AMCS Colloquium 2010-2011

Below are speakers scheduled for 2010-2011. The colloquium meets approximately bi-weekly on Fridays at 2:00PM.  
All talks will be in Heilmeier Hall (Towne 100), except as noted.

Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2010

Colloquium  Schedule  Fall 2006
Date and location Speaker Affiliation Title
Sept. 17, 2010
Philip Gressman
U of PA
Global solutions to the Boltzmann Equation without angular cut-offs
Oct. 1, 2010
Gregory Beylkin
University of Colorado at Boulder Nonlinear approximations and some of their applications
Oct. 15, 2010 this talk will be in the Wu and Chen Aud.
Guillaume Bal
Columbia U
    Quantitative reconstructions in hybrid medical imaging modalities
Oct. 29, 2010 Mark Tygert
Courant Institute, NYU
An underutilized statistic: the Euclidean distance instead of chi-squared)
Nov. 3, 2010
All talks in room A6 of the David Rittenhouse Laboratories
Note also special day.
Workshop on Topology: identifying order in complex systems
Topic:    Aharonov-Bohm Radiation
Speaker:    Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University
Time/Room:    1:30pm - 2:30pm
Topic:    Topological Methods for Distributed Coverage Verification in Mobile Sensor Networks
Speaker:    Ali Jadbabaie, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room:    3:00pm - 4:30pm
Topic:    Spaces of Particles, Their Applications and Connections
Speaker:    Frederick Cohen, University of Rochester
Time/Room:    4:30pm - 5:30pm
Nov. 12, 2010 Yury Grabovsky
Temple U
Calculus of variations with phase boundaries
Dec. 3, 2010 Triet Le
Penn
Scales in images and on curves and surfaces
Dec. 10, 2010 Rachel Ward Courant Institute, NYU Fast dimensionality reduction: improved bounds and implications for compressed sensing
Spring 2011
Student Background Lectures

Student speaker
Jan. 21, 2011
Alex Barnett
Dartmouth College
New integral representations for periodic scattering and eigenvalue problems: diffraction gratings and photonic crystals

Feb. 11, 2011
Vladimir Rokhlin
Yale
A Randomized Approximate Nearest Neighbors Algorithm

Feb. 25, 2011 Igor Tsukerman
University of Akron
From Analytical to Numerical Methods and Back: Trefftz Schemes, Whitney Forms, and Metamaterials

March 18, 2011 Yves Capdeboscq
IAS
Imaging of Small Inhomogeneities, Homogenization and Super Resolution

April 8, 2011
in Levine 307
Arjun Raj
Penn
How does DNA know what time it is?  (and some other puzzles in development)

April 15, 2011 Gilbert Strang
MIT
Banded Matrices with Banded Inverses and A = LPU

April 22, 2011 J. Nathan Kutz
U of Washington
Living the low life:  applications of low-dimensional modeling methods



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