University of Houston

Department of Mathematics

Scientific Computing Seminars
Spring 2012


  1. February 2, 2012: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at PGH 646.
    Jacques Rappaz (Chair of Numerical Analysis and Simulation, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland):
    Convection-diffusion problems with Robin's boundary conditions. Application to a solidification problem.

  2. February 9, 2012: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at PGH 646.
    Yuri Vassilevski (Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences):
    Monotone finite volume discretization of the diffusion and convection-diffusion equations on polyhedral meshes.

  3. February 16, 2012: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at PGH 646.
    Ronald Hoppe (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Biharmonic Equation.

  4. Scientific Computing Lectures in honor of Professor Roland Glowinski on the occasion of his 75th birthday

    March 9, 2012: Friday, 1:30PM - 5:00 PM at PGH 232.

  5. March 22, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Malte A. Peter (Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Germany):
    Modelling and simulation of chemical degradation mechanisms in porous media with evolving microstructure.

  6. March 29, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Uday Banerjee (Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University):
    Stable Generalized Finite Element Method.

  7. March 30, 2012: Friday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Maxim Olshanskii (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia):
    A numerical approach to viscoplastic free surface flows using dynamic meshes.

  8. April 5, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Zhilin Li (Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University):
    The Immersed Interface Method and Applications to CFD Problems.

  9. April 17, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Josef Sifuentes (Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University):
    An Approximate Deflation Preconditioning Method Based on Multiple Grids for Wave Scattering Problems.

  10. April 19, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Sabine Le Borne (Department of Mathematics, Tennessee Technological University):
    Hierarchical matrices: a brief history and some applications in numerical PDEs.

  11. May 3, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Owe Axelsson (Division of Scientific Computing, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University):
    A stabilization of time dependent Navier-Stokes equation for variable density and variable viscosity problems and its numerical solution.


Fall 2012
  1. September 4, 2012: Tuesday, 11 AM - 12 PM at PGH 646.
    Dr. Saul Abarbanel (Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University):
    Wave Propagation in Advected Acoustics within A Non-Uniform Medium under the effect of Gravity.

  2. September 6, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.

    Carsten Carstensen (Dept. of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany):
    Five Trends in the Mathematical Foundation of Computational PDEs

  3. September 20, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.

    Yuri Kuznetsov (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Mixed Finite Element Method with Piece-wise Constant Fluxes for Diffusion Equations

  4. October 4, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.

    John A. Evans (Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin):
    Divergence-conforming B-spline Discretizations for Viscous Incompressible Flows

  5. November 8, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.

    Tao Xiong (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    WENO Scheme with Subcell Resolution for Computing Nonconservative Euler Equations

  6. November 13, 2012: Tuesday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.

    Tiziano Passerini (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University):
    Aortic and cerebral pulse waveforms: the effect of viscoelasticity (and other physical properties)

  7. November 15, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.

    Leo Rebholz (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University):
    New models and timestepping methods for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulation modeling

  8. November 29, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.

    Zhengfu Xu (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University):
    Parametrized maximum principle flux limiters for high order schemes solving hyperbolic conservation laws

  9. December 6, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646 (two 22 minute talks)
    3:00PM - 3:25PM: Lingling Shi (Department of Mathematics University of Houston):
    Deformation of a single red blood cell in bounded Poiseuille flows
    3:25PM - 3:50PM: Kidist Zeleke (Department of Mathematics University of Houston):
    Numerical simulations of surface acoustic wave (SAW) actuated cell sorting and enantiomer separation