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