Selected Talks I have given

  • 21st Annual Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations , November 2-3, 2001, Wake Forest U., Winston-Salem, NC. Title of Talk: Spline Approximations of the 3D Poisson equation.

  • Texas Tech University Math Department, Lubbock, TX, January 2003. Title of Talk: Spline approximations of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. (INVITED)

  • Sixth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, March 27-March 31, 2003, Denver, Colorado. Title of Talk: On Convergence Rate of the Augmented Lagrangian Algorithm for Nonsymmetric Saddle Point Problems.

  • Tenth Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences , June 2004, Berkeley, CA, USA. Title of Talk: Trivariate Spline Approximations of 3D Navier-Stokes Equations. (INVITED)

  • Rectangular Mixed Finite Elements for Elasticity, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, January 5-8, 2005 and Finite Element Circus, Spring 2006, UMBC, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  • Differential Complexes and Mixed Finite Elements for Elasticity, Northern Illinois University, February 2005 and University of Louisville, March 2005. (INVITED)

  • Multivariate Spline Method for Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Adaptive Model Reduction Methods for PDE Constrained Optimization, Houston, TX, USA, May 2006.

  • Trivariate Spline Approximation of Divergence Free Vector Fields, Twelfth International Conference in Approximation Theory, San Antonio, TX, USA March 2007. (INVITED)

  • Robustness of a Spline Element Method with Constraints,US COngress of Computational Mechanics 9, San Francisco, CA, USA July 07

  • New and old rectangular mixed finite elements for elasticity, May 2008, Colloquium, Mathematics Department, University of Massachussets, Amherst, Ma, USA and April 2008, AMS special session on finite element methods and applications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. (INVITED)