School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Applied Mathematics Seminar

Spring 2008

  • Location: 570 Vincent Hall
  • Time: Thursday at 11:15 am
  • The asterisk * symbol refers to a seminar held jointly with another group


    Date Speaker and title Notes
    January 24 Professor Ya-xiang Yuan , Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Subspace Methods for Large Scale Nonlinear Equations and Nonlinear Least Squares
    January 31 Professor Zhijun Wu , IMA and Iowa State University, Program on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

    The Solution of the Distance Geometry Problem for Protein Modeling Using Geometric Buildup
    February 21 Dr. Ulrich Hetmaniuk, Sandia National Laboratories
    Eigenspace Computations in Linear Structural Dynamics
    February 28 Professor Andrew Odlyzko, Center for Digital Technology, University of Minnesota
    Cybersecurity, mathematics, and limits on technology
    March 20 Spring Break
    April 24 Professor Peter Kramer, IMA and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Analysis of Physical Fidelity of Stochastic Simulation Method for Microbiological Systems
    May 1 Professor Duane Nykamp , School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    From correlations to networks and back: obtaining insights into neuronal processing
    May 8 Dr. Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino, IMA and EPFL
    DNA looping probabilities: an elastic rod model