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Mar 9 3:00 pm LSK 460
CANCELLED: On the Edge: Sharp Treatment of Free Boundary Problems and Applications
Frederic Gibou IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumAbstract:
Most modern problems in science and engineering are described on irregular geometries or free boundaries that are notoriously difficult to handle numerically. In...
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Jan 20 3:00 pm LSK 460
Simple Approaches to Complex Data with Lyme Application
Deanna Needell IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumAbstract:
Recent advances in technology have led to a monumental increase in large-scale data across many platforms. One mathematical model that has gained a...
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Dec 9 4:00 pm LSK 462
Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is becoming an accepted tool for statistical analysis in models with intractable likelihoods. With the initial focus being primarily...
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Sep 16 4:00 pm LSK 462
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Coding theory has been associated mainly with maintaining reliability in communication and storage systems. Yet work published already in the 1950s by Von...
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Mar 11 4:00 pm ESB 4133
Cell Invasion: News from the Front
Paul Kulesa, Stowers Institute for Medical Research IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumThe neural crest offers a unique model system to study cell migration mechanisms during vertebrate embryogenesis since migrating cells are accessible to in...
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Nov 27 3:00 pm LSK 460
Some results on algorithmic fairness in online decision making
Avrim Blum, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumThere is growing concern about fairness in algorithmic decision making: Is it treating different groups fairly? How can we make it fairer? And...
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Oct 29 4:00 pm LSK 460
Building a Quantum Computer
Barry C. Sanders, University of Calgary IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumQuantum computing is moving from concept to experimental proofs-of-principle and even to commercial products. Various types are considered such as universal quantum computers,...
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Oct 1 3:00 pm ESB 4133
Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making
Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumI will present nonlinear dynamics for distributed decision-making that derive from principles of symmetry and bifurcation. Inspired by studies of animal groups, including...
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Feb 26 11:00 pm
Optimizing physical contacts for locomotion and manipulation: turning the challenges of contacts into solutions.
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Karen Liu, School of Interactive Computing College of Computing GeorgiaTech
URL for Speaker: https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/Home.html
Location: ESB 2012
Intended Audience: Public
Leveraging...
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Jan 22 11:00 pm
An ODE to Statistics: Inference about Nonlinear Dynamics
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Giles Hooker, Cornell Statistical Science and Biological Statistics & Computational Biology
URL for Speaker: http://faculty.bscb.cornell.edu/~hooker/
Location: ESB 2012
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Jan 15 11:00 pm
From Newton’s Law to Neurons
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Jane Wang, Cornell Physics and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
URL for Speaker: http://dragonfly.tam.cornell.edu/
Location: ESB 2012
Intended Audience: Public
Insects are...
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Nov 25 12:00 am
Adaptive numerical methods for fluid mechanics
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Stephane Popinet
URL for Speaker: http://www.dalembert.upmc.fr/home/popinet/
Location: Robson Square -- C680 HSBC Hall
Intended Audience: Public
The equations of fluid mechanics...
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Sep 18 10:00 pm
Modelling glioma growth with fully anisotropic diffusion
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Thomas Hillen, Mathematics University of Alberta
URL for Speaker: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~thillen/
Location: ESB 2012
Intended Audience: Public
The human brain has a...
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Nov 14 11:00 pm
Perspectives on Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Dr. William L. Oberkampf, Consulting Engineer, Austin, Texas
Location: LSK 301
Intended Audience: Public
Verification and validation (V&V) are the primary means...
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Apr 8 10:00 pm
Symmetry-breaking Bifurcations: Studies in Control and Exploitation
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Mary Silber, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Chicago
URL for Speaker: http://www.esam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/profiles/silber-mary.html
Location: LSK 460
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Mar 18 10:00 pm
Iterative Methods in Signal Processing
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Assoc. Prof. Andrea Montanari, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Statistics, Stanford University, California
URL for Speaker: http://www.stanford.edu/~montanar/
Location: ...
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Mar 11 10:00 pm
High Accuracy Solutions to Industrial Problems
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Andre Fortin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laval university, Québec
URL for Speaker: http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/le_departement/professeurs_et_enseignants/andre_fortin/...
Location: LSK 460
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Jan 7 11:00 pm
Pattern Formation, Taken from the Real World to the Lab
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Stephen Morris, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Toronto
URL for Speaker: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~smorris/smorris.html
Location: LSK 460
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Nov 19 11:00 pm
Continuum Models of Amphiphilic Networks
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Keith Promislow, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan
URL for Speaker: http://www.math.msu.edu/~kpromisl/
Location: LSK 460
Intended Audience: Public
Amphiphilic...
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Oct 22 10:00 pm
Estimating the Probability of Polyreactive Antibodies Disabling a Gp41 Trimer after T Cell-HIV Adhesio
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Dr. Byron Goldstein, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
URL for Speaker: http://www.t6.lanl.gov/bxg/
Location: LSK 460
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Mar 26 10:00 pm
From Brake to Syzygy in the Three-Body Problem
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Richard Montgomery, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz, California
URL for Speaker: http://math.ucsc.edu/~rmont/
Location: LSK 301
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Mar 19 10:00 pm
Complex Oscillations
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. John M. Guckenheimer, Mathematics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
URL for Speaker: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~gucken/
Location: LSK 301
Biological and chemical...
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Mar 12 10:00 pm
Langmuir Layers: Exploring A (Nearly) Two-Dimensional Fluid Experiment
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Andrew Bernoff, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California
URL for Speaker: http://www.math.hmc.edu/~ajb/
Location: LSK 301
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Mar 5 11:00 pm
Modelling Carbon Sequestration Processes
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Andy Woods, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
URL for Speaker: http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/andy-woods
Location: LSK 301
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Oct 17 10:00 pm
Finding Structure with Randomness: Probabilistic Algorithms for Constructing Low-Rank Matrix Decompositions
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Joel A. Tropp, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Location: LSK 301
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Nov 22 11:00 pm
Making Decisions in a Noisy World: The Intelligent Dynamics of Microorganisms
IAM-PIMS Distinguished ColloquiumSpeaker: Prof. Herbert Levine, Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego
URL for Speaker: http://herbie.ucsd.edu/~levine/
Location: LSK 301
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