University of Bath

Department of Mathematical Sciences

BATH/RAL Numerical Analysis Day

Tuesday 23rd September 2008 in room 3E 2.1


10.15am Coffee

10.50am Professor Marco Marletta (Cardiff)
"Dirichlet to Newmann maps for spectral problems"

11.30am Jonathan Hogg (Edinburgh/RAL)
"A Fast Robust Sparse Mixed Precision Solver"

12.10pm Professor Ivan Graham (Bath)
" A new multiscale finite element method for high-contrast elliptic interface problems"

12.50pm Lunch

2.20pm Dr Mario Arioli (RAL)
"Least-squares problems, normal equations, and stopping criteria for the conjugate gradient method "

3.00pm Dr Melina Freitag (Bath)
"Data assimilation using 4Dvar and links to regularisation "

3.40pm Tea

4.00pm Professor Mike Powell, FRS (Cambridge)
" Developments of an algorithm for unconstrained optimization without derivatives "

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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