and the University of Science and Technology of Hongkong

Feb. 22: Convergence for mean curvature flows and anisotropy

Prof. Claudio Verdi, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Milano (Italy)

Feb. 29: A nonlinear Galerkin method in the collocation case

Dr. Lucia Dettori, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University and Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Mar. 7: Recent Developments in Parallel Pseudorandom Number Generation

Dr. Michael Mascagni Center for Computing Sciences, I.D.A., Bowie, Maryland

Mar. 14: Divergence Stability and Adaptive Dimensional Reduction

Prof. Soren Jensen, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Mar. 21: Babuska Conference

Mar. 28: Fast and Robust Solvers for Time-Discretised Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Prof. David Silvester, University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (England)

Apr. 4: Optimal Approximability of Solutions of Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations

Prof. R. Bruce Kellogg, Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland

Apr. 9: Modeling and Simulation of Fluid Flow in Complex Porous Media

Prof. Alfio Quarteroni, Politecnico di Milano and CRS4 (Italy)

Apr. 18: Adaptive Use of Iterative Methods in Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming

Prof. Dianne P. O'Leary, Computer Science Department and UMIACS, University of Maryland

Apr. 25 Multiscale Solvers for Nonlinear Electrostatics

Prof. Faisal Saied, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

May 2 Advanced Incomplete Factorization Methods for Solution of Diffusion - Convection Equations

Prof. Valery Il'in, Computing Center, Siberian Division RAS, Novosibirsk (Russia)

May 9 Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions

Prof. Marcus Grote, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University