Applied/ACMS

Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar

• When: Fridays at 2:25pm (except as otherwise indicated)
• Where: 901 Van Vleck Hall
• Organizers: Saverio Spagnolie and Jean-Luc Thiffeault
• To join the ACMS mailing list: See mailing list website.

Spring 2015 Semester

date	speaker	title	host(s)
Jan 23	Irene Kyza (U Dundee)	Adaptivity and blowup detection for semilinear evolution convection-diffusion equations based on a posteriori error control	Shi Jin
Jan 30	Daniel Vimont (UW)	Linear Inverse Modeling of Central and East Pacific El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events	Sam, Saverio
Feb 13	Saverio Spagnolie (UW)	Sedimentation in viscous fluids: flexible filaments and boundary effects
Feb 20	Jonathan Freund (U Illinois)	Adjoint-based optimization for understanding and reducing flow noise	Saverio
Feb 27	Markos Katsoulakis (U Mass Amherst)	Information Theory methods for parameter sensitivity and coarse-graining of high-dimensional stochastic dynamics	Shi Jin
Mar 6	Frederic Coquel (Ecole Polytechnique Paris)	Jin and Xin's Relaxation Framework with Defect Measure Corrections	Shi Jin
Mar 13	Lisa Fauci (Tulane)	Flagellar motility: negotiating sticky elastic bonds and viscoelastic networks	Saverio
Mar 20	Paulo Arratia (U Penn)	Pulling & pushing in complex fluids	Saverio
Wed. Mar 25, VV B321	Tao Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences)	The Christoffel function weighted least-squares for stochastic collocation approximations: applications to Uncertainty Quantification	Shi Jin
Apr 3		Spring break
Wed. Apr 8, VV B321	Bin Cheng (University of Surrey)	Error estimates and 2nd order corrections to reduced fluid models	Shi Jin
Apr 10	Murad Banaji (University of Portsmouth)	Nonexpansivity in chemical reaction networks	Craciun
Mon. Apr 13, VV B321	Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Tata Institute Mumbai)	Autocatalysis in reaction networks	Anderson and Craciun
Apr 17	Stephen Wright (UW)	Optimization in learning and data analysis	Saverio
Apr 24	Thomas Powers (Brown)	Fluid mechanics of swimming microorganisms in viscoelastic and anisotropic fluids	Saverio
May 1, 12:05pm	Nick Trefethen (Oxford)	Numerical computing with Chebfun	Steve Wright
May 1	Elaine Spiller (Marquette)	Uncertainty quantification and geophysical hazard mapping	Budisic
May 26, 3:00pm	Sanjeeva Balasuriya (Adelaide)	Controling stable and unstable manifolds in nonautonomous flows	Jean-Luc
May 26, 4:00pm	Rob Sturman (Leeds)	TBA	Jean-Luc

Archived semesters

• Fall 2014
• Spring 2014
• Fall 2013
• Spring 2013
• Fall 2012
• Spring 2012
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2011
• Fall 2010

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