AM(L) Seminar
Most seminars are Fridays at
2:30p.m. in Warren
Weaver
Hall Rm 1302.
Fall 2020 Semester seminars will be held on Zoom
Questions or comments? Please
e-mail: Leif Ristroph
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Fall 2020
A coarse-grained model of microtubule hydrodynamics (and streaming flows in the fruit fly oocyte)
Friday, Sept 18: Siddhartha Verma (Florida Atlantic University), host: Ristroph
Collective Behaviour in Fish, Flow Sensing and PPE Design
Friday, Oct 9: Lenka Zdeborova (Institut de Physique Th�orique, CEA/Saclay), host: Vanden-Eijnden
Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data
Friday, Oct 23: Kaare Jensen (Danish Technical University), host: Ristroph
Friday, Oct 30: Rajat Mittal (Johns Hopkins University), host: Ristroph
Friday, Nov 6: Jorn Dunkel (MIT), host: Donev
Friday, Nov 13: Dima Kozakov (SUNY Stony Brook), host: Donev
Friday, Nov 20: Lydia Bourouiba, (MIT), host: Shelley
Friday, Nov 27: -- Thanksgiving! --
Friday, Dec 4: Xiaoming Mao (University of Michigan), host: Vanden-Eijnden
Friday, Dec 11: Christophe Clanet (CNRS, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique), host: Ristroph
Spring 2020
Friday, Jan 31: Alireza Hooshanginejad, UMN
Droplets in wind
Friday, Feb 14: Shahar Kovalsky,
Duke
University
Geometry + Optimization: towards
computational anatomy
Wednesday, Feb 19: Dionisios Margetis, Univ
of Maryland **Special day,
time and location for this talk - 3:30pm, room 1314
Plasmonics
on
2D
materials:
Flavors
of
dispersion
and
homogenization
Friday, Feb 21: Sam
Dillavou, Harvard
Hidden Dynamics of Static Friction
Friday, Feb 28: Grant Rotskoff, CIMS
Learning transition states: approximation,
sampling, and optimization with rare data
Friday, Mar 6: Gitta
Kutyniok, TUB
The Approximation Power of Deep Neural
Networks: From Applied Harmonic Analysis to Parametric Partial
Differential Equations
Friday, Mar 13: Mitchell Luskin,
University of Minnesota
***CANCELLED***
Twistronics: manipulating the spectrum of
Hamiltonian operators for two-dimensional layered structures through
their twist angle
Friday, Mar 27: Daniel
Harris, Brown ***CANCELLED***
Friday, Apr 3: Pedro Saenz, UNC
Friday, Apr 10: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, BU
Friday, Apr 17: Christian
Ratsch, UCLA **Special time for
this talk - talk will begin at 1:00pm
Friday, Apr 24: Arndt Siekmann, UPenn
Friday, May 8: Jorn Dunkel,
MIT
Fall 2019
Friday, Sept 6: Carlos Fernandez-Granda,
CIMS
Separable nonlinear inverse
problems in theory and practice
Friday, Sept 13: Gary
Froyland, University of New South Wales
Dynamics, Mixing, and Coherence
Friday, Sept 20: Sophie Marbach, CIMS
Active sieving : from flapping nano-doors
to vibrating nanotubes
Friday, Oct 4: Courant Instructor Day
Friday, Oct 11: Andrea Alu, Photonics
Initiative at
the CUNY Advanced
Science Research Center
Exotic Light-Matter Interactions in Mathematics
Friday, Oct 18: Special Semnar in
Honor of Steve Childress's 85th Birthday
John Bush, MIT
Hydrodynamic quantum analogs
Friday, Nov 1: Rico Rojas, NYU Biology
Mechanics and Dynamics of Cell Growth Control
in Microbes
Friday, Nov 8: Hamid Karani,
Northwestern
Tuning the random walk of active colloids:
from individual run-and-tumble to dynamic clustering
Friday, Nov 15: Fan Yang,
Princeton
University
MAE
Department
From singularity phenomena in
thin films to chemically driven active matter
Friday, Nov 22: Samuel Isaacson,
Boston University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Control of membrane-bound
tethered signaling reactions
Friday, Dec 6: William
M.
Jacobs, Princeton
University
Department
of
Chemistry
Optimizing self-assembly
pathways using insights from coarse-grained models
Spring 2019
Friday, Feb 1: Daphne Klotsa,
University
of
North
Carolina,
Chapel
Hill
A touch of non-linearity in fluid fields:
where spheres "think" collectively and swim together
Tuesday, Feb 5: Lin Lin, UC Berkeley ** Special day and time, seminar being
held at 10:00am room 1314
The Grassmann manifold, gauge, and quantum
chemistry
Friday, Feb 8: Karen
Daniels, North Carolina State University
Starbursts and flowers: when spreading
droplets break bad
Friday, Feb 15: Benni
Seibold, Temple University
Traffic Waves, Autonomous Vehicles, and the
Future of Traffic Modeling
Friday, Feb 22: Oscar
Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture and
Healing in Elastomers: A Phase-Transition Theory and Numerical
Implementation
Friday, Mar 1: Radu Cimpeanu,
University
of
Oxford
How to make a splash: a multi-scale
framework for understanding high speed drop impact
Friday, Mar 8: Jonathan
Weare, Courant Institute
Fast randomized iterative numerical
linear
algebra
for
quantum
chemistry
and
other
applications
Friday, Mar 22: Spring break
Friday, Mar 29: Shahriar Afkami, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Friday, Apr 5: Sebastian
Acosta, Baylor College of Medicine
Photoacoustic imaging and Thermodynamic
Attenuation
Friday, Apr 12: Ning Wu,
Colorado School of Mines
Active Assembly of Colloids with
Broken Symmetries Under AC Electric Fields
Friday, Apr 19:
Friday, Apr 26: Petia
Vlahovska, Northwestern
Active Fluids of Quincke Microrotors
Friday, May 3:
Friday, May 10: Yoichiro Mori,
University of Minnesota
Mathematical Justification of Slender Body
Theory
Friday, May 17: Kenny Breuer,
Brown University
Bacterial Swimming in Newtonian and
non-Newtonian Fluids
Fall 2018
Friday,Sep 7: First Friday of semester
Friday, Sep 14: Luis Bonilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Bifurcation theory of swarm formation
Friday, Sep 21: The conference in honour of Elie Hameiri
Friday, Sep 28: Charles
Malderelli, CUNY
Continuum and Molecular Dynamic Studies
of The Hydrodynamics of Colloid Particles at a Fluid Interface
Friday,Oct 5: Glen Hocky,
NYU
How elasticity and entropy drive
self-organization of filament crosslinking proteins, in and out of
equilibrium
Friday, Oct 12: Courant Instructor Day
Friday, Oct 19: Ivan
Christov, Purdue
From microchannels to blood vessels: A
mathematical modeling perspective on flow in soft conduits
Friday, Oct 26: Gabriel Stoltz,
Ecole des Ponts & Inria Paris
Hybrid Monte Carlo methods for sampling
probability measures on submanifolds
Friday, Nov 2: Demetrios
Papageorgiou, Imperial College
Nonlinear instabilities in viscous
multilayer flows
Friday, Nov 16: Anand Oza, NJIT
Friday, Nov 23: Thanksgiving Break
Friday, Nov 30: Eleni
Katifori, UPenn
Self-organization in biological transport
networks
Friday, Dec 7: Jasna Brujic, NYU Programming colloidal architectures
Friday, Dec 14: The 2018 Holiday Lecture, Last day of Fall 2018 classes
Spring 2018
Friday, Jan 26: Yunan Yang,
University of Texas at Ausin
The analysis and application of Optimal
Transport for Seismic Inversion
Friday, Feb 2:
Thursday, Feb 8: Nick Moore,
Florida State University ** Please note
unusual day for this event
Granular erosion in Stokes flow and
non-normal surface waves
Friday, Feb 9: Yat Tin Chow, UCLA
An algorithm for overcoming the curse of
dimensionality in Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Friday, Feb 16: Presidents Day Weekend
Friday, Feb 23: Peter Miller,
University of Michigan
A Robust Inverse Scattering Transform for
the Focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation
Tuesday, Feb 27: Laure Zanna, University of
Oxford ** Please note unusual day for this event
Enhancing Turbulence in Ocean Models
Thursday, March 1: Yuliya Gorb,
University of Houston **
Please note unusual day and time for this event, which is at 3:30pm
Efficient Analytical and Numerical Treatment
of High Contrast Composites
Friday, March 2: Benedict
Leimkuhler, University of Edinburgh
Efficient sampling using stochastic
differential equations, from molecular dynamics to large scale inference
Friday, March 9: Anna-Karin Tornberg, KTH
Highly accurate integral equation based
methods for surfactant laden drops in two and three dimensions
Friday, March 16: Julien
Tailleur, Universite
Paris-Diderot
Statistical mechanics of active matter
Friday, March 23: Ian Griffiths,
University of Oxford
iPhones and Dysons: using fluid dynamics
to tailor technology
Friday, March 30: Good Friday
Friday,
April 6: Irmgard
Bischofberger, MIT
Pattern Growth from
Interfacial Fluid Instabilities
Friday, April 13: Lou Kondic, NJIT
Modeling thin liquid films: from liquid
crystals to liquid metals
Friday, April 20: Ken Kamrin, MIT
Modeling granular materials from fundamentals to applications:
Surprising complexity meets surprising simplicity
Friday,
April
27: Michael
Shelley, CIMS
Active Mechanics in the Cell
Friday, May 4: Marcus Roper, UCLA
Optimality in microvascular networks
Friday, May 11: John Lowengrub, UCI
A hybrid continuum-discrete mechanical collective cell model
Fall 2017
Friday,
Sept.
15: Joan Bruna Estrach, CIMS
Statistics,
Computation
and
Learning
with
Graph
Neural
Networks
Friday, Sept. 22: Jeffrey Morris,
The City College of New York
(Levich Institute)
Dense suspensions: Frictional
effects in shear thickening and related phenomena
Friday, Sept 29:
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Friday, Oct. 6: Kyle Bishop, Columbia University
Programming the dynamics of
active colloids
Markov chain Monte Carlo and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics in drug discovery
Modeling and large-scale simulation of thin film flows of nematic liquid crystal
Dynamical fluctuations and large deviations in systems with and without detailed balance
Data-driven discovery of governing equations and physical laws
Moving boundaries in fluid flows: Mudballs, meteorites, lollipops, and bubbles
Friday, Dec 15: Bill Schultz, University of Michigan
Directional stability of foils and swimming performance measures
Spring 2017
Friday, Jan 20: Jianfeng Lu, Duke
Frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping: a stochastic semiclassical algorithm for high dimensional
Schroedinger equations
Friday, Jan 27: Tobias Grafke, CIMS
Extreme Events and Metastability in Fluids and Waves
Friday, Feb 3: Wen Yan, Simons Foundation
Towards a continuum mechanics for (dry) active particles
Friday, Feb 10: Dionisios Margetis, U Maryland
From atomistic dynamics to mesoscale models of epitaxial growth
Friday, Feb 17: No Seminar
Friday, Feb 24: Olof retirement party / Special Seminar: 2:30pm Room 109
Xiao-Chuan Cai, University of Colorado
Domain Decomposition: From Poisson to Coupled Multi-physics
Friday, Mar 3: Ian Tobasco, University of Michigan
Optimal wall-to-wall transport by incompressible flows
Friday, Mar 10:
Friday, Mar 17: no seminar; Spring break
Friday, Mar 24: Alexei Tkachenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tales of Emerging Complexity: from Self-Assembly to Self-Replication
Friday, Mar 31:
Friday, Apr 7: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS
Sphere packings, singularities, and statistical mechanics
Friday, Apr 14: Owen Miller, Yale
Design at the Nanoscale: Reaching the Limits of Light-Matter Interactions
Tuesday, April 18: Joe Keller Memorial Workshop / Special Event: 12:30pm
Friday, Apr 21: no Seminar; student prize ceremony
Friday, Apr 28: Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton
Elasticity, Geometry and Buckling
Friday, May 12: Bruno Despr�s, Laboratoire J.-L. Lions, Universit� Paris 6 / Seminar location room 517 @2:15pm
Positive polynomials and numerical approximation
Fall 2016
Friday, Sept 9: James Lee-Thorp, CIMSFriday, Nov 11: Angelika Manhart, CIMS
Edge states in honeycomb structures
Friday, Sept 16: Tryphon Georgiou, University of Minnesota and UC Irvine
Entropic and Displacement interpolation of probability distributions
Friday, Sept 23: Dejan Slepcev, Carnegie Mellon University
Variational problems on graphs and their continuum limits
Friday, Sept 30:
Friday, Oct 7: Freddy Bouchet, ENS de Lyon and CNRS
Large deviation theory applied to climate physics, a new frontier of statistical physics and applied mathematics
Friday, Oct 14: Rakesh Vohra, UPenn
Stable Matchings and Scarf�s Lemma
Thursday, Oct 20: Eurika Kaiser, U. Washington **Please note unusual time, day and location for this seminar 4:45pm in room 1314
Data-driven techniques for modeling, control, and sensor placement
Friday, Oct 21: CI Day (morning)
Friday, Oct 28: Nicolas Boumal, Princeton
Optimization on manifolds to solve low-rank semidefinite relaxations
Friday, Nov 4: Arian Maleki, Columbia
On the asymptotic performance of l_q regularized least squares
Traveling Waves in Myxobacteria
Friday, Nov 18: Eric Siggia, Rockefeller
Evolving dynamical systems for temperature compensated clocks and developmental patterning
Friday, Nov 25: no seminar (Thanksgiving)
Tuesday, Nov. 29: Paolo Cermelli, University of Torino **Please note unusual time, day and location for this seminar 11:00am in room 1314
The dissassembly of viral capsids as a case study for the stability of large complexes made of repeated building blocks.
Friday, Dec 2: Giuliana Indelicato, University of Torino
A mathematical framework for the classification of Self-assembling Polypeptide Nanoparticles
Friday, Dec 9: CIMS Holiday Party
Spring 2016
Friday, Feb 5: Chris Collins, NYU Medical School
Numerical Simulations for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Signal, Noise, and Temperature Considering Interactions Between Electromagnetic Fields and The Human Body
Friday, Feb 12: Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai, CIMS
Stochastic approach to anomalous diffusion in two dimensional, incompressible, periodic, cellular flows
Friday, Feb 19: Justin Solomon, Princeton/MIT
Optimal Transportation for Practical Geometric Problems
Friday, Feb 26: Charles R. Doering, Univerisity of Michigan
Wall to wall optimal transport
Friday, Mar 4: Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS
Kernel methods for nonparametric analog forecasting
Friday, Mar 11: Yoav Kallus, Santa Fe Institute
Local optimality and pessimality results in packing problems
Friday, Mar 18: no seminar (Spring Break)
Friday, Mar 25: Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS
From Seismology to Compressed Sensing and Back, a Brief History of Optimization-Based Signal Processing
Friday, Apr 1: Qiang Du, Columbia University
Bridging scales through nonlocal modeling
Friday, Apr 8: Oleg Kirillov, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow and Helmholtz-Zentrum, Dresden-Rossendorf
Precession on a rotating saddle: A gyro force in an internal frame
Wednesday, Apr 13: Quentin Berthet, Cambridge
Trade-offs in Statistical Learning
Friday Apr 15: Boyce Griffith, UNC (special seminar)
A Short History of the Immersed Boundary Method
Wednesday, Apr 20: Jonathan Weare, Univ of Chicago (special seminar please note time and location - 11am, room 1314)
Understanding umbrella sampling approaches to rare event simulation
Friday, Apr 22: no seminar (Student Awards)
Friday, Apr 29: Michael Ward, University of British Columbia
The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Spot Solutions to Reaction-Diffusion Systems in R2
Friday, May 6:
Fall 2015
Thursday, Sept. 10: Russel Caflisch, IPAM,
UCLA
** Special
joint AMS+MFD Seminar, 11:00am in room 1314
Accelerated Simulation Methods for Plasma
Kinetics
Friday, Sept. 11: Massimo Fornasier,
Technical
University of Munich
Sparse Mean-Field Optimal Control: Can
Governments Really Lead the Society?
Friday, Sept. 18: Amy Novick-Cohen
Coupling surface diffusion and mean
curvature motion
Friday, Sept. 25: Open
Friday, Oct. 1: CI day
Friday, Oct. 9: Paul Hand, Rice University
The semidefinite program PhaseLift can solve
phase retrieval with corrupted data
Friday, Oct. 16: Becca Thomases,
UC
Davis
Flexibility, stroke, and dimensionless
parameters: the importance of telling the whole story for swimming
micro-organisms in complex fluids
Friday, Oct. 23: CIMS Fac Mtg
Friday, Oct. 30: David Hogg, NYU Physics
Finding planets in very noisy data from stars
Wednesday, Nov. 4: Ingrid Daubechies, Duke
University
Biological morphology and discrete
differential geometry
Friday, Nov. 6: Alfred Galichon
Topics in Equilibrium Transportation
Wednesday, Nov. 11: Themis Sapsis **Special AMS Seminar, 2:00pm in room 317
Prediction and quantification of rare events
in nonlinear water waves
Friday, Nov. 13: Louis Theran, Aalto
University
Counting of freedom in symmetric frameworks
Friday, Nov. 20: Amneet Bhalla, UNC
Sharp Interface Methods for Cardiac
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving break
Friday, Dec. 4: CIMS Holiday Party
Friday, Dec. 11: Qiji Zhu, Western Michigan
University
Convex duality in Math Finance
Spring 2015
Friday, Jan 30: Zorana Zeravcic, Rockefeller UniversityAssociative memory through self-assembly
Friday, Feb 6: Emanuel Lazar, University of
Pennsylvania ** Please note this seminar is at
11:15am and in room 1314
A Topological Framework for Local Structure
Analysis in Large Point Sets
Friday, Feb 13: Martin Holler, University of Graz
(Austria)
Measure based regularization for variational
image processing
Friday, Feb 20: Cyril Muratov, NJIT
Low density phases in a uniformly charged liquid with homogeneous neutralizing background
Wednesday, Feb 25: Afonso Bandeira, Princeton University **Please note this seminar is on Wednesday in room 312
Tightness of convex relaxations for certain inverse problems on graphs
Friday, Feb 27: Yury Grabovsky, Temple University
Near-flip buckling and scaling instability of critical loads
Friday, March 6: Rustum Choksi, McGill
Metastability and Access to the Ground State in a Class of Variational Models for Self-assembly
Friday, March 13: Tyrus Berry, Pennsylvania State University
Data-driven forecasting without a model and with a partially known model
Friday, March 20: Spring Break (no seminar)
Friday, March 27: Govind Menon, Brown University
Building polyhedra by self-assembly
Friday, April 3: Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute
Tractor beam by water waves
Friday, April 10: Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland
The trouble with crystal facets
Friday, April 17: Yuri Lvov, RPI
Fermi Pasta Ulam system - new ideas about old problem
Friday, April 24: No seminar
Friday, May 1: No seminar
Friday, May 8: Bruno Despres, UPMC
Mathematical structure of hierarchies of reduced MHD models
Friday, May 15: Jonathan Touboul, College de France- INRIA
Around the complex interplay between organization, heterogeneity and collective dynamics of neuronal networks
Fall 2014
Friday, Sept 5: Reidun Twarock, University of
York
Viruses and geometry � a new perspective on virus
assembly and anti-viral therapy
Friday, Sept 12: Lisa Larsson CIMS
Optimal Arrangements of Rigid Shapes -- A
Voronoi Approach
Friday, Sept 19: Andrea Bertozzi UCLA ***Please note this seminar is at 4pm
Geometric graph-based methods for high
dimensional data
Friday, Sept 26: Nick Trefethen, NYU, Oxford
Mathematics of the Faraday Cage
Friday, Oct 3: Courant Instructor Day
Friday, Oct 10: Lee Ricketson, CIMS
Multilevel methods for kinetic equations
of plasma dynamics
Friday, Oct 17: no seminar
Friday, Oct 24: David Ruelle IHES
Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of
Turbulence
Tuesday, Oct 28: Frederic Dias, University College, Dublin
*** Please note this seminar is at 2pm in room
1314
Local Analysis of Wave
Fields produced from Hindcasted Rogue Wave Sea States
Friday,
Oct
31: David Kelly, CIMS
Fast-slow systems with chaotic noise
Friday, Nov 7: Kyongmin Yeo,
IBM Watson Research Center
Phase behaviors of non-Brownian
suspensions
Wednesday, Nov 12: Alfred Galichon,
Sciences Po ***Please note this Special
Seminar is at 10am in room 1314
Matching, choice and entropy
Friday, Nov 14: Katayun
Barmak,
Columbia
University
Grain Growth and Grain Growth Stagnation in
Metallic Films: The Curious Tail of a Tale and an Ear
Friday, Nov 21: Laurent
Mertz,
CIMS
Stochastic variational inequalities and their
applications in engineering
Wednesday, Nov 26: Antonio DeSimone, SISSA ***Please note this Special Seminar is at 10am in room
517
Motility at microscopic scales
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Friday, Nov 28: no seminar
(Thanksgiving break)
Friday, Dec 5: Lucy Colwell,
Cambridge University
Using evolutionary sequence
variation to make inferences about protein structure and function
Spring 2014
Friday, Feb 7th: Jeff Morris, City College
The Simplest Complex Fluid? The Remarkable
Rheology of Hard-sphere Suspensions
Friday, Feb 14th: Alan Newell, Univ. of
Arizona
Phyllotaxis,
pushed pattern fronts and optimal packing
Friday, Feb 21st: Jianfeng Lu, Duke University
Localized representation of eigenspaces via
convex optimization
Friday, Feb 28th: Open
Friday, March 7th: Matt Elsey, CIMS
Local Structure Analysis and Defect
Characterization in Atomic-Resolution Images
Friday, March 14th: Esteban Tabak, CIMS
Data-driven optimal transport
Friday, March 21st: Spring break
Friday, March 28th: Eitan Tadmor, U. Maryland
On variational formulation of entropy
solutions to nonlinear conservation laws
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{page:WordSection1</style>Friday,
April
4:
Antoine Cerfon, CIMS
Vortex Dynamics in Cyclotrons
Friday, April 11: Katie Newhall, CIMS
The Causes of Metastability and Their
Effects on Transition Times
Friday, April 18: Tom Trogdon, CIMS
Riemann--Hilbert problems and the
inverse scattering transform: From asymptotics to computation
Friday, April 25: Vasily Kantsler, Warwick and
SkolTech ****Special time and place 12:30pm, WWH 1314
Micro-swimming Navigation in Microfluidics
Friday, May 2: Scott Armstrong, University of Paris
Dauphine
Quantitative stochastic homogenization of
Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Fall 2013
Friday Sept 6: Jonathan Mattingly, Duke
Stochastic stabilization of OEDs.
Friday Sept 13: Mike O'Neil, CIMS
Calculating Beltrami fields from Maxwell fields: An integral equation method
Friday Sept 20: Jun Lai, CIMS
Optimal design of a cavity for RCS reduction
Friday Sept 27: no seminar (Courant Instructor Day)
Friday Oct 4: Calvin Zhang, CIMS
The Neural Mechanisms and Fluid Dynamics of Crustacean Swimming
Friday Oct 11: Jan Sengers, UMD ***Please note this event is being held in room WWH 1314 at 11:00 AM***
Thermally induced nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluids: gravity and finite-size effects
Friday Oct 18: Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
The Truth about diffusion (in liquids)
Friday Oct 25: Terry Haut, Los Alamos National Lab
An asymptotic parallel-in-time method for highly oscillatory PDEs
Friday Nov 1: Marija Vucelja, Rockefeller University
The Spectra of Vibrational Modes of Random Elastic Networks
Friday Nov 8: Xiantao Li, PSU
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics for multiscale material modeling
Friday Nov 15: Pep Espanol, UNED, Madrid, Spain
The Markovian approximation in the Theory of Coarse-Graining
Friday Nov 22: Jon Wilkening, UC Berkeley
Spectral Analysis of Continuum Kinetic Velocity Diffusion Equations
Friday Nov 29: no seminar (Thanksgiving)
Friday Dec 6: Alexandre Chorin, UC Berkeley
Sampling and noise
Friday Dec 13: no seminar this week
Spring 2013
Friday Feb 8: Benedikt Wirth, CIMS
A convex approximation of Euler's elastica functional
Friday Feb 22: Kyle Cranmer, NYU Physics
Statistical Aspects of the Discovery for the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider
Friday Mar 8: Tsvi Tlusty, Weizman Institute of Science and IAS
Recognition and Self-Recognition in a Life full of Errors
Friday Mar 29: Grisha Falkovich, Weizmann Institute
What a single snapshot reveals about the future and the past of turbulent flow
Friday April 12: Boyce Griffith, NYU Medical School
Multiphysics and multiscale modeling of cardiac dynamics
Friday April 19: David Srolovitz, University of Pennsylvania
Properties of Cellular Microstructures: polycrystals, foams, and their idealizations
Friday April 26: Jacob Bedrossian, CIMS
Nonlinear inviscid damping in 2D Euler
Friday May 3: Chris Rorres, University of Pennsylvania
Searching for the Center of Gravity in a Spherical Gravitational Field
Friday May 10: Martin Maxey, Brown University, Applied Math
Dynamics of suspensions in wall-bounded shear flows
Fall 2012
Friday Sept 7: Yasser Aboelkassem, Virginia Tech
An insect-inspired micropumping paradigm: theory and Stokeslets-meshfree computations
Wednesday Sept 19: Misha Neklyudov, University of Tubingen ** Special AMS Seminar
The role of noise in ensembles of nanomagnetic particles
**Please note this seminar is at 10am, in room 1314
Friday Sept 21: Allen Tannenbaum, Comprehensive Cancer Center / ECE, UAB
Controlled Active Vision / Image Processing with Applications to Medical Image Computing
Friday, Oct 5: Molei Tao, CIMS
Multiscale Geometric Integration of Deterministic and Stochastic Systems
Friday Oct 12: Rainer Grauer, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universiaet Bochum
Singularities and Instantons
Friday Oct 19: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS
Kinetics of particles with short-ranged interactions
Friday Oct 26: Uriel Frisch, CNRS, Lab. Cassiop�e, Observatoire de la C�te d'Azur
The incompressible Euler equations in Lagrangian coordinates, with applications to analyticity of fluid particle trajectories and to numerical simulations
Friday, Nov 9: Evan Hohlfeld, Physics, UMass Amherst
Surface Instabilities and Topological Phase Transitions in Soft Solids
Friday Nov 16: Enkeleida Lushi, Imperial College, London
Collective dynamics in suspensions of micro-swimmers
Spring 2012
Friday June 8: Graeme Milton, Univ of Utah
Bounding the size of inclusions in a body from boundary measurements
***Please note this seminar is at 11am, in room WWH 512***
Friday May 25: Felix Otto, MPI-MIS, Leipzig
Optimal error bounds in stochastic homogenization
Friday May 4: Benjamin Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wrinkling, crumpling, folding, and all that: Pattern formation on thin sheets
Friday Apr 27: Yuri Lvov, RPI
Spectral energy density of internal waves in the Ocean
Friday Apr. 20: Denis Zorin, CIMS
Integral Equation Methods for Vesicle Flows
Friday Apr. 13: No Seminar
Friday Apr. 6:Gabor Csanyi, University of Cambridge
Fast molecular dynamics using machine learning
Friday Mar. 30: Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland
Consensus and flocking: Self-Organized Dynamics from Particle to Hydrodynamic Descriptions
Friday Mar. 23: Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows
Zooming out: New tools for probing the historical record and the human genome
Tuesday, Mar. 20: Kasper Hansen, Stanford University
The structure of epigenetic changes in cancer...
**Please note day, time change for this talk**
11:30 a.m., WWH 1302
Friday Mar. 16: No Seminar (Spring Break)
Thursday, Mar. 15: Benjamin Greenbaum, Princeton University
Detecting patterns in RNA viral evolution
**Please note day, time change for this talk**
9:45 a.m., WWH 1302
Monday Mar. 12: Benjamin Langmead, University of Maryland
Computational approaches for the DNA sequencing data deluge
**Please note day, time change for this talk**
10:00 a.m., WWH 1302
Friday Mar. 9: Eleni Katifori, Rocekfeller University
Decoding the architecture of vascular networks
Friday Mar. 2: Yann LeCun, CIMS
Learning Representations of Images and High-Dimensional Data
Wednesday, Feb. 29: Simon Gravel, Stanford University
Inferring complex histories from genome-wide data
**Please note location, day, time change for this talk**
10:00 a.m., Silver Building1003
Friday Feb. 24: Lin Lin, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Recent developments of fast algorithims for Kohn-Sham density function
Friday Feb. 17: Tom Hagstrom, Southern Methodist University
Towards the Ultimate Solver for Wave Equations in the Time Domain
Friday Feb. 10: Yuri Bakhtin, Georgia Tech
Noisy heteroclinic networks and sequential decision making
Friday Feb. 3: Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
Hybrid Inverse Problems and Internal Functionals
Fall 2011
Friday Dec 9: No seminar (Holiday Party)
Friday Dec. 2: Yoichiro Mori, Univeristy of Minnesota
A Model of Electrodiffusion and Osmosis in Cells and Tissues
**This seminar to be held in room 517**
Friday Nov. 25: No seminar (Thanksgiving Break)
Friday Nov. 18: David K.A.Mordecai, Risk Economics Inc.
(Not So) Distant Cousins: Some Common Statistical Relations Underlying Models Across Disparate Social Process
Friday Nov. 11: Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS
Nonlinear Laplacian spectal analysis for time series: Capturing intermittency and low-frequency variability
Friday Nov. 4: Katherine Newhall, CIMS
Investigating jammed matter from a granocentric point of view
Friday Oct. 28: Tom Hou, Caltech
The interplay between fluid dynamic instability and potentially singular behavior of the 3D Euler/Navier-Stokes equations
Friday Oct. 21: Ben Leimkuhler, University of Edinburgh
Thermostats for flexible control of a statistical ensemble
Friday Oct. 14: Benedikt Wirth, CIMS
A diffuse-interface approach to morphological image registration
Friday Oct. 7: Matthew Elsey, CIMS
Simulations of Grain Boundary Evolution via Diffusion-Generated Motion Algorithms
Friday Sept. 30: Jamie Sethian, University of California Berkeley
Tracking Multiphase Physics: Geometry, Foams, and Thin Films
Friday Sept. 23: Mark Tygert, CIMS
An underutilized statistic: the Euclidean distance (instead of chi-square)
Friday Sept. 16: No seminar, Courant Instructor Day
Friday Sept. 9: Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
Revisiting brittle fracture variationally
**Please note this seminar is at 3pm**
Spring 2011
Friday May 6: no seminar (75th Anniversary event)
Friday Apr. 29: No Seminar - Student Prize Event
Friday Apr. 22: Govind Menon, Brown University
Complete integrability of shock clustering and Burgers turbulence
Friday Apr. 15: Keith Promislow, Michigan State University
Network formation and curvature driven flow of structured interfaces
Friday Apr. 8: Matthieu Wyart, NYU
Elasticity, transport and flow near the random close packing
Friday Apr. 1: Antoine Cerfon, MIT
Fast computation of three-dimensional fusion plasma equilibria
Friday Mar. 25: Neil Clark, Ma'ayan Lab, Department of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, The Mount Sinai Medical Centre
Model of DI particle virus-host dynamics explain viral latency
Friday Mar. 18: No seminar (spring break)
Friday Mar. 11: Alexander Vladimirsky, Cornell
Optimal control with budget constraints and resets
Friday Mar 4: Charles Peskin, CIMS
Cardiac Mechanics and Electrophysiology in a Unified Mathematical and Computational Framework
Friday Feb. 25: Alexander Grosberg, NYU Physics
Fractal organization of DNA in the cell nucleus: theoretical prediction, experimental confirmation, computer simulation ... and still many open questions
Friday Feb. 18: Weiqing Ren, NYU
Boundary conditions for the moving contact line
Friday Feb. 11: Paulo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania
Undulatory swimming in viscoelastic fluids
Friday Feb. 4: Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University
Assymetric Auctions
**Please note this seminar will be held in WWH 512**
Fall 2010
Friday Dec. 10: Ferran Macia, NYU
Spin-wave interference patterns for memory and computation
Friday Dec. 3: Daniel Tam, MIT
Locomotion and Transport of Deformable Bodies
Tuesday Nov. 23: Zuowei Shen, National University of Singapore
"Wavelet Frames and Applications"
** Joint Applied Math and Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar**
Please Note: this talk will be on a Tuesday at 3:30pm, NOT 2:30pm.
Friday Nov. 19: Marija Vucelja, CIMS
Iniertial Particles Driven by a Telegraph Noise
Friday Nov. 12: Tamar Shinar, CIMS
Numerical studies of microtubule-based motion in the single-celled C. elegans embryo
Friday Nov. 5: Samuel Walsh, CIMS
Traveling waves in stratified water
Friday Oct. 29: Lisa Rogers, CIMS
Mathematically modeling the Neurochemistry of Human Sleep-wake Cycles
Friday Oct 22: Uriel Frisch, Lab. Cassiopee, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur.
The tyger phenomenon for the Galerkin-truncated Burgers and Euler equations.
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Friday Oct 15: Gilbert Strang (MIT)
Fast transforms: Banded matrices with banded inverses
Friday Oct. 8: No seminar due to Courant Instructor Day
Friday Oct. 1: Daisuke Takagi, CIMS
Nonlinear Peristaltic Waves: Feeding the Hungry Python
Friday Sept. 24: Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
Numerical Methods for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Friday Sept. 17: Stephane Mallat (Ecole Polytechnique)
Classification by Invariant Scattering
*Joint Applied Math Seminar/Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar*
Please Note: this talk with be at 11:30am, NOT 2:30pm.
Friday Sept 10: Adam Oberman, Simon Fraser University
Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Spring 2010
Friday April 23: Amit Singer, Princeton
Mathematical Theory of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Friday April 16: Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland
Entropy Stable Approximations of Navier-Stokes equations with no Artificial Numerical Viscosity<o:p></o:p>
Friday April 9: Jianfeng Lu, Courant Institue
Synchrosqueezed wavelet transforms: a tool for empirical mode decomposition
Friday April 2: Edward Belbruno, Princeton University and Innovative Orbital Design, Inc.
Low Energy Transfer to the Moon, Chaos, and Random Walk
Friday March 12: Howard Stone, Princeton University
Surprises in viscous flows: from charged drops to bacteria in curved channel flows
Friday March 5: Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Do fish stir the ocean?
Friday February 26: Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh
Wave generation in geophysical fluids as an exponential-asymptotics problem
Friday February 19: Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge
TBA
Friday February 12: Jon Wilkening, University of California Berkley
Computation of time-periodic solutions of fluid interface problems
Friday February 5: Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland
Crystal surface motion: A story of two scales
Friday January 29: Andrew Stuart, Warwick
Bayesian Inverse Problems in PDEs
Fall 2009
Friday December 4: No AMS (Keller/Isaacson Memorial Conference on Numerical Analysis)
Monday November 23: Norman Bleistein, Colorado School of Mines
Reflector Maps and Earth Parameter Estimation from Seismic Data: From Ruler and Compass Construction to Gaussian Beam Propagators
*Special Seminar, Rm. 2012:15 - 3:15pm*
November 20: David F. Anderson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Error analysis of tau-leap simulation methods
Wednesday, November 18: Vikram Jandhyala, University of Washington
Open challenges in field-based microelectronics design and verification
*Special Seminar, Rm. 517, 3:30-4:30pm*
Friday November 13: Shawn Walker, CIMS
Shape Optimization of Peristaltic Pumping
Friday November 6: Mikael Rechtsman, CIMS
The Quasicrystal conductivity conundrum: spectral theory and optical experiments
Friday October 30:Yves Couder, Mati�re et Syst�mes Complexes Universit� Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
A macroscopic type of wave-particle duality: the role of "path memory" in the motion of bouncing droplets <o:p></o:p> <o:p>
</o:p>Friday October 23: Bjorn Birnir,UC Santa Barbara
Changes in Migration Patterns of the Capelin as an Indicator of Temperature Changes in the Arctic Ocean
Friday October 16: Jianfeng Lu, CIMS
From electronic structure to elasticity
Friday October 9: Houman Owhadi, Caltech
Non-intrusive and structure preserving multiscale integration of stiff ODEs, SDEs, Hamiltonian systems and Langevin equations with hidden slow dynamics via flow averaging
Friday October 2: Kenneth M. Golden, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
Climate Change and the Mathematics of Transport in Sea Ice
Friday September 25: No AMS (CI day)
Friday September 18: No AMS (Incoming PhD reception)
Friday September 11: Patrick Dondl, Bonn University
Pinning of interfaces in random media
Friday September 4:Frank Noe, Free University of Berlin
Scientific Computing in Molecular Biology
Spring 2009
Tuesday May 12: Tiffany Shaw, Department of Physics, University of Toronto *2:30pm, Rm 101*
Physical consistency in subgrid-scale parameterization for climate models
Friday May 1: Jonathan Weare (CIMS)
Rare event simulation with vanishing error for small noise diffusions
Friday April 24: Jack Xin (UC Irvine) *2:00pm-3:00pm*
Soft-Constrained Iterative Methods for Blind Source Separation
Friday April 17: Ilya Timofeyev (Houston)
Sub-sampling in parametric estimation of stochastic differential equations from discrete data
Monday April 13: Eric Darve (Stanford) *Rm. 317, 12:00-1:00p.m.*
Generalized Langevin Equations and non-Markovian Fokker-Planck Equations for Molecular Systems
Friday April 10: Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Hamiltonian Systems and Liouville Equations with Discontinous Hamiltonians: Computation of High Frequency Waves in Heterogeneous Media
Friday April 3: Kurt Kremer (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)
Adaptive Resolution Simulations: Towards Open Systems Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Friday March 27: Paul Atzberger (UCSB)
Friday March 13: Rob Fergus (CIMS)
Scaling up semi-supervised learning to gigantic image collections
Friday March 6: Maria Cameron (CIMS)
The string method as a dynamical system
Friday Feb 27: Tiejun Li, Peking University
The mathematical understanding of tau-leaping algorithm
Friday Feb. 20: Irene Gamba, UT Austin
Spectral Lagrangian methods for non-linear Boltzmann type eqautions
Friday Feb. 13: Jared Bronski, Urbana-Champaign
Geometry of a Modulational Instability
Friday Feb. 6: Xiaoming Wang, FSU
Approximating stationary statistical properties of dissipative chaotic dynamical systems
Friday Jan. 30: Pete Kramer, RPI
Two coarse-graining studies of stochastic models in molecular biology
Friday Jan. 23: Mark Tygert, Applied Mathematics,Yale University
A fast algorithm for approximating the singular value decomposition of a matrix
Fall 2008
Friday Dec. 5: David Saintillan, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collective dynamics in particle suspensions<o:p></o:p>
Friday, Nov. 28: Thanksgiving Break, No Seminar
Friday, Nov 21: No Seminar
Friday, Nov. 14: Aleksandar Donev, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Multiscale Methods for Hydrodynamics of Polymer Chains in Solution
Room Change: This seminar will held in Room 102 in Warren Weaver Hall.
Friday, Nov. 7: Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
Statistical Arbitrage in the U.S. Equities Market
Friday , Oct. 31: Adi Rangan, CIMS
A diagrammatic subnetwork expansion for pulse-coupled network dynamics.
Friday, Oct. 24: Chris Wiggins, Columbia University
Inferring and Encoding Graph Partitians
Friday , Oct. 17: Dave Levermore, University of Maryland, College Park
Dispersive Corrections to the Compressible Navier-Stokes System
Friday , Oct. 10: Alexandre Chorin, University of California, Berkeley
Multiscale dynamics and multiscale sampling through statistical projections
Friday , Oct. 3. Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Free University of Berlin
Analysis of Variational Integrators for Langevin Processes
Friday , Sept. 26: no seminar (CI day)
Friday, Sept. 19: Mikael Rechtsman, CIMS
A Few Inverse Problems in Classical Statistical Mechanics and Photonics
Previous Talks
Spring 2008
Friday, May 16: Reinout Quispel, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia
Geometric Numerical Integration of Differential Equations
Friday, May 2: Shawn Walker, CIMS
Modeling and Analysis for Electrowetting Driven Hele-Shaw Flow with Contact Line Friction
Friday, April 25: Gang Bao, Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Michigan State University
Inverse Boundary Value Problems for Maxwell's Equations
Friday, April 18: Silas Alben, Georgia Tech
Optimal flexibility in flapping appendages
Friday, April 11: Jun Zhang, CIMS
Anomalous behavior of flexible, flapping bodies in fluid
Friday, April 4: Weinan E, Princeton
Friday, March 28: Shafer Smith, CIMS
Surface-Interior interactions in baroclinic turbulence (and a theory for the observed energy spectrum of the atmosphere)
Friday, March 14: Yann LeCun, CIMS
Deep Learning
Friday, March 7: Assaf Naor, CIMS
Partitioning algorithms via semidefinite programming.
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Friday, February 29: Qiang Du, Math, Penn State
Diffuse interface modeling of some interface problems involving elastic energy contributions
Friday, February 22: Jason W. Fleischer, Princeton
Towards Optical Hydrodynamics
Friday, February 15: Charles R. Doering, Professor of Mathematics & Physics, University of Michigan
Twist & Shout: Maximal Enstrophy Production in the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations
Friday, February 8: J. A. Sethian, U. C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Designs for Interface Motion in Visco-Elastic Ink Jet Plotters and Superconformal Electrodeposition in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Friday, February 1: Esteban Tabak, CIMS
Obtaining information from data by mixing them well
Friday, January 25: Steven D. Schwartz, Depts. of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Computational Approaches to the Molecular Basis of Enzyme Catalysis -- Reaction Coordinate Identification
Fall 2007
Friday, December 14th: Igor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara
Physical Structure, Graph Structure and Uncertainty in Complex Systems
Friday, December 7th: Andy Majda, CIMS
Mathematical Strategies for Filtering Turbulent Signals in Complex Systems
Friday, November 30th: Phillip Colella, LBNL
Fast computation of volume potentials on structured grids
Wednesday, November 28th: Special AMS - Martin Hairer, University of Warwick (Room 1302, 3:30 - 4:30)
Long-time behaviour of the 2D stochastic Navier-Stokes equations
Friday, November 23rd: No AMS seminar (Thanksgiving)
Tuesday, November 20th: Special AMS - Vladimir Zakharov, University of Arizona (Room 1013, 1:30 - 2:30) CANCELLED
Nonstationary Potential Flow of Deep Ideal Fluid with Free Surface: New Analytical and Nunerical Results. Is it Integrable System?
Friday, November 16th: Gerhard Hummer, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Free energies and kinetics of molecular systems from coarse master equations
Friday, November 9th: No AMS seminar
Friday, November 2nd: Alain Goriely, Mathematics Department, Program in Applied Mathematics, and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson
The Mechanics and Mathematics of Biological Growth
Friday, October 26th: Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Sub-linear scaling algorithms for the study of the electronic structure of materials
Friday, October 19th: Luca Maragliano (CIMS)
Mapping free energy landscapes with radial basis functions
Friday, October 12th: Maria Cameron (CIMS)
Inverse Problem in Seismic Imaging: Seismic Velocity Estimation from Time Migration
Friday, October 5th: Jonathan Weare (CIMS)
Efficient Monte Carlo sampling by parallel marginalization
Friday, September 28th: No seminar. (Courant Instructor Day)
Tuesday, September 25th, Room 1013: Wojtek Grabowski, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Boulder, Colorado
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND PLACE.
Modeling of cloud microphysics: from simple concepts to sophisticated parameterizations
Friday, September 21st: Jing-Rebecca Li (INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt, France)
Fast solver for the heat equation in unbounded domains
Friday, September 14th: Eric Darve (Stanford University)
Fast Multipole Method
Spring 2007
Friday, May 4th: Andy Lau (Florida Atlantic University)
Microrheology of Active Systems
Friday, April 27th: Sinan G�nt�rk (CIMS)
Accurate A/D conversion with inaccurate devices
Friday, April 27th, 11:00 am to 12:00, Room 1314: Pingwen Zhang (Peking University) PLEASE SPECIAL NOTE TIME AND LOCATION.
The Thermodynamic Closure Approximation of Kinetic Theories for Complex Fluids
Friday, April 20th: Weiqing Ren (CIMS)
Analytical and numerical study of coupled atomistic-continuum methods for fluids
Friday, April 13th: Martin Feinberg (OSU)
Stability and Instability in Complex Chemical Reaction Networks: The Big Picture
Friday, April 6th: Lai-Sang Young (CIMS)
Shear-Induced Chaos
Friday, March 30th: Mike Shelley (CIMS)
Random walks and complex fluids
Friday, March 23rd: Chongchun Zeng (Georgia Tech)
Free boundary problems of the Euler equation: hydrodynamical instabilities and energy estimates
Friday, March 9th: Hongkai Zhao (UC Irvine)
Fast sweeping method for static convex Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Friday, March 2nd: John Rinzel (CIMS and Center for Neural Science, NYU)
Dynamics of perceptual bistability
Friday, February 23rd: Joseph Teran (CIMS)
Locomotion and Pumping in Visco-Elastic Fluids
Friday, February 16th: Tom Hou (Caltech)
On Dynamic Stability and Gloval Regularity of the 3D Incompressible Flow
Friday, February 9th: Nader Masmoudi (CIMS)
Critical mass in a Keller-Segel model
Friday, February 2nd: Edo Kussell (Biology, NYU)
Populations, Information, and Entropy
Friday, January 26th: Bob Kohn (CIMS)
The Evolution of a Crystal Surface Below the Roughening Temperature
Friday, January 19th: Andrew Majda (CIMS)
Multiscale Models for the Tropics: A Systematic Route for Improving Theory, Computational, and Predictive Strategies
Fall 2006
September 15th: Stephen Shipman (Louisiana
State University)
Guided modes and resonance in periodic
structures
September 22th: Eric
Vanden-Eijnden (CIMS)
Rare events in complex systems movie
clip 4MB
September 29th: Courant Instructor Day -- NO SEMINAR
October 6th: Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos Workshop -- NO
SEMINAR
October 13th: Scott
Sheffield (CIMS)
The
puzzling p-Laplacian
October 20th: John
Harlim (CIMS)
Efficient ensemble Kalman filters for numerical weather prediction
October 27th: Eric Shea-Brown (CIMS)
A theory of correlations for spiking neurons
Directed self-assembly of molecular networks with unique topologies
November 10th: Jianbo Gao (Univ. of Florida, Electrical & Computer Eng.)
Multiscale analysis of complex time series by scale dependent Lyapunov exponent
November 17th: Aaditya Rangan (CIMS)
Correlations vs Causality? Coding in Cortex
December 1st: Graeme Milton (Univ. of Utah)
Cloaking: a new phenomenon in electromagnetism
December 8th: R.E. Lee DeVille (CIMS)
Inducing regular behavior in stochastic systems
Spring 2006
Janruary 20th: Scott David Kelly (Department
of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Geometric mechanics and aquatic
locomotion
January 27th: Rupert Klein (Free University Berlin
& Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research)
Multiple scales asymptotic models for
moist atmospheric flows and related conservative numerical schemes
February 3rd: Yannis
Kevrekidis (Princeton
University)
Some examples of equation-free
computation
February 10th: Andy Majda (CIMS)
Mathematical and Computational
Challenges in Coarse Graining Coupled Deterministic Stochastic Lattice
Models
February 17th: Mike
Shelley (CIMS)
Bodies sinking or swimming
February 24th: Harold Weitzner (CIMS)
Charged particle motion in an
electromagnetic field - variations of an old story
March 3rd: Boyce Griffith (CIMS)
Adaptive immersed boundary methods
for simulating cardiac blood-muscle-valve mechanics and
electrophysiology
March 10th: David
Pine --- CANCELLED (NYU
Physics )
Chaos and the onset of
irreversibility in non-Brownian suspensions
March 17th: (Spring break)
March 24th: Jonathan Goodman (CIMS)
Free boundary problems for small transaction cost problems
March 31st: Weiqing Ren (CIMS)
The moving contact line problem
April 7th: Peter Glynn (Statistics,
Stanford)
Traffic modeling and rare events for
queues
April 14th: Joseph B Keller (Stanford)
Pony tail motion and Hill's equation
April 21st: Carey Priebe (Statistics,
Johns
Hopkins
)
Scan statistics on Enron graphs
April 28th: Anna-Karin Tornberg (CIMS)
Fluid-structure interaction: Suspensions of fibers.
Correlation isn't causation and neither is regression
May 12th: Tim Schulze ( Mathematics, University of Tennessee)
Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations of Crystal Growth
Fall 2005
December 2nd: Reka Albert (Penn State)
Continuous and discrete models of a gene regulatory network
December 9th: Oliver Buhler (CIMS)
Waves, vortices, and the gait of the water strider
November 18th: Tom Chou (UCLA)
Protein production and stochastic exclusion processes
November 14th: Olivier Paulius (CIMS)
Title: Toward the end of cumulus parameterization - Sensitivity of radiative-convective equilibrium simulations to horizontal resolution
November 11th: Mark Siegal (NYU Biology)
Functional and evolutionary inference in gene networks: Does topology matter?
November 4th: Andrea Liu (UPenn)
Jamming in Glasses and Granular Materials
October 31st: Aaditya Rangan (CIMS)
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Line-Motion Illusion in Primary Visual Cortex
October 21st: Koby Rubinstein (Indiana)
The Weighted Least Action Principle
October 14th: Leslie Greengard (CIMS)
Biological Network Analysis
October 17th: Brian Wetton (University of British Columbia)
Modeling Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stacks
October 7th: Fanghua Lin (CIMS)
Conserved Quantities and Analysis on Multiscale Problems
September 16: Niles Pierce (Caltech)
Computational Analysis and Design of DNA Devices
September 23: Gadi
Fibich (Tel Aviv University)
New singular solutions of the nonlinear
Schr�dinger equation