Talks

Partial differential equations can be solved numerically by the radial basis function-generated finite difference (RBF-FD) method, which can be viewed as a generalization of the finite difference method to unstructured point sets.
A so-called stencil is computed for each interior node and radial basis functions are used for the computation of the stencil weights. The discretization error depends on the type of the point set (i.e. on the number of interior and boundary nodes and their distribution), the stencil size, the RBF type and the shape parameter of the RBF.
In this talk, I present an introduction of the RBF-FD method and a numerical analysis of the influence of the various parameters on the discretization error. I focus on Poisson's equation and on the convection-diffusion equation in three-dimensions.

I will introduce myself and talk about my master thesis.

The topic of my thesis was "On periodic finite sections", which are an approximation method based on the regular finite section method. The methods are used to approximate (the inverses of) infite matrices by finite matrices.

Since most of you couldn't attend my master thesis defense due to the university closure, I would like to use this talk to present you some results of my master thesis "Many-body localization: A spectral theoretic investigation of spin chains". Spin chains are a class of quantum-mechanical models well-suited to study many-body localization (MBL) phenomena due to their one-dimensional structure. After a brief introduction to one-particle (Anderson) localization and spectral properties of infinite-dimensional operators, we will see possible definitions and manifestations of MBL. The proofs of MBL for two specific spin chains will be sketched, illustrating how one-particle and many-body techniques can be combined. Furthermore, I would like to use this talk to properly present myself in case you wondered who that person in the guest office was.

Since I am new to the institute, I want to use this talk to introduce myself to you, and talk a little bit about my master thesis.

For the thesis I studied the approximability of the inverse of finite element matrices, i.e. matrices which are gained from the discretization of elliptic PDE's with the finite element method, by hierarchical matrices. So, after introducing myself, i will give an overview about the construction of the approximation and the error analysis.

supervision by Prof. Ernst Brinkmeyer (retired 2013, hence not hosted by him)

no maths topic

Talk (PDF, 219KB)

For a regular coupled cell network, we define an index of integer tuples for its associated lattice of synchrony subspaces, and use this index for identifying equivalent synchrony subspaces to be merged to each other. Based on this equivalence, the initial lattice of synchrony subspaces can be reduced to a lattice of synchrony subspaces which corresponds to a simple eigenvalue case discussed in previous work. The result is a reduced lattice of synchrony subspaces, which affords a well-defined non-negative integer index that can be used for bifurcation analysis in regular coupled cell networks.