University of Bath - Department of Mathematical Sciences

Numerical Analysis Seminars   2005/06

in  1W3.6  at  12.15  on Fridays

Everyone is welcome at these talks and please join us for lunch after the seminar.

Please note that this semester there will also be a

  Graduate Course on   Advanced Numerical Linear Algebra   by Alastair Spence.

This takes place Fridays 9.15-11.15 in 1West 2.8A.

The schedule of the talks for the first semester of session 2005-2006 is as follows:

• 7th October    Alastair Spence will speak on a paper by F. Tisseur and K. Meerbergen on "The Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem" (SIAM Review 2001, pp. 235-286).

• 14th October    Roy Mathias (Oxford/Birmingham) will give a talk on "Quadratic Eigenvalue Problems and Related Distance Problems".

• 21st October    Bill Morton (Bath?) will give a talk on "The Preissmann Box Scheme for the St Venant Equations".

• 28th October    Stephen Langdon (Reading) will give a talk on "High Frequency Scattering by Convex Polygons".

• 4th November    Bruce Boutelje will give a talk on "Time Discretisations of Semilinear Parabolic Equations with Nonsmooth Initial Data".

• 11th November    Stefano Giani will give a talk on "A Posteriori Error Estimator for Photonic Crystals".

• 18th November    Andris Lasis (Strathclyde) will give a talk on "Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Parabolic Problems: Robust a priori and a posteriori Error Estimates".

• 25th November    Corinne Arrouvel (Chemistry) will give a talk on "Mathematical Interactions in Theoretical Chemistry: Advances and Perspectives to Simulate Matter".

• 2nd December    Steve Parker (Chemistry) will give a talk on "Computer Modelling of Ceramics and Mineral Surfaces at the Atomic Level."

• 9th December    Melina Freitag will give a talk on "Solution of a constraint generalised eigenvalue problem using the inexact Shift-and-Invert Lanczos method."

• 16th December    No seminar.    Meeting in honour of Edward Fraenkel   (Speakers: D.E. Edmunds, V. Mazya, J.B. McLeod, L. Tartar, ...).

• 6th January    No seminar.    NOTE.   There are however two meetings which might be of interest in Cardiff:
  • LMS Meeting on Mathematical Software (5th January)
  • SIAM UK/RoI Annual Meeting (6th January)

• 13th January    Richard Norton will give a talk on a survey article by Babuska & Osborn on "The variational eigenvalue problem for self-adjoint operators on Hilbert spaces."

• Wed 18th January (2.15 pm)    Jan Van Lent (Leuven, Belgium) will give a talk on "Using Functional Calculus for the Spectral Analysis of Multigrid Methods."

• 27th January    Zhivko Stoyanov will give a talk on "Analytical and numerical results for entrainment in large networks of coupled oscillators."

Further information may be obtained from Rob Scheichl (01225 386034).

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