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Seminars for the week of February 11, 2008

Colloquium

Thursday, 3:20, in VinH 16

Professor Panos Stinis
of Stanford University
will speak on
"Problem reduction, renomalization and memory"

The purpose of the talk is to give an overview of methods for the reduction of the complexity of computational problems, both time-dependent and stationary. In general, problem reduction leads to memory effects. I will present a brief introduction to renormalizaiton methods and the Mori-Zwanzig formalism and how they can account for the memory effects. Illustrative examples will be provided. If time permits, I will discuss how one can use dimensionally reduced models to perform, more efficiently, tasks like filtering and mesh refinement.

Monday, 11 Feb 2008

Dynamical Systems Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Topology Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Goerss from Northwestern University will speak on "The geometry of the moduli stack of formal groups and chromatic convergence"
Fabes Seminar: at 4:40 in VinH 570
... Will not meet

Tuesday, 12 Feb 2008

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 409
Professor Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino will speak on "Looping probability densities of elastic rods"
Commutative Algebra Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 203A
Dr. Kazuma Shimomoto will speak on "Big Cohen-Macaulay algebras in mixed characteristic"
Jr. Financial Mathematics: at 2:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet
Jr. Colloquium: at 3:20 in VinH 16
Professor Maury Bramson will speak on "Queueing networks and stability"
Combinatorics: at 4:30 in VinH 570
Professor Seth Sullivant from Harvard University will speak on "Secant varieties in algebraic statistics"

Wednesday, 13 Feb 2008

The Mathematics of Climate Change: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Esther Widiasih will speak on "Thermohaline convection with two stable regimes of flow by Henry Stommel"
Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology: at 11:15 in LindH 409
Professor Imre M. Janosi from Eotvos Lorand University will speak on "Why is the mocrotubule lattice helical"
Special Colloquium: at 2:30 in VinH 570
... Has been cancelled
PDE: at 3:30 in VinH 570
Professor Noriko Mizoguchi from Tokyo Gakugei University will speak on "Blowup rate of type II and the braid group theory"
Public Lecture: at 7:00 p.m. in Willey Hall 125
Professor Alfio Quarteroni from Politecnico di Milano will speak on "Mathematical modeling in medicine, sports and the environment"

Thursday, 14 Feb 2008

Applied Mathematics: at 11:15 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Math Club Seminar: at 12:10 in VinH 120
Professor Igor Pak will speak on "Title: to be announced"
Joint Algebraic Geometry/Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology: at 1:25 in VinH 570
Professor Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu from Rutgers University, New Brunswick will speak on "Local Donaldson-Thomas Theory via ADHM sheaves"
Colloquium: at 3:20 in VinH 16
Professor Panos Stinis from Stanford University will speak on "Problem reduction, renormalization and memory"

Friday, 15 Feb 2008

Lie Theory Seminar: at 11:15 in VinH 301
... Will not meet this week
Student Combinatorics: at 12:20 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Algebraic Representation Theory: at 12:20 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Student Automorphic Forms: at 1:25 in VinH 313
... Will not meet this week
Industrial Problems Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 570
Glenn Fung from Siemens Medican Solution will speak on "Learning classifiers for computer aided diagnosis using local correlations"
Special Colloquium: at 2:30 in VinH 313
Professor Emanuel Diaconescu from Rutgers University will speak on "Extremal transitions and localization in Gromov-Witten theory"
Probability Seminar: at 2:30 in VinH 213
Professor Sergey Bobkov will speak on "Weighted Poincare-type inequalities"
Special Combinatorics: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Mourad Ismail from University of Central Florida will speak on "The Ramanujan Entire Function"
Computational Biology Seminar: at 3:35 in EE/CS 3-180
... Will not meet this week
Automorphic Forms and Number Theory: at 3:35 in VinH 364
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Computations with principal series"
Practitioners' Financial Mathematics Seminar: at 5:30 in VinH 570
Rachel Marshak from Credit Suisse will speak on "What a trader looks for in a quant"

Professor Sergei Kuksin, Hariot-Watt University, Edinburgh, will visit the department for one month beginning February 10, 2008. Professor Kuksin's visit is made possible through the Samuel G. Ordway Endowment of the School of Mathematics. During his residence, his office will be Vincent Hall 352; you can reach him by phone, 625-7396

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