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Applied Math Colloquia, 2011-12

The CAM Colloquium is held Fridays throughout the academic year at 3:30 p.m. in 655 Rhodes Hall. Refreshments follow at 4:30 p.m. in 657 Rhodes Hall.

Spring 2012

January 27
Uday Shanbhag, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Optimization and Variational Problems Under Uncertainty: Theory and Algorithms
Host: Lang Tong

February 3
Melvin Leok, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Computational Geometric Mechanics and Their Applications to Geometric Optimal Control Theory
Host: John Guckenheimer

February 10
Natalie Mahowald, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Projecting Future Climate Change

February 17
Steven Low, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Optimal Power Flow and Demand Response
Host: Kevin Tang

February 24
Anthony Hunt, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
A Strategy to Achieve Explanatory, Networked, Mechanistic Models that Link Phenomena within and Between Biological Scales
Host: Brandon Hencey

March 1 (note date change)
Sam Arbesman, Senior Scholar, Kauffman Foundation
The Half-Life of Facts
Host: Tim Novikoff

March 9
Alison Marsden, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Optimization and Multiscale Modeling for Surgical Planning in Cardiovascular Disease
Host: Peter Frazier

March 16
No Colloquium – Spring Break

March 23
No Colloquium – Spring Break

March 30
Megan Owen, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Applications and Algorithms in the Space of Phylogenetic Trees
Host: Louis Billera

April 6
Illya V. Hicks, Computational and Applied Mathematics Department, Rice University
Discrete Optimization and Social Networks
Host: Mark Lewis

April 13
Kathleen Fowler, Division of Mathematics & Computer Science, Clarkson University
Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Optimal Design for Agricultural Water Management
Host: Christine Shoemaker

April 20
Sergey Fomel, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas
Wave Equations and Wave Extrapolations in Seismic Imaging
Host: Alexander Vladimirsky

April 27
Zari Rachev, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University
Market Crashes and Modeling Volatile Markets
Host: Gennady Samorodnitsky

May 3 (note time/date change)
Erika Camacho, Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University
Tracing the Progression of Retinitis Pigmentosa via Photoreceptor Interactions
Host: Peter Frazier

May 8 (note special date)
Gábor Domokos, Department of Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
The Evolution of Pebble Size and Shape in Space and Time
Host: Tim Healey


Fall 2011

September 2
Chengshan Xiao, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Underwater Acoustic MIMO Communications: Problems, Challenges, and Experimental Results
Host: Zygmunt Haas

September 16
Open

September 23
Mark Levi, Penn State University
Physical Reasoning in Mathematics
Host: Steve Strogatz

September 30
Ilker Birbil, Sabanci University
Inherently Parallel Algorithms for Nonlinear Programming
Host: Huseyin Topaloglu

October 7
Fall Break – No Colloquium

October 14
David Kempe, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Subset Selection for Linear Regression
Host: Robert Kleinberg

October 21
Eli Shlizerman, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle
Activity Measure Evolution Equations: Dimension Reduction for Networks of Neurons
Host: Steve Strogatz

October 28
Joel Spencer, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Two Needles in Exponential Haystacks
Host: Jon Kleinberg

November 4
Vivek Goyal, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceMIT
Space-from-Time Imaging: Acquiring Reflectance and Structure without Lenses
Host: Sheila Hemami

November 11
Nico Vandaele, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Advanced Resources Planning: Flow Theory as a Basis for Sales and Operations Planning
Joint Colloquium with the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Host: Peter Jackson

November 18
Andreea Minca, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
Default Contagion in Financial Markets: A Reduced Form Approach

November 25
No Colloquium – Thanksgiving Break

December 2
Raissa D'Souza, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Percolation and Cascades in Interdependent Networks
Host: Steve Strogatz


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