University of Bath

Bath Numerical Analysis Seminar, 2nd Semester 2018/2019

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

08 Feb 2019 Owen Pembery (Bath) Nearby preconditioning for multiple realisations of the Helmholtz equation, with application to uncertainty quantification
15 Feb 2019 William Saunders (Bath) Fast Multipole Methods for Kinetic Monte Carlo
22 Feb 2019 Matthew Griffith (Bath) The Lagrangian perspective and application to whole atmosphere modelling
01 Mar 2019 Ozan Oktem (Stockholm) Bayesian inversion by deep learning with applications to tomography
08 Mar 2019 Shihua Gong (Bath) A Nonlinearly Preconditioned Newton Method for a Heterogeneous Hyperelastic Problem
15 Mar 2019 Thomas Gibson (Imperial, London) An overview of hybridization techniques for mixed finite element discretizations of large-scale atmospheric flows
22 Mar 2019 Evelyn Cueva Jaramillo (Universidad de Chile) High resolution PET image reconstruction
29 Mar 2019 Guanglian Li (Imperial, London) Multiscale Model Reduction for Heterogeneous Problems
05 Apr 2019 Martin Benning (Queen Mary, London) When are deep neural networks also iterative regularisation methods?
12 Apr 2019 Scott Congreve Adaptive refinement for hp-version Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin methods for the homogeneous Helmholtz problem
31 May 2019 Simon Tavener (Colorado State) A posteriori error analysis for domain decomposition

How to get to Bath

See here for instructions how to get to Bath. Please email Silvia (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 Silvia (S.Gazzola@bath.ac.uk).