CAM Colloquia - Spring 2006

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 2005-06 Colloquium Committee is S. Strogatz, C. Bustamante, X. Guo and A. Vladimirsky. They may be contacted at collcomm@cam.cornell.edu.

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• Jan. 27 - Shane Henderson, ORIE, Cornell, "Robust Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning"
• Feb. 3 - Charles Van Loan, CSE Director of Graduate Studies, "The New Graduate Minor in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)" , 253 Rhodes Hall
• Feb.10 -Boyce Griffith, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, "Adaptive immersed boundary methods for simulating cardiac mechanics and electrophysiology" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• Feb. 17 - Christine Shoemaker, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell, “Function Approximation Algorithms for Continuous Optimization of Multi-modal Computationally Expensive Models with Applications”
• Feb. 24 - Jon Wilkening, Univ. of California, Berkeley "Shape Optimization of Swimming Sheets" (Host: J. Wang)
• Mar. 3 - Anne Bourlioux, University of Montreal, "An asymptotic view on flamelet models for turbulent combustion"(Host: A. Vladimirsky)
• Mar 10 -NOTE ROOM CHANGE, 253 RHODES HALL - Rich Kerswell, Department of Mathematics, Bristol, "Progress in Reynolds' problem: transition to turbulence in a pipe" (Host: J. Jenkins)
• Mar. 17 -Cesar Silva, Williams College, "Mixing Notions and Examples in the Class of Zero Entropy Processes" (Host: G. Samorodnitsky)
• Mar. 31 -Naomi Leonard, Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., Princeton, "Collective Motion in Engineered and Natural Multi-Agent Systems" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• Apr. 7- Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, "Approximation algorithms and Grothendieck type inequalities" (Host: M.Todd),
• Apr. 14 - Sara Robinson, a freelance writer, "The Future of Math in the Media" (Host: A. Vladimirsky)
• Apr. 21-NOTE ROOM CHANGE, 253 RHODES HALL- M. Alex O. Vasilescu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "A Tensor Algebraic Framework for Computer Vision and Graphics" (Grad student choice)
• Apr. 28 -NOTE ROOM CHANGE, 253 RHODES HALL- Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo Research, "The Changing Face of Web Search" (Host: X. Guo)
• May 5 - Simon Myers, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, "Exploring recombination and recombination ‘hotspots’ using genetic variation data"
  (Host: C. Bustamante)
  
  
  FALL 2006 Schedule