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)
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