Colloquia and Seminars Spring 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 Spring 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Monday, Jan. 10, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Jie Liang (University of Illinois at Chicago) Computing probability landscape of stochastic networks through Discrete Chemical Master Equation: Understanding maintenance of epigenetic state of phage lambda |
| Monday, Jan. 17 | MLK Holiday (Campus Closed) | |
| Monday, Jan. 24, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Michael Ferrara (University of Colorado, Denver) |
| Monday, Jan. 31, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Jingfang Huang (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) A Fourier-Series-Based Kernel-Independent Fast Multipole Method |
| Monday, Feb. 7, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Bei Hu (University of Notre Dame) PDE Tumor Models |
| Monday, Feb. 14, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Bo Deng (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) Entropy Driven Evolution: Why DNA Is Coded in Four Bases and Why Reproduction Takes Two Sexes |
| Monday, Feb. 21, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Robert Eisenberg (Rush University) Mathematics of Ions in Channels and Solutions |
| Monday, Feb. 28, 11:30 am | E1 025 | Robert Krawcyk (IIT Architecture) Nature, Architecture, Mathematics and the Digital |
| Tuesday, Mar. 1, 12:40 pm | E1 102 | Fred Weening (IIT Applied Math) The Mathematics of Juggling |
| Thursday, Mar. 3, 12:40 pm | E1 102 | Dan Boros (Ohio State University) The Classification of Closed Surfaces |
| Monday, Mar. 7, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Dan Apley (Northwestern University) Engineering Response Surface Metamodeling Using Fractional Brownian Fields (and other Kriging Fixes) |
| Tuesday, Mar. 8, 12:40 pm | E1 102 | Mike Weimerskirch (Macalester College) How to Bake the Real Numbers from Scratch: An Introduction to Surreal Analysis |
| Wednesday, Mar. 9, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Lek-heng Lim (University of Chicago) Multilinear Algebra and Its Applications |
| Thursday, Mar. 10, 12:40 pm | E1 102 | Grethe Hystad (University of Arizona) The Periodic Ising Model |
| Monday, Mar. 28, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Jim Evans (Iowa State University) Atomistic and coarse-grained modeling of epitaxial thin film growth and relaxation |
| Wednesday, Mar. 30, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Mark R. Lytell (IIT Applied Math) The Engineer's Bread and Butter – How Engineers do Math for a Living SIAM-Sponsored Talk |
| Monday, April 4, 4:30 pm | MTCC Ballroom | Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College) Statistical Combinatorics 2011 Karl Menger Lecture |
| Monday, April 11, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | David Galvin (University of Notre Dame) Hard-Constraint Spin Systems: Some Results and Questions |
| Friday, April 15, 1:50 pm | WH 113 | Karin Leiderman (Duke University) A mathematical model of platelet deposition and blood coagulation under flow Co-sponsored with BME Dept. |
| Wednesday, April 20, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Rolf Ryham (Fordham University) A Continuum Variational Approach to Vesicle Membrane Modeling |
| Monday, April 25, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Long Chen (University of California - Irvine) Optimal Delaunay Triangulations |
| Stochastic & Multiscale Modeling and Computation Seminars Spring 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Discrete Applied Math/Networks and Optimization Seminars Spring 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Thursday, Jan. 20, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Stephen Hartke (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) |
| Monday, Jan. 24, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | Michael Ferrara (University of Colorado, Denver) |
| Tuesday, Feb. 1, TBA | TBA | Arash Rafiey (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland) Homomorphism Problem and its Approximation Version |
| Thursday March 31, 4:40 pm | E1 124 | Hemanshu Kaul (IIT Applied Math) Graph Packing and Degree Sequences |
| Monday, April 4, 4:30 pm | MTCC Ballroom | Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College) Statistical Combinatorics 2011 Karl Menger Lecture |
| Tuesday, April 5, 11:25 am | Trustee Dining Room - HUB Lower Level | Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College) Coordinate Percolation |
| Monday, April 11, 4:40 pm | E1 106 | David Galvin (University of Notre Dame) Hard-Constraint Spin Systems: Some Results and Questions |
| Meshfree Methods Seminars Spring 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |
| Monday, Jan. 31, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Greg Fasshauer (IIT Applied Math) Positive Definite Kernels |
| Monday, Feb. 7, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Marjan Uddin (Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology, Pakistan) Partial Differential Equations |
| Monday, Feb. 14, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Fred Hickernell (IIT Applied Math) Reproducing Kernel Banach Spaces |
| Monday, Feb. 21, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Qi Ye (IIT Applied Math) |
| Monday, Feb. 28, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Yiou Li (IIT Applied Math) |
| Monday, March 7, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Yizhi Zhang (IIT Applied Math) |
| Monday, March 21, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Lulu Kang (IIT Applied Math) Learning the Structure of Probabilistic Networks with Data Uncertainty |
| Monday, March 28, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Lan Jiang (IIT Applied Math) |
| Monday, April 11, 3:15 pm | E1 122 | Sou-Cheng Choi (Stanford University) MINRES-QLP and its Application to Radial Basis Function Interpolation |
| Collegiate Mathematics Education Seminars Spring 2011 | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Title |