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all seminars on Wednesdays from 4-5 PM in 939 Evans unless otherwise noted
Jan 30: Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern
Shock Reflection, Transonic Flow, and Free Boundary Problems
Thurs, Jan 31, 4-5PM 60 Evans: Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern (DiPerna Lecture)
Nonlinear Conservation Laws of Mixed Type in Mechanics and Geometry
Feb 6: William Collins, LBNL
Constructive methods for climate forcing
Mon, Feb 11, 4-5 PM, 891 Evans: Jing-Rebecca Li, INRIA, France
Fast computation of time convolutions:
the heat equation and fractional order integrals.
Tues, Feb 12, 4-5 PM, 1015 Evans: Amit Singer, Yale University
Global Positioning from Local Distances
Feb 13: Inez Fung, UC Berkeley
Mathematics of Climate Change
Fri, Feb 15, 2-3 PM, 891 Evans: Mark Tygert, Yale University
A fast algorithm for approximating
the singular value decomposition of a matrix
Wed, Feb 20, 11 AM - 12 PM, 939 Evans: Per-Olof Persson, MIT
High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
for Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Feb 27: Eric Darve, Stanford
Generalized fast multipole method
Mar 5: Shamgar Gurevich, Berkeley
The finite harmonic oscillator: A deterministic construction of
"random vectors"
Mar 12: Charbel Farhat, Stanford
Reduced-order modeling, differential
geometry and physics-based near-real time predictions
Mar 19: Randall J. Leveque, University of Washington
Algorithms for shock wave propagation in
tissue, bones and kidney stones
Mar 26: Spring Break
Apr 2: Jim Nolen, Stanford
Traveling waves and asymptotic spreading of
reaction-diffusion fronts in heterogeneous media
Apr 9: no seminar
Apr 16: Becca Thomases, UC Davis
Coil stretch transitions and mixing in a
viscoelastic fluid
Apr 23: Parviz Moin, Stanford
Dynamic Wall Modeling for Large Eddy
Simulation
Fri, Apr 25, 10-11 AM, 939 Evans : Maria Westdickenberg, Georgia Tech
Noise-driven rare events and action minimization
Maria's talk has been
cancelled due to illness.
Apr 30: Robert Krasny, University of Michigan
Lagrangian Simulations of Fluids and Plasmas
wilken at
math.berkeley.edu)