CAM Colloquia - Spring 2004

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 30 --Sergio Servetto, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell, "Network Flow Methods in Information Theory"
• February 20 -- Jon Wilkening, Courant Institute (Host: A. Vladimirsky), "Grain Boundary Diffusion Due to Stress and Electromigration"
• February 27 -- John Walsh, University of British Columbia, "Skorokhod Embedding and the Convergence of the Tree Scheme for European Options." (Host: Philip Protter)
• Monday, March 1 --Joint Seminar: Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics--
  Roberto Paroni, Department of Architecture, University of Sassari, Italy, 4:30 pm, Rhodes 655, "A Young Measure Theory for Martensitic Films via Dimension Reduction", Refreshments: 4:00 pm, in Rhodes 657
• March 5-- Peter Bank, Columbia University "Optimal Stopping and the Multi-armed Bandit" (Host: Philip Protter)
• March 12 -- Ed Ott, Lab of Plasma Studies, University of Maryland, "The Onset of Coherence in Globally Coupled Chaotic and
  Periodic Systems" Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems (Host: Steven Strogatz)
• **Note day and time: Thursday, April 1-- Gilbert Strang, MIT, Generating a Good Mesh (Host: Stephen Vavasis)**Note special time
• April 2 -- David Terman, Ohio State, "A Model for Neuronal Activity in the Basal Ganglia" Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems (Host: J. Guckenheimer)
• April 9 -- Reka Albert, Physics, Penn State, "Modeling Gene Regulatory Networks" Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems (Host: S. Strogatz)
• April 16-- Peter Spiegelman, author of the book "Black Maps", "Rogue Traders: A Novelist's Perspective", (Host: P. Protter)
• April 23 -- Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft Research, "Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization" Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems (Host: B. Selman)
• April 30 -- L. Mahadevan, DEAS, Harvard, "Draping, wrinkling and crumpling" Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems (Host: S. Strogatz)