BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
          DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS CALENDAR
 
                         Week of March 17-21

Tuesday, March 18

 2:30 PM  STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Pranab K. Sen, Distinguished Lukacs Professor, BGSU. 
          "Statistical Functionals and Robustness Considerations"

Wednesday, March 19
      
 3:30 PM  STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY SEMINAR  - Room 300 MSC
          Edsel Pena, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Tests"

Thursday, March 20

 2:30 PM  SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Panayot Vassilevski, BGSU and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
          "Preconditioning non-symmetric and indefinite problems"
          Abstract: In this talk a general approach of preconditioning
            non--symmetric and possibly indefinite problems will be
            presented. It relies on a subspace correction idea;
            namely, by solving at every iteration a coarse problem one
            can essentially use any available preconditioner for the
            principal spd part of the original problem, now in a
            subspace form.  Similar idea can be used for
            preconditioning problems discretized on grids with local
            refinement.

Friday, March 21

  No colloquium this week.

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