Penn State University
Department of Mathematics
Fridays, 3:30-4:30 PM
102 McAllister Building
| 01/16/98 | Xiaoping Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Host: J. Shen |
Phase transition in Van der Waals flow |
| 01/23/98 | Graeme Milton
University of Utah Host: L. Berlyand |
Using analyticity to check the consistency of experimental measurements |
| 01/30/98 | Xinfu Chen
University of Pittsburgh Host: J. Shen |
Formal asymptotic expansions and their rigorous verifications |
| 02/06/98 | Lung-an Ying
Peking University Host: J. Xu |
The infinite element method for scattering problems |
| 02/13/98 | Yannis Kevrekidis
Princeton University Host: J. Lopez |
Closed-loop dynamics: two computational case studies |
| 02/20/98 | Steve Hou
Iowa State University Host: J. Shen |
Analysis, approximation, and computations of unsteady optimal flow control problems |
| 02/27/98 | John
C. Strikwerda
University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: D. Arnold |
Preconditioning for regular elliptic systems of differential equations |
| 03/06/98 | V. Druskin
Schlumberger Doll Research Host: L. Berlyand |
Homogenization for the finite-difference approximation of elliptic equations with rough coefficients |
| 03/13/98 | no seminar--spring break | |
| 03/20/98 | Vladimir
Maz'ya
Linköping University, Sweden Host: D. Arnold |
An asymptotic theory of boundary and local singularities of solutions to higher order linear and semilinear elliptic equations |
| 03/27/98 | Note: Finite Element Circus at Denver | |
| 04/03/98 | Ludmil Zikatanov
Penn State |
Subspace definition for a multigrid method on unstructured grids |
| 04/10/98 | Sijue Wu
University of Iowa Host: M. Chen |
Wellposedness in Sobolev spaces of the full water wave problem |
| 04/17/98 | Peter Oswald
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Host: D. Arnold |
Nonlinear approximation and solution adaptivity |
| 04/24/98 |
Mark
Ablowitz
University of Colorado at Boulder Host: D. Henderson |
Effective and computational chaos |
| 05/01/98 | Michael Shelley
Courant Institute Host: S. Tavener |
Models of neuronal activity in the visual cortex |