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About Equations with Drift and Diffusion
SpeakerLuis SilvestreUniversity of Chicagohttp://www.math.uchicago.edu/~luis/ Description We will discuss the parabolic equation which consists on the heat equation plus a first order term. This term...
Variational Implicit Solvation of Biomolecules
SpeakerBo LiUCSDhttp://math.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/Bo-Li/ Description The structure and dynamics of biomolecules such as DNA and proteins determine the functions of underlying biological systems...
Sharp Estimates on the Dirichlet Heat Kernels of Subordinate Brownian Motions
Speaker Renming Song University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~rsong/ Description A subordinate Brownian motion can be obtained by replacing the time parameter of a Brownian...
Correlation Pursuit: Forward Stepwise Variable Selection for Index Models
SpeakerMichael ZhuPurdue Universityhttp://www.stat.purdue.edu/~yuzhu/ Description A stepwise procedure, correlation pursuit (COP), is developed for variable selection under the sufficient dimension...
Zero Forcing and Its Applications
SpeakerMichael YoungIowa State Universityhttp://orion.math.iastate.edu/myoung/ Description Zero forcing is a type of propagation on a simple, undirected graph based on the color-change rule: Given...
Investment Performance Evaluation and Prudence: A Unified Approach
Description The prudence of an investment and its return vs. risk are two concepts that are clearly related. However, formal links between the two are hard to find. By adapting a capability measure...
Optimal Derivatives of Noisy Simulations
SpeakerStefan WildArgonne National Laboratoryhttp://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wild/ Description Computational noise in deterministic simulations is as ill-defined a concept as can be found in scientific...