Aug
29
When does the screening effect hold?
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...
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Aug
24
Fast Gaussian Wavepacket Transforms and Gaussian Beams for the Schrodinger Equation
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...
Apr
25
Optimal Delaunay Triangulations
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...
Apr
20
A Continuum Variational Approach to Vesicle Membrane Modeling
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...
Apr
15
A mathematical model of platelet deposition and blood coagulation under flow
Speaker Karin Leiderman Duke University http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/karin Description To explore how blood flow affects the growth of thrombi (blood clots) and how the growing masses, in turn...
Apr
4
Statistical Combinatorics, 2011 Karl Menger Lecture
Speaker Peter Winkler Dartmouth College http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/ Description Statistical physics is the study of global behavior resulting from interaction of many small particles...
Mar
30
The Engineer's Bread and Butter – How Engineers do Math for a Living
Description Product design engineering focuses on the goal of developing a solution of a particular problem, for a particular market, by generating a product. The development process generally starts...
Mar
28
Atomistic and coarse-grained modeling of epitaxial thin film growth and relaxation
Description Thin film deposition provides a pathway to create a variety of functional surface nanostructures. However, once created such nanostructures must be stable in order to be useful. This talk...
Mar
10
The Periodic Ising Model
SpeakerGrethe HystadUniversity of Arizonahttp://math.arizona.edu/people/gretheh Description The Ising model is one of the most studied models of modern physics. Since its introduction in 1925 by E...
Mar
9
Multilinear Algebra and Its Applications
SpeakerLek-heng LimUniversity of Â鶹APPhttp://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~lekheng/ Description In mathematics, the study of multilinear algebra is largely limited to properties of a whole space of tensors...