University of Houston

Department of Mathematics

 Scientific Computing Seminars
Spring 2014 - Fall 2014
(Note: different time on Thursdays from now on)

Spring 2014
  1. Feb. 13, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Blaise Bourdin (Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University):
    Recent developments and extensions in the variational approach to fracture.

  2. Feb. 20, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Eugene Tyrtyshnikov (Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow):
    Low-rank matrices in numerical analysis and optimization problems.

  3. Mar. 6, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Olof Widlund (Courant Institute, NYU):
    BDDC deluxe domain decomposition algorithms.

  4. Mar. 20, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Ivan Yotov (Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh):
    Domain decomposition methods for coupled flow and mechanics problems.

  5. Mar. 27, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Dongwoo Sheen (Department of Mathematics, Seoul National University, Korea):
    Recent progresses on nonconforming finite element methods for the biharmonic equation and Stokes equations .

  6. April 10, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Sheng Xu (Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University):
    The immersed interface method for flow simulation.

  7. April 17, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Songming Hou (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University):
    Solving Elliptic and Elasticity Interface Problems with Non-body-fitted Mesh.

  8. April 29, 2014: Tuesday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Prof. Olivier Pironneau (University of Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI, France):
    A Model for Hemodynamics for Optimal Design.

  9. May 23, 2014: Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM at PGH 646.
    Yifan Wang (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University):
    Applications of Advanced Numerical Methods on Problems with Complex Physics and Complex Geometry.

Fall 2014
  1. September 11, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Alexander Danilov (Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia):
    High resolution human body computational model for bioelectrical impedance analysis.

  2. September 18, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Carsten Carstensen (Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
    Rate optimality of adaptive algorithms.

  3. October 16, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646. Canceled
    Jean Luc Guermond (Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University):
    TBA.

  4. October 30, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Alexei Chernyshenko (Inst. Num. Math., Russian Acad. Sciences):
    A Finite Volume Scheme with the Discrete Maximum Principle for Diffusion Equations on Polyhedral Meshes.

  5. November 6, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    David Silvester (School of Mathematics, University of Manchester):
    A framework for the development of implicit solvers for incompressible flow problems.

  6. Nov. 13, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Jacques Rappaz (Chair of Numerical Analysis and Simulation, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland):
    On a mixing-length model to numerically treat a turbulent flow .

  7. November 20, 2014: Thursday, 1:30PM - 2:30PM at PGH 646.
    Wujun Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland):
    Discrete ABP Estimate and Rates of Convergence for Linear Elliptic PDEs in Non-Divergence Form.

Previous Talks
  1. Talks given in 2013.
  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.