The Numerical Analysis Seminar for Spring 2008 will be held at 1:30 PM every Tuesday in 214 MacLean Hall unless otherwise noted. Visitors are welcome. For additional information, contact Laurent Jay.

Speakers and topics:

• Tuesday, January 29: Brian Gillispie, On Tracking instabilities in elastic bodies.
• Tuesday, February 5: No seminar this week due to job interviews.
• Tuesday, February 12: Laurent Jay, Tree structures in Taylor series and curve approximation: application to curve search in nonlinear optimization.
• Tuesday, February 19: No seminar this week due to road conditions.
• Tuesday, February 26: Weimin Han, Radiative transfer equations.
• Tuesday, March 4: Ken Atkinson, A spectral method for elliptic problems: the Dirichlet problem.
• Tuesday, March 11: David Stewart, Uniqueness for differential variational inequalities.
• Tuesday, March 25: Ken Atkinson, A survey of numerical quadrature on the sphere.
• Tuesday, April 1: Ted Wendt, Frictionless dynamic contact with mixed position-velocity complementarity.
• Tuesday, April 8: No seminar this week.
• Tuesday, April 15: Yinnian He (Faculty of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), Implicit/explicit schemes for the Navier-Stokes equations.
• Tuesday, April 22: Joe Eichholz , An introduction to numerical methods for the radiative transfer equation.
• Tuesday, April 29: Laurent Jay, Symplectic numerical integration and generating functions.
• Tuesday, May 6: Kamran Kazmi, Numerical PDEs in option pricing models.