Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar

Fall 2014 Semester

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Sept. 12	Agisilaos Athanasoulis (Leicester)	Semiclassical regularisation for ill-posed classical flows: microlocal coarse-graining beyond Wigner measures	Shi Jin
Sept. 19	Dongbin Xiu (Utah)	Uncertainty quantification algorithms for large-scale systems	Shi Jin
Sept. 26	Stanislav Boldyrev (UW)	Recent results on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence	Saverio and David
Oct. 3	Erik Bollt (Clarkson)	Shape coherence and finite-time curvature evolution	Jean-Luc
Wed. Oct. 8	Mohammad Motamed (New Mexico)	Uncertainty quantification for wave propagation problems, analysis and computation	Shi Jin
Oct. 17 (4pm in VV B239)	Roseanna Zia (Cornell)	A micro-mechanical study of coarsening and rheology of colloidal gels: Cage building, cage hopping, and Smoluchowski’s ratchet	Saverio
Oct. 31	Dan Hu (SJTU)	Optimization, adaptation, and initiation of biological transport networks	Shi Jin
Nov. 7	Tim Chumley (Iowa State)	Random billiards and diffusion	Saverio and Phil
Wed. Nov. 12 (in VV B223)	Alina Chertock (NCSU)	Pedestrian flow models with slowdown interactions	Shi Jin
Nov. 14	David Sondak (UW)	Effect of Prandtl number on optimal scaling laws in Rayleigh-Benard convection	Saverio
Nov. 21	Mary Silber (Northwestern)	Spontaneous Pattern Formation in Models of Vegetation in Dryland Ecosystems	Marko
Nov. 28	Thanksgiving recess
Dec. 5	Margaret McFall-Ngai (UW)	TBA	Saverio