NSF-CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences:

"Superconvergence in Finite Element Methods"

Conference Schedule

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All Lectures will be held in room 113 the Chemistry Building

Sunday, May 21, 2000

6:00-7:00p.m. Conference Check-in, Hulen Clement Lobby at
Texas Tech University Campus
7:00-9:00p.m. Dinner Reception, Hulen Clement Lobby at Texas Tech University Campus

Monday, May 22

7:30-8:30a.m. Breakfast on your own in the residence dining hall
9:00-9:30a.m. Conference Opening, Speaker: Dr. David Schmidly
Graduate Dean and Vice President of Research
9:30-10:30a.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture I. Introduction.
10:30-11:00a.m. Break
11:00-Noon Professor J.E. Akin: Superconvergent Patch Recovery of
Second Derivatives.
12:15-1:15p.m. Lunch on your own in the residence dining hall
2:00-3:00p.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture II.
3:00-3:30p.m. Coffee near meeting room
3:30-4:30p.m. Professor Zhimin Zhang: What is Known about Mathematical
Justification for the Superconvergent Patch Recovery.
4:30-6:15p.m. Free Time
6:15p.m. Buses depart from residence hall for dinner at the County Line
9:00p.m. Buses depart from County Line to return to residence hall

Tuesday, May 23

7:30-8:30a.m. Breakfast on your own in the residence dining hall
9:00-9:30a.m. Coffee near meeting room
9:30-10:30a.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture III.
10:30-11:00a.m. Break
11:00-Noon Professor A.H. Schatz: Estimates for the Error at A Point
with Applications to Superconvergence.
12:15-1:15p.m. Lunch on your own in the residence dining hall
2:00-3:00p.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture IV.
3:00-5:00p.m. Buses will pick you up at the lecture hall and take you to
a guided tour at the High Performance Computing Center and
return you to the residence hall
5:00-6:00p.m. Free time
6:00-7:00p.m. Dinner on your own in the residence dining hall

Wednesday, May 24

7:30-8:30a.m. Breakfast on your own in the residence dining hall
9:00-9:30a.m. Coffee near meeting room
9:30-10:30a.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture V.
10:30-11:00a.m. Break
11:00-Noon Dr. Beatrice Ribiere (presentation for Professor Mary Wheeler).
12:15-1:15p.m. Lunch on your own in the residence dining hall
2:00-3:00p.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture VI.
3:00-3:30p.m. Coffee near meeting room
3:30-4:30p.m. Professor Clint Dawson: Mixed and Discontinuous Galerkin Finite
Element Methods for Advection-Diffusion Equations.
4:30-6:00p.m. Free time
6:00-7:00p.m. Dinner on your own in the residence dining hall

Thursday, May 25

7:30-8:30a.m. Breakfast on your own in the residence dining hall
9:00-9:30a.m. Coffee near meeting room
9:30-10:30a.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture VII.
10:30-11:00a.m. Break
11:00-Noon Professor Junping Wang: A Remark on Superconvergence for Approximate
Solutions of an Elliptic Problem by the Mixed Finite Element Method.
12:15-1:15p.m. Lunch on your own in the residence dining hall
2:00-3:00p.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture VIII.
3:00-5:00p.m. Buses depart from residence hall for Llano Estacado Winery and
return by 5:00
5:00-6:15p.m. Free time
6:15p.m. Buses depart from residence hall for the conference banquet
Dr. John Burns, the Provost, will make a few remarks.
9:00p.m. Buses depart from return to residence hall from the banquet

Friday, May 26

7:30-8:30a.m. Breakfast on your own in the residence dining hall
9:00-9:30a.m. Coffee near meeting room
9:30-10:30a.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture IX.
10:30-11:00a.m. Break
11:00-Noon Professor Hong Wang: The application of superconvergence
techniques in the analysis of ELLAM schemes.
Noon-1:30p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30-2:30p.m. Professor Lars Wahlbin: Lecture X.
Open questions and concluding remarks.

3:00-5:00p.m. Buses will pick you up at the lecture hall, return you briefly to
the residence hall, and take you to the Ranching Heritage Center
for a guided tour and return you to the residence hall by 5:00p.m.

Check-out time is 3:00p.m.
(We can store luggage somewhere safe, if necessary.)