Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Fall 2009)

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 4-370. Refreshments will be served in Room 2-290 from 3:30-4:30 PM. For more information, contact Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson and Jonathan Kelner.

Sept. 21: Elchanan Mossel (University of California at Berkeley)
Second Order Interfaces and Manipulation
Sept. 28: Vijay V. Vazirani (Georgia Tech)
Combinatorial Algorithms for Convex Programs (Capturing Market Equilibria and Nash Bargaining Solutions)
October 5: Kai Schneider (Universite de Provence, Marseille, France)
Adaptive Space-time Multiresolution Techniques for Nonlinear PDEs
Joint Seminar with Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Seminar
Oct. 12: Columbus Day - HOLIDAY
Oct. 19: Stephen Boyd (Stanford University)
Convex Optimization of Graph Laplacian Eigenvalues
Oct.26: No Seminar
Nov. 2: Adam Kalai (Microsoft Research)
Learning and Smoothed Analysis
Nov. 9: Alexander Barnett (Dartmouth College)
Robust and efficient computation of two-dimensional photonic crystal band structure using second-kind integral equations
Joint Event with Imaging and Computing Seminar
Nov. 16: Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge)
Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems
Nov. 23: No Seminar
Nov. 30: Michael J. Shelley (The Courant Institute, New York University)
(Cancelled. Rescheduled to the Spring Semester)
Dec. 7: Ran Raz (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Dec. 14: L. N. Trefethen(Oxford University)
Impossibility of approximating analytic functions from equispaced samples