Numerical Analysis and PDE Seminar

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Spring 2013

January 31, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
Title: On the numerical simulation of equations modeling reflectometry for fusion plasma.
February 21, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Virginia Selgas, University of Oviedo, Spain
Title: Approximation of eddy currents in an axisymmetric unbounded domain
March 14, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Carmen Rodrigo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Title: On the application of geometric multigrid methods on semi-structured triangular grids
March 21, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Wujun Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: An analysis of HDG methods for convection-dominated diffusion problems
April 4, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Holger Heumann, Rutgers University
Title: Convergence of lowest order Semi-Lagrangian Galerkin schemes
April 18, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Junping Wang, National Science Foundation
Title: Weak Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations
April 25, 2013 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Johannes Tausch, Southern Methodist University
Title: Solution of the Heat Equation and Shape Optimization Problems using a fast Parabolic Boundary Element method
May 2, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Gantumur Tsotgerel, McGill University, Canada
Title: Convergence rates of adaptive boundary element methods
May 9, 2013 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Noel Walkington, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Numerical Approximation of Oldroyd-B Fluids

Fall 2012

October 11, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Catalin Turc, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Efficient Solution of Acoustic and Electromagnetic Scattering Problems in Three-Dimensional Periodic Media
October 18, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Fernando Lopez Garcia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Inf-Sup condition and Stokes equations in cuspidal domains
October 25, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Oscar Gonzalez, University of Texas, Austin
Title: Nystrom methods for the exterior Stokes equations
This seminar has been CANCELLED
November 8, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 205
Johannes Tausch , Southern Methodist University
Title: Solution of the Heat Equation and Shape Optimization Problems using a fast Parabolic Boundary Element method
This seminar has been cancelled
November 15, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Ricardo Oyarzua, University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: A priori error analysis of a fully-mixed finite element method for a two-dimensional fluid-solid interaction problem
November 29, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Alan Demlow, University of Kentucky
Title: Convergence and quasi-optimality of an adaptive FEM for controlling L2 errors
December 13, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Victor Dominguez, Public University of Navarra, Spain
Title: Robust methods for highly oscillatory integrals

Summer 2012

August 10, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 SMI 220
Professor Bogdan Bojarski, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Title: From Gregory-Newton to Sobolev

Spring 2012

February 9, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Manuel Solano, University of Delaware
Title: Solving Dirichlet boundary-value problems on general domains by extensions from subdomains
February 15, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Andrei Draganescu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: Multigrid preconditioners for linear systems arising in PDE constrained optimization
February 23, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Rommel Bustinza, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Title: An a priori error analysis of a Signorini type problem using the LDG method
March 1, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Christoph Erath, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Colorado
Title: Coupling of the Finite Volume Method and the Boundary Element Method
March 8, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Sebastien Imperiale, Columbia University
Title: Mathematical and numerical modelling of piezoelectric sensors
March 15, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Harbir Antil, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Optimal Control of a Free Boundary Problem with Second Order Sufficient Optimality Conditions
March 22, 2012 11:20 - 12:20 EWG 336
Guido Kanschat, Texas A&M University
Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Diffusion-Dominated Radiative Transfer Problems
April 12, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Hengguang Li, Wayne State University
Title: New multigrid methods for indefinite systems
April 19, 2012 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Virginia Selgas, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Title: A symmetric BEM-FEM method for an axisymmetric eddy current problem
April 28, 2012 9:30 - 5:30 Brown Lab 101
DelMar Numerics Day 2012
Registration is free but required. More information can be found at http://www.math.umd.edu/delmar

Fall 2011

September 15, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Abner Salgado, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: A Diffuse Interface Model For Electrowetting
October 6, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Ricardo Nochetto, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Modeling, Analysis and Computation of Biomembranes
October 20, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Ralf Deiterding, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Dynamically Adaptive Cartesian Methods for Shock-driven Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation
November 3, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Norbert Heuer, Catholic University of Santiago, Chile
Title: Non-conforming boundary elements
November 10, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Xiaozhe Hu, Penn State University
Title: Effective Solvers for Reservoir Simulation
November 17, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Michael Neilan, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Finite element methods for singular perturbed PDEs
December 8, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Dmitriy Leykekhman, University of Connecticut
Title: Issues with Finite Element discretization of the Advection-Dominated Optimal Control Problems

Spring 2011

February 17, 2011 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Petr Plechac, University of Delaware
Title: Born-Oppenheimer approximation and accuracy of molecular dynamics
February 24, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Ricardo Oyarzua, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Title: An augmented mixed finite element method for the Stokes-Darcy coupled problem
March 10, 2011 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Johnny Guzman, Brown University
Title: Mixed methods for the Reissner-Mindlin plate using a first-order system formulation
March 17, 2011 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Yassine Boubendir, NJIT
Title: Past and new non-overlapping domain decomposition methods for the Helmholtz equation
April 7, 2011 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Shawn Walker, Louisiana State University
Title: Shape Optimization of Chiral Propellers in 3-D Stokes Flow
April 28, 2011 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Liwei Xu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: Exactly divergence-free central DG methods for ideal MHD equations
May 12, 2011 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee
Title: Conservative Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation
May 19, 2011 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Jason Howell, Clarkson University
Title: Dual-Mixed Finite Element Methods for Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids

Fall 2010

September 30, 2010 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Francisco-Javier Sayas, University of Delaware
Title: Non-symmetric coupling of BEM and FEM: 30 years after
October 7, 2010 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Lehel Banjai, Max Planck Institut, Leipzig, Germany
Title: High-order quadratures for time-domain boundary integral equations of acoustic and electromagnetic scattering
October 14, 2010 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Shangyou Zhang, University of Delaware
Title: A family of divergence-free finite elements on 2D and 3D rectangular grids
October 21, 2010 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Jeffrey Ovall, University of Kentucky
Title: A framework for robust eigenvalue and eigenvector error estimation and Ritz value convergence enhancement
October 28, 2010 11:00 - 12:00 EWG 336
Jun Hu, Pennsylvania State University and Peking University
Title: The adaptive conforming and nonconforming finite element methods for the fourth order problem
November 11, 2010 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Yanlai Chen, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Title: Certified reduced basis method for electromagnetic problems
December 9, 2010 10:00 - 11:00 EWG 336
Fioralba Cakoni, University of Delaware
Title: The Transmission Eigenvalue Problem