Colloquia and Seminars Fall 2011
- Applied Mathematics Colloquia
- Stochastic & Multiscale Modeling and Computation Seminars
- Discrete Applied Math / Networks and Optimization Seminars
- Meshfree Methods Seminars
- Collegiate Mathematics Education Seminars
- Computations and Applications Seminars
- To see the listings of Colloquia and Seminars in past semesters, please visit our archive.
Many of these seminars are associated with research groups.
Talks are generally announced via mailing lists.
| Applied Mathematics Colloquia Fall 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Wednesday, Aug. 24, 4:40pm | E1 106 | Jianliang Qian (Michigan State University) Fast Gaussian Wavepacket Transforms and Gaussian Beams for the Schrodinger Equation |
| Monday, Aug. 29, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Michael L. Stein (University of Chicago) When does the screening effect hold? |
| Monday, Sept. 12, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Jaydeep Bardhan (Rush University) Understanding Protein Electrostatics using Boundary-Integral Equations |
| Monday, Sept. 19, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Wendy Zhang (University of Chicago) Perfect Fluid Flow from Granular Jet Impact |
| Monday, Sept. 26, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Hemanshu Kaul (IIT) Allocation of Resources under Dependencies |
| Wednesday, Sept. 28, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Jacek Jakubowski (Warsaw University and Warsaw Institue of Technology, Poland) A Linear Stochastic Volatility Model |
| Monday, Oct. 3, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Jue Yan (Iowa State University) Direct Discontinuous Galerkin Method and Its Variations for Diffusion Problems |
| Wednesday, Oct. 5, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Anita Thomas (IIT Undergraduate) Sampling Within k-Means Algorithm to Cluster Large Datasets |
| Thursday, Oct. 13, 4:40pm | SB 111 | Michel Jabbor (Univeristy of Kentucky) Step Dynamics and Morphological Instabilities During Epitaxial Growth |
| Monday, Oct. 17, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Jay Schieber (IIT) Viscoelasticity, Stochasticity, Non-Equilbrium Therodynamics, and Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics |
| Monday, Oct. 24, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Dr. Alexander Herbertsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Pricing CDS Index Options in a Nonlinear Filtering Model |
| Thursday, Oct. 27, 3:30pm to 5:30pm | E1 244 | Dr. Jeremy Walton (Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) NAG Presentation and Demonstration on Computational Optimization and its Applications |
| Monday, Nov. 7, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Jonathan Weare (University of Chicago) Some Tools for Sampling Complex Probability Distributions |
| Wednesday, Nov. 09, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Dr. Samuel Drapeau (Humboldt University, Germany) Minimal Supersolutions of Convex BSDEs and Robust Extensions |
| Monday, Nov. 21, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Daniel Stefankovic (University of Rochester) Approximate Counting |
| Monday, Nov. 28, 4:40pm | LS 152 | Agostino Capponi (Purdue University) Dynamic Portfolio Optimization with a Defaultable Security and Regime Switching |
| Stochastic & Multiscale Modeling and Computation Seminars Fall 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Discrete Applied Math/Networks and Optimization Seminars Fall 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Interested persons contact Robert Ellis for details. (ellisr@math.iit.edu) | Seminar/Reading Group in Bioinformatics: Topics in Next-Generation Sequencing | |
| Meshfree Methods Seminars Fall 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Monday, Sept. 19, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Michael McCourt (IIT) Modern techniques for Nonlinear Solvers |
| Monday, Sept. 26, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Qi Ye (IIT) Recent Advances on the Numerical Solutions of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations |
| Monday, Oct. 3, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Fred Hickernell (IIT) Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods |
| Monday, Oct. 17, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Barrett Leslie (IIT) Vector-Valued Parametric Kernal-Based Interpolation for 2D Facial Animations |
| Monday, Oct. 24, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Yiou Li (IIT) Optimal Design When Gradient Information is Available |
| Monday, Oct. 14, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Xuan Zhou (IIT) A Generalization of Kernel For Function Approximation |
| Monday, Oct. 14, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Lan Jiang (IIT) Quasi Standard error for Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods |
| Monday, Nov. 7, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Jonathan Weare (University of Chicago) Quasi Standard error for Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods |
| Monday, Nov. 21, 3:15pm | E1 106 | Thomas Hangelbroek (University of Hawaii) Bettr Bases for Kernel Spaces |
| Collegiate Mathematics Education Seminars Fall 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |