COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS PROSEMINAR (SPRING 2000)

Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University

Default time: Thursday 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Default place: GWC Room 604
Time and place may change for some talks

Organizer: Hans Mittelmann, GWC 646, 480-965-6595, mittelmann@asu.edu


Confirmed Talks

January 20, Organizational Meeting.

Thursday, January 27, 12:30 p.m. GWC 604
Jim Verner , Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Ramifications of the Derivation of Explicit Runge-Kutta Methods

Tuesday, February 1, 12:00 p.m. GWC 604
Anne Gelb , Department of Mathematics, (joint with Cognition Seminar)
Edge detection: reconstruction of piecewise smooth functions from their spectral data

Thursday, February 10, 4:00 p.m. PSA 103
Francisco Marques Truyol, Applied Physics,
Polytechnic University of Catalunia, Barcelona/Spain
Dynamics and bifurcations in a periodically forced Navier-Stokes flow(joint Colloquium)

Thursday, February 17, 12:30 p.m. GWC 604
Frank Tse, Department of Mathematics
A practical method to reduce numerical disturbance arising from spectral domain decomposition

Thursday, March 2, 3:40 p.m. PSA 103
Stephen J. Wright, MCS division, Argonne National Labs,
Solving Large Optimization Problems on Computational Grids (joint Colloquium)

Monday, March 6, 12:00 p.m. GWC 604
Omar Ghattas ,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Large-Scale PDE-Constrained Optimization: Parallel Algorithms and Applications in Optimal Control, Optimal Design, and Inverse Problems(cosponsored by SSERC)

Thursday, March 9, 12:30 p.m. GWC 604
Carl Gardner , Department of Mathematics,
Electrodiffusion Model Simulation of Rectangular Current Pulses in a Voltage-Biased Biological Channel

Thursday, March 16, Spring break

Thursday, March 23, 4:00 p.m. PSA 103
Jan S. Hesthaven , Applied Mathematics Division, Brown University,
High-Order Unstructured Grid Methods for Conservation Laws (joint Colloquium)

Thursday, March 30, 11:30 a.m. GWC 604
John Butcher, University of Auckland, New Zealand
On Runge-Kutta order conditions

Thursday, March 30, 12:30 p.m. GWC 604
John Belward , Department of Mathematics , University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia,
Surface Fitting and the Structure of Rainfall Data

Thursday, April 6, 3:40 p.m. PSA 103
Kenneth Holmström , Department of Mathematics and Physics,
University of Mälardalen, Sweden
The TOMLAB Optimization Environment in Matlab(joint Colloquium)

Thursday, April 20, 12:30 p.m. GWC 604
Don A. Jones , Department of Mathematics,
Enslaved Finite Difference Schemes for Nonlinear Evolution Equations

Thursday, May 2, 12:30 p.m. GWC 604
Rosemary Renaut , Department of Mathematics,
Kinetic Parametric Estimation Using Positron Emission Tomographic Data


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