Description Product design engineering focuses on the goal of developing a solution of a particular problem, for a particular market, by generating a product. The development process generally starts...
Description Thin film deposition provides a pathway to create a variety of functional surface nanostructures. However, once created such nanostructures must be stable in order to be useful. This talk...
SpeakerGrethe HystadUniversity of Arizonahttp://math.arizona.edu/people/gretheh Description The Ising model is one of the most studied models of modern physics. Since its introduction in 1925 by E...
SpeakerLek-heng LimUniversity of Chicagohttp://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~lekheng/ Description In mathematics, the study of multilinear algebra is largely limited to properties of a whole space of tensors...
Description Based on the work of John H. Conway “On Numbers and Games”. The talk discusses the methods of Dedekind and Khinchin constructing the real numbers. Both assume the existence of some other...
SpeakerDan ApleyNorthwestern Universityhttp://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~apley/ Description Kriging has emerged as the method of choice for metamodeling engineering response surfaces generated via...
Description In topology (an area of mathematics which can be viewed as an abstraction of geometry) one doesn't distinguish between spaces which can be continuously deformed into each other...
Description In the early to mid 1980's a notation for describing both simple and complex juggling patterns was invented and is now known as "site swap" notation. This notation, which was developed by...
Speaker Robert Krawcyk IIT Architecture Description The structures in nature are great lessons for human study. Having been in development for several billion years, only the most successful...
SpeakerRobert EisenbergRush Universityhttp://www.phys.rush.edu/RSEisenberg/physioeis.html Description An important class of biological molecules—proteins called ionic channels—conduct ions (like Na+...
