Eighth Annual IAM Retreat 2012 Annual Retreat April 27, 2012 4:45 pm Speaker: Fifteen Speakers Location: Minnekhada Lodge Intended Audience: Public The eighth IAM retreat was held at Minnekhada Lodge. Special thanks to Josh Zukewich for his administrative efforts in organizing this event. There were many participants and presenters covering a variety of topics in applied mathematics. There were 15 speakers out of 28 participants. Retreat Schedule Time Presenter Talk Title 09:45-10:00 Erin Moulding Bounding the eigenvalues of matrices arising from interior-point methods 10:00-10:15 William Carlquist A Computationally Efficient Method for Solving Min System Reaction-Diffusion Equations within Growing and Dividing Domains that Approximate a Rod-Shaped Bacterium 10:15-10:30 Jielin Zhu Asymptotic Analysis for Noise Induced Early Escape Problem 10:30-10:45 Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso Global Classical Solutions of the Relativistic Vlasov-Darwin System with Small Cauchy Data 10:45-11:15 Refreshments 11:15-11:30 Josh Zukewich Evolution in Structured Populations 11:30-11:45 Jia Gou Onset of Synchronized Oscillations via Diffusion of Signalling Molecules: One Model of Quorum Sensing 11:45-12:00 Ida Karimfazli Natural convection of a Bingham fluid in a vertical channel 12:00-12:15 James Ferguson Relaxation oscillations in surging glaciers 12:15-14:30 Lunch and walk 14:30-14:45 William Thompson Parametric estimation of the infinitesimal generator of a diffusion process from data 14:45-15:00 Mark Willoughby High-Order Time-Adaptive Numerical Methods For The Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard Equations 15:00-15:15 Josh Litven A primal-dual active-set method with applications in physical simulation 15:15-15:30 Luz Caudillon 5a Fachada, a system for optimizing, designing and constructing roofs with light truss-based steel to conserve energy and materials 15:30-16:00 Refreshments 16:00-16:15 Leo Kim TBD 16:15-16:30 Ian Hewitt Physics of skipping stones 16:30-16:45 Hadi Mehrabian Capillary breakup of a liquid torus Our group outside Minnekhada Lodge Presenters and Audience People Other Pictures