CAM Colloquia - Fall 2002

All CAM Colloquia take place at 3:45 p.m. in 655 Rhodes Hall with refreshments following the colloquium at 4:45 p.m. in 657 Rhodes Hall.

• September 13 -- Kurt Lust, Dept. of Computer Science, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, "Timestepper-based Numerical Bifurcation Analysis of Large-Scale Systems" (Host: J. Guckenheimer)
• September 20 -- Steven Strogatz, T&AM, Cornell, "Weird Phase Transition in a Randomly Grown Graph"
• September 27 -- Max Houck, West Virginia University, Making Forensic Science Count: Can Mathematics Help Catch Criminals? (joint with Nonlinear Systems) (Host: S. Strogatz)
• October 4 --Robert Moser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Stochastic Estimation and the Development of Models for the Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence" (Host: S. Pope)
• October 11 -- Day before Fall break
• October 18 --Donald Geman, John Hopkins University, "Computational Modeling" (Host: P. Protter)
• October 25 --Monika Nitsche, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico,"Numerical Simulations of Vortices Using the Vortex Sheet Model"(Host: P. Steen)
• November 1 --Simon Guest, Cambridge University (visiting Harvard) "Symmetry and Rigidity" (Host: R. Connelly)
• November 8 -- Rennie Mirollo, Boston College, "When Do Pulse-Coupled Oscillator Networks Synchronize" (Host: Steve Strogatz)
• November 15 -- Kay Giesecke, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Note Room Change--this seminar will be in 280 Rhodes (this week only) "Credit Contagion and Aggregate Losses" (Host: P. Protter)
• November 22 -- Mary Lou Zeeman, Dept. of Applied Math., University of Texas, San Antonio, "Disease-induced oscillations between two competing species" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• December 6 --Last day of classes