Colloquium

Event Description:Randy Bank, Professor of Mathematics, UCSDConvergence Analysis of a Domain Decomposition ParadigmWe describe a domain decomposition algorithm for use in several variants of the parallel adaptive meshing paradigm of Bank and Holst.

Event Description:Randall J. LeVeque, Assistant Professor, University MichiganShock Wave Propagation in Tissue and BoneStudying the physical and biological mechanisms of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) requires modeling the propagation of

Event Description:John R. Cary, Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, and CEO, Tech-X CorporationSelf-consistent electromagnetic modeling with boundariesThe difficulty in modeling electromagnetics is in choosing the correct

Event Description:Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National LaboratoryOn fully implicit methods for extended magnetohydrodynamicsMagnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the behavior of charged hot gases (plasmas) in the presence of electromagnetic fields, and

Event Description:Robert Krasny, Professor, University of MichiganLagrangian Simulations of Fluids and PlasmasThis talk will describe recent work on lagrangian simulations of fluids and plasmas. The basic idea is to replace the standard Eulerian

Event Description:Travis Austin, Tech-X CorporationDiscontinuous Cardiac Activation Modeling using Fast Multilevel SolversThe ventricles are the core pumping chambers of the heart, responsible for pumping deoxygenated blood from the heart to the

Event Description:Joseph F. Grcar, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryJohn von Neumann and the Origins of Scientific ComputingScientific computing as we understand it today began to be practiced

Event Description:Juan G. Restrepo, Postdoc with Alain Karma at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern UniversityDynamics on complex networks: synchronization, percolation, and the dynamical importance of

Event Description:Cleve Moler, Author of MATLAB and Founder of MathWorksEvolution of MATLABWe show how MATLAB has evolved over the last 25 years from a simple matrix calculator to a powerful technical computing environment. We demonstrate several

Event Description:Bob Eisenberg, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology, Rush University Medical CenterIon Channels: Devices for Atomic Control of Molecular TransportProtein channels conduct ions through a narrow tunnel of fixed charge