Numerical Analysis Group - Computational Science & Engineering Department

8th Annual Bath - RAL Numerical Analysis Day

Tuesday, 29th September 2009

The Atlas Centre (R27, Conference Room 8)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Chilton, Oxfordshire, England

10.15 am PhD student poster session (continues all day)

Posters by (to be update)

10.30 am Coffee 

10.50 am Martin Stynes (University College Cork) 

       "Numerical solution of singularly perturbed systems of convection-diffusion and reaction-diffusion equations"

11.35 am Chris Budd (University of Bath) 

       "Optimal transport methods for mesh generation, with applications to problems in meteorology"

12.15 pm Daniel Robinson (Oxford University and RAL)

"Second derivative SQP methods for solving large nonlinear optimization problems"

12.55 pm Lunch

2.20 pm Zhivko Stoyanov (University of Bath) 

       "Perturbation analysis of spectral clustering of data"

3.00 pm Iain Duff (RAL) 

       "Exploiting sparsity in the solution phase for large sparse equations"

3.40 pm Tea

4.00 pm Jeremy Levesley (University of Leicester)  

       "Approximation on the sphere and similar spaces"

There is no attendance fee, but we would be grateful if attendees could contact Mario Arioli  in advance so that we can arrange sufficient tea and coffee. Please, feel free to contact Mario if you require further information.

For details of how to get to the Atlas Centre, please consult the map provided by STFC.