Monday, September 21: Professor Guerino Mazzola
School of Music, University of Minnesota
Shaping musical performance by vector fields

Monday, October 5: Professor Ofer Zeitouni
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Wireless communications and random matrix theory

Monday, October 19: Dr. Mark Taylor
Center for Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics
Sandia National Laboratories
A mimetic spectral finite element method for the Community Climate System Model

Monday, October 26: Professor Volkan Isler
Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Robotic Sensor Networks in Environmental Monitoring Tasks

Monday, November 2: Professor Doug Arnold
Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Finite element exterior calculus: an intersection of numerical analysis with geometry and topology

Monday, November 9: Professor Chad Myers
Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Learning about the cell by breaking it: large-scale analysis of combinatorial perturbations

Monday, November 16: Professor Bojan Guzina
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
Sampling methods for defect reconstruction by mechanical waves

Monday, November 23: Professor Richard McLaughlin
Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Darwin's theorem, Taylor Diffusion, and falling spheres in stratified fluids

Monday, November 30: Professor Andrew Odlyzko
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Babbage, Darwin, and the limits of modeling

Monday, December 7: Dr. Vasileios Maroulas
IMA, University of Minnesota
Multi-object tracking via Bayesian techniques