CAM Colloquia - Spring 2008

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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• January 25 - George Biros, University of Pennsylvania, "Fast algorithms for Stokesian particulate flows" (Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems) (Host: D. James)
• February 1 - Charles Van Loan, Computer Science, Cornell, "Kronecker Product Approximation and Computational Multilinear Algebra"
• February 8 - John Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, "Regulation of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: From Molecular Networks to Cell Physiology"(Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems) (Host: CAM grad students)
• February 15 - Timothy Healey, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell, "Some Problems in Second-Gradient Nonlinear Elasticity"
• February 22 - Alan Oppenheim, MIT, "One Plus One Could Equal Three" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• February 29 - James Sethna, LASSP, Cornell, "Sloppy Models"
• March 7 - Andrew Conn, IBM, "Some Recent Work in Derivative Free Application" (Host: M. Todd)
• March 14 (day before Spring break)
• March 28 - Dorit Hochbaum, Haas School of Business and Department of IE&OR, UC Berkeley, "Efficient cut-based image segmentation techniques" (Host: D. Shmoys)
• April 4 Jonathan Farley, Caltech, "Toward a Mathematical Theory of Counterterrorism: Building the Perfect Terrorist Cell" (Host: S. Strogatz)
• April 11 - Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University, "Equation-free modeling and computation for complex systems" (Host: S. Koutsourelakis)
• April 18 - Jennifer Dy, Northeastern University, "Non-Redundant Multi-View Clustering" (Host: Z. Haas)
• April 25 - NOTE ROOM: B17 Upson Hall , Robert E. Bixby, Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, "From Planning to Operations: The Ever-Shrinking Optimization Time Horizon" (Joint with ORIE's D.R. Fulkerson Lecture Series)