Applied Mathematics and Computation (AMC) seminar 2005-2006

Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University
Contact: Malgorzata Peszynska, Ralph Showalter.
Time/location: Fridays 12:00-12:50, Gilkey 113.

The AMC seminar is devoted to general topics in applied and computational mathematics. We welcome a general audience of faculty and researchers and graduate students from mathematics, geosciences, engineering, atmospheric sciences and oceanography, computer science, and all other disciplines. Each term we select a focus theme.

Graduate students can sign up for credit (MTH 607, in Winter CRN is 27335).

Schedule 2004-2005
Schedule 2005-2006
Schedule 2006-2007
Schedule 2007-2008
Current schedule

Focus theme in 2004-2005: "Models and analysis of multiscale problems and techniques with applications to phenomena in porous media".
Focus theme in 2005-2006: "Fluid dynamics: modeling, analysis, and large scale computational simulation".
Focus theme in 2006-2007: "Uncertainty and multiple scales in modeling and computation".

Schedule Fall 2005

Sep. 30 Ralph Showalter, "Coupled Stokes and porous media flow. Part I."
Oct. 7 Harry Yeh, "Initial-Value Problem for Axisymmetric Wave and the Applications to Tsunamis"
Oct. 14 Sun-Chul Kim, "On Prandtl-Batchelor theory of Navier-Stokes flows"
Oct. 21 Juliette Chastanet, "Gas flow in porous media: upscaling by multiscale asymptotic expansions"
Oct. 26 (UNUSUAL day: Wed.) at noon, same location, Thomas Russell, National Science Foundation, "Stochastic Modeling of Immiscible Flow with Moment Equations"
Oct. 28 Ed Waymire, "Some Remarks on Statistical Turbulence, Navier-Stokes Equations and Size-Biased Moments"
Nov. 4 Dorthe Wildenschild, "Effective Parameters for Unsaturated Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media - Experiments and Modeling"
Nov. 11 (Colloquium) Emmanuelle DiBenedetto , "Homogenized limits in visual transduction: The role of the incisures"
Nov. 18 John Singler, "Transition to turbulence, small disturbances and sensitivity analysis"
Dec. 2 Malgorzata Peszynska, "Lagrange multipliers and discrete LBB condition in mixed methods for Darcy and Stokes flow. Part I."
Dec. 12 John Neuberger, "Critical points of Ginzburg-Landau functionals of superconductivity via Sobolev gradients"

Schedule Winter 2006

1/13 Malgorzata Peszynska , "Lagrange multipliers and discrete LBB condition in mixed methods for Darcy and Stokes flow. Part II."
1/20 Hakan Basagaoglu, "Lattice Boltzmann models for simulating pore-scale colloidal transport and multiphase/multicomponent flow in porous and fractured systems"
1/27 Ron Guenther, "Mathematical Modeling, Inverse Problems, and Parameter Identification"
2/3 Corina Constantinescu , "An integro-differential equation for a general renewal risk model"
2/10 Viktor Podolskiy, "Understanding the wave propagation and imaging in meta-materials"
2/17 No seminar today
2/24 Son-Young Yi, "Multidimensional, Locally Conservative, Eulerian-Lagrangian Finite Element Method for a Semilinear Parabolic Equation"
3/3 Bertrand Laubsch, "Introduction to the Support Operator Method"
3/10 Adam Wunderlich , "Implementation of the Katsevich Inversion Formula for Cone-Beam Computed Tomography"
3/17 James Liburdy , "Flow Structure Detection: In Search of Large Scale Dynamic Events"

Schedule Spring 2006

4/7 Adel Faridani, "Tomography and Sampling Theory"
4/14 Roy Haggerty, "Field work and Modeling to Understand the Residence Time Distribution of Water in Mountain Streams"
4/21 Sourabh Apte, A Numerical scheme for arbitrary shaped particles in complex turbulent flows
4/28 Robert Higdon, "Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Wave Propagation"
5/5 Ralph Showalter, "Hysteresis models of adsorption and deformation"
5/12 Brian Wood , "Dispersion in porous media with flows in the inertial regime"
5/19 Beatrice Riviere (University of Pittsburgh) , "Modeling complex flow and transport processes"
5/26 no seminar
6/2 M. Peszynska (joint work with Ralph Showalter ) "Nonlocal models of flow and transport: something old and something new, something borrowed ..."
6/9 Kyle Augustson/Malgo Peszynska, "Pore-scale simulations with a vorticity-stream function solver for Navier-Stokes equations." Augustson's part