Colloquia and Seminars Spring 2008
- Applied Mathematics Colloquia
- Applied Mathematics Seminars
- Mathematical Finance Seminars
- Stochastics and Computation Seminars
- Discrete Applied Mathematics Seminars
- Meshfree Methods Seminar
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 Aronson (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) Dynamics on Inhomogeneous Landscapes |
| 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) Some recent advances in data integration, modeling, and design strategies for computer experiments |
| 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 |