University of Houston

Department of Mathematics

Scientific Computing Seminars
Spring 2025 - Fall 2025


Spring 2025

  1. 02/06/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Qinghai Zhang (School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University):
    How can algebraic topology, differential geometry, and artificial intelligence help numerical PDEs on moving domains?

  2. 02/13/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Samuel Van Fleet (Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, Rice University):
    Structure Preserving Particle Methods for a Class of Continuity Equations

  3. 03/27/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Annalisa Quaini (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Bridging Large Eddy Simulation and Reduced Order Modeling of convection-dominated flows through spatial filtering

  4. 04/10/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Santolo Leveque (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    An Augmented Lagrangian Preconditioner for the Control of the Navier--Stokes Equations
  5. 04/24/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Zhihang Xu (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Weak TransNet: A Petrov-Galerkin based neural network method for solving elliptic PDEs


Fall 2025

  1. 09/11/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Yunhui He (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Multigrid and Acceleration Methods for PDEs and Nonsmooth Optimization.

  2. 09/18/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    1. Mark Simmons (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
      A Novel Time Discretization Scheme for the Incompressible Three-Phase Flow Problem in Porous Media.
    2. Md Amran Hossan Mojamder (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
      Parametrization of sub-grid scales in long-term simulations of the shallow-water equations using machine learning and convex limiting.
    3. Md Rezwen Bin Mizan (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
      Tensorial Reduced Order Modeling for Parametric Viscoplastic Fluid Dynamics.
    4. Anton Myshak (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
      Application of PINNs for the Shallow Water Dam Break Problem.

  3. 10/09/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Eric C Cyr (Computer Science Research Institute at Sandia National Laboratories):
    Exposing structure in neural networks to accelerate training: Towards multilevel algorithms.

  4. 11/06/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Vladimir Yushutin (Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville):
    Continuous Data Assimilation by Non-Interpolant Observables.

  5. 11/13/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Timo Spekeler (Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University):
    Numerical homogenization of nondivergence-form elliptic PDEs.

  6. 11/20/2025: Thursday, 1 PM - 2 PM at PGH 646.
    Andreas Mang (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Fast Algorithms for Inverse Transport Problems.



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