VIGRE Seminar
Scientific Computation and Numerical Analysis
CAAM 699
Fall 2011
Organized By: Beatrice Riviere, Jennifer Young, Tim Warburton

Participants: Kun Liu, Shirin Sardar, Yingpei Wang, Ricardo Alonso, Xin Yang, Rajesh Gandham, Reid Atcheson, Jizhou Li, A.J. Hergenroeder, Charles Puelz, Mario Bencomo, Muhong Zhou, Yinjiao Wang, Elisabeth Giem, Russell Carden, David Medina

Meeting: Wednesdays, 1:00-1:50 Duncan Hall 3076
Date
 Speaker
 Title
08/24/11 Organizational Meeting
 Organizational Meeting
08/31/11 Beatrice Riviere
 Hilbert spaces
09/14/11
 Beatrice Riviere
 Lax-Milgram Theorem
09/21/11
 Beatrice Riviere
 Sobolev spaces
09/28/11
 Beatrice Riviere
 Variational problems
10/05/11
 Beatrice Riviere
 The Finite Element Method
10/12/11
 Rajesh Gandham
 Approximation by quadrilateral finite elements 
10/19/11
 Xin Yang and Shirin Sardar
 The h-p version of the finite element method 
10/26/11
 Jizhou Li
 Convergence of finite element method for solutions in H^1
Reference: Ciarlet, "The Finite Element Method for Elliptic Problems"
11/02/11
 Reid Atcheson
 On the constants in hp-finite element trace inverse inequalities   
11/09/11
 A.J. Hergenroeder
 On mesh geometry and stiffness matrix conditioning for general finite element spaces 
11/16/11
 Mark Embree
 Stability Analysis for Discretization of Non-Self-Adjoint Operators
11/30/11
 Rainer Helmig
 Coupling Two-Phase Compositional Porous Medium and Free Flow 

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