University of Bath - Department of Mathematical Sciences

Informal Numerical Analysis Seminars   2004/05

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 Finite Element Methods   by Ivan Graham. This takes place Mondays 14.15-16.15 in 8West 2.20.

• Reading Group on the   Numerical Solution of Eigenvalue Problems   organised by Melina Freitag. This takes place every fortnight Tuesday 17.15-18.15 in 1West 3.24.

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

• 18th February    Stefano Giani will give "An Introduction to Composite Finite Element Methods."

• 25th February    No Seminar!    David Kay (Sussex) will speak in the main seminar at 2.15.

• 4th March    Rob Scheichl will present a paper by Brezina & Vanek: "A black-box iterative solver based on a two-level Schwarz method".

• 11th March    Zhivko Stoyanov will give a talk on   "How Google^TM works: Eigenvector methods for PageRank."

• 18th March    Simone Mandica will give a talk on "A robust iterative scheme for the k-epsilon turbulence model."

• 15th April    Andre Leger will give "An Introduction to Level Set Methods with Application."   

• 22nd April    Melina Freitag will give "An Introduction to Arnoldi's method and Implicit Restarts."

• 29th April    Alastair Spence will present a paper by V. Simoncini: "Variable Accuracy of Matrix-Vector products in Projection Methods for Eigencomputation."

• 6th May    Deborah Greaves, Lisa Matthews and Chris Williams (Civil Engineering, Bath) will give a talk on "Moving boundary problems and fluid structure interaction."

• 13th May    Darryl Almond, Chris Bowen and Giles Hunt (Mechanical Engineering, Bath) will give a talk on "Simulating the physical properties of large networks of randomly sited components with electrical, mechanical and thermal applications."

• 20th May    Bruce Boutelje will give a talk on the "Approximation of Inertial Manifolds."

• 27th May    Carl-Friedrich Kreiner will give a talk on "Waves in Hamiltonian Lattices."

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

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