Applied Math Colloquium Spring 2006 Schedule
| Friday, Jan 27th, 11am-12noon | MP401 |
| Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Reactive Transport Problems | |
| - Shuyu Sun, The University of Texas at Austin | Details... |
| Wednesday, Feb 1st, 12noon-1pm | MP401 |
| Optimization Techniques for Mesh Warping and the Geometry of Materials | |
| - Suzanne Shontz, University of Minnesota | Details... |
| Wednesday, Feb 8th, 12noon-1pm | MP401 |
| Optimal control as a regularization method for ill-posed problems | |
| - Carmeliza Navasca, UCLA | Details... |
| Friday, Feb 10th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| Inverse backscattering for the wave equation in heterogenous media | |
| - William W. Symes, Rice University | Details... |
| Monday, Feb 14th, 10am-11am | MP401 |
| The Spectral Volume Reconstruction on Simplex | |
| - Qian-Yong Chen, IMA | Details... |
| Friday, Feb 17th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| The coarsening dynamics of dewetting fluid films | |
| - Thomas P. Witelski, Duke University | Details... |
| Friday, Feb 24th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| System and Control Issues of Complementarity Systems | |
| - Jinglai Shen, RPI | Details... |
| Wednesday, March 1st, 12noon-1pm | MP401 |
| Analysis of some interface and free boundary problems | |
| - Daniel Coutand, University of California Davis | Details... |
| Friday, March 3rd, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| Efficiency considerations for the numerical integration of stochastic differential equations | |
| - Habir Lamba, George Mason University | Details... |
| Saturday, March 4th, 1pm-2pm | MP401 |
| Multigrid methods as efficient solvers for ill-posed problems | |
| - Andrei Draganescu, Sandia National Laboratories | Details... |
| Friday, March 10th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| "Who Wrote this Document?" | |
| - Charles Nicholas, UMBC | Details... |
| Friday, March 17th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| Conjugate Points for Neumann boundary conditions | |
| - Robert Manning, Haverford College | Details... |
| Friday, March 23rd | MP401 |
| Spring break - No seminar | |
| Friday, March 31st | MP401 |
| No seminar due to the Finite Element Circus | |
| Details... | |
| Friday, April 7th, 11am-12noon | MP401 |
| Modeling: Heart, Mind, and ... Bacteria | |
| - Brad Peercy, Rice University | Details... |
| Friday, April 7th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| Viscoelastic Fluids (Polymers and Wormlike Micelles): Properties and Mathematical Models | |
| - Pamela Cook, University of Delaware | Details... |
| Friday, April 14th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| Iterative Clustering: Discrete and Continuous Optimization Problems | |
| - Jacob Kogan, UMBC | Details... |
| Friday, April 21st | |
| No colloquium | |
| Friday, April 28th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| Finite Element Partition of Unity Method for Nonmatching Grids | |
| - Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware | Details... |
| Friday, May 5th, 2:30-3:30pm | MP401 |
| Schottky's storms: classical function theory and ideal fluid mechanics | |
| - Darren Crowdy, Imperial College, London | Details... |
| For information on the Mathematics Colloquia, please contact Muruhan Rathinam at muruhan@math.umbc.edu. | |
| Past Colloquia | |
| Fall 2005 Colloquia | |
| Spring 2005 Colloquia | |
| Fall 2004 Colloquia | |
| Spring 2004 Colloquia | |
| Fall 2003 Colloquia | |