Bath-RAL 2003
Speakers were
- Iain Duff (RAL)
- Title: The symbiosis of direct and iterative methods for solving large sparse systems
- Ivan Graham (Bath)
- Title: Finite elements on degenerate meshes: inverse type inequalities and applications
- Bill Mclean (U. New South Wales, visiting Bath)
- Title: Quadrature for boundary element methods
- John Reid (RAL)
- Title: Cholesky factorization of a dense matrix with high performance in packed storage
- David Silvester (Manchester)
- Title: Error estimation and adaptivity for elliptic PDEs
- Andrew Stuart (Warwick)
- Title: Fitting stochastic models to partially observed dynamics
In addition, graduate students from Bath, Oxford and Reading presented posters describing their current research. The meeting started with coffee at 10:30 AM, and finished by 5 PM.
- 10.15 am PhD student poster session (continues all day)
- 10.30 am Coffee
- 10.50 am Iain Duff (RAL)
- "The symbiosis of direct and iterative methods for solving large sparse systems"
- 11.30 am Bill Mclean (U. New South Wales, visiting Bath)
- "Quadrature for boundary element methods"
- 12.10 pm David Silvester (Manchester)
- "Error estimation and adaptivity for elliptic PDEs"
- 12.55 pm Lunch
- 2.20 pm Ivan Graham (Bath)
- "Finite elements on degenerate meshes: inverse type inequalities and applications"
- 3.00 pm John Reid (RAL)
- "Cholesky factorization of a dense matrix with high performance in packed storage"
- 3.40 pm Tea
- 4.00 pm Andrew Stuart (Warwick)
- "Fitting stochastic models to partially observed dynamics"
5.00 pm Poster session concludes6.00 pm Meet for informal pub meal near RAL
There is no attendance fee, but we would be grateful if attendees could let Kath Vann (tel: 01235 445790, email: K.M.Vann@rl.ac.uk) in advance so that we can arrange sufficient tea and coffee.
Grad. student poster presentations at the Bath - RAL Numerical Analysis Day
- David Bailey (U. Reading)
- A Lagrange-Remap method for the Euler equations for multi-material flows
- Sue Dollar (Oxford U.)
- TBA
- Andrew Hill (U. Bath)
- TBA
- Paul Jelfs (U. Reading)
- The Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method for the morphodynamical equations
- Simone Mandica (U. Bath)
- TBA
- Laura Stanton (U. Reading)
- TBA
- Ben Wells (U. Reading)
- A moving finite element method for partial differential equations
Photographs from the Bath - RAL Numerical Analysis Day, 2003
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Nick Gould welcomes the masses, all 38 of them |
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Iain Duff mixes direct methods ... |
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... with iterative ones |
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Bill McLean on boundary elements ... |
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... and quadrature |
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A full house ... |
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... and they appear awake at the back |
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David Silvester's world-record attempt to cover CFD in under 40 minutes |
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Lunch in the RAL canteen |
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Negative root H spaces hold no fear for Ivan Graham |
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John Reid squeezing every last flop out of Cholesky |
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Andrew Stuart's hard stochastic model of partially observed dynamics ... |
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... the simplified ones ... |
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... and the power of Matlab |
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And the day ends happily at the Fox in Steventon |
Photographs courtesy of Iain Duff and Mario Arioli