Colloquia 2002-2003
John Ockendon, University of Oxford
Title: Thrity years of Study Groups: the Free Boundary between Mathematics and Dollars
5:00 p.m. Olin Hall, Room 107
Laszlo Babai, Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago
Title: Asymptotic cubology: the diameter of finite groups
3:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Wojciech Okrasinski, Institute of Mathematics, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Title: Determination of the interface for some nonlinear diffusion problems
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Kresimir Josic, University of Houston
Title: Synchrony in chaotic 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.
Greg Warrington, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Math Awareness Week Talk)
Title: Juggling the Probabilities of Juggling
4:00 p.m., Higgins Labs, Room 116.
J.U. Brackbill, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: On the Remarkable versatility of the Particle-in-Cell Method: From Sand to Plasmas
11:00 a.m., Higgins Laboratories, Room 102. This colloquium is co-sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Madhu Sudan, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
Title: List decoding of error-correcting codes
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 3:45 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware
Title: Flows of Complex Fluids: A Mathematical Introduction
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Misha Kilmer, Tufts University
Title: 3D Shape-based Imaging of Absorption for Diffuse Optical Tomography
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Alex Mogilner, University of California, Davis
Title: Computational modeling of cell movements
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Jerry Brackbill, Visiting Brown University
Title: TBA
11:00 a.m., Higgins Lab, Room TBA.
Ioan Ionescu, Laboratoire de Mathematiques, CNRS & University of Savoie, France
Title: Initiation of instability on a fault system under slip dependent friction
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Weijiu Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Title: Feedback Flow Control and Mixing in Chaotic Advection
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Blaise Bourdin, Louisiana State University
Title: Numerical implementations of the Mumford-Shah functional
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Malgorzata Celuch, Warsaw University of Technology and QWED Corporation
Title: Numerical Dispersion Relations in Computational Electromagnetics
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Alexander Barg, Fundamental Mathematics Research, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Title: Digital Fingerprinting 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.
Jerzy Filar, University of South Australia
Title: Perturbation Theory and Mathematical Programming 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.
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris XIII
Title: Existence and homogenization for a class of multivalued monotone operators in divergence form
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Dominique Haughton, Bentley College
Title: Bayesian Analysis of Poverty Rates: The Case of Vietnamese Provinces
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Alexander Khibnik, UTRC
Title: Propagation of Uncertainties from Physics of Failure to Optimal Decision Making in Aftermarket Supply Chain
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Satya N. Atluri, Samueli-von Karman Professor of Engineering University of California at Irvine
Title: The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method: A Faster, Better & Cheaper Alternative to FEM & BEM
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Bogdan Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Multiple-scale analysis of electrorheological 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.
Thomas Carter, Eastern Connecticut State University
Title: Mathematical Models of Spacecraft Orbits and Rendezvous in the Presence of Drag
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Junping Wang, Colorado School of Mines
Title: Superconvergence and Fast Hierarchical Approximation Methods in Scientific Computing
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 308; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
David S. Morgan, NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section, Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Multi-scale continuum mechanics: Finding constrained invariant sets
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
R. W. Doerge, Purdue University
Title: Determining Statistically Significant Changes in Gene Expression: QTL Analysis Meets Micoarray Analysis
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Pierre Gremaud, NCSU
Title: Numerical issues in granular flow modeling
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Andrew Swift, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
Title: Network Reliability and Borel's Paradox
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
Christian Bischof, Institute for Scientific Computing, University of Technology Aachen,
Title: Recent experiences with (semi-)automatic differentiation
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 308; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108.
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