Colloquia 2003-2004
- Friday, July 23, 2004
Michel Ianoz, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Title: Field-to-Transmission Line Coupling--Computational Models and Validation
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Hirokazu Ninomiya, Ryukoku University
Title: Asymptotic behavior of the solutions of Allen-Cahn equation in the two dimensional space
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Umberto Mosco, University of Rome
Title: Some variational problems with irregularities
3:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, April 30, 2004
Dimitri Zenkov, North Carolina State University
Title: Variational Integrators for Constrained Mechanical Systems
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Tuesday, April 27, 2004 (Joint with WPI's Cryptography Seminar)
Douglas R. Stinson, University of Waterloo, Canada
Title: Two Aspects of the Discrete Logarithm Problem
4:00 a.m., Hagglund Room, Campus Center. - Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Ralph Showalter, Oregon State University
Title: The interface of a poroelastic medium with viscous fluid or elastic solid
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 23, 2004
James O'Malley, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Title: Accounting for Treatment-Noncompliance and Missing Outcomes in Randomized Trials: Sensitivity to Model Assumptions
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 16, 2004
Padmanabhan Aravind, Department of Physics, WPI
Title: Polytopes and Quantum Physics
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 9, 2004
Luis Roman, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
Title: A Measure of Managers Performance Based on the 'Stochastic Discount Factor
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 2, 2004
Stilian Stoev, Boston University
Title: Simulation methods for linear fractional stable motion and FARIMA using the Fast Fourier Transform (Stilian Stoev and Murad S. Taqqu)
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 26, 2004
Noah Kraut
Title: A Computational Solution to the Brownian First Passage Time Problem Using Girsanov's Theorem
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 19, 2004
George Jumper, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB., MA
Title: High Altitude Optical and Clear Air Turbulence, Measurements, Models and Forecasts
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 12, 2004
Frederic Dias, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
Title: What is new in the theory of water waves?
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Jon-Lark Kim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title: Low-Density Parity-Check Codes from Graphs and Finite Geometries
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 13, 2004
Constantin Bacuta, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Applications of the Multilevel Theory to Regularity Estimates for PDE
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Thursday, February 12, 2004
Gregory Panasenko, Saint Etienne University and Pennsylvania State University
Title: Method of Partial Asymptotic Decomposition of Domain
2:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 1:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Friday, February 6, 2004
Ivan Blank, University of Louisville
Title: Compactness, Regularity, and Asymptotics in Some Overdetermined Problems
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Tuesday, February 3, 2004
Darko Volkov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Integral equation methods for the statics and the dynamics of an electrified fluid bridge
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 30, 2004
Mihai Sirbu, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: A Two-Person Game for Pricing Convertible Bonds
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 107. - Tuesday, January 20, 2004
R. Lee DeVille, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: Rigorous Multiple-timescale Analysis for ODE and PDE
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, December 12, 2003
Micah Dembo, Boston University
Title: Field Theories of the Cytoplasm: Application to the Mechanics of Neutrophils
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, December 5, 2003
Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin
Title: A Multiresolution Tree-Structured Spatial Linear Model
2:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 304; refreshments at 1:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Phil Everson, Swarthmore College
Title: Bayesian Hierarchical Models for American Football Scores
3:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Thursday, November 20, 2003
Gabriele Nebe, Abteilung Reine Mathematik, Universitaet Ulm
Title: Lattices and sperical designs
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, November 14, 2003
Nicole A. Lazar, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Warping, Combining, and Jackknifing Brains: Statistical Issues in the Creation of fMRI Group Maps
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, November 7, 2003
Triantaphyllos Akylas, MIT
Title: Nonlinear Internal Gravity Wave Beams
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Thursday, November 6, 2003
Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut
Title: On a conjecture of De Giorgi
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 3:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Thursday, November 6, 2003
Tomaz Pisanski, Colgate University and University of Ljubljana
Title: Generalized Petersen Graphs and Configurations
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, October 31, 2003
Erin Terwilleger, University of Connecticut
Title: Third Order Commutator and Product BMO
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, October 10, 2003
Luis Roman, WPI
Title: What, Why, and Where Stochastic Differential Equations
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Samantha Cook, Harvard University
Title: Using historical control data to impute missing outcomes when clinical trials become open-label
3:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 304; refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Friday, September 12, 2003
Florin Catrina, WPI
Title: Critical Exponents and Critical Dimensions
11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the Mathematical Sciences Department lounge, Stratton Hall, Room 108. - Thursday, August 28, 2003
Joseph E. Flaherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: Adaptive and Parallel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyperbolic Systems
4:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, 203.
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