Group meeting schedule
We meet weekly on Saturdays at 11:30 in al-Khawarizmi room 4136. Lunch is provided, and anyone is welcome to join.
Summer 2012
No meetings. We will resume meeting in September.
Spring 2012
January 28, 2012Yiannis Hadjimichael
"TVD conditions: CFL dependence and alternative approaches"
February 11, 2012
Rio Yokota
Writing a Python wrapper for CUDAClaw
February 18, 2012
Group discussion of working guidelines
February 25, 2012
Zoltan Horvath
"Optimal step sizes for preservation of positive invariant sets"
March 3, 2012
Review of spring research plans
March 10, 2012
George Turkiyyah: Design and Performance of a CUDA Implementation of Clawpack
Matteo Parsani: Internal stability of Runge-Kutta methods
Fall 2011
October 15, 2011Discussion of techniques for searching the scientific literature (at noon)
October 22, 2011
Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali
"Pedestrian Flow in the Mean Field Limit"
October 29, 2011
Yuan Xiong
The Lattice Boltzmann Method
(Eid al-Adha)
Nov. 12, 2011
TBA
Nov. 19, 2011
Group Discussion of John von Neumann's Analysis of Gaussian Elimination and the Origins of Modern Numerical Analysis
Nov. 26, 2011
Tareq Malas
Optimizing The Performance of Streaming Numerical Kernels On The IBM Blue Gene/P PowerPC 450
Dec. 3, 2011
Dr. Ling Zhang
Multiscale Methods for Viscoelastic Incompressible Flow Problems
Dec. 10,2011
Matteo Parsani
Discussion of how to write an extended abstract for a conference submission