Oakland University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Newsletter Winter 2008
Oakland University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Newsletter Winter 2008
Anna Spagnuolo receives an NSF grant
Prof. Spagnuolo is the PI on the NSF Grant: Collaborative Research: Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling on Petascale Computers for $330,679 (OU) beginning October 1, 2007 and lasting four years. Also working on the grant are Prof. Spagnuolo Ph.D. students, Michael DuChene and Daniel Coffield. This grant is a collaborative project involving two other institutions. It is headed up by Clinton Dawson, PI and main PI at the University of Texas at Austin and by Joannes Westerink, PI at the University of Notre Dame.
Peter Shi receives an NSF grant
Professor Peter Shi received and NSF grant to study a new finite element solver algorithm that has optimal speed and robustness.
SIAM Great Lakes Section 2007
Spring Meeting
Numerical Partial Differential, Equations, Modeling, Algorithms and Applications, April 21, 2007
On April 21, 2007 it was held at Oakland University the Great Lakes Section Sprint Meeting on Numerical Partial Differential, Equations, Modeling, Algorithms and Applications. The principal organizer of this event was Wen Zhang with assistance from Kevin Andrews, Dorin Drignei, Bo-nan Jiang, Peter Shi, Meir Shillor, and Jack Nachman. Among invited speakers were Gang Bao (Michigan State University), Marsha Berger, (Courant Institute), et al.
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