Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar

Spring 2012 Semester

Date	Speaker	Title (click to see abstract)	Host
Mathematics Colloquium Jan. 23 (Monday at 4pm, B239 Van Vleck)	Saverio Spagnolie, Brown	Hydrodynamics of Self-Propulsion Near a Boundary: Construction of a Numerical and Asymptotic Toolbox	Jean-Luc Thiffeault
Mathematics Colloquium Jan. 27 (Friday at 4pm, B239 Van Vleck)	Ari Stern , UC San Diego	Numerical analysis beyond Flatland: semilinear PDEs and problems on manifolds	Julie Mitchell
Mar. 23 (Friday)	Shamgar Gurevich, UW-Madison	Channel Estimation in Wireless Communication in Linear Time	Local
Apr. 13 (Friday)	Mike Cullen, Met. Office, UK	Applications of optimal transport to geophysical problems	Mikhail Feldman
Mathematics Colloquium Apr. 13 (Friday at 4pm, B239 Van Vleck)	Ricardo Cortez, Tulane	Introduction to the method of regularized Stokeslets for fluid flow and applications to microorganism swimming	Julie Mitchell
Apr. 20 (Friday)	Meyer Jackson, UW-Madison Neuroscience	Membrane elasticity and mechanics during fusion	Julie Mitchell
Apr. 27 (Friday)	Michael Graham, UW-Madison Engineering	Drag reduction and the nonlinear dynamics of turbulence in simple and complex fluids	Jean-Luc Thiffeault
Special day April 30 (Monday)	Lukas Szpruch, Oxford	Antithetic multilevel Monte Carlo method	David Anderson
Special day and room May 14 (Monday, B139 Van Vleck)	Dwight Barkley, Warwick	The onset of turbulence in pipe flow	Fabian Waleffe