Applied Math Seminar
Fall 2012
Most seminars are Fridays at 2:30p.m. in Warren
Weaver
Hall Rm 1302.
Questions or comments? Please e-mail Eric Vanden-Eijnden and
Aleksander Donev
Spring 2013
Friday Feb 8: Benedikt Wirth, CIMS
A convex approximation of Euler's
elastica functional
Friday Feb 22: Kyle
Cranmer, NYU Physics
Friday Mar 1: Gabor
Csanyi, Cambridge
Practical use of information concepts in
molecular simulation
Friday Mar 8: Tsvi
Tlusty, Weizman Institute of Science and IAS
Friday Mar 29: Grisha
Falkovich, Weizmann Institute
What a single snapshot reveals about the future and the past of
turbulent flow
Friday Apr 5: Chris
Scullard, LLNL
Friday April 12: Boyce
Griffith, NYU Medical School
Friday April 19: David
Srolovitz, University of Pennsylvania
Friday May 9: Martin
Maxey, Brown University, Applied Math
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. Cassiopée,
Observatoire de la Côte 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.
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