Time/Place:

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
3:00pm
101 Stanley Thomas Hall
Tulane University (Uptown)

Refreshments will be served

Speaker:

Sue Brenner, LSU Mathematics Department

Title:

Nonconforming Maxwell Eigensolvers

Abstract:

In this talk we discuss numerical schemes for computing Maxwell eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. These schemes are based on a variational formulation defined on the intersection of the spaces H(curl) and H(div). They do not generate spurious eigenvalues and can be analyzed by the classical theory of spectral approximations. Both theoretical and numerical results will be presented.