Date:
Monday, December 4, 2006.
4:15 PM.<BR/>

Location: Math Building 380, Room 380C (basement), 4:15-5:05
Refreshments served at 4:00PM in courtyard

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<p>Presentation by Gunilla Kreiss, Professor from Uppsala University in Sweden. A traditional area of expertise of the Scientific Computing Division</p>
<p>at Uppsala University is analysis and development of stable high order</p>
<p>finite difference methods for initial boundary value problems for</p>
<p>partial differential equations. The last 15 years development of</p>
<p>parallell computing algorithms has put Uppsala in the forefront of</p>
<p>research also in the area of high performance computing. Our knowledge</p>
<p>complements ICME expertise in a very nice way. There are already many</p>
<p>examples of research and teaching collaboration between the Uppsala</p>
<p>group and ICME people at Stanford, where complimentary areas of</p>
<p>expertise hava been successfully linked together. (Gustafsson-Moin</p>
<p>collaboration, CME212 etc). A new effort is the joint Kreiss-Gerritsen</p>
<p>project on moving contact line modelling for simulating oil/water</p>
<p>flow. We will also briefly discribe our research efforts in two other</p>
<p>areas, computational quantum chemistry and disign optimization, where</p>
<p>we believe fruitful collaborations can be established.</p>
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