CAAM 652: Topics in Numerical Differential Equations

This course is offered every semester. Recent advances in scientific computing and numerical analysis are presented.


We meet every Wednesday from 10am to 10:50am in DH 3076.

Fall 2016


Participants: Travis Thompson, Bryan Doyle, Charles Puelz, Chen Liu, Christopher Thiele

Date Speaker Title
09/02 Beatrice Riviere IPDG for elliptic equations: definition
09/07 Travis Thompson IPDG for elliptic equations: existence and uniqueness
09/14 Travis Thompson IPDG for elliptic equations: error estimates
09/21 Travis Thompson IPDG for elliptic equations: error estimates
09/28 Beatrice Riviere DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations: model problem
10/12 Beatrice Riviere DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations: error analysis
10/19 Beatrice Riviere DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations: error analysis
10/26 Beatrice Riviere DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations: error analysis
11/02 Beatrice Riviere DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations: error analysis
11/16 Beatrice Riviere DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations: error analysis


Spring 2017


Participants: Travis Thompson, Bryan Doyle, Charles Puelz, Chen Liu, Christopher Thiele

Date Speaker Title
01/18 Charles Puelz Von Neumann analysis and stability of multistep methods
01/25 Charles Puelz Von Neumann analysis and stability of multistep methods
02/01 Charles Puelz Von Neumann analysis and stability of multistep methods
02/08 Beatrice Riviere Multiphase flow
02/15 Beatrice Riviere Multiphase flow
03/01 Beatrice Riviere Multiphase flow
03/08 Chen Liu DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations
03/22 Chen Liu DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations
03/29 Chen Liu DG for Cahn-Hilliard equations
04/05 Travis Thompson Enriched Galerkin method
04/12 Travis Thompson Enriched Galerkin method
04/19 Travis Thompson Enriched Galerkin method


Past courses: 2008/2009, 2009/2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
2012/2013,2013/2014,Spring 2015,2015/2016

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics | Rice University