Applied/ACMS

Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar

• When: Fridays at 2:25pm (except as otherwise indicated)
• Where: 901 Van Vleck Hall
• Organizers: Saverio Spagnolie and Jean-Luc Thiffeault
• To join the ACMS mailing list: See mailing list website.

Spring 2014 Semester

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Jan 17	Adrianna Gillman (Dartmouth)	Fast direct solvers for linear partial differential equations	Jean-Luc (job talk)
Jan 24, 4 pm, B239	Yaniv Plan (Michigan)	Low-dimensionality in mathematical signal processing	Jean-Luc (job talk)
Feb 7	Harvey Segur (Colorado)	The nonlinear Schrödinger equation, dissipation and ocean swell	Saverio
Feb 14	Sangtae Kim (Purdue)	The Faxén Laws of Stokes flow and their connection to singularity solutions	Saverio
Feb 21	Elena D'Onghia (UW)	The origin of spiral arms in galactic disks	Saverio
Feb 28, 4pm, B239	Michael Shelley (Courant)	Mathematical models of soft active materials	Colloquium
Mar 7	Paul Hand (MIT)	Evaluating signal recovery algorithms with semirandom models	Jean-Luc, Saverio
Mar 14	Scott Hottovy (UW)	Modeling with stochastic differential equations: A noisy circuit and thresholds for rainfall	Saverio
Mar 21	Spring recess
Mar 26, 7pm	Tadashi Tokieda (Cambridge)	Toy Models	C4 Lecture
Mar 28	Mike Steel (University of Canterbury)	Tractable models for some discrete random processes arising in evolutionary biology	Sebastien
Apr 4	Laura McLay (UW)	Covering optimization models for emergency response, security, and resilience	Julie
Apr 11	Shengqian "Chessy" Chen (UW)	Dynamics of internal waves and stratified flows in shallow water	Saverio
Apr 18	Marie-Pascale Lelong (NorthWest Research Associates)	Two scenarios involving inertia-gravity waves and eddies on scales of 100 m to 10 km in the ocean	Leslie
Apr 25	Jon Wilkening (UC Berkeley)	Nearly time-periodic water waves	Saverio
May 2	Christel Hohenegger (Utah)	TBA	Saverio
May 9	Jim Meiss (Colorado)	TBA	Saverio

Archived semesters

• Fall 2014
• Fall 2013
• Spring 2013
• Fall 2012
• Spring 2012
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2011
• Fall 2010

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