Colloquia 2000-2001
- Gretar Tryggvason, Head, Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, WPI, September 15 2000
Title: Direct Numerical Simulations of Multiphase Flows
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 Vanden Eijnden, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, September 29 2000
Title: Stochastic PDEs in turbulence theory
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, October 6 2000
Title: Modeling Multiple Time Series with Infinite Variance Stable Innovations
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - David Keyes, R. F. Barry Professor, Mathematics and Statistics Department and Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University; Acting Director, Institute for Scientific Computing Research Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Associate Research Fellow, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA-Langley, October 13 2000
Title: Parallel Algorithms for Large-scale PDE-constrained Optimization
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Yuxi Zheng, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, November 3 2000
Title: A Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Leszek Demkowicz, Texas Institute for Computational & Applied Mathematics and Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, November 10 2000
Title: Adaptive hp-FE Modeling for Maxwell's Equations
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 Fischer, Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL, November 13 2000
Title: Spectral Element Methods for Transitional Flows
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - William J. Martin, Mathematical Sciences Department, WPI, November 17 2000
Title: Minimum distance bounds for extremal error-correcting codes
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Tasso Kaper, Department of Mathematics, Boston University, December 1 2000
Title: Strong pulse interactions in activator-inhibitor 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. - Robert Jamison, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, December 8 2000
Title: Tolerance Representations of Graphs in Trees
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Gigliola Staffilani, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, December 15 2000
Title: What' s the life span of a KdV wave?
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Yue Hu, Department of Physics, Wellesley College, January 19 2001
Title: "Pulp Friction": Understanding Electrorheology
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Yan Guo, Department of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, January 26 2001
Title: Stable steady states in stellar dynamics
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Wilfrid Gangbo, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, February 2, 2001
Title: Constrained steepest descent in the 2--Wasserstein metric
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Daniel B Szyld, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, February 16, 2001
Title: Asynchronous Parallel Iterative Methods for Linear and Nonlinear 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. - John Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT, February 23, 2001
Title: Chains, Pipes, Bells and Polygons: The form and physics of falling fluids
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Kaushik Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, March 12, 2001
Title: Domain patterns, texture and macroscopic electro-mechanical properties of ferroelectrics.
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Gregory Kriegsmann, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, March 16, 2001
Title: Electromagnetic Propagation in Periodic Translationally Invariant Media
11:00 a.m., Gordon Library Seminar Room; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Mary Pugh, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, March 23, 2001
Title: The figure/ground problem: image segmentation and energy dissipation
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Li Zheng, March 30, 2001
Title: Integrative & Computational Bioengineering
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Erik M. Bollt, Mathematics Department, US Naval Academy, April 2, 2001
Title: Combinatorial Control of Global Dynamics in a Chaotic Differential Equation
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - John Taylor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, April 6, 2001
Title: On optimization formulations for structural mechanics and design
3:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - John Tsimikas, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 6, 2001
Title: A Profile-Likelihood Approach for Inference on Highly Accurate Diagnostic Tests
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Michael Neubert, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, April 13, 2001
Title: Biological Invasions
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Thomas F. Russell, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Denver, April 20, 2001
Title: Three-dimensional Control-Volume Mixed Finite Element Methods on Distorted Hexahedral Grids
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Peter Sternberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Indiana, April 27, 2001
Title: A Second Variation Argument for the Non-existence of Permanent Currents
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Andrei Cherkaev, University of Utah, May 18, 2001
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.
Applied/Computational Mathematics Seminars
All Talks on Mondays at 4:15 in Stratton Hall 203
- Shailesh Naire, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI, September 11 2000
Title: Gravitationally-Driven Drainage of Thin Films - Weimin Jin, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI, September 25 2000
Title: Buckling, Blistering, and Wrinkling of Thin Films - Kathi Fisler, Department of Computer Science, WPI, October 9 2000
Title: Diagrammatic Logic and Its Application to Hardware Verification - Mustapha Fofana, Department of Mechanical Engineering , WPI, October 16 2000
Title: Hopf Bifurcation, Centre Manifold and Integral Averaging Method:Application to Stability Analysis of Machine-Tool Chatter - Julie Mullen, CCC, WPI, November 6 2000
Title: TBA - Mei-Ling Ting Lee, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, November 27 2000
Title: A model for markers and latent health status - Thomas Carter, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eastern Connecticut State University, December 11 2000
Title: Fuel-Optimal Rendezvous in a Central Force Field with Linear and Quadratic Drag
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Joseph D. Fehribach, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI, February 12 2001
Title: The Electrolyte Wedge Problem - Gelonia Dent, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, February 26 2001
Title: Large Higher order representations for particles settling in a periodic lattice - Sigal Gottlieb, UMass-Dartmouth March 19 2001
Title: Solving Ax = b using a Modified Conjugate Gradient Method based on roots of A - Yaping Wu, Beijing Capital Normal University (currently visiting Harvard University), April 2 2001
Title: The existence and stability of travelling waves for some evolution systems - Suzanne L. Weekes, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI, April 30 2001
Title: TBA
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