Spring 2009 Schedule

Jan 28: Scheduling meeting
Feb 4: Alec Johnson - Special Relativistic Fluid Mechanics
Feb 11: No seminar today
Feb 18: Daniela Banu - Modeling Spatio-Temporal Patterns Generated by Bacillus Subtilis
Feb 25: No seminar today - Please attend the AMPDE seminar
Mar 4: Peng Qi - Kinetic Flux Vector for the Euler Equations
Mar 11: No seminar today
Mar 18: Spring Break - no seminar
Mar 25: Jeff Haack
April 1: No seminar today
April 8: Bokai Yan - The boundedness and blow-up of the Keller-Segal model
April 15: Li Wang - Domain decomposition analysis for transport equations
April 22: No seminar
April 29: Zhan Wang - Structure of rarefaction waves in gas dynamics
May 6:

Fall 2008 Schedule

Sep 3rd: Planning meeting
Sep 10th: Jeff Haack - Subtleties in Operator Splitting for the Transport Equation
Sep 17th: Julie Simons- Modeling Epidemics
Sep 24th: Alec Johnson - Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Plasmas
Oct 1st: no seminar - please attend the AMPDE seminar
Oct 8th: no seminar - please attend the AMPDE seminar
Oct 15th: Bokai Yan - Moving Mesh PDEs for Differential Equations with Blow-up
Oct 22nd: no seminar - please attend the AMPDE seminar
Oct 29th: Peng Qi - The Transmission Matrix Method for the 1D Schrodinger Equation
Nov 5th: Jingwei Hu - Numerical Methods for acoustics equations in heterogeneous media
Nov 12th:no seminar - please attend the AMPDE seminar
Nov 19th at 2:25PM (note special time): Jesse Holzer - Extensions of Newton's method in optimization
Nov 26th:No Meeting: Thanksgiving
Dec 3rd: Zhi Zhang - A brief introduction to surface hopping methods
Dec 10th: Qiang Deng - The Error Estimate of the Near-Resonant Approximation of 3D Rotating Navier-Stokes Equations

Spring 2008 Schedule

Jan 30th: Planning meeting
Feb 6th: Ben Akers - Limiting Water Wave Models
Feb 13th: No Seminar this week
Feb 20th: Special lecture by Prof. Paul Milewski
Feb 27th: Special lecture by Prof. Paul Milewski
Mar 5th: Special lecture by Prof. Paul Milewski
Mar 12th: Alec Johnson - Waves in Plasmas
Mar 19th: Spring Break - no seminar
Mar 26th: CANCELLED
Apr 2nd: Jeff Haack - Sound Waves in Low Mach-Number flow ,
Peng Qi - Symplectic and Multisymplectic schemes for the KdV Equation
Apr 16th: Li Wang - A fast spectral algorithm for nonlinear wave equations with linear dispersion
Jingwei Hu - The forced KdV equation as a model for waves generated by topography
Apr 23rd: Julie Simons - Waves in Biology
Apr 30th: Qiang Deng - The Radial Spread of a Liquid Jet Over a Horizontal Plate
Bokai Yan - A Pseudospectral Method for Nonlinear Wave Equations
May 5, 9:30 AM: Xu Yang - Numerical Methods for Multiscale Kinetic Transport and High Frequency Waves
May 14th: Li Wang - A Reduced Model For Rotational Flows
Daniela Banu - Methods of Dispersal in Biological Systems
Gokul Vishwanathan
Nadheesh Bharadwaj
Monday May 26, 10 AM, 901 VVBen Akers - Solitary Gravity-Capillary Waves in Deep Water


Fall 2007 Schedule

  • Sept 12th : Benjamin Akers - Fractional Derivatives
  • Sept 19th : Jeff Haack - Vibrations of a Fluid-Carrying Plate
  • Sept 26th : Antonio Ache - Conservation laws for NLS
  • Oct 3rd : Alec Johnson - The analogy between vorticity and magnetic field in MHD
  • Oct 10th : Hao Wu - Hybrid Particle Method
  • Oct 17th : Special Seminar - Barry Simon
  • Oct 24th: Please attend the Mathematics Colloqium
  • Oct 31st : Daniela Banu - An Inverse Scattering Transform Approach for the KDV Equation
  • Nov 7th : Shane Hubler - Complexity Analysis of Peptide Identification by Mass
  • Nov 14th : Yingzhe Shi - Fast Gauss Transform
  • Nov 21st : Thanksgiving
  • Nov 28th : postponed
  • Dec 5th: Xu Yang - Numerical computation of radiative transfer equation with interfaces
  • Dec 12th : Rohini Kumar - A stochastic approach to deterministic boundary value problems

Spring 2007 Schedule

Fall 2006 Schedule

  • Sept 13th : Benjamin Akers - Steady Numerical Solutions to Nonlinear PDE's
  • Sept 20th : Julie Simons - Bacterial Chemotaxis: a Population-Level Comparison
  • Sept 27th : No talk today, please attend Boris Gershgorin's AMPDE seminar.
  • Oct 4th : Jeff Haack - A pseudospectral integrating factor method for numerically solving nonlinear wave equations
  • Oct 11th : Melinda Moran - Kelvin Ship Waves
  • Oct 18th : Blythe Hazellief - The Complex Step Derivative
  • Oct 25th : Xu Yang - Asymptotic Methods for the Reduced Wave Equation
  • Nov 1st : No talk today, Please attend Andrew Majda's Distiguished Lecture.
  • Nov 8th : No talk today, Please attend Michel Rascle's AMPDE seminar.
  • Nov 15th: Alec Johnson - A Kinetic Derivation of Basic Conservation Laws for Plasmas.
  • Nov 22nd : No Seminar - Thanksgiving
  • Nov 29th : Nathan Panike - Stochastic simulation of Diffusion Processes
  • Dec 6th : Qiang Deng - Adaptive Finite Element Methods

Spring 2006 Schedule

  • Jan 25th : Melinda Moran - A nonlocal continuum model for biological aggregation
  • Feb 1st : Alec Johnson - Proofs of the Fundamental Theorem of Numerical Analysis
  • Feb 8th : Benjamin Akers - From KDV to NLS: When waves are packets
  • Feb 15th : Blythe Hazellief - A Derivation of the KDV equation
  • Feb 22nd : Xu Yang - Renormalized solution to the transport equation with non-smooth coefficients
  • Mar 1st : Julie Simons - Multiscale Modeling and Bacteria
  • Mar 8th : no seminar today
  • Mar 15th : Spring Break
  • Mar 22nd : Jeffrey Haack - A fast sweeping method for the eikonal equations
  • Mar 29th : Diego Galindo - Existence of Solutions to Hyperbolic PDE's
  • Apr 5th : Benjamin Akers - Absorbing Boundary Conditions
  • Apr 12th : Mark Remmel - Incompressible Fluid Flow
  • Apr 19th : Hye Won Kang - The viral infection model with Markov processes
  • Apr 26th : Chin Wu - An amazing freak wave
  • May 3rd : Anne Jorstad - A Finite Element Discretization of the Stokes Equations in an Axisymmetric Domain


Fall 2005 Schedule

  • Sept 14th : Benjamin Akers - Shallow Water Flow through Contraction I
  • Sept 21st : Benjamin Akers - Shallow Water Flow through Contraction II
  • Sept 28th : Kyle Novak - A Mixed Classical-Quantum Transport Model
  • Oct 5th : Lonqing Wu - Some Methods for Multiscale Problems
  • Oct 12th : Xu Yang - Domain Decomposition Method for a Two-Scale Transport Equation
  • Oct 19th : Julie Simons - Initiation of Slime Mold Aggregation Viewed as an Instability
  • Oct 26th : Mark Remmel - Balanced Equations and Energy Spectra
  • Nov 2nd : Diego Galindo - Asymptotics to a Self-Similar Solution to the Euler Poisson Equations
  • Nov 9nd : Colloquium
  • Nov 16nd :Frank Thorne - Turing Instabilities in Reaction-Diffusion Equations
  • Nov 23nd : Thanksgiving
  • Nov 30nd : Jared English - The Solitary Wave in a Chain of Beads
  • Dec 6th : Xiaomei Liao - Elastic Waves