University of Houston

Department of Mathematics

 Scientific Computing Seminars
Spring 2013 - Fall 2013

Fall 2013
  1. Sep. 12, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Eliot Fried (McGill University):
    Self-propelled soft-core dumbbells for the simulation of active suspensions: application to self-motile bacterial suspensions.

  2. Sep. 19, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Dmitri Kuzmin (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany):
    Limiting Techniques for Continuous and Discontinuous Finite Elements.

  3. Sep. 26, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Jingwei Hu (UT-Austin):
    An Asymptotic-Preserving Scheme for the Semiconductor Boltzmann Equation toward the Energy-Transport Limit.

  4. Oct. 10, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Ronald Hoppe (Department of Mathematics, UH):
    Adaptive finite elements for optimally controlled elliptic variational inequalities of obstacle type.

  5. Oct. 17, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646. Canceled due to you know why.
    Peng Wang (Pacific Northwest National Lab):
    PDF/CDF Method for Uncertainty Quantification.

  6. Oct. 24, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Abigail Bowers (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson university):
    Numerical study of a regularization model for incompressible flow with adaptive nonlinear filtering.

  7. Nov. 7, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Thomas Wick (ICES, UT Austin):
    Fluid-Structure Interaction with the Fluid-Solid Interface-Tracking/Interface-Capturing Technique using ALE and Fully Eulerian Coordinates with Application in Hemodynamics.

  8. Nov. 14, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Alan Demlow (Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky):
    Optimality of adaptive FEM for controlling nonstandard norms.

  9. Nov. 18, 2013: Monday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Alessandro Veneziani (Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Emory University):
    Emergency Mathematics: life of a group of mathematicians when a hospital is on campus.

  10. Nov. 21, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Steffen Basting (Department Mathematik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany):
    A hybrid finite element level set/front tracking approach for fluid flows with free boundaries and interfaces.

  11. Nov. 22, 2013: Friday, 2PM - 3PM at PGH 646.
    Gregory J. Rodin (Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin):
    Isogeometric Boundary Element Methods.

  12. Dec. 5, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Robert Strehl (Department of Applied Mathematics, TU Dortmund, Germany):
    Numerical challenges of chemotaxis-driven PDEs.

  13. Dec. 19, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Jinchao Xu (Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University):
    Numerical Methods for Multi-Physics Problems.

Spring 2013
  1. Jan. 31, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Alina Chertock (Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University):
    Numerical Methods for Chemotaxis and Related Models.

  2. Feb. 7, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Jacques Rappaz (Chair of Numerical Analysis and Simulation, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland):
    Finite Element Approximation of a Nonlinear Stationary Stokes Problem Arising in Glaciology.

  3. Feb. 8 & 9, 2013: A two-day tutorial on FreeFem++, a partial differential equations solver.
    The tutorial will include lectures given by Profs. Olivier Pironneau and Frederic Hecht, the developers of FreeFem,
    and the practice part, where participants will be able to obtain first-hand experience using FreeFem while
    being instructed and helped by its original creators.

    Download the poster and etc..

  4. Feb. 12, 2013: Tuesday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Boyce Griffith (Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, NYU University School of Medicine):
    Multiphysics and multiscale modeling of cardiac dynamics.

  5. Feb. 14, 2013: Tuesday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Olivier Pironneau (University of Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI, France): Numerical zoom for localized multi-scale problems.

  6. Amundson Lecture Series hosted by the Department of Mathematics, University of Houston.
    Speaker: Douglas N. Arnold, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
  7. Mar. 7, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Owe Axelsson (Institute of Geonics ASCR, Ostrava, Czech Republic):
    Optimal Control of Variable Density Navier-Stokes Equations.

  8. Mar. 21, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Leszek F. Demkowicz (Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin):
    Discontinuous Petrov Galerkin Method (DPG) with Optimal Test Functions.

  9. Mar. 26, 2013: Tuesday, 2PM - 3PM at PGH 646.
    Gerhard Zumbusch (Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Jena, Germany):
    Numerical Finite Difference Schemes on Current Processors.

  10. Apr. 11, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Tommi Kärkkäinen (Department of Mathematical Information Technology,University of Jyväskylä, Finland):
    Computational logistics.

  11. Apr. 18, 2013: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
    Jeff Haack (Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin):
    Conservative spectral methods for solving the Boltzmann transport equation, and the grazing limit from Boltzmann to Fokker-Planck-Landau.

Previous Talks
  1. Talks given in 2014.
  2. Talks given in 2012.
  3. Talks given in 2011.
  4. Talks given in 2010.
  5. Talks given in 2009.
  6. Talks given in 2008.
  7. Talks given in 2007.
  8. Talks given in 2006.
  9. Talks given in 2005.
  10. Talks given in 2004.