Speaker Jue Yan Iowa State University http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jyan/ Description Discontinuous Galerkin method is a special class of finite element method that use discontinuous piecewise...
SpeakerHemanshu KaulIIThttp://www.math.iit.edu/~kaul/ Description We consider the problem of how to decide which projects to invest in and implement in a transportation network, so as to maximize the...
SpeakerWendy ZhangUniversity of Chicagohttp://jfi.uchicago.edu/~wzhang/ Description Children are taught that liquids are an intermediate state of matter: they flow easily, much as gases do, yet, like...
SpeakerJaydeep BardhanRush Universityhttp://www.bu.edu/pasi/people/jaydeep-bardhan/ Description The electrostatic interactions between biological molecules play important roles determining their...
SpeakerMichael L. SteinUniversity of Chicagohttp://galton.uchicago.edu/faculty/stein.shtml Description When using optimal linear prediction to interpolate point observations of a mean square...
SpeakerJianliang QianMichigan State Universityhttp://www.math.msu.edu/~qian/ Description We introduce a wavepacket-transform-based Gaussian beam method for solving the Schrödinger equation. We focus...
SpeakerLong ChenUniversity of California - Irvinehttp://www.math.uci.edu/~chenlong/ Description Optimal Delaunay triangulations (ODTs) are optimal meshes minimizing the inter- polation error to a...
Description Biological membranes remodel in lipid pore formation, fusion, endocytosis and other processes. Traditionally, continuum membrane mechanics has been used to describe the physics of these...
Speaker Karin Leiderman Duke University http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/karin Description To explore how blood flow affects the growth of thrombi (blood clots) and how the growing masses, in turn...
Speaker Peter Winkler Dartmouth College http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/ Description Statistical physics is the study of global behavior resulting from interaction of many small particles...
