Selected Talks I have given

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • (INVITED) 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) Finite Elements for Symmetric Tensors in Three Dimensions ,Jan 2009, Colloquium, Mathematics Department, University of Massachussets, Amherst, Ma, USA, SIAM student Chapter University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 2009, Summer School on Multivariate Splines, University of Georgia, May 2009, Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics, June 2009

  • (INVITED) Spline Element Method for Partial Differential Equations , Colloquium, Wayne State U., November 2009.

  • (INVITED) Numerical Methods for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations , Thirteenth International Conference on Approximation Theory, San-Antonio, TX, March 2010 and AMS Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, Minneapolis, MN, April 2010

  • (INVITED) Symmetric Matrix Fields in the Finite Element Method , Colloquium Western Illinois University, April 2010

  • Spline Element Method for the Monge-Ampere Equation, Midwest Numerical Analysis Day, April 18, 2009 and Finite Element Circus, Brown U., Spring 2010

  • (INVITED) Numerical Methods for Monge-Ampere Equations , 2010 Benin Summer School on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, Cotonou, Benin, June 2010

  • (INVITED) Good Numerical Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations , Colloquium California State U. Northridge March 2011 and AMS special meeting, Las vegas, April 2011

  • (INVITED) New and Old rectangular mixed finite elements for elasticity , USNCCM Minneapolis, July 2011

  • (INVITED) New and Old rectangular mixed finite elements , Colloquium, Arizona State University September 2011, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jannuary 2012 and Wayne State University January 2013.

  • (INVITED) Finite Element Differential Forms on Cubical Meshes , AMS Special session on Finite Element Exterior Calculus, San Diego, January 2013.

  • (INVITED) Isogeometric method for the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation, Special session on isogeometric analysis, 14th International Conference in Approximation Theory, San Antonio, TX 2014, April 2013.

  • (INVITED) Nouveaux et anciens elements finis mixtes rectangulaires , IMSP, Porto-Novo, Benin June 2013.

  • (INVITED) Pseudo transient continuation and time marching methods for Monge-Ampere type equations, Central section AMS Special Session on numerical methods for geometric partial differential equations, April 2013, and MAEFLAP 2013, Minisymposium on Numerical Methods for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations, June 2013.

  • (INVITED) Standard Lagrange elements for the numerical resolution of the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation, Summer copper country workshop on numerical analysis and inverse problems, July 2013.