Below are the minicourses related to the Special Year in Numerics 2008-2009. See the main page for main events.

Minicourses

Molecular dynamics

Speakers: Ben Leimkuhler (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Helsinki University of Technology
Time: May 21.-23., 2008 (preliminary)
Topics:

Molecular Dynamics Models

Symplectic Integrators for Molecular Modelling

Computing Averages from MD

Course includes lectures and computer experiments.

Adaptive high-order finite element methods for problems of mechanics and wave propagation

Speakers: Leszek Demkowicz (University of Texas)
Venue: Helsinki University of Technology
Time: June 2.-6., 2008

Affine Invariant Newton Algorithms for Nonlinear PDEs with Application to Cancer Therapy

Speakers: Peter Deuflhard (Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany)
Venue: University of Jyväskylä as part of the 18th Jyväskylä Summer School
Time: 6.-15.8.2008

Goal-Oriented Adaptivity in Finite Element Methods with Applications to Multi-Field and PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems

Speakers: Rolf Rannacher (Heidelberg, Germany)
Venue: University of Jyväskylä as part of the 18th Jyväskylä Summer School
Time: 18.-22.8.2008

Numerical Analysis and Complexity of Stochastic Processes

Speakers: Klaus Ritter (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
Venue: University of Jyväskylä as part of the 18th Jyväskylä Summer School
Time: 18.-22.8.2008

Approximation of Stochastic Dynamics with Application to Molecular Dynamics, Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods and Financial Mathematics

Speakers: Anders Szepessy (KTH mathematics, Sweden)
Venue: University of Jyväskylä as part of the 18th Jyväskylä Summer School
Time: 18.-22.8.2008

Fourier Analysis and Matrix Theory

Speaker: Rajendra Bhatia (Indian Statistical Institute)
Venue: Helsinki University of Technology
Time: 8.-10.9.2008

The Nonequispaced FFT and its Applications

Speaker: Jens Keiner (University of Lübeck), Stefan Kunis (Chemnitz University of Technology), and Antje Vollrath (University of Lübeck).
Venue: Helsinki University of Technology
Time: 23.-27.2.2009

Special Course in Numeric Analysis

Venue: Helsinki University of Technology
Time: 22.-30.4.2009