Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Applied Mathematics Colloquium meets on Tuesdays from 2:45-3:45 p.m. in Room 214 Mudd (unless otherwise noted).
Prof. David Keyes, Spring 2008 Coordinator
2/5/08
Cyrill Muratov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Self-induced stochastic resonance:
How new non-random behaviors can arise from the action of noise"
Host: Guillaume Bal
2/11/08
Joint Applied Mathematics / NSF RTG Lecture
Monday, 1:10-2:10 PM, Room 633 Mudd
Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
"Physics, Simulation, and Design"
Host: David Keyes
2/12/08
Special Probability / Applied Mathematics Seminar
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
“Ergodicity, Energy Transfer, and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations”
Host: Michael Weinstein
2/26/08
Greg Stephens, Princeton
"Dimensionality and dynamics in the behavior of C elegans"
Host: Chris Wiggins
3/3/08
1:30 PM, Room 214 Mudd
Abdennebi Omrane, University Antilles-Guyane
"Low-regret control of distributed systems of incomplete data: ill-posed backward heat equation"
Host: Guillaume Bal
3/4/08
Joint Applied Mathematics / Center for Computational Learning Systems Lecture
Room 535 Mudd
Sanjoy Dasgupta, University of California San Diego
"Projection Pursuit, Gaussian Scale Mixtures, and the EM Algorithm"
Host: Chris Wiggins
3/5/08
1:30 PM, Room 214 Mudd
Marco Avellaneda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
"Large Deviations and Monte Carlo Methods for Financial Derivatives"
Host: David Keyes
3/11/08
Daniel Attinger, Mechanical Engineering / Columbia University
"Dynamics of drops and bubbles in micro-geometries"
Host: Michael Weinstein
3/18/08
No Colloquium- spring break
3/25/08
No Colloquium
3/27/08
Special Applied Mathematics Talk
11:00 AM, Sindeband East / 414 CEPSR
Johannes Berg, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Cologne University
"Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of gene expression"
Host: Chris Wiggins
3/28/08
SIAM Lecture
2:30 PM, Room 233 Mudd
William Browning, Applied Mathematics, Inc.
"Some Applications of Mathematics in Industry"
Hosts: Tian Xie and David Keyes
4/1/08
Richard Davis, Statistics / Columbia University
"Spatial Models with Applications in Computer Experiments"
Host: David Keyes
4/8/08
David Madigan, Statistics / Columbia University
"High-Dimensional Bayesian Classifiers"
Host: Chris Wiggins
4/8/08
Joint Applied Mathematics / Mathematics Colloquium
4:30-5:30 PM, Mathematics Building, Room 507
Philip Rosenau, Tel-Aviv University
"My Night Life with Diffusion:
Saturated and other Nonstandard forms of Diffusion"
Host: Michael Weinstein
4/15/08
Esteban Tabak, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
"Diagnosing Through the Joint Gaussianization of Genomic and Clinical Data"
Host: Chris Wiggins
4/22/08
Justin Kinney, Princeton University
"DNA Sequence Analysis In The Large N Limit"
Host: Chris Wiggins
4/29/08
3:00-4:00 PM (Please note: the start time is at 3 PM instead of the usual 2:45 PM)
Boris Altshuler, Physics / Columbia University
"Classical Dynamics of Quantum Condensates"
Host: Michael Weinstein
5/15/08
Joint Applied Mathematics & Mathematics Seminar
Thursday, 4:00-5:00 PM, 214 Mudd
Edriss S. Titi
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute and
Mathematics, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of California, Irvine
"Global Regularity for Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations and
Relevant Geophysical Models"
Host: Michael Weinstein
5/20/08
Joint Applied Mathematics & Statistics Seminar
Tuesday, 2:45-3:45 PM, 214 Mudd
Glenn Shafer
"On-line prediction as a game"
Host: Chris Wiggins