Events for 07-2018

Instructors/Speakers Prof. Qin SHENG Professor Department of Mathematics and Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research (CASPER) Baylor University Texas U.S.A. Abstract Many finite difference methods that involve spatial adaptation employ an equidistribution principle. In these cases, a new mesh is constructed such that a given monitor function is equidistributed in some sense. Typical choices of the monitor function involve the solution or one of its many derivatives. This constructive strategy has been proven to be extremely effective and easy-to-use in multiphysical computations. However, selections of core monitoring functions are often challenging and crucial to the computational success. This talk concerns several different designs of the monitoring function that targets a highly nonlinear partial differential equation that exhibits both ...

Instructors/Speakers Prof. Lancelot F. JAMES Director of PhD and MPhil programs, School of Business and Management Professor of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management (ISOM), HKUST Business School The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Abstract t is known random partitions of the integers may be obtained by a process of discovery of excursion intervals of generalized notions of Bessel processes, with the most prominent example being Brownian motion or Brownian bridge. This leads to the two parameter Chinese restaurant process, which has a variety of applications. Generalizations of this scheme lead to the general class of Gibbs partitions. We examine Gibbs partitions from different perspective and describe classes of random partitions that can be expressed in ...