Colloquia 2004-2005
- Friday, April 29, 2005
Demetrius Papageorgiou, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Nonlinear electrohydrodynamics of liquid films
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, April 22, 2005
Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University
Title: Some nonlinear elliptic Neumann boundary value problems
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, April 15, 2005
Burt Tilley, Olin College
Title: Electrokinetic instabilities in thin microchannels
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, April 8, 2005
Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
Title: Stress transfer between macroscopic and microscopic length scales in random media
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, April 1, 2005
John Chadam, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Free Boundaries in Mathematical Finance
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, March 25, 2005
Eugene Yablonsky, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title:Orthogonal polynomials and extensions of white noise operator theory to non-Gaussian measures
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, March 4, 2005
Marcus Sarkis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Enhanced Oil Recovery and Gas Storage: Hysteresis Models and Riemann Solvers
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, February 18, 2005
Frederic Dias, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan (visiting WPI)
Title: Tsunamis: what do we know about their formation and their propagation?
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, February 11, 2005
Dalin Tang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Mathematical Modeling of Cardiovascular Diseases for Clinical Predictions
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, January 28, 2005
Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Chemical Engineering, PACM and Mathematics, Princeton University
Title: Equation-Free Modeling for Complex Multiscale Systems
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107.
This colloquium is jointly sponsored by the Department of Chemical Engineering - Friday, January 21, 2005
Sergey Lototsky, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California (USC)
Title: Nonlinear Filtering in Correlated Noise: a Wiener Chaos Approach
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, January 14, 2005
John Little, Holy Cross College
Title: An Introduction to Computational Commutative Algebra and Its Applications
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Frithjof Lutscher, Center for Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta, Canada
Title: Persistence and spread in advective environments
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, December 17, 2004
David Chen, Vice President and Director for Research and Development Division, Medical Metrx Solutions (MMS)
Title: MMS Preview: Imaging Software for Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurism (AAA) Disease
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, December 10, 2004
Lawrence Cox, Associate Director, Office of Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics
Title: Using MCMC and Network Optimization to Efficiently Generate a Representative Sample From a Class of Partially Specified m-Dimensional Contingency Tables
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Thursday, November 18, 2004
Samuel M. Rankin, III,, Associate Executive Director, American Mathematical Society
Title: Funding Trends for Mathematical Sciences
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 106; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, November 12, 2004
Joseph Sedransk, Energy Information Administration and Case Western University
Title: Combining data from experiments that may be similar
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Monday, November 8, 2004
Jie Shen, Purdue University
Title: Projection Methods, Fast Spectral-Galerkin Methods and Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Flows
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, November 5, 2004
Dmitry Zenkov, North Carolina State University
Title: Differential-Algebraic Equations from a Geometric Viewpoint
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, October 29, 2004
Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard
Title: Multilevel Multivariate Analysis of Health Plan Quality Measures
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Monday, October 25, 2004
Idith Haber, Departments of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital, Harvard University Medical School
Title: 3D Cardiac Kinematics from tagged MRI
Noon, Goddard Hall 227. Jointly sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences and Biomedical Engeering Departments. - Friday, October 15, 2004
Mustapha Fofana, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Spatial Decomposition and Exchange of Stability in Hopf and Degenerate Bifurcations
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, October 8, 2004
Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University
Title: Resonant EM transmission near embedded guided modes
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, October 1, 2004
Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College
Title: How Random is the Human Genome?
11:00 a.m., Campus Center, Odeum A; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, September 17, 2004
Recai Yucel, University of Massachusetts
Title: Flexible class of imputation models for incomplete multivariate multilevel models
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, September 10, 2004
Carlos Morales, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Statistical Signal Processing: A Multiscale Approach
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107.
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