University of Houston

Department of Mathematics

 Scientific Computing Seminars
Spring 2015 - Fall 2015

Fall 2015
  1. Sept. 24, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Annalisa Quaini (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Challenges in computational hemodynamics: multiphysics and cost reduction .

  2. Sept. 28, 2015: Monday, 2 PM - 3 PM at PGH 646. Different date and time
    Qiang Yang (Department of Mathematics, Tulane University):
    Macroscopic fiber motion in a polymeric fluid driven by a four roll mill.

  3. Oct. 15, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Alexandre Caboussat (Department of International Business Management, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland):
    Some Computational Issues in Hydraulic Engineering : Dams breaks, landslides, weir flows and impulse waves.

  4. Oct. 29, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Alexander Mamonov (Department of Mathematics, University of Houston):
    Model order reduction for the numerical solution of diffusive inverse problems.

  5. Nov. 2, 2015: Monday, 2 PM - 3 PM at PGH 646. Different date and time
    E. E. Tyrtyshnikov (Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow):
    The choice of optimal bases and low-rank approximations algorithms.

  6. Nov. 5, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Paul Hand (Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University):
    ShapeFit: Exact location recovery for a problem from machine vision.

  7. Nov. 11, 2015: Wednesday, 2 PM - 3 PM at PGH 646. Different date and time
    Timo Heister (Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University):
    Numerical Methods in the Finite Element Mantle Convection code ASPECT.

  8. Nov.19, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Vladimir Druskin (Schlumberger Doll Research Center):
    Reduced order models for large scale wave problems.

Spring 2015
  1. Jan. 22, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Jianxian Qiu (School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University):
    Hermite WENO schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws.

  2. Canceled Feb. 5, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646. Canceled
    Clint N. Dawson (Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin):
    Computational Modeling of Storm Surge and Waves for the Houston-Galvestion Region.

  3. Canceled Feb. 12, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.Canceled
    Ke Shi (Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University):
    Multiscale Hybridizable DG methods for flows in heterogeneous media.

  4. Feb. 18, 2015: Wednesday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM at PGH 646. (Different date & time)
    Pavel Bochev (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque):
    Perspectives on preservation of physical properties through optimization.

  5. March 5, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Michael Hintermüller (Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-University of Berlin):
    Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems in Banach Spaces.
  6. March 12, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Gianluigi Rozza (SISSA International School for Advanced Studies, Mathematics Area, mathLab, Trieste, Italy):
    Recent advances on reduced order modelling for viscous and thermal flows in parametrized settings: focus on stability and bifurcations.

  7. Amundson Lecture Series March 24-26, 2015 by Prof. Olivier Pironneau (University of Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI, France):

  8. Apr. 2, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Luoding Zhu (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ Indianapolis):
    A 3D immersed boundary method for fluid-thin-walled-structure interaction.

  9. Apr. 9, 2015: Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM at PGH 646.
    Adrianna Gillman (Dept. of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University):
    Fast direct solution techniques for partial differential equations.

Previous Talks
  1. Talks given in 2014.
  2. Talks given in 2013.
  3. Talks given in 2012.
  4. Talks given in 2011.
  5. Talks given in 2010.
  6. Talks given in 2009.
  7. Talks given in 2008.
  8. Talks given in 2007.
  9. Talks given in 2006.
  10. Talks given in 2005.
  11. Talks given in 2004.