University of Houston
Department of Mathematics

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

1. September 2, 2004:

   Roland Glowinski (Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Houston):
   Numerical Investigation of a Conjecture of B.Dacorogna in Nonlinear Elasticity

2. September 23, 2004:

   Dietrich Braess (Institute of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany):
   A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Variational Inequalities

3. September 30, 2004:

   Alexandre Caboussat (Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Houston):
   Computational Methods for Two Minimization Problems in Air Quality Modeling

4. October 5, 2004:

   Mary F. Wheeler (TICAM, Departments of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
   Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, and Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin):
   Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Multiphysics Couplings

5. October 7, 2004:

   Jacques Rappaz (Chair of Numerical Analysis and simulation,
   Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing, EPFL, Switzerland):
   Finite Element Method with Patches and Applications

6. October 28, 2004: Joint Scientific Computing and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Cancelled

   Lisa Fauci (Department of Mathematics, Tulane University):
   Integrative models of microorganism motility

7. November 2, 2004: ** Special Date and Time: Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 PM

   Carsten Carstensen (Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany):
   Averaging techniques for a posteriori finite element error control

8. November 9, 2004: Joint Talk with the Dept. Colloquium Cancelled

   Jim Douglas, Jr. (Department of Mathematics, Purdue University):
   A New Algorithm for Simulation of Transitional Waves in Three-Phase Immiscible Displacement in Porous Media

9. November 11, 2004:

   Jiwen He (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
   Modeling and Computation of the Physical State of Atmospheric Particles and Application to 3D Air Quality Models

10. November 18, 2004: A joint seminar with the Dept. of CAAM at the Rice Univ.

    Ekkehard W. Sachs (Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech.):
    Modelling Optimization Algorithms for Applications

11. November 22, 2004: ** Special Date: Monday

    P. Bochev (Computational Mathematics and Algorithms, Sandia National Laboratories):
    On least-squares principles for the Poisson equation and their connection to the Dirichlet and Kelvin principles, or how to do least-squares finite elements right.

12. November 23, 2004: ** Special Date: Tuesday. ** Special location: 232 PGH

    Olivier Pironneau (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Universite Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France):
    Identification of Discontinuous coefficients in first and second order distributed systems

13. November 30, 2004: Joint Scientific Computing and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar ** Special Date: Tuesday

    Gabriel Wittum (The Simulation in Technology Center, IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany):
    Towards Simulation of Neuronal Signal Processing