Applied Math Seminar 

Fall 2011

Most seminars are Fridays at 2:30p.m. in Warren Weaver Hall Rm 1302.
Questions or comments?  Please e-mail Eric Vanden-Eijnden and Robert Kohn


Spring 2012

Friday June 8:
Graeme Milton, Univ of Utah
Bounding the size of inclusions in a body from boundary measurements

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.

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

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, Matière et Systèmes Complexes Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
A macroscopic type of wave-particle duality: the role of "path memory" in the motion of bouncing droplets

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)
Modeling and Simulation of Soft Matter Materials using Stochastic Immersed Boundary Methods.

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

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
Operator compression and linear scaling algorithms for electronic structure analysis

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.

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 Güntürk (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

November 3rd: Michael Ward (NYU Chemistry)
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.

May 5th: David Freedman (Statistics, UC Berkeley)
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 Schrödinger equation