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Spring, 2005 Applied Mathematics Seminar:
Overview of Departmental Research
Official course number: 591-002
Organizer: R.
Baker Kearfott, Department
of Mathematics, University of Louisiana
at Lafayette
Office hours
and telephone, Email: rbk@louisiana.edu.
This set of pages will be updated throughout the semester.
Click on the information you want:
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Time and place: (Tentative, and may change when I know everyone's
schedule) Mondays, 3:00PM, in MDD 208
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Rationale
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Format
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Schedule
Rationale
The past few years have seen our individual research programs blossom.
Working alone or with groups of one or two and with graduate students,
we have made significant advances in computational methods for partial
differential equations, applied functional analysis, biomathematics and
biological modelling, global optimization, and software development.
However, faculty can benefit at this point from becoming more informed
about each others' activities, and graduate students with broader
exposure, can become more well-rounded. In particular, cross-fertilization
and more joint projects will result in stronger, more meaningful research
of interest to a wider audience, and will also result in stronger,
better-educated graduate students.
Furthermore, the seminar can be a good place to motivate graduate students
to organize their work and practice presentations. Graduate students
will be able to register for one credit hour of Math. 591.
Format
The seminar will meet once weekly. I hope to initially schedule each
faculty member to give an overview, and to schedule the graduate student
talks either interspersed with the faculty talks or afterwords.
Schedule
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January 10:
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January 24:
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January 31:
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February 7:
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February 14:Speaker: R.
Baker Kearfott; Title: Optimal Interval Newton Preconditioners Revisited,
or "This isn't your grandmother's simplex method"
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February 21:
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February 28:
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March 7:
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March 14:
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March 21:
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April 4: Hongtao
Yang, title: Estimation of the optimal acoustic liner impedance factor
for engine noise reduction
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Monday, April 11: William
Dean, title: New techniques for robust ray tracing
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Monday, April 18: C. Y.
Chan, title: Effects of a concentrated nonlinear source on blow-up and
quenching phenomena.