University of Houston
Department of Mathematics

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

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

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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. 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?

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

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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

Previous Talks
Date of last change: March 5, 2006.