Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Seminar

The seminar normally meets on Fridays at 10:00 a.m. in room 1302 of Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012.

Talks Spring 2005

January 21 , Jon Wilkening, CIMS

New tools for studying stress-driven grain boundary diffusion

January 28 ***AT 11:30 AM***, Paolo Bientinesi, University of Texas, Austin

Toward a Final Generation of Linear Algebra Libraries.
This talk will be given as a Computer Science Colloquim.

February 4, Alex Barnett, CIMS

High-Frequency Cavity Modes: Efficient Computation and Applications

February 11, Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University

Two Stage Stochastic Semi-Definite Programming: Decomposition Methods, Implementation, and Applications

February 18, Marcus Grote, University of Basel and CIMS

Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions for Multiple Scattering Problems

February 25, Marcus Sarkis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro and WPI

Elliptic PDEs with Highly Oscillatory or Stochastic Coefficients: Numerical Discretizations and Analysis

March 4, Mark Embree, Rice University

Convergence of Iterative Eigensolvers, with Applications to Fluid Stability Problems

March 11, No Seminar

March 18, Spring Break

March 25, No Seminar

April 1, Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon University

Computing the Stability Number of a Graph via Linear and Semidefinite Programming

April 8, Lothar Reichel, Kent State University

Iterative Methods for Tikhonov Regularization

April 15, Leslie Greengard, CIMS

Computational Electromagnetics for Microstructured Materials

April 22, Donna Calhoun, University of Washington

Exact Far-Field Boundary Conditions for the Two-Dimensional Heat Equation

April 29, Ming Gu, SAC Meridian Fund

A Fast and Stable Polynomial Root-Finder

May 6, Laurent El Ghaoui, SAC Meridian Fund

Sparse Principal Component Analysis and Applications