2001-2002
IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar

An IMA/MCIM Joint Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Fridays at 10:10am in 570 Vincent Hall

MCIM students will give talks on their internships and research on the Fridays when there are no outside industrial speakers scheduled. If you would like to sign up to give a talk, or make an appointment to speak with any of the industrial speakers listed below please call 612-625-3377 or e-mail Rhonda.

Spring 2002

• January 25, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Lei X. Wang (Seagate Technology)
  Micromagnetic Modeling of Writing and Reading Processes in Magnetic Recording
  
  
• February 1, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Benoît Couët (Schlumber Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT)
  How Do We Perform Stochastic Reservoir Optimization?
  
  
• February 8, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Cristina U. Thomas (3M Company, St Paul, MN)
  Mathematics and Materials: The Role of Mathematics in a Materials Development Laboratory
  
  
  
• February 22, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Eric van den Berg (Telcordia Technologies, Morristown, NJ)
  
  
  
• March 1, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Jing Wang (MCIM Ph.D. student)
  Design of Progressive Lenses: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods
  
  
  
• March 8, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Michael Weinstein (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ)
  Stopping Light on a Defect
  
  
  
• March 29, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Craig Poling (Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems)
  Mathematical Problems Arising in Multi-Sensor Multi-Platform Precision Registration
  
  
  
• April 12, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Brad Kahlbaugh (Donaldson Company)
  Penalty Function Formulation for Product Design with Mixed Integer Models
  
  
  
• April 19, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Veena B. Mendiratta (Lucent)
  A Simple ATM Backbone Network Reliability Model
  
  
  
• April 26, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Richard Jordan (Dynamics Technology Inc.)
  Infectious Diseases Modeling at Dynamics Technology, Inc.
  
  
  
• May 3, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Grant Erdmann (MCIM Ph.D. Student)
  Minimax Optimization and Omnidirectional Dielectric Mirrors
  
  
  
• May 10, 2002, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Miriam Freedman (MCIM Master's Student)
  Mesoscale Modeling of Polymer Morphology

Fall 2001

• September 21, 2001, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Fan Liu (Honeywell Laboratories)
  Global Positioning System and Its Applications
  
  
  
• September 28, 2001, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Sarah Patch (General Electric Company)
  F. John's Ultrahyperbolic Equation and 3D Computed Tomography
  Sarah Patch works at GE Medical in Milwaukee, WI, and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. She will give a presentation in the IMA Industrial Problems Seminar at 10:10am in Rm 570. She will also give a more informal presentation of some of the mathematical problems that arise in medical imaging at 2:30pm in Rm 570. This is a chance to meet with Dr. Patch to hear first hand about working in industry, and to explore possibilities for internships next summer. Unless you have a class conflict, we expect to see all of you at one or both of these talks.
  
  
• October 12, 2001, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Natasha Kerbel (MCIM Masters Candidate)
  Implementing Value at Risk Using Scenario Simulations
  In recent years, Value at Risk has been considered as one of the important market risk measures by financial institutions and banks. We will talk about commonly used techniques to estimate Value at Risk. In particular, we will discuss Monte-Carlo type simulation and a more advanced technique, Weighted Scenario Simulation. Also we will touch some aspects of active risk anlysis that are closely related to the concept of Value at Risk.
  
  
• October 19, 2001, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Len Borucki (Motorola Digital DNA Lab)
  Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical and Fluid Pressures in Chemical-Mechanical Polishing
  
  
  
• October 26, 2001, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Sanjive Qazi (Parker Hughes Cancer Center)
  Screening for the effect of a potent new anti-HIV compound on HIV infected cells using oligonucleotide arrays to measure gene expression
  
  
• November 2, 2001, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  Radu Victor Balan (Siemens AG)
  A New Class of Speech Signal Stochastic Models and Applications to Blind Source Separation Problems
  
  
• November 16, 2001, 2:30pm, 570 VinH
  Bayram Yenikaya (MCIM Graduate Student)
  Implementation of Level Set Methods and Image Registration
  
  
• November 30, 2001, 3:30pm, 570 VinH
  Carlos Tolmasky (Cargill)
  On the spectral decomposition of empirical correlation matrices related to term structures
  
  
• December 7, 2001, 10:10am, 570 VinH
  David K. Misemer (3M, Software, Electronic and Mechanical Systems Laboratory)
  Finding a Robust Design for Optical Component