Current problems in numerical analysis

Programme for 2002  

December

        20.   Jan Brandts (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) [ photo ]
                Christmas Lecture:   The Poincaré equation

        13.   Eva Neumanová (Czech Technical University, Prague) [ photo ]
                Preconditioned conjugate gradient method and its application for solving
                a stationary problem of nuclear reactor physics

          6.    Karel Kolman (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague) [ photo ]
                 A two-grid discretization method for eigenvalue problems

November

        29.   Thomas Apel (Technical University Chemnitz, Germany)  [ photo ]
                Which Stokes elements can be used on anisotropic finite element meshes?

        22.   Seminar cancelled due to the NATO Summit
                [The already announced lecture (I. Hlaváček: Global stability of quasivariational inequlities with applications to Coulomb's friction )
                 will be delivered on Friday, January 24, 2003.]

        15.   Vojtěch Pravda (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                 All 4-dim pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with vanishing curvature invariants

          8.   Jan Chleboun (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                Uncertainty in modeling

          1.   Larisa Beilina (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
                Adaptive hybrid FE/FD methods for inverse scattering problems

October

        25.   Michal Křížek (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                Superconvergence of tetrahedral quadratic finite  elements

        18.   Open day of the Mathematical Institute  

        11.  Jan Zítko (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)
               Adaptively preconditioned GMRES and augmented Krylov subspace techniques

          4.    9:00  H. Imai (University of Tokushima, Japan)
                           Some advanced numerical simulations by IPNS and related topics
                10:00  S. Omata (Kanazawa University, Japan)
                           A free boundary problem for wave equations
 

September

August

       30.  Jan Brandts (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
              Finite elements and conjugate gradients in perspective

July

June

       28.  Štěpán Klapka (AŽD, Prague)
               Modelling of safety of critical systems II

       21.  Petr Přikryl (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
               Reliability of numerical calculations

       14.   Seminar cancelled

         7.  Vít Dolejší (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)
               The use of discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flow simulation

May

        31.  Vladimír Janovský (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)
               Bifurcation analysis (survey)

        24.  Štefan Porubský (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague)
               Continued fractions with number-theoretic applications

        17.  Michal Křížek (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
               Fifty years of conjugate gradients

        10.  Hans-Georg Ross (Technical University Dresden, Germany)
               First results on the discontinuous Galerkin method for singularly perturbed problems

          3.  Ladislav Lukšan (Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
               Interior point and nonsmooth equation methods for nonlinear programming

April

         26.  Štěpán Klapka (AŽD, Prague)
                Modelling of safety of critical systems

         19.  Karel Segeth (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                An application of Rothe's method to a heat conduction problem

         12.  Ivo Marek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)
                Comparison theorems

           5.  Josef Ježek (Natural Science Faculty, Charles University, Prague)
                Numerical modelling of the movement of a rigid particle in a viscous fluid

March

         29.  Good Friday (seminar cancelled )

         22.  Josef Nedoma (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                Relative convexity of some implicit functions

         15.   Seminar in honour of the 50th birthday of Michal Křížek
                  9:00  Sergey Korotov (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
                           Galerkin approximations for the linear parabolic equation with the third boundary condition
                10:00  Jan H. Brandts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
                           Are n-simplectic finite element methods just a curiosity?

           8.  Michal Křížek (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                Dissection of an arbitrary polyhedron into nonobtuse tetrahedra

           1.  Petr Kučera (Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague)
                A survey of main results on the fixed-point theorem

February

          22.  Ivan Hlaváček (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                 Worst scenario method for a buckling problem

          15.  Michal Křížek (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague)
                 On a connection of number theory with graph theory

            8.  Tomáš Vejchodský (Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, and Charles University, Prague)
                 On the nonmonotony of nonlinear elliptic operators in divergence form

            1.  Seminar cancelled
 

January

          25.  Seminar cancelled