Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar

Spring 2014

The focus of this seminar is various methods in scientific computing, the analysis of their convergence properties and computational efficiency, and their adaptation to specific applications. Questions or comments about the seminar should be sent to David Bindel or Alex Vladimirsky. Please go here if you wish to subscribe to the seminar announcement mailing list. Students who plan to attend regularly may take the seminar for credit as CS 7290 or MATH 7290, and should contact the organizers for more information.

The seminar meets Mondays, 1:25-2:15 pm, in 406 Gates Hall.

Date	Speaker	Title
Feb 24	David Bindel, CS, Cornell	Music of the microspheres: eigenvalue problems from micro-gyro design
Mar 03	Jon Wilkening, Math, UC Berkeley	Standing-Traveling Water Waves: Stability, Singularity Formation, and Microseisms
Mar 10	Perrine Pepiot, MAE, Cornell	Automatic chemistry reduction strategies for transportation fuel combustion modeling
Mar 17	No Seminar
Mar 24	Jim Dai, ORIE, Cornell (& Georgia Tech)	Computing stationary distributions of diffusion processes
Mar 31	Spring Break
Apr 07	Benjamin Seibold, Math, Temple	High-Order Methods for Pressure Poisson Equation Reformulations of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Apr 14	Aaron Palmer Math, Cornell	Optimal Stationary Value of Drift-Dominated Controlled Diffusion Processes: Computational Challenges and Effective Algorithms
Apr 21	Sergey Fomel, Geosciences, UT Austin	CANCELED
Apr 28	Zhengdi Shen, CAM, Cornell	Optimal control of piecewise-deterministic processes
May 05	Andreea Minca, ORIE, Cornell	Optimal control of interbank contagion under complete information

Previous semesters:

• Fall 2013
• Spring 2013
• Fall 2012
• Spring 2012
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2011
• Fall 2010
• Spring 2010
• Fall 2009