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 January 30, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  David M. Ambrose, Drexel University, Traveling and time-periodic vortex sheets with surface tension.

• Wednesday February 13, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Prince Chidyagwai, Temple University, Discontinuous Galerkin method for moment closure models for radiative transfer.

• Wednesday February 20, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Miro Rozloznik, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Numerical behavior of saddle point solvers.

• Wednesday March 6, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Susan Margulies, Pennsylvania State University, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and linear algebra: An algorithm for determining combinatorial infeasibility.

• Wednesday March 20, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Tim Kiemel, University of Maryland, The spectral analysis of the neural control of walking.

• Wednesday March 27, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Jinchao Xu, Pennsylvania State University, Discretization and preconditioning for coupled PDE systems.

• Wednesday April 3, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Robert Manning, Haverford College, A generalization of conjugate points for a broader range of elastic rod problems.

• Wednesday April 10, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Daniel B. Szyld, Temple University, On the numerical solution of the (nonlinear) Riccati matrix equation.

• Wednesday April 17, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Andreas Frommer, University of Wuppertal, Matrix functions: Computation and applications.

• Wednesday April 24, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Andrei Draganescu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Multigrid preconditioners for linear systems arising in PDE-constrained optimization.

• Wednesday May 1, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Tadele A. Mengesha, Pennsylvania State University. A mathematical analysis of linearized peridynamics.

• Wednesday August 28, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Matt Zumbrum, Temple University, Modeling surface-volume reactions for optical biosensor applications.

• Wednesday September 4, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Boyce Griffith, New York University, Multiphysics and multiscale modeling of cardiac dynamics.

• Wednesday September 18, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Dan Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Traffic monitoring with smartphones.

• Wednesday October 2, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Christopher Beattie, Virginia Tech, An overview of interpolatory model reduction.

• Wednesday October 9, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Tianyu Zhang, Montana State University, Modeling of critical occlusion via biofilm-induced calcite precipitation in porous media.

• Wednesday October 23, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Martin Short, Georgia Tech, Modeling point processes on social networks.

• Wednesday October 30, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Yvonne Ou, University of Delaware, Mathematical links between microstructure and effective properties of composite materials.

• Wednesday November 6, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Isaac Klapper, Temple University, Two tales of a microbial city.

• Wednesday November 13, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Peter Molnar, Princeton University, Metabolic approaches to predicting ecological impacts of climate change: Parasites, polar bears and other arctic critters.

• Wednesday November 20, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Two short talks. Steven Shank, Temple University, KKT preconditioners for non-Hermitian indefinite PDE systems; Dong Zhou, Temple University, Mixed finite element method for pressure Poisson equation reformulation of the Navier-Stokes equations.

• Friday November 22, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Special event: Final presentations of the course Final Math 8107: Mathematical Modeling for Science, Engineering, and Industry.

• Wednesday December 4, 2013 at 09:00, Wachman 617

  Special event: Final presentations of the course Final Math 8107: Mathematical Modeling for Science, Engineering, and Industry.

• Wednesday December 4, 2013 at 16:00, Wachman 617

  Martin Frank, RWTH Aachen University, Non-classical transport and fractional diffusion.