Computational Mathematics and Applications Seminars

These seminars were run jointly by the Numerical Analysis Group and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).

The coordinators were Professor L N Trefethen and Dr Sue Thorne (was Dollar).

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• 8Oct2009
  Solving partial differential equations on surfaces with the Closest Point Method

  14:00 Thursday 8th October ( week 0, Michaelmas Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr. Colin Macdonald ( University of Oxford )
• 18Jun2009
  Radial Basis Functions Methods for Modeling Atmospheric and Solid Earth Flows

  14:00 Thursday 18th June ( week 8, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr. Natasha Flyer ( National Center for Atmospheric Research )
• 11Jun2009
  A fast domain decomposition solver for the discretized Stokes equations by a stabilized finite element method

  14:00 Thursday 11th June ( week 7, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr. Atsushi Suzuki ( Czech Technical University in Prague / Kyushu University )
• 4Jun2009
  Approximate Gauss-Newton methods using reduced order models

  14:00 Thursday 4th June ( week 6 - at RAL! -, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot

  Dr. Amos Lawless ( University of Reading )
• 28May2009
  Radial Basis Functions for Solving Partial Differential Equations

  14:00 Thursday 28th May ( week 5, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof. Bengt Fornberg ( University of Colorado )
• 21May2009
  Introduction to Quasicontinuum Methods: Formulation, Classification, Analysis

  14:00 Thursday 21st May ( week 4, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr. Christoph Ortner ( Oxford University )
• 14May2009
  Hybrid asymptotic-numerical methods for high frequency scattering

  14:00 Thursday 14th May ( week 3, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof. Ivan Graham ( University of Bath )
• 7May2009
  Generalized Nested Factorization - a recursive preconditioner for spatially discretized linear systems

  14:00 Thursday 7th May ( week 2, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr. John Appleyard ( Polyhedron Software Ltd )
• 30Apr2009
  Approximation of Inverse Problems

  14:00 Thursday 30th April ( week 1, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof. Andrew Stuart ( University of Warwick )
• 23Apr2009
  How sharp is the restricted isometry property? An investigation into sparse approximation techniques

  14:00 Thursday 23rd April ( week 0 - at RAL! -, Trinity Term 2009 ) in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot

  Dr. Coralia Cartis ( University of Edinburgh )
• 12Mar2009
  On fast multilevel algorithms for nonlinear variational imaging models

  14:00 Thursday 12th March ( week 8 - at RAL! -, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)

  Prof Ke Chen ( University of Liverpool )
• 5Mar2009
  Geometric Numerical Integration of Differential Equations

  14:00 Thursday 5th March ( week 7, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Reinout Quispel ( Latrobe University Melbourne )
• 26Feb2009
  Golden syrup, lubrication theory, and PETSc -- a recipe for models of ice-sheet dynamics

  14:00 Thursday 26th February ( week 6, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Richard Katz ( Oxford University )
• 19Feb2009
  Numerical methods for palindromic eigenvalue problems

  14:00 Thursday 19th February ( week 5, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Christian Mehl ( University of Birmingham )
• 12Feb2009
  A new perspective on the complexity of interior point methods for linear programming

  14:00 Thursday 12th February ( week 4, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Raphael Hauser ( Oxford University )
• 5Feb2009
  Parametric approximation of geometric evolution equations and their coupling to bulk equations

  14:00 Thursday 5th February ( week 3, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Robert Nürnberg ( Imperial College London )
• 29Jan2009
  Coverage Processes on Spheres and Condition Numbers for Linear Programming

  14:00 Thursday 29th January ( week 2, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Martin Lotz ( Oxford University and City University of Hong Kong )
• 22Jan2009
  Preconditioning of linear systems in an ocean flow model

  14:00 Thursday 22nd January ( week 1 - at RAL! -, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)

  Dr Fred Wubs ( University of Groningen )
• 15Jan2009
  On the accuracy of inexact saddle point solvers

  14:00 Thursday 15th January ( week 0, Hilary Term 2009 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Miro Rozloznik ( Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic )
• 4Dec2008
  Cholesky factorizations for multi-core systems

  14:00 Thursday 4th December ( week 8, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Jonathan Hogg ( Rutherford Appleton Laboratory )
• 27Nov2008
  Topology Optimisation: Achievements and Challenges

  14:00 Thursday 27th November ( week 7 - at RAL! -, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)

  Dr Alicia Kim ( University of Bath )
• 20Nov2008
  Approximation of harmonic maps and wave maps

  14:00 Thursday 20th November ( week 6, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Soeren Bartels ( University of Bonn )
• 13Nov2008
  Optimal domain decomposition methods (Neumann-Neumann or FETI types) for systems of PDEs

  14:00 Thursday 13th November ( week 5, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Frederic Nataf ( Universite Paris VI and CNRS UMR 7598 )
• 6Nov2008
  Asymptotics and complex singularities of the Lorenz attractor

  14:00 Thursday 6th November ( week 4, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Divakar Viswanath ( University of Michigan )
• 30Oct2008
  A posteriori error estimation and adaptivity for an operator decomposition approach to conjugate heat transfer

  14:00 Thursday 30th October ( week 3, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Simon Tavener ( Colorado State University )
• 23Oct2008
  Some issues in dense linear algebra algorithms for multicore and new architectures

  14:00 Thursday 23rd October ( week 2 - at RAL -, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)

  Dr Marc Baboulin ( University of Coimbra )
• 16Oct2008
  50 Years of Scientific Computation in Oxford

  14:00 Thursday 16th October ( week 1, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr David Mayers ( Oxford University )
• 9Oct2008
  Barycentric coordinates and transfinite interpolation

  14:00 Thursday 9th October ( week 0, Michaelmas Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Michael Floater ( University of Oslo )
• 12Jun2008
  The immersed boundary method and simulations of liquid metal magnetohydrodynamics

  14:00 Thursday 12th June ( week 8, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Paul Dellar ( OCIAM, Oxford University )
• 5Jun2008
  Conic optimization: a unified framework for structured convex optimization

  14:00 Thursday 5th June ( week 7, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Francois Glineur ( Universitė catholique de Louvain )
• 29May2008
  Dirichlet to Neumann maps for spectral problems

  14:00 Thursday 29th May ( week 6, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Marco Marletta ( Cardiff University )
• 22May2008
  An overview of the Jacobi-Davidson method

  14:00 Thursday 22nd May ( week 5 - at RAL! -, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  Dr Michiel Hochstenbach ( TU Eindhoven )
• 15May2008
  A posteriori error estimates for a local-in-space timestep approach to finite element discretization of the heat equation

  14:00 Thursday 15th May ( week 4, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Stefano Berrone ( Politecnico di Torino )
• 8May2008
  The Envelope Method

  14:00 Thursday 8th May ( week 3, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Beresford Parlett ( UC Berkeley )
• 1May2008
  Eigenvalue avoidance

  14:00 Thursday 1st May ( week 2, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Nick Trefethen ( Oxford University )
• 24Apr2008
  Solving continuous differential equations numerically in the chebfun system

  14:00 Thursday 24th April ( week 1, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof Toby Driscoll ( University of Delaware )
• 17Apr2008
  Developing multi-scale and multi-physics computational models of the heart

  14:00 Thursday 17th April ( week 0, Trinity Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Dr Nicolas Smith ( Computing Laboratory )
• 10Jan2008
  Hilary Term 2008

  14:00 Thursday 10th January ( week 0-9, Hilary Term 2008 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Link to seminars HT 2008
• 23Jan2003
  All previous seminars

  14:00 Thursday 23rd January ( week 0-9, Hilary Term 2003 ) in Comlab

  Link to previous terms