Dr. Tingchang Yin, Westlake University
Thursday, June 20, 2024, 14:30
- 16:30
https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/cFd1jFhTVLjY
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Prof. Levon Nurbekyan, Emory University
Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92353712311
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Numerous problems in scientific computing can be formulated as optimization problems of suitable parametric models over parameter spaces. Neural network and deep learning methods provide unique capabilities for building and optimizing such models, especially in high-dimensional settings.
Dr. Francisco Berkemeier, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209
DNA replication is a fundamental cellular process and its precise regulation is crucial for maintaining genomic integrity. Inspired by the mathematical parallelism between DNA replication and the nucleation problem in one-dimensional crystal growth kinetics, we introduce a model that maps whole-genome replication dynamics based on the firing rate profiles of replication origins and fork movement.
Xiaoxin Wu, Central South University, China
Thursday, May 02, 2024, 09:00
- 10:00
https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/bpUiLe2AlgBC
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This seminar is an online interview for a postdoctoral position in KAUST.

Prof. Francesca Gardini, Università di Pavia
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119
We will discuss the solution of eigenvalue problems associated with partial differential equations (PDE)s that can be written in the generalised form Ax = λMx, where the matrices A and/or M may depend on a scalar parameter. Parameter dependent matrices occur frequently when stabilised formulations are used for the numerical approximation of PDEs. With the help of classical numerical examples we will show that the presence of one (or both) parameters can produce unexpected results.
Prof. Edgard Pimentel, Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220
Hessian-dependent functionals play a pivotal role in a wide latitude of problems in mathematics. Arising in the context of differential geometry and probability theory, this class of problems find applications in the mechanics of deformable media (mostly in elasticity theory) and the modelling of slow viscous fluids. We study such functionals from three distinct perspectives.
Prof. Silvia Bertoluzza
Tuesday, March 05, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209
We present a theoretical analysis of the Weak Adversarial Networks (WAN) method, recently proposed in [1, 2], as a method for approximating the solution of partial differential equations in high dimensions and tested in the framework of inverse problems. In a very general abstract framework.
Prof. Christof Schmidhuber, ZHAW School of Engineering
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322
Analogies between financial markets and critical phenomena have long been observed empirically. So far, no convincing theory has emerged that can explain these empirical observations. Here, we take a step towards such a theory by modeling financial markets as a lattice gas.
Dr. Yahong Yang, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
https://kaust.zoom.us/j/4406489644
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Prof. Dr. Victorita Dolean, Mathematics and Computer Science, Scientific Computing, TU Eindhoven
Tuesday, February 06, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220
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Wave propagation and scattering problems are of huge importance in many applications in science and engineering - e.g., in seismic and medical imaging and more generally in acoustics and electromagnetics.
Prof. Zhiming Chen, Academy of mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 14:30
- 16:00
Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220
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In this short course, we will introduce some elements in deriving the hp a posteriori error estimate for a high-order unfitted finite element method for elliptic interface problems. The key ingredient is an hp domain inverse estimate, which allows us to prove a sharp lower bound of the hp a posteriori error estimator.
Prof. Zhiming Chen, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220
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Coffee time: 15:30–16:00. We consider high-order unfitted finite element methods on Cartesian meshes with hanging nodes for elliptic interface problems, which release the work of body-fitted mesh generation and allow us to design adaptive finite element methods for solving curved geometric singularities.
Prof. Tao Tang
Tuesday, December 05, 2023, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209
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Coffee Time: 15:30 - 16:00. The phase-field model, a powerful modeling tool for dealing with interface problems, has been widely used in various fields such as computational physics, computational biology, materials engineering, and even image processing. The dissipation of free energy is an important and fundamental property of the phase-field model.