AMCS Colloquium 2008-2009

Below are speakers scheduled for 2008-2009. The colloquium meets approximately bi-weekly on Fridays at 2:00PM
often in Room 337 of the Towne building, except as indicated.

Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2008

Colloquium  Schedule  Fall 2006



Date and location

Speaker

Affiliation

Title
Sept. 12, 2008
Introduction of the AMCS students and faculty
Sept. 19, 2008
Igor Rivin
Temple U
Zeolites
Sept. 27, 2008
AMCS Kickoff Symposium
8:00AM-6:00PM
Wu and Chen Auditorium
Levine Hall
Oct. 10, 2008
Michael Robinson
University of Pennsylvania
Frequency assignment in land-mobile radio
Oct. 17, 2008
Mark Dennis
University of Bristol
Topological singularities in optical waves
Oct. 24, 2008 at Drexel, Korman 245 4:00PM
Michael Vogelius
Rutgers U
Cloaking and Near-cloaking of Electromagnetic Waves
Nov. 14, 2008
David Saintillan
UIUC
Dynamics, pattern formation and mixing in active particle suspension
Nov. 21, 2008
Yu Chen
Courant Institute, NYU
A FM Approach to Sensing and Imaging
Dec. 5, 2008
Konstantin Mischaikow
Rutgers U
Databases for Multiparameter Nonlinear Systems

Spring 2009
Student Background Lectures


Jan. 16, 2009
Rob Kusner
U of Mass
Moduli spaces of complex projective structures and constant-mean-curvature surfaces in R3
Jan. 23, 2009
Peter Ralph
Berkeley
Genealogies of Certain Branching Processes
Feb. 6, 2009
Amit Singer
Princeton Univ.
Structure Determination through Eigenvectors of Sparse Operators
Note special date and time
Feb. 10, 2009
this talk will be in DRL 4C8 at 4:30PM
Seth Sullivant
 NC State U
Markov Models for Accumulating Mutations
Feb. 13, 2009
Jianfeng Lu
Princeton Univ.
Mathematical and Algorithmic Issues in Density Functional Theory
Feb. 27, 2009
Fan Chung
UCSD
The Mathematics of PageRank
March 27, 2009
Wu and Chen Auditorium
Levine Hall
Michael Erdmann
CMU
    Strategic Topology
April 17, 2009
Wu and Chen Auditorium
Levine Hall
Richard Sowers
UIUC
    Entropic pricing of investment-grade collateralized debt obligations
May 8, 2009
Wu and Chen Auditorium
Levine Hall
David G. Stork
Ricoh Research & Stanford
Computer Vision in the Study of Art



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