University of Bath

Bath Numerical Analysis Seminar, 1st Semester 2012/2013

The Numerical Analysis seminar at Bath has been running continuously since 1986 and features a range of invited talks from distinguished visitors as well as internal talks by staff and students of Mathematical Sciences and other Departments at the University of Bath.


The Bath Numerical Analysis Seminar takes place Fridays at 12.15 in 4W1.7 (also known as the Wolfson Lecture Theatre). Campus maps can be found here.

Everyone is welcome at these talks and don't forget to join us for lunch after the seminar.

Schedule

Date Speaker Title
05 Oct 2012 Euan Spence (Bath) Is the Helmholtz equation really sign-indefinite?
12 Oct 2012 Aretha Teckentrup (Bath) Multilevel Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and applications to uncertainty quantification in subsurface flow modelling
19 Oct 2012 Jennifer Pestana (Oxford) Combination preconditioning of symmetric saddle point systems for positive definiteness
26 Oct 2012 Marco Iglesias (Warwick) Evaluation of Gaussian approximations to Bayesian inverse problems in subsurface models
02 Nov 2012 Sinan Shi (Edinburgh) GPU acceleration of iterative solvers for elliptic PDEs with strong vertical anisotropies
09 Nov 2012 Terence Norton (Bath) Structure-preserving General Linear Methods for the long-time integration of Hamiltonian systems
16 Nov 2012 Colin Cotter (Imperial College) Mimetic finite element methods for numerical weather prediction
23 Nov 2012 Ivan Graham (Bath) On the analysis of shifted Laplace preconditioners for FEM approximations of the Helmholtz equation.
30 Nov 2012 Finn Lindgren (Bath) Computational methods for spatial stochastic models
07 Dec 2012 Apala Majumdar (Bath) Scientific Computation in Liquid Crystal Science
14 Dec 2012 Stephen Cook (Bath) Adaptive Moving Meshes and Semi-Implicit Semi-Lagrangian Weather Models

How to get to Bath

See here for instructions how to get to Bath. Please email Elisabeth or Eike (address below) if you intend to come by car and require a parking permit for Bath University Campus for the day.

Tips for new students on giving talks

Since the audience of the NA seminar contains both PhD students and staff with quite wide interests and backgrounds, the following are some guidelines/hints to make sure people don't give you evil looks at lunch afterwards.

Before too much time passes in your talk, ideally the audience should know the answers to the following 4 questions:
  • What is the problem you're considering?
  • Why do you find this interesting?
  • What has been done before on this problem/what's the background?
  • What is your approach/what are you going to talk about?
There are lots of different ways to communicate this information. One way, if you're doing a slide show, could be for the first 4 slides to cover these 4 questions; although in this case you may want to revisit these points later on in the talk (e.g. to give more detail).

Remember:
  • "vertebrate style" (structure hidden inside - like the skeleton of a vertebrate) = good for detective stories, bad for maths talks.
  • "crustacean style" (structure visible from outside - like the skeleton of a crustacean) = bad for detective stories, good for maths talks.

Previous Numerical Analysis Seminars


If you have any queries, please email Elisabeth (e DOT ullmann AT bath DOT ac DOT uk) or Eike (e DOT mueller AT bath DOT ac DOT uk).