CAM Colloquia - Fall 2007

Unless noted otherwise, CAM Colloquia take place at 3:30 p.m. in 655 Rhodes Hall with refreshments following the colloquium at 4:30 p.m. in 657 Rhodes Hall.

The 2007-08 Colloquium Committee is Mike Todd (Chair), Zygmunt Haas, Doug James, Philip Liu. They may be contacted at collcomm@cam.cornell.edu.

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• September 7 - Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan, "(Fast) Algorithms for Compressed Sensing"
• September 14 - Xin Guo, ORIE, Cornell, "Several Mathematical Issues in Information-Based Credit Risk Analysis"
• September 21 - John Guckenheimer, Math Dept., Cornell, "Canards"
• Thursday, September 27 -Messenger Lecture, Michel Balinski, "How to eliminate gerrymandering: A new approach to representation; its realization in Zurich and its
  application to the U.S. Congress", 4:45 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
• October 5 - Michael Shelley, Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute, "Dynamics and Transport of Complex Fluids" (Host: D. James)
• October 12 -No Colloquium--( Postponed to Jan. 25, 2008-- George Biros, University of Pennsylvania,"Fast algorithms for Stokesian particulate flows" (Host: D. James))
• October 19- B11 Kimball Hall --David Leavitt, Co-director, MFA Program in Creative Writing, University of Florida, "THE INDIAN CLERK: Creating Fiction from the Lives of Great Mathematicians" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• October 26 - Divakar Viswanath, University of Michigan, "Dynamics of transition and turbulence in fluid flows" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• November 2 - Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University, "Variational Analysis: New Trends and Applications" (Host: M. Todd)
• November 9 - Jan Hesthaven, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, "Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Modeling of Free Surface Flows using High-Order Boussinesq Approximations" (Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems) (Host: P. Diamessis)
• November 16 - Jonathan M. Borwein, Dalhousie University, "High Performance Mathematics and its Management" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• Tuesday, November 27 - 4:30 p.m., 166 Hollister Hall (McManus Lounge),Mary Upson Professorship Lecture, Professor CC Mei, MIT, "Water Waves around Structures Or in Nonuniform Environment" (Reception at 4:00 in McManus Lounge).
  
  
  
  Spring 2008 schedule