Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 2006)
Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 2-105.
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in Room 4-174 (Math
Majors Lounge).
For more information, contact
Alan Edelman or Santosh Vempala.
ARCHIVES: Applied Math Colloquia
back to 1995 through coming attractions for next semester
- Fri, Feb 10, 4:30 PM - Room 4-237: Santosh Vempala (MIT) *unusual day and room*
Dispersion of Mass and the Complexity of Randomized Algorithms
- Feb. 13: Rob Freund (MIT)
Projective Pre-Conditioners for Improving
the Behavior of a Linear or Conic Inequality System
- Feb. 17, 4:00 PM - Room 4-237: Ioana Dumitriu (University of California,
Berkeley) *unusual day and room*
Classical Ensembles
of Random Matrices: Gaussian, Wishart, Manova. From
the Threefold Way to a Continuous $\beta$ Future
- Feb. 20: Presidents Day - HOLIDAY
- Feb. 21: Eric Rains (University of California, Davis)
Bounds on self-dual codes and lattices
- Feb. 27: Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University)
Towards Combinatorial Preconditioners for
Finite-Elements Problems
- Mar 6: Eli Upfal (Brown University)
Online Stochastic Optimization
- Mar. 13: Michael Saks (Rutgers University)
Boolean Decision Trees:
Problems and Results, Old and New
- Mar. 20: Joachim Krug (University of Cologne, GERMANY)
Discrete and Continuous
Models of Step Bunching on Vicinal Surfaces
- Mar. 27: Spring Vacation
- Apr. 3: Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton University)
Equation-Free Computation for
Complex/Multiscale Systems
- Apr. 7, 4:00 PM - Room 4-237: Erich Kaltofen (North Carolina State
University)*unusual day and room*
The Art
of Symbolic Computation
- Apr. 10: Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge - U.K.)
Fluid Processes in Volcanology
- Apr. 17: Patriots Day - HOLIDAY
- Apr. 24: Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland)
Critical Thresholds in Eulerian Dynamics
- May 1, 3:00 PM Room 3-343 Michael Overton (New York
University) *new time and location*
Nonsmooth, Nonconvex
Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
- May 8, 2:00 PM Room 2-135 Mitchell Luskin
(University of Minnesota) *new time and location*
Deterministic Methods
for Sampling the Canonical Ensemble
- May 15: Alexander Panfilov (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Vortex Dynamics in
Reaction-diffusion Equations with Applications to Electrophysiology
- May 22:
- May 29: Memorial Day - HOLIDAY
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