Colloquia


2008-2009

"C* - Actions and Kinematics"

David Eklund
Department of Mathematics
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

Thursday - April 30, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Regularization of Collapse in Cellular Dynamics"

Pavel Lushnikov
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque

Monday - April 27, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"On a Uniform Turnpike of the Third Kind in the Mitra-Wan Forestry Model"

Ali Khan
Department of Economics
Johns Hopkins University

Friday - April 24, 2009 - 3:30PM in 306 Hammes Mowbray

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"C* - Actions and Kinematics"

Sandra Di Rocco
Department of Mathematics
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

Monday - April 20, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Counting Matchings in Graphs with Applications to the Monomer-dimer Models"

Shmuel Friedland
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
University of Illinois - Chicago

Tuesday - April 7, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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2009 CAM Nieuwland Lecture Series

"The Role of Combustion in Future Energy Scenarios"

Dr. Charles Westbrook
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ret.)

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 3:30PM
McKenna Hall Auditorium

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"Asymptotic Stability of the Stationary Solution for a Hyperbolic Free Boundary Problem Modeling Tumor Growth"

Shangbin Cui
Zhongshan University, China
University of Chicago

Friday - March 27, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"RNA Structure and Dynamics in Internal Coordinates"

Samuel Coulbourn Flores
Altman Lab
Department of Bioengineering
Stanford University

Monday - March 23, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Motor-Mediated Self-Organization of Microtubules in Active Particle Suspensions"

Swmanth Swaminathan
Department of Applied Mathematics
Northwestern University

Monday - January 26, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Phylogenetic Combinatorics"

Laszlo Szekely
Department of Mathematics
University of South Carolina

Monday - January 19, 2009 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Recovering Exactness from Numerical Algebraic Computations"

Dan Bates
Department of Mathematics
Colorado State University

Monday - November 24, 2008 - 4:00PM in 129 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Towards Generalized Glaerkin Variational Integrators for Large-Scale Scientific Computation"

Melvin Leok
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University

Wednesday - November 12, 2008 - 3:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center

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"Graph-theoretic Criteria for Injectivity and Unique Equilibria in Biochemical Reaction Networks"

Gheorghe Craciun
Department of Mathematics
Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tuesday - November 11, 2008 - 4:00PM in 356 Fitzpatrick Hall
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Multiscale Modeling, Simulationand Design under Uncertainty"

Guang Lin
Computational Math Group
Pacific Northwest Laboratory

Monday - November 10, 2008 - 4:00PM in 129 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Numerical Solutions of Highly Sensitive Problems"

Zhonggang Zeng
Department of Mathematics
Northeastern Illinois University

Friday - October 31, 2008 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"World of Trouble: Voyaging through Stressed Ecosystems"

H.J.S. Fernando
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Arizona State University

Friday - October 31, 2008 - 1:00PM in 131 DeBartolo Hall

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"Engineering Numerical Methods for Economic Models"

Kenneth Judd
Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Stanford University

and

Visiting Professor
Department of Economics
University of Chicago

Thursday - October 16, 2008 - 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"A Dynamical Systems Simulation of Myxobacteria, Driven by Bio-energy"

Bjorn Birnir
Department of Mathematics
Director of Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science
University of California - Santa Barbara

Wednesday - October 1, 2008 - 4:00PM in 117 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Multiscale Modeling of Biomolecular Systems"

Guowei Wei
Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University

Monday - September 29, 2008 - 4:00PM in 129 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Taking Advantage of Small Predictabilities in Financial Securities"

or, as we say in the engineering world,

"Multistage Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection in Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive Systems"

Charlie Rohrs
Digital Signal Processing Group
Research Laboratory of Electronics
MIT

Monday - September 15, 2008 - 4:00PM in 129 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Calcium Waves in Systems with Immobile Buffers as a Limit of Waves for Systems with Nonzero Diffusion"

Bogdan Kazmierczak
Polish Academy of Sciences

Wednesday - September 10, 2008 - 4:00PM in 117 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"A Simple Algebraic Formulation for the Scalar Linear Network Coding Problem"

Andrew Thangaraj
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Madras

Tuesday - July 15, 2008 - 3:00PM in 231 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 2:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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