CAM Colloquia - Spring 2003

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.

• January 24 --Vipul Periwal, Gene Network Sciences, "The Mathematical Challenge of Systems Biology" (Host: D.Shalloway)
• January 31
• February 7 --Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie Mellon University, "Optimal Investment in Incomplete Financial Models" (Host: P. Protter)
• February 14 -- Warwick Tucker, Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden, "Validated Numerics and the Art of Dividing by Zero" (joint with Nonlinear Systems)
• February 21 --
• February 28 -- Genny Li, Penn State,"Closed Form Solutions of A Dynamic Monetary Model " (Host: A. Schatz)
• March 7 --Moses Charikar, Princeton, "Compact Representations for Data", (Host: E. Tardos)
• March 14 (day before Spring break)
• March 28
• April 4 --Sal Torquato, Princeton "Sphere Packings, Order Metrics, and Jamming" (Host: R. Connelly)
• April 11 -- Fadil Santosa, School of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, "Wave localization and guidance in photonic bandgap structures" (Host: P. Steen)
• April 18 -- Mercedes Pascual,. University of Michigan,"Two Problems of Scale in Nonlinear Ecological Systems for Antagonistic Interactions" (joint with Nonlinear Systems) (Host: S. Strogatz)
  Note: Two seminars on April 25:
• April 25 - Frank Riedel, Economics Dept., Stanford University, "Dynamic Coherent Risk Measures" (Host: P. Protter)
• April 25 - Valentin Krinsky, INLN, CNRS, Nice, France, "Unpinning of vortices in cardiac muscle" Note room: 280 Rhodes Hall (Host R. Gilmour) (joint with Nonlinear Systems)
  Note: Special Seminar
• Thursday, May 22 -- 2:00 p.m., John Guckenheimer, Math Dept., Cornell, "Taylor series methods and automatic differentiation for solving ordinary differential equations" Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 657 Rhodes Hall.