Thu, 22 Oct 2026

12:00 - 12:30
Lecture Room 4, Mathematical Institute

TBA

Luisa Plato
(WIAS Berlin)
Abstract

TBA

Thu, 15 Oct 2026

12:00 - 12:30
Lecture Room 4, Mathematical Institute

Optimal Time-Adaptivity for Parabolic Problems

David Niederkofler
(TU Wien)
Abstract

David Niederkofler (TU Wien) is going to talk about: "Optimal Time-Adaptivity for Parabolic Problems"


Since the first optimality proofs for adaptive mesh refinement algorithms in the early 2000s, the theory of optimal mesh refinement for PDEs was inherently limited to stationary problems. The reason for this is that time-dependent problems usually do not exhibit the necessary coercive structure that is used in optimality proofs to show a certain quasi-orthogonality, which is crucial for the theory. Recently, by using a new equivalence between quasi-orthogonality and inf-sup stability of the underlying problem, it was shown that an adaptive Crank-Nicolson scheme for the heat equation is optimal under a severe step size restriction. In this work, we use this new approach towards quasi-orthogonality together with Radau IIA methods of any order larger than one to obtain the first adaptive time stepping method for non-stationary PDEs that is provably rate optimal with respect to number of time steps vs. approximation error.

Multi-scale measures of time-varying epidemic spread on human mobility networks
Mills, C Reddy, B Hart, W Thompson, R Parag, K Kraemer, M Donnelly, C Lambert, B (30 Jul 2026)
Fokker-Planck equations on discrete infinite graphs
Carrillo de la Plata, J Wang, X SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Development of a universal imaging “phenome” using shape, appearance and motion (SAM) features and the SAM Phenotype Observation Tool (SPOT)
Zhou, F Norton-Steele, A Marsh, L Byrne, H Harrington, H Lu, X Nature Communications volume 17 issue 1 (17 Aug 2026)

Every song needs a hook and rapper KRS-One nailed it with his siren whoops. Careful or you'll be 'whooping' too.

The song, with its attack on generations of police behaviour, is part of a rap tradition which arguably began with NWA's 'Fuk tha Police' in 1989. Not that all police were offended. Apparently in 2014 two Essex policemen were caught blasting it out of their patrol car.

At the close of his sixteenth and final Dynamics student lecture, Derek Moulton gives a three-minute summary of why Dynamics is a big deal. It's a tour de 'force'.

Tue, 01 Dec 2026
14:00
L6

TBC

Mario Marcos Losada
(Mathematical Institute University of Oxford )
Abstract

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Tue, 24 Nov 2026
14:00
L6

TBC

Johannes Carl Droschl
(Aarhus University)
Abstract

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