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.

Fall 2013 Semester

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Aug 27, 3pm	Rob Sturman (Leeds)	Lecture 1: The ergodic hierarchy & uniform hyperbolicity	Jean-Luc
Aug 29, 3pm	Rob Sturman (Leeds)	Lecture 2: Non-uniform hyperbolicity & Pesin theory	Jean-Luc
Aug 30	Rob Sturman (Leeds)	Seminar: Rates of mixing in models of fluid flow	Jean-Luc
Sept 13	Reed Ogrosky (UW)	Long-wave modeling of a viscous liquid film inside a vertical tube	Saverio
Sept 18, 2:25pm, 901	Amit Einav (Cambridge)	The entropy method in the Kac model and its relation to the Boltzmann equation	Shi Jin
Sept 20	Shamgar Gurevich (UW)	The incidence and cross methods for efficient radar detection	Jean-Luc, Saverio
Sept 27	Michael Cardiff (UW)	The hydrogeologic inverse problem: characterizing aquifer heterogeneity with multi-frequency stimulations	Saverio
Oct 4	Ronen Avni (Technion)	Mathematical model for cell motility driven by active gel	Saverio
Oct 18	Shilpa Khatri (UNC)	Settling and rising in stratified fluids: fluid-structure interactions and multiphase flow	Stechmann, Saverio
Wed, Oct 23	Junping Wang (National Science Foundation)	Weak Galerkin Finite Element Methods for PDEs	Shi Jin
Oct 25	Douglas Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong)	Causal and structural connectivity of neuronal networks	Shi Jin
Nov 1	Igor Aronson (Argonne)	Living liquid crystals	Saverio
Nov 8	Bo Li (UCSD)	Variational implicit solvation of biomolecules	Shi Jin
Wed, Nov 13	Jingwei Hu (Texas)	An asymptotic-preserving scheme for the semiconductor Boltzmann equation toward the energy-transport limit	Shi Jin
Nov 15	Marko Budisic (UW)	Visualizing invariant structures of dynamical systems using the ergodic quotient	Jean-Luc
Nov 22	Yoichiro Mori (Minnesota)	Modeling electrodiffusion and osmosis in physiological systems	Saverio
Thurs, Dec 5	Cheng Koay (UW) [joint with applied algebra]	Symmetry and uniformity considerations in Magnetic Resonance Imaging acquisitions	Julie
Wed, Dec 11	Ivan Cristov (Los Alamos)	TBA	Jean-Luc

Spring 2014 Semester

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Jan 17	Adrianna Gillman (Dartmouth)	Fast direct solvers for linear partial differential equations	Jean-Luc
Jan 31	TBA	TBA
Feb 7	Harvey Segur (Colorado)	The nonlinear Schrödinger equation, dissipation and ocean swell	Saverio
Feb 14	Elena D'Onghia (UW)	TBA	Saverio
Feb 21, 4pm, B239	Michael Shelley (Courant)	TBA	Colloquium
Feb 28	TBA	TBA
Mar 7	TBA	TBA
Mar 14	Stefan Wild (Argonne)	TBA	Saverio
Mar 26, 7pm	Tadashi Tokieda (Cambridge)	TBA	Jean-Luc, Saverio
Mar 28	Mike Steel (University of Canterbury)	TBA	Sebastien
Apr 4	Laura McLay (UW)	TBA	Julie
Apr 11	Shengqian "Chessy" Chen (UW)	TBA	Saverio
Apr 18	Marie-Pascale Lelong (NorthWest Research Associates)	TBA	Leslie
Apr 25	Jon Wilkening (UC Berkeley)	TBA	Saverio
May 2	Christel Hohenegger (Utah)	TBA	Saverio
May 9	Jim Meiss (Colorado)	TBA	Saverio

Archived semesters

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

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