Research Colloquium
Fall 2005
Thursday, September 15
Prof. Dongxiao Zhang
Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering
University of Oklahoma
Title: Efficient Quantification of Uncertainty for Flow in Porous Formations
[Abstract]
Wednesday, September 21
Prof. Roman Grigoriev
Center for Nonlinear Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Chaotic Mixing in Microdroplets: Theory and Experiment
[Abstract]
Thursday, September 29
Prof. E. McKay Hyde
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
Title: Fast, High-Order Integral Equation Methods for Scattering by
Inhomogeneous Media
[Abstract]
Wednesday, October 5
Prof. Yalchin Efendiev
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
Title: Efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for dynamic data
integration
[Abstract]
Wednesday, October 12
Prof. Joseph E. Pasciak
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
Title: Analysis of a finite PML approximation for the three dimensional time-harmonic Maxwell and acoustic scattering problems
[Abstract]
Wednesday, October 19
Prof. Krešimir Josić
Department of Mathematics
University of Houston
Title: The impact of architecture on network dynamics
[Abstract]
Wednesday, November 2
Prof. Anette (Peko) Hosoi
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Building a better snail: lubrication and adhesive locomotion
[Abstract]
Thursday, November 10
Prof. Hristo V. Kojouharov
Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at Arlington
Title: Nonstandard Finite Difference Methods: Theory and Applications
[Abstract]
Thursday, November 17
Prof. Jerry Shih
Department of Applied Mathematics
National Chung Hsing University
Title: A new implementation of the elliptic systems method in
time dependent diffusion tomography applied to back
reflected and transmitted data
[Abstract]
Wednesday, November 30
Prof. Xuejun Xu
Institute of Computational Mathematics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title: On a Parallel Nonoverlapping Domain Decomposition Method
[Abstract]
