University of Houston
Department of Mathematics
Scientific Computing Seminars
Spring 2012
- February 2, 2012: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at PGH 646.
Jacques Rappaz (Chair of Numerical Analysis and Simulation, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland):
Convection-diffusion problems with Robin's boundary conditions. Application to a solidification problem. - February 9, 2012: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at PGH 646.
Yuri Vassilevski (Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences):
Monotone finite volume discretization of the diffusion and convection-diffusion equations on polyhedral meshes. - February 16, 2012: Thursday, 3 PM - 4 PM at PGH 646.
Ronald Hoppe (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Biharmonic Equation. - Scientific Computing Lectures in honor of
Professor Roland Glowinski on the occasion of his 75th birthday
March 9, 2012: Friday, 1:30PM - 5:00 PM at PGH 232.
- 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM: Welcome
- 1:50 PM - 2:00 PM: Opening Remarks
- 2:00 PM - 2:40 PM: Prof. Mary F. Wheeler (University of Texas at Austin): History Matching and Uncertainty Quantification for Modeling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
- 2:40 PM - 3:20 PM: Prof. Olivier Pironneau (University of Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI, France): Continuous and Discrete Adjoints
- 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM: Coffee Break
- 3:40 PM - 4:20 PM: Prof. Jacques Periaux (University of Jyväskylä, Finland and International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Barcelona, Spain): Evolutionary Optimisation with Hybridized Games for Aerospace
- 4:20 PM - 5:00 PM: Prof. Danny Sorensen (Rice University):
Automating DEIM for Nonlinear Model Reduction
- Event Photos:
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(Special Thanks to The Texas Learning & Computation Center. Photos taken by Monica Kressman and Emily Peacock).
- March 22, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Malte A. Peter (Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Germany):
Modelling and simulation of chemical degradation mechanisms in porous media with evolving microstructure. - March 29, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Uday Banerjee (Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University):
Stable Generalized Finite Element Method. - March 30, 2012: Friday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Maxim Olshanskii (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia):
A numerical approach to viscoplastic free surface flows using dynamic meshes. - April 5, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Zhilin Li (Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University):
The Immersed Interface Method and Applications to CFD Problems. - April 17, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Josef Sifuentes (Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University):
An Approximate Deflation Preconditioning Method Based on Multiple Grids for Wave Scattering Problems. - April 19, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Sabine Le Borne (Department of Mathematics, Tennessee Technological University):
Hierarchical matrices: a brief history and some applications in numerical PDEs. - May 3, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Owe Axelsson (Division of Scientific Computing, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University):
A stabilization of time dependent Navier-Stokes equation for variable density and variable viscosity problems and its numerical solution.
Fall 2012
- September 4, 2012: Tuesday, 11 AM - 12 PM at PGH 646.
Dr. Saul Abarbanel (Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University):
Wave Propagation in Advected Acoustics within A Non-Uniform Medium under the effect of Gravity. - September 6, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Carsten Carstensen (Dept. of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany):
Five Trends in the Mathematical Foundation of Computational PDEs - September 20, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Yuri Kuznetsov (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
Mixed Finite Element Method with Piece-wise Constant Fluxes for Diffusion Equations - October 4, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
John A. Evans (Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin):
Divergence-conforming B-spline Discretizations for Viscous Incompressible Flows - November 8, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Tao Xiong (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
WENO Scheme with Subcell Resolution for Computing Nonconservative Euler Equations - November 13, 2012: Tuesday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Tiziano Passerini (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University):
Aortic and cerebral pulse waveforms: the effect of viscoelasticity (and other physical properties) - November 15, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Leo Rebholz (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University):
New models and timestepping methods for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulation modeling - November 29, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646.
Zhengfu Xu (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University):
Parametrized maximum principle flux limiters for high order schemes solving hyperbolic conservation laws - December 6, 2012: Thursday, 3PM - 4PM at PGH 646 (two 22 minute talks)
3:00PM - 3:25PM: Lingling Shi (Department of Mathematics University of Houston):
Deformation of a single red blood cell in bounded Poiseuille flows
3:25PM - 3:50PM: Kidist Zeleke (Department of Mathematics University of Houston):
Numerical simulations of surface acoustic wave (SAW) actuated cell sorting and enantiomer separation
- Directions to the seminar at 646 PGH.
- For further information about the seminar you may contact one of the organizers: Ronald Hoppe or Tsorng-Whay Pan.