Current Problems in Numerical Analysis


Programme for 2008  

December

         19.   Christmas Lecture
                 Jan Brandts (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) [ photo ]
                 Euler's gem: A book review

         12.   Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 Antigravity and its manifestations

           5.   František Katrnoška (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague) [  photo , photo ]
                 On Algebras of Generalized Latin Squares

November

         28.   Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 From Kepler's mosaics to 5-fold symmetry

         21.   Jakub Šístek (Czech Technical University, Prague) [ photo ]
                 Semi-GLS stabilization for finite elements and the BDDC domain decomposition method

         14.   Philipp Birken (University of Kassel, Germany)
                 Implicit methods for flows at all Mach numbers

           7.   Open day of the Institute of Mathematics (seminar cancelled)

October

         31.   Tomáš Vejchodský (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 Deterministic and stochastic models of dynamics of chemical systems

         24.   Jan Brandts (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) [ photo ]
                 SPAM

         17.   Karel Švadlenka (Kanazawa University, Japan) [ photo ]
                 Mathematical and numerical aspects of volume-preserving motion

         10.   Tomáš Vejchodský (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ] and
                 Sergey Korotov (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) [ photo ]
                 Discrete maximum principle for parabolic problems solved by prismatic finite elements

           3.   Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 Zig-zag way to the Monster

September

         26.   Anna Porazilová (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen)
                 The shortest paths on a polyhedral surface

August

         8.   Seminar in honor of the 60th birthday of Lawrence Somer (Washington, D.C., USA; presently at Inst. of  Math., AS CR, Prague) [  photo ]
                  9:00   Igor Shparlinski (University Macquarie, Australia)
                             Fermat Quotients
                10:15   Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [  photo ]
                            Euclidean Primes Have the Minimum Number of Primitive Roots
               

July

June

         27.   Conference in honor of the 75th birthday of Ivan Hlaváček   [  photo ]
                  9:00 M. Stynes: Solving singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems on sparse grids
                  9:45 P. Burda: A posteriori error estimates in stabilized FEM applied to precision control of incompressible fluid flow
                10:45 Z. Zhang: Superconvergence in different domains: h-version, p-version, and discontinuous Galerkin methods
                11:30 S. Zhang: Superconvergence of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyperolic Systems

         20.   Moshe Goldberg (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
                 Stable Finite-Difference Approximations for Parabolic Problems

         13.   Alena Šolcová (Czech Technical University, Prague) [  photo ]
                 Mathematician and physicist Vladimír Vand

           6.   Marcello Ortaggio (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [  photo ]
                 Higher dimensional Kerr-Schild spacetimes

May

         30.   Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 On the equivalence of ball conditions for simplicial finite elements in Rd

         23.   Seminar in honor of the 65th birthday of Karel Segeth   [ photo ]
                  9:00   Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                            Magic squares
                  9:45   František Katrnoška (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague) [  photo , photo ]
                            Mathematics behind SUDOKU

         16.   Joab R. Winkler (The University of Sheffield, U.K.) [ photo ]
                 New Methods for Solving Polynomial Equations

          9.   seminar cancelled

          2.   seminar cancelled

April

         25.   Dana Černá (Technical University of Liberec) [ photo ]
                 Adaptive wavelet methods with stable B-spline bases

         18.   Jaroslav Hančl (University of Ostrava, Ostrava) [ photo ]
                 Irrationality and Transcendence

         11.   Tomáš Vejchodský (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 Discrete Maximum Principle for the FE Solution of the Diffusion-Reaction Problem on Prismatic Meshes 

          4.   Petr Stehlík (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen)
                Discrete  and Dynamic Maximum Principles on Time Scales

March

         28.   Alena Pravdová (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [  photo ]
                 Newman-Penrose formalism in arbitrary dimension: non-twisting vacuum spacetimes with a multiple WAND.  

         21.   Good Friday (seminar cancelled )

         14.   Jan Stebel (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [  photo ]
                 Automatic Differentiation and its Application to Optimal Control Problems

           7.   Jakub Šístek (Czech Technical University, Prague) [  photo ]
                 Balancing Domain Decomposition Based on Constraints and its Parallel Implementation

February

         29.   František Katrnoška (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague) [ photo , photo ]
                 Algebras of Generalized Latin Squares

         22.   Seminar cancelled  (winter vacation)

         15.   Seminar cancelled  (winter vacation)

          8.   Ladislav Lukšan (Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 A Primal Interior Point Method for Generalized Min-Max Problems

          1.   Antti Hannukainen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) [ photo ]
                Helmholz Decompositions and the Discrete Compactness Property

January

         25.   Tomáš Vejchodský (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 Recent Results Concerning the Discrete Maximum Principle for Higher-Order Finite Elements

         18.   Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague) [ photo ]
                 Numerical Experience with Gravitational Aberration

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