Scheduled Talks with Abstracts (Winter 2003):


January 6, 2003 No Talk this Week xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

January 13, 2003 Benjamin J. Keen, Mathematics, U of M
Cartesian Mesh Cut Cell Discretizations and Kinetic Schemes for Gas Dynamics

January 20, 2003 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 27, 2003 Iain D. Boyd, Aeorspace Engineeering, U of M
Direct Simulation Monte Carlo: A Particle Method for Nonequilibrium Gas Flows

February 3, 2003 Khalid Boushaba, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U of M
A Mathematical Model for Phytoplankton

February 10, 2003 No Talk this Week

February 17, 2003 Divakar Viswanath, Mathematics, U of M
Reversible and Symplectic Integrators

February 24, 2003 Spring Break

March 3, 2003 Kristen S. Moore, Mathematics, U of M
Markov Chain Approximation Methods for Stochastic Optimal Control Problems Arising in Finance and Insurance

March 10, 2003 Trevor Fast, Mathematics, U of M
Linear Programming as an Application to Approximation Theory

March 17, 2003 Smadar Karni, Mathematics, U of M
Numerical methods for compressible multiphase flows

March 24, 2003 Hans Johnston, Mathematics, U of M
Treecode Algorithms for Particle Simulations and the Protein-Folding Problem

March 31, 2003 Christiane Jablonowski, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences, U of M
Adaptive Grids in Climate and Weather Modeling

April 7, 2003 Sylvia-Pekyin Chiang, Mathematics, U of M
Finite Difference Schemes and Weak Solutions

April 14, 2003 David M. Bortz, Mathematics, U of M
Numerical Simulation of Delay Differential Equations


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