Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar

Current contacts: Benjamin Seibold or Daniel B. Szyld

The Seminar usually takes place on Wednesdays at 4:00 PM in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall. Click on title for abstract.

• Wednesday February 9, 2011 at 15:00, Wachman 617

  Eric de Sturler, Virginia Tech, Efficiently generating a million preconditioners for Quantum Monte Carlo simulations.

• Wednesday February 16, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Hans Johnston, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, A Local vorticity boundary condition spectral collocation method for 2D incompressible fluids.

• Wednesday February 23, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Valeria Simoncini, Universita di Bologna, Solution of structured algebraic linear systems in PDE-constrained optimization problem.

• Wednesday March 2, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Alina Chertock, North Carolina State University, Particle methods for nonlinear time-dependent PDEs.

• Wednesday March 16, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Howard Elman, University of Maryland. Fast Iterative Solution of Models of Incompressible Flow.

• Wednesday March 23, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Fei Xue, Temple University. Efficient inexact Rayleigh quotient iteration and its connections to the Jacobi-Davidson method.

• Wednesday April 6, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Prince Chidyagwai, Temple University. On the coupling of Finite Volume method with Discontinuous Galerkin method.

• Wednesday April 20, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Daniel B. Szyld, Temple University. An overview of Krylov subspace methods for the iterative solution of large linear systems .

• Wednesday April 27, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Rosemary Renaut, Arizona State University (and National Science Foundation), Sparsity enforcing edge detection method for blurred and noisy Fourier data.

• Wednesday September 7, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Marlliny Monsalve, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Symbol recognition using the geometrical properties of the matrix space using the Frobenius norm.

• Wednesday September 14, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Special event: Meet the Applied Math Faculty and Students.

• Wednesday September 21, 2011 at 13:30, Wachman 617

  Special event: Axel Kohlmeyer, Temple University, An introduction to the high performance computing cluster "owlsnest".

• Wednesday October 12, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  David Shirokoff, McGill University, A new pressure Poisson approach for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.

• Wednesday October 19, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Yossi Farjoun, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, The shape of the optimal javelin.

• Wednesday October 26, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Benjamin Seibold, Temple University, Jet schemes for advection problems.

• Wednesday November 2, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  5 Short Talks: Fei Xue, Prince Chidyagwai, Shimao Fan, Stephen Shank, Kirk Soodhalter, all Temple University.

• Friday November 4, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Special event: Mid Atlantic Numerical Analysis Day.

• Wednesday November 16, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Meredith Hegg, Temple University, Exact Relations for Fiber-Reinforced Elastic Composites.

• Wednesday November 30, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Daniel B. Szyld, Temple University, An optimal solver and preconditioner for banded matrices and PDEs on irregular domains.

• Tuesday December 6, 2011 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Special event: Presentations of the two student projects of the Mathematical Modeling Course: The upside down running of cockroaches and The optimal cappucino foam.

• Wednesday December 7, 2011 at 17:00, Wachman 617

  Iain Duff, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, and CERFACS, France, Preconditioners Based on Strong Subgraphs.