[DissKoll] Reminder: Last DissKoll in Fall 2010/11!!!, 27 January 2011, Marcus Page, "Convergence of adaptive FEM (and application to elliptic obstacle problems)"

[Klemens Katterbauer]

Dear visitors of the DissKoll (Dissertantenkolloquium),

On January 27, 2011, the DissKoll will have its sixth talk in this semester.

Marcus Page (Vienna University of Technology) will talk about
"Convergence of adaptive FEM (and application to elliptic obstacle
problems) ".

Marcus Page
Convergence of adaptive FEM (and application to elliptic obstacle problems)
Abstract:

Many physical phenomena require special attention at certain points of
interest, and should thus not be discretized by a classic finite
element method. If you want to simulate the heatflow in a room with a
candle in its center, for example, it will be quite unnatural to apply
the same resolution to each part of the room. Instead you would rather
use time and computational resources to get a good look at what's
happening in close proximity to the candle, whereas the grid at the
far end of the room could be coarser. This idea leads to adaptive
finite element schemes which turn out to be always convergent. The
mathematical problem is to show that they indeed converge towards the
correct continuous solution. This talk gives an introduction to recent
results in finite element analysis and an application to elliptic
obstacle problems. The audience is only required to have a basic
understanding of functional analysis and linear algebra.

Thursday, January 27, 2010, 17:15, Room C 2.07
Coffee and cakes served from 17:00 in the Common Room C 2.06

Program and further information you can find at
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~disskoll/

If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Klemens
Katterbauer via the below given E-mail address or cell phone number
0664 73 75 48 46.

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Comments and feedback are welcomed.

We are looking forward to your attendance,

Marcus Page
Clemens Hanel
Klemens Katterbauer