Research Colloquium
Spring 2010

Clements Hall 126

Wednesday: 3:30--4:30
Tue & Thu: 3:45--4:45
Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk.


Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Lexing Ying
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
UT Austin
Host: T. Hagstrom

Title: Butterfly Algorithm and Its Applications

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Monday, February 8, 2010
*** Time change: 3:30pm ***

Yekaterina Epshteyn
Department of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Nonlinear Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Numerical Methods for Chemotaxis Models

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Monday, February 15, 2010
*** Time change: 3:15pm ***

Yingda Cheng
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
UT Austin

Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods and Applications to Boltzmann-Poisson Models in Semiconductor Device Simulation

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Monday, February 22, 2010
*** Time change: 3:15pm ***

Scott Norris
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Title: Multi-scale modeling of ion-beam irradiation: linking atomistic simulation to continuum PDEs

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Leslie Greengard
Department of Mathematics
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Title: Fast elliptic solvers and the Coulomb collision operator

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Richard Braun
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware

Title: Models for Dynamics of the Human Tear Film

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