CAM Colloquia - Spring 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 2006-07 Colloquium Committee is S. Strogatz, J. Hopcroft, M. Todd and A. Vladimirsky. They may be contacted at collcomm@cam.cornell.edu.

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• January 26 - Paul Steen, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell, "Dynamics and stability of coupled capillary-surfaces:
  adhesion inspired by Nature"
• February 2 - Ramit Mehr, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & Karolinska Inst., Sweden, "The Immune System - A Theoretician's View" (Host: CAM students)
• February 16 - 253 Rhodes Hall, Eric Weisstein, Wolfram Research, Inc., MathWorld: Communicating Mathematics on the Internet (Host: R. Connelly)
• February 23
• March 2 - 253 Rhodes Hall, Joyce McLaughlin, RPI, "Creating a New Medical Diagnostic Tool by Imaging Shear Stiffness in Tissue" Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems, (Host: A. Vladimirsky)
• March 9 - Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland, College Park, "Edge Detection and Hierarchical Decompositions" (Host: M.Todd)
• March 16 (day before Spring break)
• March 30 - CANCELED --Jonathan M. Borwein
• April 6 - Alexandre d'Aspremont, Princeton, "Semidefinite Optimization with Applications in Sparse Multivariate Statistics" (Host: M. Todd)
• April 13 - CANCELED John Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, "Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology" (Host: CAM students)
• April 20 - Stephen Davis, Northwestern University, "The Solidification of Metallic Foams" (Host: H. Lipson) (joint with MAE)
• April 27 -253 Rhodes Hall, Teresa Krick, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, "Factorization of Rational Polynomials" (Host: M. Stillman)