Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar

Department of Mathematics
Purdue University

Fridays, 3:30-4:20 PM at REC 226 (unless specified otherwise)

Spring 2007

Date

Speaker

Title
01/12/07 Chad Westphal
Wabash College
 Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for PDEs in Nonsmooth Domains
01/19/07 Arsen Narimanyan
University of Bremen, Germany
 A Stefan-Signorini Moving Boundary Problem: Mathematical Modelling of Thermal Plasma Cutting
04/4/07 (4pm at HAAS 111) Randy Bank
University of California, San Diego
 Parallel Adaptive Methods and Domain Decomposition
04/26/07 (Joint CAM/PDE seminar, 3:30pm at UNIV 217) Tim Sluckin
Southampton University
 Theories of the Smectic Liquid Crystal State

CCAM visiting Scientists Seminar Series, Spring 2007

Mathematics and Numerics of Fluid Dynamics (with an emphasis on complex fluids)

Fridays, 3:30-4:20 PM at UNIV 103 (unless specified otherwise)

Date

Speaker

Title
03/02/07 George Karniadakis
Brown University
Simulation of Complex Fluids using Dissipative Particle Dynamics
03/09/07 Roger Temam
Indiana University
Theoretical and computational problems for the equations of the ocean and the atmosphere
03/23/07 Greg Forest
University of North Carolina
 High Performance Macromolecular Materials
03/30/07 Yuriko Renardy
Virginia Tech
 Numerical simulations of drop deformation for viscoelastic liquid-liquid systems
04/06/07 Jerry Bona
University of Illinois at Chicago
Applications of Water Wave Theory to issues arising in Oceanography
04/13/07 (Cancelled!) Max Gunzburger
Florida State University
Reduced-order modeling for complex systems
04/20/07 Charlie Doering
University of Michigan
 Twist & Shout: Maximal Enstrophy Production in the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations
04/24/07 Tim Sluckin (3:30pm at UNIV 217!)
Southampton University, UK
Episodes from the history of liquid crystals
04/27/07 Peter Constantin
University of Chicago
 Smoluchowski-Navier-Stokes dynamics

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*Starred entries indicate dates that are tentatively booked but might be rescheduled if necessary.

Past seminars: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002
Please send comments and suggestions to the seminar coordinator.