Welcome to:

PDEs & Numerical Methods Seminar-Fall 1999



Location and time: Penn State University
Department of Mathematics
102 McAllister Building
Tuesday/Thursday
4:00pm-5:00pm
Host: Jinchao Xu


DATE SPEAKER TITLE
08/31/1999 Ralf Kornhuber   (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer Mathematik I) Convex minimization and variational inequalities (an introduction to the problem class and discretization)
09/07/1999 Ralf Kornhuber   (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer Mathematik I) Monotone Multigrid methods for free boundary problems
09/14/1999 Jinchao Xu   (Penn State University) An introduction to multigrid theory
09/21/1999 Michael Holst   (UC San Diego, Department of Mathematics) The ringed vertex data structure, adaptive multilevel finite element methods, and their implementation in MC.
09/28/1999 Hongrong Qin   (Penn State University) Multigrid method for harmonic map computation
10/05/1999 Petr Vanek   (UCLA) Abstract convergence bounds for smoothed aggregation multigrid methods.
10/07/1999 (Thursday,
115 McAllister,
4pm-5pm)
Marian Brezina   (UColorado, Boulder) Smoothed aggregation methods in applications
10/19/99 Hongrong Qin   (Penn State University) Multigrid method for harmonic map computation II
11/02/99 Wen Zhang  (Department of Mathematics and Statistics Oakland University) Surface Motion Driven by Surface Laplacian of Curvature
11/04/1999 (Thursday,
115 McAllister,
4pm-5pm)
Zhiming Chen  (Caltech) Adaptive finite element methods with error control for nonlinear PDEs
11/16/99 Valentin Gogonea, (Penn State University) The use of a divide-and-conquer strategy for diagonalizing the Fock matrix in molecular orbital theory. Application to the calculation of the ground state energy of biomolecules
11/23/99 Chun Liu, (Penn State University) Dynamic thories for liquid crystals I
12/14/99 Chun Liu, (Penn State University) Dynamic thories for liquid crystals II


Previous schedules: Spring 99, Spring 98, Fall 98.