Jan. 10-16, 2016

Blocker Building, Dept. of Mathematics

Course Description

This winter class consists of plenary lectures and computer laboratory sessions.

Deformable domains are ubiquitous in several areas of research but are still a serious computational challenge. The morning lectures provide a comprehensive approach to the formulation and discretization of geometric partial differential equation governing processes. The topics discussed center around differential geometry, calculus of variations, gradient flows and discretization using finite element methods. Emphasis is made to application and in particular to biophysics and material science.

The laboratory sessions serve as numerical illustration and provide insights on the behavior of the algorithms introduced in class. During these sessions students will have the choice of using either MATLAB or deal.ii/C++. A deal.ii tutorial will be provided on Sunday January 10, 2016.

A detailed syllabus will be provided soon.

Lecturers:

Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland
Andrea Bonito, Texas A&M University

deal.II Tutorial

Timo Heister, Clemson University

Please visit the link below to obtain further information regarding the “Geometric PDE’s and Their Approximations” winter course and online registration.

Registration – DEADLINE November 30, 2015

https://www.math.tamu.edu/~bonito/Workshops/2016_GPDE/index.html

 

The Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science is a co-sponsor of this winter school.