Description Vicinal surfaces consist of terraces separated by atomic steps. During step-flow epitaxial growth, adsorbed atoms (from the vapor or a beam) diffuse on the terraces until they attach to...
Description Due to current data collection technology, our ability to gather data has surpassed our ability to analyze it. In particular, k-means, one of the simplest and fastest clustering algorithms...
Speaker Jue Yan Iowa State University http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jyan/ Description Discontinuous Galerkin method is a special class of finite element method that use discontinuous piecewise...
SpeakerHemanshu KaulIIThttp://www.math.iit.edu/~kaul/ Description We consider the problem of how to decide which projects to invest in and implement in a transportation network, so as to maximize the...
SpeakerWendy ZhangUniversity of Â鶹APPhttp://jfi.uchicago.edu/~wzhang/ Description Children are taught that liquids are an intermediate state of matter: they flow easily, much as gases do, yet, like...
SpeakerJaydeep BardhanRush Universityhttp://www.bu.edu/pasi/people/jaydeep-bardhan/ Description The electrostatic interactions between biological molecules play important roles determining their...
SpeakerMichael L. SteinUniversity of Â鶹APPhttp://galton.uchicago.edu/faculty/stein.shtml Description When using optimal linear prediction to interpolate point observations of a mean square...
SpeakerJianliang QianMichigan State Universityhttp://www.math.msu.edu/~qian/ Description We introduce a wavepacket-transform-based Gaussian beam method for solving the Schrödinger equation. We focus...
SpeakerLong ChenUniversity of California - Irvinehttp://www.math.uci.edu/~chenlong/ Description Optimal Delaunay triangulations (ODTs) are optimal meshes minimizing the inter- polation error to a...
Description Biological membranes remodel in lipid pore formation, fusion, endocytosis and other processes. Traditionally, continuum membrane mechanics has been used to describe the physics of these...
