Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar

Department of Mathematics
Purdue University

Fridays, 3:30-4:20 PM at REC 108 (unless otherwise specified)

Fall 2008


Date

Speaker

Title

Host

08/29/08 Chuanju Xu
Xiamen University
Some new developments in spectral element methods for incompressible flows Jie Shen
09/23/08
Tuesday, 4:30pm
MATH 175
Math Colloquium
Michael Holst
University of California, San Diego
Some New Existence and Approximation Results for the Constraints in the Einstein Equations Melvin Leok and Robert Skeel
09/26/08 Kai Huang
Florida International University
Quadratic Model of Interest Rate Peijun Li
10/10/08 Jae-Hun Jung
SUNY Buffalo
The Gibbs phenomenon with radial basis functions and its applications Dongbin Xiu
10/17/08 Houman Owhadi
Caltech
Uncertainty Quantification through concentration of measure inequalities Dongbin Xiu
10/24/08 Lili Ju
University of South Carolina
Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Elliptic PDEs Based on Conforming Centroidal Voronoi Delaunay Triangulations Peijun Li
10/31/08
Special time and location:
1:30pm, Birck 1001
Two seminars today
Michael Eldred
Sandia National Laboratories
Experiences with nonintrusive polynomial Chaos and stochastic collocation methods for uncertainty analysis and design Dongbin Xiu
10/31/08 Charles Doering
University of Michigan
Heat Rises: Energy transport in Rayleigh-Benard convection Melvin Leok
11/14/08
Special time and location: 1pm, MATH 431
Two seminars today
Libin Rong
Los Alamos National Laboratory
What can mathematical models do in HIV/HCV treatment? Zhilan Feng
11/14/08
Special time and location: 3pm, Birck 1001
Habib Najm
Sandia Livermore Laboratories
Uncertainty Quantification in Chemical Systems Dongbin Xiu
11/21/08 Long Chen
University of California, Irvine
High Order Finite Volume Methods for Second Order Elliptic equations Jianlin Xia
11/28/08

Thanksgiving Break
12/5/08 Eric Cyr
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Goal-Oriented Adaptivity for the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation Zhiqiang Cai
12/11/08
Special date, time, and location: Thursday, 10am, MATH 431
Xiaoqiang Zhao
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Spatial Dynamics of Abstract Monostable Evolution Systems With Applications Zhilan Feng

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


Next semester: Spring 2009
Past seminars: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, 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 organizer, Melvin Leok.