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
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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.
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Monday, December 04, 2023, 15:30
- 17:00
Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220
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Splitting methods have been shown to a useful tool in solving phase field equations. However, rigorous nonlinear stability analysis has not been available. In this short course, we will discuss some recent development in this direction.
Prof. Jiping Zhang
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 15:00
- 16:00
Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220
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A fascination with symmetric forms seems to be an innate feature of human perception and for millennia it has influenced art and natural philosophy. The concept of symmetry is one of the very few on which mathematicians and physicists agree, namely that Symmetry ≡ Groups. We describe some special symmetries and related problems including symmetric polynomials and monstrous moonshine.
Prof. Efim Zelmanov
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 14:00
- 15:00
Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220
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We will give an overview of the development of Abstract Algebra from Galois to our time. The talk will be accessible to general audience with basic mathematical background.
Prof. Qing Nie, Department of Mathematics, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 15:30
- 17:00
Building 9, Level 4, Room 4225
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Prof. Sakhar B. Alkhereyf
Tuesday, November 07, 2023, 15:30
- 17:00
Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209
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Arabic, being one of the six official languages of the United Nations and the sixth most commonly spoken language across the globe, holds a significant stance in the linguistic landscape. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where Classical Arabic (CA), Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and various dialects coexist, coupled with its complex morphological structure, presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 15:30
- 17:00
Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209
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This talk begins with the problem of pricing American basket options in a multivariate setting. In high dimensions, nonlinear PDE methods for solving the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation become expensive due to the curse of dimensionality.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 5, Level 5, Room 5220
In the next months, KAUST expects to place into service Shaheen-3, a supercomputer with a GPU partition whose planned 1 Exaflop/s HPL AI capability would rank it in the Top 6 globally if delivered today.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209
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This talk is devoted to additive Schwarz methods for convex optimization. First, we propose an abstract framework for additive Schwarz methods for convex optimization. The framework's flexibility allows it to handle composite optimization problems and inexact local solvers. Moreover, it establishes a sharp convergence theory that agrees with the classical theory when addressing linear problems.