Applied Math Student Seminar


The seminar will run almost every week. Talks will take place on Wednesdays in 901 Van Vleck at 3:45pm unless otherwise noted. Topics include, but are not limited to, partial differential equations, scientific computing, applied mathematics, and stochastic differential equations. Speakers and titles are listed below.



Fall 2009 Schedule

Sep 9: Jeff Haack - An Introduction to Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Sep 16: No seminar today
Sep 23: No seminar today
Sep 30: Alec Johnson - Levermore closure for the ten-moment heat flux
Oct 7: No seminar today - Please attend Andrea Bertozzi's colloquium talk
Oct 14: Julie Simons - The Volcano Effect in Bacterial Chemotaxis
Oct 21: Peng Qi - A second order numerical method for the 1d discrete-ordinate transport equation
Oct 28:
Nov 4: Daniela Banu - An introduction to the Belousov-Zhabotinskii model
Nov 11:Bokai Yan - A spectral method for the Boltzmann collison operator
Nov 18:Jingwei Hu - Fast, conservative, and entropic numerical methods for the Bosonic Boltzmann equation
Nov 25: No seminar today
Dec 2:Tete Boonkasame
Dec 9: Sarah Matz
Dec 16:


Previous Semesters

If you would like to give a talk, ask a question, or make a comment please contact haack at math dot wisc dot edu.