Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar

The following are previous semesters' seminar schedules.

Fall 2016

Week	Date	Discussion Leader/Speaker	Topic
1	W 9/7	Everyone	Organizational Meeting
2	W 9/14	James Adler	How Not to Give a Talk
3	W 9/21	Everyone	5 Minute Talks
4	W 9/28	Sergey Voronin	Efficient methods for the construction of low rank matrix decompositions and applications to inverse problems and parameter estimation.
5	W 10/5
6	W 10/12
7	W 10/19	Julio Castrillon-Candas	Analytic regularity and collocation approximation for elliptic PDEs with random domain deformations.
8	W 10/26	Hui Yang	Mechanics of high-capacity anode materials in lithium-ion nano-batteries.
9	W 11/2	Jeffrey Guasto	Porous media flows: From swimming cells to complex fluids.
10	W 11/9	Luis Dorfmann	The elastic secrets of the chameleon tongue.
11	W 11/16
12	W 11/23	NO SEMINAR	HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
13	W 11/30
14	W 12/7

Spring 2016

Week	Date	Discussion Leader/Speaker	Topic
1	W 1/27	Everyone	Organizational Meeting
2	W 2/3	James	Tips for Giving Talks
3	W 2/10	Everyone	3 Minute Talks
4	T 2/16	10:30-11:30am Long Chen	Multigrid Methods for Saddle Point Systems of Mixed Finite Element Methods
5	W 2/24	Physics Seminar TBA
6	W 3/2	Peter Love	A Quantum Algorithm for the Moebius Function
7	W 3/9	Saheli Sarkar	Phenotypic analysis of cancer-immune interactions at single cell level.
8	W 3/16	Lake Bookman	Approximate Solitons of the Landau-Lifshitz Equation
9	W 3/23	No Seminar	SPRING BREAK!
10	W 3/30	Grant Garven	Mathematical Models for Deep Fluid Migration in the Earth's Crust
11	W 4/6	Marc Hodes	Effect of Thermocapillary Stress on Slip Length for a Parallel Ridge-Textured Channel
12	W 4/13
13	W 4/20
14	W 4/27	Physics Seminar TBA

Fall 2015

Week	Date	Discussion Leader/Speaker	Topic
1	W 9/9	Everyone	Organizational Meeting
2	W 9/16	None	GSC Event
3	W 9/23	Paul Hand	ShapeFit: Exact location recovery from corrupted pairwise directions.
4	W 9/30	Elizabeth Wu	The Investigation of Differential Operator Based on Fast Fourier Continuation and Sobolev Smoothing.
5	W 10/7	Peter Ohm	Statistical Thermodynamics and Modeling Chemical Activity Coefficients.
6	W 10/14
7	W 10/21	Meghan O'Connell and Jiani Zhang	Practice Talks for SIAM Applied Linear Algebra Conference
8	W 10/28	David Emerson	A Deflation Technique for the Computation of Static Liquid Crystal Configurations.
9	W 11/4	Condensed Matter Seminar	Talk of Interest at 574 Boston Ave. Room 310
10	T 11/10	Charlie Colley	Data Perturbation Technique for Improving Clustering Objective Functions.
11	F 11/20	Howard Elman	Linear Algebra Computations for Parameterized Partial Differential Equations.
12	W 12/2	Melody Takeuchi	Abrupt Transitions from Low to High Firing Frequencies in Neuronal Models.
13	W 12/9	Tim Atherton	Order, Geometry, and Dynamics in Soft Matter.

Spring 2015

Week	Date	Discussion Leader/Speaker	Topic
1	1/21	Everyone	Organizational Meeting
2	1/28	SNOW DAY!!	2 Feet and Counting...
3	2/4	Joanne Lin	A Contagion Model of Emergency Airplane Evacuations
3	2/11	Tom Benson	Introduction to the Cluster
5	2/18	Robert Viesca	Of Faults and Faucets
6	2/25	Tom Vandervelde and Maggie Stevens	Studying Anomalous Open-Circuit Voltage Drop-Out in Concentrated Photovotaics Using Computational Numerical Analysis.
7	3/4	Everyone	Practice Talks for CS&E
8	3/11	Everyone	Practice Talks for CS&E
9	3/25	Arvind Krishna Saibaba	Fast Kalman Filter for Random Walk Forecast Model.
10	4/1	Tania Bakhos	Flexible Krylov Solvers for Shifted Systems with Applications to Solving Large-Scale Inverse Problems.
11	4/8	Xuan Zhao	An Introduction to Fractional PDEs: Applications and Numerics.
12	4/15	Maria Elenius	Carbon Dioxide Mineralization in the Presence of Convective Mixing and the Capillary Transition Zone
13	4/22	Jayanth Jagalur-Mohan	Approximate Optimal Projection for Reduced-Order Models
14	4/29	NONE	No Seminar

Fall 2014

Week	Date	Discussion Leader/Speaker	Topic
1	9/4	Everyone	Organizational Meeting
2	9/11	James Adler	Intro to Finite Elements
3	9/18	David Emerson	Intro to Liquid Crystals
4	9/25	Xiaozhe Hu	Intro to Geometric Multigrid
5	10/2	Bruce Boghosian	Intro to Lattice Boltzman
6	10/9	Ilya Lashuk	Intro to Algebraic Multigrid/Smoothed Aggregation
7	10/16	James Adler	Discussion on Finite Elements for Dissipative Maxwell's Equations
8	10/23	David Emerson	Intro to Trust Region Optimization
9	10/30	Xiaozhe Hu and Tom Benson	MHD Formulations
10	11/6	James, Xiaozhe, and Tom	Solvers for Maxwell's Equations and MHD
11	11/13	Scott MacLachlan	First-Order System Petrov-Galerkin for Singularly Perturbed Problems
12	11/20	Bruce Boghosian	More on Lattice Boltzman for Fluids
13	11/27	No Seminar	Happy Thanksgiving!!!
14	12/4	Dong Han	Intro to Magnetoelasticity