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    Many of these seminars are associated with Research Groups.
    Talks are generally announced via mailing lists.

    Applied Mathematics Colloquia Spring 2008
    Date & Time Location Title
    Wednesday, Jan 23
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Shuwang Li (University of California - Irvine)
    Interface dynamics and the control of microstructure morphologies

    Friday, Jan 25
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Philippe Rigollet (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    Stochastic convex optimization using mirror averaging algorithms

    Monday, Jan 28
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Elaine Spiller (Duke University)
    Modified Particle Filter Methods for Lagrangian Data Assimilation

    Wednesday, Jan 30
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Eliot Fried (Washington University)
    A conjectured hierarchy of length scales in a generalization of the Navier-Stokes-α equation for turbulent fluid flow

    Monday, Feb 4
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Abraham Flaxman (Microsoft Research)
    Average-case analysis of combinatorial problems (with emphasis on random spanning trees)
    Monday, Feb 11
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Igor Aranson (Argonne National Laboratory)
    Self-organization of microtubules interacting with molecular motors and crosslinks

    Monday, Feb 18
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Peter Qian (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    Some recent advances in data integration, modeling, and design strategies for computer experiments

    Friday, Feb 29
    12:45 pm
    SB 113 Greg Fasshauer (Illinois Institute of Technology)
    Remembering Gene Golub: From Chicago to Stanford and the World

    Monday, Mar 3
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Lan Wen (Northwestern University & Peking University, China)
    Existence of homoclinic intersections

    Monday, Mar 10
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Brad Moskowitz (MetSci)
    An Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Particle Filtering and Smoothing
    Wednesday, Mar 26
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Hong-Kai Zhao (University of California - Irvine)
    Time reversal and imaging in random medium
    Friday, April 4
    12:45 pm
    WH 113 James Glimm (SUNY - Stony Brook)
    Macro/Micro Perspectives for Turbulent Mixing Large Scale and Atomic Scale Mixing Properties
    Monday, April 14
    4:30 pm
    MTCC Ballroom Lloyd N. Trefethen (Balliol College - Oxford University, UK)
    Computing numerically with functions instead of numbers
    Remembering Menger Keynote Address
    Remembering Karl Menger 2008 Event
    Friday, April 18
    12:45 pm
    E1 106 Weizhu Bao (National University of Singapore)
    Numerical Methods for Problems in Unbounded Domains
    Monday, April 21
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Aaron Yip (Purdue University)
    Dynamics on Inhomogeneous Landscapes
    Tuesday, April 22
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Janos Pach (Courant Institute, NYU)
    Points Surrounding the Origin
    Thursday, April 24
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 William Velez (University of Arizona)
    Increasing the number of mathematics majors
    Stochastics and Computation Seminars Spring 2008
    Date & Time
    Location Title
    Tuesday, Feb 12,
    11:00 am
    E1 129 Zhihui Yang (Western Illinois University)
    Large deviations for stochastic systems driven by non-Gaussian Levy noise

    Monday, April 21
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Aaron Yip (Purdue University)
    Tuesday, May 27
    10:00 am
    E1 129 Chih-Wen Shih (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Ohio State University)
    Discrete Applied Mathematics Seminars Spring 2008
    Date & Time Location Title
    Monday, Feb 4
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Abraham Flaxman (Microsoft Research)
    Average-case analysis of combinatorial problems (with emphasis on random spanning trees)
    Wednesday, Feb 13
    4:00 pm
    E1 245 Oscar Ortega (Illinois Institute of Technology)
    The mean function on finite trees
    Wednesday, March 12
    4:00 pm
    E1 245 Amitava Bhattacharya (UIC)
    The polytope of degree partitions
    Wednesday, March 26
    3:30 pm
    E1 245 Robert Ellis (IIT)
    Variance of the subgraph count for sparse Erdos-Renyi graphs
    Wednesday, April 2
    4:30 pm
    E1 245 Iyad Kanj (Depaul University)
    On the induced matching problem
    Wednesday, April 9
    4:30pm
    E1 245 Kevin Ventullo (Illinois Institute of Technology)
    Some Ramsey Properties of the Integers
    Tuesday, April 22
    4:40 pm
    E1 106 Janos Pach (Courant Institute, NYU)
    Points Surrounding the Origin
    Wednesday, Apr 30
    4:00 pm
    E1 245 Jeong Ok Choi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
    Forbidden subposets for bounded fractional weak discrepancy of posets
    Wednesday, May 7
    4:00 pm
    E1 245 Marcus Schaefer (CTI, Depaul University)
    Spiraling and Folding: The Word View
    Meshfree Methods Seminars Spring 2008
    Date & Time Location Title
    Tuesday, Feb 19
    3:30 pm
    E1 129 Peter Qian (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

    Tuesday, March 11
    3:30 pm
    E1 129 Sergiy Borodachov (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    Optimal cubature formulas for integration along a ball, which use information along concentric spheres

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