University of Bath - Department of Mathematical Sciences

Informal Numerical Analysis Seminars   2004/05

NOW   in   1W3.6   at   12.15   on Fridays

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

The schedule for the first semester of session 2004-2005 is as follows:

• 8th October    Melina Freitag will give a talk on her diplom thesis in Chemnitz: "On the influence of multiplication operators on the ill-posedness of inverse problems."

• 15th October    Adrian Hill will give a talk on "The numerical stability of non-autonomous stiff systems: Linear stability domain or circle criterion?"

• 22nd October    Dave Simpson will give a talk on "An optimisational approach to a posteriori error estimation."

• 29th October    Zhivko Stoyanov will give a talk on a paper by M. Fiedler: "A property of eigenvectors of nonnegative symmetric matrices and its applications to graph theory."

• 5th November    Christoph Ortner (PhD student at Oxford, working with Johannes Zimmer) will give a talk on "The Quasicontinuum Method".

• Wednesday, 10th November (10.15am) in 1W3.6    Yves Achdou (University Paris VII) will give a talk on "Calibration of volatility via American options."

• Wednesday, 10th November (12.15pm) in 1W3.6    Frederic Nataf (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) will give a talk on "Optimized Interface Conditions in Domain Decomposition Methods. Application to Layered Problems with Extreme Contrasts in the Coefficients."

• 12th November    No seminar.    Additional numerical talks Wednesday 10th November (see above).

• 19th November    No seminar.   Stefan Funken (Brunel) will speak at 2.15.

• 26th November    No seminar.   Additional numerical talks on 30th November (Andre Leger & Andrew Hill, CNM Seminar, 1.15pm, 1W3.6).

• 3rd December    Marco Marletta (Cardiff) will give a talk on "Eigenproblems on exterior domains and approximation of Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps."

• 10th December    Johannes Zimmer will give a talk on "Variational methods and Gamma-convergence for discrete dynamics".

• 17th December    No seminar.

• 14th January    Chris Budd will give a talk on "Adaptive time-stepping for symplectic methods."

• 21st January    Adrian Hill will give a talk on "Discrete Control Theory and Time Stepping Methods."

See here for a preliminary schedule for Semester 2.

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

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