University of Houston
Department of Mathematics

ITES
Scientific Computing Seminars
Thursday 3-4 pm, 634 S&R1,
Fall 2005

1. September 1, 2005

   Ronald H.W. Hoppe (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston) :
   Convergence Analysis of Adaptive Mixed and Nonconforming Finite Element Methods

2. October 13, 2005

   Guido Kanschat (Institute for applied mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Germany) :
   Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Incompressible Flow

3. October 20, 2005 (Two 25 minute talks)

   3 PM : Daniil Svyatskiy (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston) :
   New multilevel preconditioner for the diffusion type problems on polyhedral meshes

   3:30PM : Vladimir Gvozdev (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston) :
   Maxwell equations by finite elements on polyhedral meshes

4. October 27, 2005

   Ricardo H. Nochetto (Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland) :
   Finite Element Methods for Surface Evolution and Applications

5. November 3, 2005

   Todd Arbogast (Department of Mathematics and ICES, The University of Texas at Austin) :
   Mixed variational multiscale methods and multiscale finite elements

6. November 10, 2005

   Jean-Luc Guermond (Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University) :
   Nonlinear finite element approximation of PDE's in L1

7. November 17, 2005

   William W.Symes (Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University) :
   Computational Methods for Seismic Inverse Problems

8. December 1, 2005

   Xuejun Xu (LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 2719, Beijing 100080, China) :
   Economical Cascadic Multigrid Methods

• Directions to the seminar.
• For further information about the seminar you may contact one of the organizers: Ronald Hoppe or Tsorng-Whay Pan.