Colloquia 2001-2002

  • Olivian Simionescu-Panait, Bucharest University, Romania, August 31, 2001
    Title: Wave Propagation in Piezoelectric Crystals Subject to Initial Fields
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Jay Walton, Texas A&M, September 21, 2001 (CANCELLED)
    Title: TBA
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota, October 12, 2001
    Title: Pattern formation in cross-diffusion systems
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Tomaz Pizanski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (currently visiting Rutgers University), November 8, 2001
    Title: Graphs on the Ceilings of Gothic Churches in Slovenia
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108 (PLEASE NOTE: This talk is being held on a Thursday).
  • Nicolaie Cristescu, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, November 9, 2001
    Title: Viscoplasticity of Particulate Materials
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • James McDonough, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, November 9, 2001
    Title: TBA
    2:00 p.m., Room TBA (in Higgins Labs).
  • Mikil Foss, Carnegie Mellon University, November 16, 2001
    Title: Examples of Lavrentiev's Gap Phenomenon in Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Elasticity
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Paul Hovland, Argonne National Labs, November 19, 2001
    Title: Foundations and Challenges of Automatic Differentiation
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Jack Koolen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 30, 2001
    Title: Is there a finite number of distance-regular graphs with fixed valency?
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Mark Bathe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Departments of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, December 7, 2001
    Title: Computational Modeling in Biology: From White Blood Cell-capillary Flow to Protein Structure Determination
    11:00 a.m., Salisbury Labs, Room 104; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Elena Cherkaev, University of Utah, December 10, 2001
    Title: Inverse problem for the microstructure of a heterogeneous medium
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108 (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DAY).
  • Joseph Horowitz, UMASS Amherst, December 14, 2001
    Title: Statistical Estimation of Stroke Lesion Volumes from Magnetic Resonance Images of the Brain
    4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108 (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME).
  • Mohammad R. Kaazempur-Mofrad, Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital, Tissue Eng. Lab, MIT Fluid Mechanics Lab, January 11, 2002
    Title: FEM Simulation for Blood Flow in Carotid Bifurcation
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Jayson Wilbur, Purdue University, January 14, 2002
    Title: Variable selection in high-dimensional binary data with application to microbial community DNA fingerprint analysis
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Eric Chicken, Purdue University, January 18, 2002
    Title: "Density Estimation Using Block Thresholding"
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Eunok Jung, Oak Ridge National Lab, January 21, 2002
    Title: Is it possible to pump blood without valves?
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 309; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Jason Stover, SPSS Inc., January 24, 2002
    Title: Random graph modeling of computer networks
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Anton Yakovlev, Harvard University, January 25, 2002
    Title: Science and the Pursuit of Universal Truths
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Dr. Edward Ross, Consultant to Army Natick Research Center, January 31, 2002
    Title: Model for Predicting the Growth and Death of Pathogenic Bacteria in a Food
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Vadim Zharnitsky, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, February 1, 2002
    Title: Dispersion managed solitons in optical communication systems
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Beatrice Riviere, University of Texas at Austin February 4, 2002
    Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Solving Flow and Transport Problems
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology February 6, 2002
    Title: Trapping Light: Numerical Experiments and ODE Models
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Sorin Mitran, University of Washington February 8, 2002
    Title: The Third Way - Computational Science and Engineering, Multiscale and Multiphysics Tools
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Sarah Spence, Cornell University February 11, 2002
    Title: Coding Theory: Generalized coset codes and subspace subcodes
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Tao Pang, Brown University February 13, 2002
    Title: An Optimal Investment-Consumption Policy Model in an Infinite Time Horizon
    2:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 1:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Qin Shao, The University of Georgia February 15, 2002
    Title: Parsimonious Time Series Modeling
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Carlos Morales, Boston University February 20, 2002
    Title: Wavelet-based estimation of multifractal spectra: statistical aspects and applications
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Jaimyoung Kwon, University of California February 21, 2002
    Title: Transportation Database: Data of Many Uses, and a Web of Evidence
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Damir Khismatullin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, February 25, 2002
    Title: Dynamics of encapsulated microbubbles and highly viscous drops: mathematical modeling and biomedical applications
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Nathaniel Dean, Rice University, March 5, 2002
    Title: Network Visualization for the Behavioral Sciences
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Addison-Wesley Technical Presentation, March 22, 2002

    11:00 a.m., Campus Center Hagglund Conference Room.
  • Keith Promislow, Simon Fraser University, March 27, 2002
    Title: The Mathematics of Fuel Cells
    4:00 p.m., Goddard Hall 227; refreshments at 3:45 (Joint colloquium with the Department of Chemical Engineering.)
  • Daniel Baker, General Motors, April 5, 2002
    Title: Understanding the impact of flow-field design on large-scale fuel cell performance
    12:00 noon, Goddard Hall 227; (Joint colloquium with Department of Chemical Engineering.)
  • Dalin Tang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 12, 2002
    Title: Multi-Physics, Multi-Scale Experiment-Based Computational Models for Arterial Diseases
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Ezra Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, April 19, 2002
    Title: Three Fermat Trails To Elliptic Curves
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Catherine Roberts, College of the Holy Cross, April 26, 2002
    Title: Modeling Human-Environment Interactions in Grand Canyon National Park: The River Trip Simulator Project
    11:00 a.m., Fuller Labs, Room 311 (note change of room); refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Jai Won Choi, National Center for Health Statistics, April 26, 2002
    Title: A Bayesian Analysis of a Proportion Under Nonignorable Nonresponse
    3:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
  • Yoshio Yamada, Waseda University, May 28, 2002
    Title: Multiple existence of positive solutions for prey-predator systems with cross-diffusion
    11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
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