Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar

Fall 2020

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Sep 11	Nick Ouellette (Stanford)	Tensor Geometry in the Turbulent Cascade	Jean-Luc
Sep 18	Harry Lee (UW-Madison and UMich)	Recent extension of V.I. Arnold's and J.L. Synge's mathematical theory of shear flows	Wally
Sep 25	Spencer Smith (Mount Holyoke)	Braids on a lattice and maximally efficient mixing in active matter systems	Jean-Luc
Oct 2	Zhizhen Jane Zhao (UIUC)	Exploiting Group and Geometric Structures for Massive Data Analysis	Li & Chen
Oct 9	Matthias Morzfeld (Scripps & UCSD)	What is Bayesian inference, why is it useful in Earth science and why is it challenging to do numerically?	Chen
Oct 16	Jingwei Hu (Purdue)	A new stability and convergence proof of the Fourier-Galerkin spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation	Li
Oct 23	Dan Vimont (UW-Madison, AOS)	Advances in Linear Inverse Modeling for Understanding Tropical Pacific Climate Variability	Stechmann
Oct 30	Sam Punshon-Smith (Brown)	Scalar mixing and the Batchelor spectrum in stochastic fluid mechanics	Li
Nov 6	Yimin Zhong (UCI, Duke)	Quantitative PhotoAcoustic Tomography (PAT) with simplified PN approximation	Li
Nov 13	Markus Deserno (CMU)	Spontaneous curvature, differential stress, and bending modulus of asymmetric lipid membranes	Spagnolie
Nov 20	Evelyn Lunasin (USNA)	TBD	Jean-Luc & Chen
Nov 27	Thangksgiving recess
Dec 4	Michael Chertkov (U. Arizona)	TBD	Zepeda-Nunez