Bath Numerical Analysis seminar

Numerical Analysis Research Group, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath

Location: 1W3.6

Time: Friday, 12:15-13:15

Everyone is welcome at these talks. Feel free to join us for lunch after the seminar.

Please send suggestions for talks to Adrian Hill <A.T.Hill@bath.ac.uk>

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(tba: to be announced, tbc: to be confirmed)

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2009-01-30 Timo Betcke, Fundamental Solution Methods for Wave Problems,

Timo Betcke (University of Manchester)

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~tbetcke/

Title : Fundamental Solution Methods for Wave Problems

2009-02-06 Adrian Hill, The instability of linear multistep methods for nonautonomous negative definite systems, [cancelled]

Adrian Hill (University of Bath)

http://people.bath.ac.uk/masath/

Title : The instability of linear multistep methods for nonautonomous negative definite systems

2009-02-13 Zhivko Stoyanov, Sensitivity of spectral clustering for networks,

Zhivko Stoyanov (University of Bath)

http://people.bath.ac.uk/mapzvs/

Title : Sensitivity of spectral clustering for networks

2009-02-20 Fynn Scheben, Eigenvalue problems in neutron transport,

Fynn Scheben (University of Bath)

Title : Eigenvalue problems in neutron transport

2009-02-27 Melina Freitag, Preconditioners for saddle point problems,

Melina Freitag (University of Bath)

http://people.bath.ac.uk/mamamf/

Title : Preconditioners for saddle point problems

Abstract :

The talk will be mainly based on the paper `Combination preconditioning and the Bramble-Pasciak+ preconditioner' by Martin Stoll and Andy Wathen.

2009-03-06 tba

2009-03-13 Richard Akinola, Numerical Computation of the Complex Eigenvalues of a real Matrix,

Richard Akinola (University of Bath)

http://people.bath.ac.uk/roa20/

Title : Numerical Computation of the Complex Eigenvalues of a real Matrix

2009-03-20 Erik Burman, Pressure stabilisation for multi-physics problems in fluid mechanics,

Erik Burman (University of Susses)

http://www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/~erik/

Title : Pressure stabilisation for multi-physics problems in fluid mechanics

2009-03-27 Natalia Babych, The Lamé operator in Hölder domains: Asymptotics of ODEs in Banach spaces,

Natalia Babych (University of Bath)

http://www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~nb243/

Title : The Lamé operator in Hölder domains: Asymptotics of ODEs in Banach spaces

2009-04-03 tba, vacation

2009-04-10 tba, vacation

2009-04-17 tba, vacation

2009-04-24 Emily Dodgson, Modelling Convection in Porous Media,

Emily Dodgson (University of Bath)

Title : Modelling Convection in Porous Media

2009-05-01 Chris Hart, Computation of eigenvalues in spectral gaps of the 1D Schrodinger equation,

Chris Hart (University of Bath)

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ma3cjh/

Title : Computation of eigenvalues in spectral gaps of the 1D Schrodinger equation

2009-05-08 Nicolette Rattenbury, [postponed until 2009-05-29]

Nicolette Rattenbury (Manchester Metropolitan University)

http://www.docm.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/N.Rattenbury/

2009-05-15 Ludmil Zikatanov, Subspace correction methods for Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations

of elliptic problems,

Ludmil Zikatanov (Pennsylvania State University)

http://www.math.psu.edu/ltz/

Title : Subspace correction methods for Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems

Abstract :

Joint work with Blanca Ayuso de Dioa from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

2009-05-22 Mahadevan Ganesh, T-matrix computations in three dimensional electromagnetic scattering,

Mahadevan Ganesh (Colorado School of Mines)

http://inside.mines.edu/~mganesh/

Title : T-matrix computations in three dimensional electromagnetic scattering

2009-05-29 Nicolette Rattenbury, General Linear Methods and Trees,

Nicolette Rattenbury (Manchester Metropolitan University)

http://www.docm.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/N.Rattenbury/

Title : General Linear Methods and Trees

Abstract :

An online background paper not yet in physical print is: J. C. Butcher, Trees and Numerical Methods for ordinary differential equations, Numerical Algorithms, doi 10.1007/s11075-009-9285-0. http://www.springerlink.com/content/un0168l544n80250

2009-06-05 Kerstin Hesse, Smoothing Approximation of Noisy Scattered Data in Geodesy,

Kerstin Hesse (University of Sussex)

http://www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/~hesse/

Title : Smoothing Approximation of Noisy Scattered Data in Geodesy

Abstract : kim_abstract.pdf

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