University of Houston
Department of Mathematics

ITES
Scientific Computing Seminars
Thursday 3-4 pm, 634 S&R1 or 646 PGH,
Spring 2006

• January 9, 2006: Monday, 2 PM - 3 PM at 634 S&R1

  Ralf Hiptmair (Seminar fur Angewandte Mathematik, ETH Zurich, Switzerland) :
  Spurious Solutions Explained

• January 10, 2006: Tuesday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 634 S&R1

  Heinz W. Engl (Industrial Mathematics Institute, Johannes Kepler Universitat, Linz, Austria) :
  Iterative Regularization Methods for Nonlinear Inverse Problems

• February 2, 2006: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 646 PGH (postponed from Jan. 19)

  Roland Glowinski (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston) :
  On the Least-Squares Solution of the Elliptic Monge-Ampere Equation in Dimension Two

• February 9, 2006: Thursday, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM at 634 S&R1

  Dr. Sam Osofsky (A Potential Job Candidate Interviewed by the Department of Physics, University of Houston) :
  Computational methods for predicting STIL imaging through a wind-ruffled ocean

• February 16, 2006: Thursday, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM at 634 S&R1

  Tim Warburton (Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University) :
  Advances in Wave Propagation with the Discontinuous Galerkin Method

• March 9, 2006: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 646 PGH

  Hans G. Kaper (DMS/NSF and Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory):
  Reduction Methods for systems of differential equations (joint work with Tasso Kaper and Antonios Zagaris, Boston University)

• March 10, 2006: Friday, 12 PM - 1 PM at 232 PGH A Joint Department of mathematics and TLC2 Talk

  Hans G. Kaper (DMS/NSF and Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory):
  What goes into a good proposal and what happens to it?

• March 30, 2006: Thursday, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM at 634 SR1

  Andrei Davydychev (Schlumberger):
  Geometrical approach to the evaluation of Feynman diagrams

• April 4, 2006: Tuesday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 646 PGH

  Dietrich Braess (Institute of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany):
  A Posteriori Error Estimates for Maxwell's Equations

• April 6, 2006: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 634 SR1

  Rolf Rannacher (Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet, Heidelberg, Germany):
  An Adaptive Finite Element Method for Flow Problems with Fluid-Structure

• April 12, 2006 Wednesday, 4 PM - 5 PM at 646 PGH

  Michael Hintermueller (Institute of Mathematics, University of Graz, Austria) :
  Use level sets and relax. On a new relaxation concept in topology optimization

• April 13, 2006: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 634 SR1

  Patrick Le Tallec (Departement de Mecanique, Ecole Polytechnique, France):
  Adding small scales in nonlinear structural mechanics

• April 20, 2006: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 634 SR1

  Bjorn Engquist (Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas):
  Heterogeneous multi-scale methods

• June 1, 2006: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at 646 PGH

  Herbert B. Keller (Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology):
  Periodic Orbit Calculations and Mission Design

• Talks given in Fall, 2004
• Talks given in Spring, 2005
• Talks given in Fall, 2005

• Directions to the seminar at 634 S&R1.
• For further information about the seminar you may contact one of the organizers: Ronald Hoppe or Tsorng-Whay Pan.