Penn State University

Interdisciplinary Seminar on PDEs and their Applications

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Altoona
University Park

Organizers

Juan Gil
Thomas Krainer
Anna Mazzucato
Victor Nistor

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Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006

Spring Semester 2008

Feb. 1  Jim Anderson*
Department of Chemistry
Penn State University		 Quantum Monte Carlo
Feb. 6  Durkbin Cho
Department of Mathematics
Penn State University		 An introduction to numerical methods for hyperbolic equations
Mar. 19  Scott MacLachlan
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University		 A comparison of two-level preconditioning strategies
Apr. 14  Dmitriy Leykekhman**
Department of Mathematics
University of Connecticut		 Hölder estimates for Green's functions on convex polyhedral domains
and their applications to finite element methods
Apr. 23  Francesco Costanzo 
ESM Department
Penn State University		 On the Cohesive Zone Modeling of Cracks
May 9  Emily Dryden 
Department of Mathematics
Bucknell University		 Listening to orbifolds: What does the Laplace spectrum tell us?
June 5  Blanca Ayuso 
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid		 Introduction to Discontinuous Galerkin Methods: from elliptic to pure hyperbolic problems

* Joint with the CCAM Colloquium at University Park
** Joint with the CCMA Seminar on PDE & Numerical Methods at University Park

Scope of the Seminar

The aim of this interdisciplinary seminar is to foster the communication between researchers from both applied and theoretical sciences working with partial differential equations. This includes mathematical modeling, numerical simulations and computation, as well as qualitative and quantitative analysis of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations.

Anybody with an interest in partial differential equations is cordially invited to attend. If you would like to contribute a talk, please contact the organizers.

The seminar will meet regularly at University Park and Altoona.