MCP Group Meeting and CSME Journal Club

Time/Place: Monday at 3:00pm-4:00pm, APM 2402
Contact: Prof. Michael Holst (Moe Ebrahimi, Ryan Szypowski)
Spring 2008
June 2
Speaker: Arneh Babakhani
Title: Computational Modeling in the Chemical Sciences
May 26
Memorial Day
May 19
Speaker: Alexander Bilik
Title: Polynomials Gone Wild
May 12
Speaker: Yongcheng Zhou
Title: Iterative methods for nonlinear operator equations
May 5
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: A primer on pitchfork bifurcation
April 28
No Meeting
April 21
Speaker: Gantumur Tsogtgerel
Title: Finite elements for the Lichnerowicz equation
April 14
Speaker: Yuhui Cheng
Title: Diffusional Channeling in the Sulfate Activating Complex: Combined Continuum Modeling and Coarse-grained Brownian Dynamics Studies
April 7
Speaker: Evalyn Lunasin
Title: Two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Voight equation for image inpainting
April 2
Speaker: All
Title: Organizational/Roundtable
Winter 2008
Mar 12
Speaker: Evelyn Lunasin
Title: Inertial range spectra in MHD turbulence
Mar 5
Round-table discussion on various projects
Feb 27
Speaker: Gantumur Tsogtgerel
Title: A short tour of Sobolev spaces
Feb 20
Speaker: Zeyun Yu
Title: Modeling calcium dynamics in cardiac myocytes: stochastic vs deterministic approaches
Feb 13
Speaker: Dan McAllaster
Title: Geometric Mechanics and PDE
Feb 6
Speaker: Jonathan Serencsa
Title: Numerically Solving the Incompressible Euler Equations on a Moving Domain
Jan 30
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: Black hole initial data
Jan 23
Speaker: Yongcheng Zhou
Title: Continuum modeling of macromolecular electrostatics and conformational change: mathematical analysis and simulations
Jan 16
Speaker: NONE (Holst on Travel)
Title: NONE
Jan 9
Speaker: All
Title: Organizational/Roundtable
Fall 2007
Dec 5
Speaker: NONE (Holst on Travel)
Title: NONE
Nov 28
Speaker: Moe Ebrahim
Title: Image Inpaiting
Nov 14
Speaker: Evalyn Lunasin
Title: Spectral scaling of the Leray-alpha model and Navier-Stokes-alpha model in two-dimensional turbulence
Nov 7
Speaker: Yongcheng Zhou
Title: Adaptive coupling of finite element and boundary element method for nonlinear interface problems
Oct 31
Speaker: Daniel Reynolds
Title: Progress in converting compressible MHD simulations to incompressible MHD-alpha simulations
Oct 24
Speaker: Gantumur Tsogtgerel
Title: Einstein constraints on closed manifolds
Oct 17
Speaker: Ryan Szypowski
Title: Evolution Equations, Semigroups, and Galerkin Techniques
Oct 10
Speaker: Zeyun Yu
Title: Multi-scale Geometric Modeling of Ventricular Cardiac Myocytes from Light/Electron Microscopy Imaging Data
Oct 3
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: Variational Methods for Finding Initial Data in General Relativity
Sept 26
Speaker: All
Title: Organizational/Roundtable
Spring 2007
June 7
Speaker: Gantumur Tsogtgerel
Title: A Priori Estimates for Petrov-Galerkin Approximation on Riemannian Manifolds
May 31
Speaker: Emre Mengi
Title: Controlability, Observability, Minimality, and Related Topics
May 24
Speaker: Yongcheng Zhou
Title: Coupled Finite Element and Boundary Element Models
May 17
Speaker: NONE (Gunzburger Seminar)
Title: NONE
May 10
Speaker: NONE (Guidotti Seminar)
Title: NONE
May 3
Speaker: Axel Malqvist
Title: Weak Solutions to the Nonlinear Joule Heating Problem
April 26
Speaker: All
Title: Research Roundtable
April 19
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: Order Cones, Ordered Banach Spaces, and Maximum Principles
April 12
Speaker: NONE (Holst on Travel)
Title: NONE
April 5
Speaker: All
Title: Organizational/Roundtable
Winter 2007
March 13
Speaker: Zeyun Yu
Title: A Quality Molecular Surface and Volume Mesh Generation Toolchain
March 6
Speaker: Dan Reynolds
Title: Projection Methods in MHD and Boundary Conditions
Feb 27
Speaker: All
Title: Research Roundtable
Feb 20
Speaker: NONE (SIAM Meeting in Orange County/LA)
Title: NONE
Feb 13
Speaker: Ryan Szypowski
Title: Application of Semi-group Theory to Constrained Dynamics
Feb 6
Speaker: Gantumur Tsogtgerel
Title: Wavelet Methods for Operator Equations
Jan 30
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy, Jonathan Kommemi, Michael Holst
Title: Fixed-point arguments for third elliptic system
Jan 23
Speaker: Yongcheng Zhou, Axel Malqvist
Title: Fixed-point arguments for two elliptic systems
Jan 16
Speaker: All
Title: Organizational/Roundtable; Fixed-point argument setup
Jan 9
Speaker: NONE (Holst on Travel)
Title: NONE
Fall 2006
Nov 28
Speaker: Moe Ebrahimi
Title: Inpainting using the Navier-Stokes equations
Nov 21
Speaker: Ryan Szypowski
Title: Some results in semi-group theory with application to hyperbolic evolution systems
Nov 14
Speaker: Jonathan Kommemi
Title: A priori estimates and well-posedness of the Hamiltonian constraint equation in GR
Nov 7
Speaker: Daniel Reynolds
Title: Some results in Computational MHD
Oct 31
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: The Hamiltonian Constraint in GR
Oct 24
Speaker: Axel Malqvist
Title: Variational Multiscale Methods for Stochastic Data
Oct 17
Speaker: Ryan Szypowski
Title: Asynchronous Variational Integrators
Oct 10
Speaker: Zeyun Yu, Yongcheng Zhou
Title: Segmentation/Reconstruction, Methods for Interface Problems
Oct 3
Speaker: No Meeting
Title: None
Sept 26
Speaker: Roundtable
Title: Fall Project Planning
Summer 2006
August 23
Speaker: Bryan Nguyen
Title: A de-coupling algorithm for elliptic PDE systems
August 16
Speaker: No Meeting
Title: None
August 9
Speaker: No Meeting
Title: None
August 2
Speaker: Jonathan Kommemi and Ronald Page
Title: Analysis of a nonlinear PDE; Biodiffusion models
July 26
Speaker: Arneh Babakhani and Anushka Mihaylo
Title: Biomembranes; Multiscale systems biology
July 19
Speaker: Dan Reynolds
Title: Computational MHD
July 12
Speaker: Yuhui Cheng
Title: Diffusion in Biological Physical Chemistry
July 5
Speaker: Long Chen
Title: Convergence of adaptive methods and post-processing techniques
June 28
Speaker: Roundtable
Title: Summer Project Planning
June 21
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: Stability of Black Strings and A Fluid Model: Part II
June 14
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: Stability of Black Strings and A Fluid Model: Part I
Spring 2006
June 7
Speaker: Long Chen
Title: Mixed methods for nonlinear PDE
May 31
Speaker: Eric Bylaska
Title: Density Functional Theory
May 24
Speaker: Roundtable
Title: Open Discussion on Variational PDE
May 17
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: From Maxwell to Yang-Mills
May 10
Speaker: Gabriel Nagy
Title: Bifurcation Analysis of a Fluid Model
May 3
Speaker: No Meeting
Title: None
April 26
Speaker: Olivier Sarbach
Title: Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems and Lambda Systems
April 19
Speaker: Roundtable
Title: PDE
April 12
Speaker: Daniel Reynolds
Title: Computational Magnetohydrodynamics
April 5
Speaker: Long Chen
Title: d-Simplex Refinement: Datastructures and Algorithms
Winter 2006
March 1
Speaker: David Cerutti
Title: Convergence in Integral Equations
March 15
Speaker: Olivier Sarbach
Title: Analysis of a Black String Model Using Bifurcation Theory
March 8
Speaker: Ryan Szypowski
Title: Well-posedness of a Least-Squares Maxwell's Formulation
February 22
Speaker: Roundtable
Title: PDE
February 15
Speaker: Long Chen
Title: A Simple Formula
February 8
Speaker: No Meeting
Title: None
February 1
Speaker: Long Chen
Title: Hybridized Mixed Methods for Second Order Elliptic Problems
January 25
Speaker: Daniel Reynolds
Title: Computational MHD
January 18
Speaker: Olivier Sarbach
Title: A minimization problem for the lapse and the IBVP for Einstein's field equations
January 11
Speaker: Long Chen
Title: Convergence of Adaptive Finite Elements for Mixed Formulations of PDE

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