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A Complementarity Approach to Solving Computable General Equilibrium Models

Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics

Algebraic and Geometric Ideas in Linear Optimization

Speaker Jesus De Loera University of California, Davis https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/ Description Linear programming is undeniably a central software tool of applied mathematics and a source...

Physics Preserving Discretizations for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations

Description The system consisting of the Poisson equation coupled with the Nernst-Planck equations is a flexible model of the motion of electrically charged particles. It has a very slight...

Career Management Center

Computational Chemistry and the 2013 Nobel Prize – A Panel Discussion

For the third time in history, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded in the area of computational chemistry. IIT has recently welcomed two new faculty, David Minh and Andrey Rogachev, in this...

Why Is It So Hard to Estimate Expected Returns?

Host Department of Applied Mathematics Description Abstract: A key part of experiment design is determining how much data to collect. When the data comes in the form of a time series, the sample size...

Proactive Detection of Phishing Web Sites

Description Abstract We will present in this talk an approach for pro-active detection of phishing web sites. The main idea consists in learning from data the underlying language model used by...

Light Sources in Security and Defense

Location Functions on Trees and Beyond: A Short Survey and Some Recent Results

Description Let G =(V,E) be a finite connected graph and π a k-tuple in V. Think of k customers, each one reporting a most preferred vertex. Location and consensus theory often involves finding the...

Numerical Simulation of the Dynamics of a Bio-Membrane in Viscous Flow with Thermal Noise

Description We use immersed boundary method to incorporate the thermal noise into the model. A delta function is used to couple the fluid with the membrane. And a finite difference discretization of...