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...
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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
11
Hard-Constraint Spin Systems: Some Results and Questions
Speaker David Galvin University of Notre Dame http://math.nd.edu/people/faculty/david-galvin/ Description In last week's Menger Lecture, Peter Winkler discussed the use of combinatorial methods in...
Apr
11
MINRES-QLP and its Application to Radial Basis Function Interpolation
Description CG, SYMMLQ, and MINRES are Krylov subspace methods for solving symmetric systems of linear equations. When these methods are applied to an incompatible system (that is, a singular...
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
31
Graph Packing and Degree Sequences
Description Two graphs G and H are said to pack if there exists a simple graph that contains edge-disjoint copies of G and H. Two families of graphs F and F' are said to pack if there exist graphs G...
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
28
Lan Jiang
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics