University of Bath

Department of Mathematical Sciences

BATH/RAL Numerical Analysis Day

Friday 1st October 2004 in room 3E 2.2


10.00am Ph.D. students Poster Session (on all day)

10.15am Coffee

10.50am Professor Anne Greenbaum (Washington)
"Polynomial Numerical Hulls of Convection Diffusion Matrices and the Convergence of GMRES".

11.30am Dr Mario Arioli  (RAL)
"A Chebyshev-based two-stage iterative method as an alternative to the
direct solution of linear systems"

12.10pm Professor  Alastair Spence (Bath)
"Nonlinear eigenvalue problems with application to photonic band structure calculation"

12.50pm Lunch

2.20pm Professor Nick Trefethen (Oxford)
"The numerical range and what it's good for"

3.00pm Dr Jennifer Scott (RAL)
"Which sparse direct symmetric solver?"

3.40pm Tea

4.00pm Professor Chris Budd (Bath)
"Optimal transport and geometric conservation laws for mesh generation"

4.40pm Poster Session concludes

6.00pm Meet for informal meal in Bath


All are welcome - there is no attendance fee. For further information contact Alastair Spence (+44 1225 386011)

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