Some talks by Douglas N. Arnold

This page contains PDF files for a few talks I have given recently.

• Finite element exterior calculus: A new approach to the stability of finite elements, plenary talk at the 9th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, July 25, 2007.
• Differential complexes and mixed finite elements for elasticity, workshop on Compatible Discretizations for PDE, Centre of Mathematics for Applications, Oslo, Norway, September 26, 2005.
• Mathematics and the cosmos in the Einstein centenary: The new mathematical gravitational astronomy, Bullitt Lecture, University of Louisville, April 28, 2005.
• Mathematics in a dangerous time, Keynote address for an Applied Math Workshop at University of Illinois, May 7, 2003.
• From exact sequences to colliding black holes: Differential complexes in numerical analysis, Plenary address at ICM 2002, the International Congress of Mathematics, Beijing, 2002.
• Numerical relativity, ICM 2002 Satellite Conference on Nonlinear PDE: Theory and Approximation, Hong Kong, August 30, 2002.
• Mixed finite elements for elasticity, ICM 2002 Satellite Conference on Scientific Computing, Xi'an, August 16, 2002.
• A quick introduction to the Einstein equations, tutorial delivered at the IMA workshop on Numerical Relativity, June 24, 2002.
• Mathematics in industry, presentation delivered at the NSF VIGRE meeting, Reston, VA, May 4, 2002.
• Approximation by quadrilateral finite elements, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, February 19, 2002.
• Questions on shell theory workshop on "Elastic Shells: Modeling, Analysis, and Computation", Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, April 21, 2000.