Events Archive

Conservative Discretizations and Long-Term Stability

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerAndy Wan, Postdoctoral FellowDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill Universityhttp://www.math.mcgill.ca/awan/ Description Conservative...

Some Recent Developments on the Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms in Statistical Optimization

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerFrederick K. H. Phoa, Associate Research Fellow / Assistant ProfessorInstitute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica;Institute of Statistics, National...

Mean Field Spin Glasses in 2016

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerAntonio Auffinger, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Mathematics, Northwestern Universityhttp://math.northwestern.edu/~auffing/ Description Spin glasses...

A Multi-Resolution Functional ANOVA Model for Large-Scale and Many-Dimensional Non-Linear Regression

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerBenjamin Haaland, Assistant ProfessorStewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Techhttps://www.isye.gatech.edu/users/benjamin-haaland...

Meshless Finite Difference Methods

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerOleg DavydovDepartment of Mathematics, University of Giessenhttp://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/odavydov Description After a brief discussion of the...

Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Computations for Complex Problems in Engineering

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerGregory WagnerAssociate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Universityhttp://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles...

Fractional Partial Differential Equations: Modeling, Numerical Method, and Analysis

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics Description Fractional partial differential equations (FPDEs) provide an accurate description of transport processes from many applications, which exhibit...

Graduate Student Colloquium

Understanding Umbrella Sampling Approaches to Rare Event Simulation

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerJonathan Weare, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Statistics, James Franck Institute, and the college, The University of Chicagohttp://www.stat.uchicago.edu...

The Grothendieck Constant Is Strictly Smaller Than Krivine's Bound

HostDepartment of Applied Mathematics SpeakerYury MakarychevAssociate Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago / Department of Computer Science, University of Chicagohttp://ttic.uchicago...