Current problems in numerical analysis

Programme for 1999

        17.  Jan Brandts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
                 Christmas Lecture:   How to recognize an invariant subspace from quite a long distance away

          10.  Ivan Hlaváček (Mathematical Institute, Prague)
                 Global loss of stability of rectangular plates with uncertain initial imperfections

            3.  Lawrence Sommer (Catholic University, Washington, D.C., USA)
                 Pseudoprimes, perfect numbers, and a problem of Lehmer

November

          26.  Seminar cancelled. The lecture has been brought forward to December 10.

          19.  Jan Chleboun (Math. Institute, Prague)
                 Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems on domains with uncertain boundary IV.

          12.  Jan Chleboun (Math. Institute, Prague)
                 Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems on domains with uncertain boundary III.

            5.  Jan Chleboun (Math. Institute, Prague)
                 Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems on domains with uncertain boundary II.

October

           29.  Jan Chleboun (Math. Institute, Prague)
                 Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems on domains with uncertain boundary I.

           22.  Miloslav Feistauer (Charles University, Prague)
                  Numerical solution of convection-diffusion problems

           15.  Florian Luca (Mathematical Institute, Prague)
                  Can you tell a binary recurrent sequence?

             8.  Martin Berzins (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
                  Mesh quality issues in unstructured triangular and tetrahedron meshes

          1.  Alena Pravdová (Math. Institute, Prague)
                  Symmetries of the Minkowski spacetime

September
 
        24.  Štěpán Klapka (AŽD Prague)
                 Coding and probability models in safety critical systems
 
August

          17.  Philip Rabinowitz (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
                 Convergence of cubic interpolatory spline for
                 H"older-continuous  functions

June 25 - September 17: Summer holidays (except August 17)

June
 
         18.  J. Kautský (Flinders University, Australia)
                Multi-wavelets, wavelet matrices, approximation order and other tales

         11.  Petr  Přikryl (Mathematical Institute, Prague)
                Gaussian elimination in the past and today

           4.  J. H. Brandts (Intitute of Computer Sciences, Prague)
                1. Superconvergence for quadratic elements
                2. Numerical experiments for discrete orthogonal projections
                3. Preprocessing GMRES: relation to implicitly restarted Arnoldi

May

          21.  J. S. Byrnes (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)
                 An improvement of the Walsh functions

          14.  Hans-Goerg Roos (Technical University Dresden, Germany)
                 Layer adapted meshes: characterization, uniform error estimates,
                 superconvergence
 
            7. Pavel Burda (Czech Technical University, Prague)
                An a posteriori error estimate for the Stokes problem

April

          23.  Florian Luca (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
                 Equations involving arithmetic functions of binary recurrence sequences

          16.  Petr Novák (Palacký University, Olomouc)
                 On an approximate minimum degree algorithm

            9.  Robert Černý (Czech Technical University, Prague)
                 Inverse problems in heat conduction and humidity

            2.  No seminar (Easter holidays)

March

          19.  Jan  Šípek (MFF UK, Prague)
                 Numerical analysis of methods for computation of roots of polynomials

          12.  Reiner Vanselow (TU Dresden, Germany)
                 A cell-centered FVM applied to the Poisson equation and relations to
                 FEMs

           5.   Karel Segeth  (Mathematical Institute, Prague)
                 Pollution error in numerical solving elliptic equations

February

19.  Ladislav Lukšan (Institute of Computer Science, Prague)
       UFO optimization package

12.  No seminar (winter school holidays)

5.    Jan Brandts (Utrecht University & Institute of Computer Science, Prague)
       Commutator properties of discrete orthogonal projections
for   continuous splines

January

29.  Jiří Jarušek (Mathematical Institute, Prague)
       The existence of solutions of dynamical contact problems with friction
       (including thermal aspects)

22.  Michal Křížek (Mathematical Institute, Prague)
       The principle of  time lens

15.  Jan Němec (Mathematical Institute, Prague)
       A posteriori error estimates for nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems

  8.  Wang Jin Liang (Academia Sinica, Beijing)
       Monte Carlo finite element methods