Applied Mathematics: Seminars
Upcoming CCAM seminars are listed here.
Please also see the Visiting Scientist Seminar Series.
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Professor Jinqiao Duan, Illinois Institute of Technology, REC 308
20080512T184005Z23684@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Geophysical Flows: Stochastic Modeling, Analysis and Computation
Friday, January 18, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ESTComputational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Yang Xiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, REC 308
20080512T184005Z23695@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.A Generalized Peierls-Nabarro Model for Curved Dislocations
Friday, January 25, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ESTPDE Seminar, Professor Aaron Yip, Purdue University, REC 315
20080512T184005Z23722@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Pulsating Wave for Mean Curvature Flow in an Inhomogeneous Medium
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ESTComputational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Dr. T.F. Walsh, Sandia National Laboratories, REC 308
20080512T184005Z23736@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.An Overview of Acoustic and Structural Acoustic Simulations at Sandia National Laboratories
Friday, February 15, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ESTComputational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Professor Claudio Canuto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, REC 308
20080512T184005Z23749@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Topics on Nodal-Based h/N-type Discretizations
Friday, February 22, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ESTPDE Seminar, Professor Rolf Ryham, Rice University, REC 315
20080512T184005Z23762@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public. Analysis in Electrohydrodynamics
Abstract: I will discuss the existence theory for the equations of EHD, a system of nonlocal parabolic equations coupled via transport to the Navier Stokes equations. Solutions enjoy several nice properties, namely they are energetically dissipative and extend to global solutions in low dimensions. Time permitting I will also discuss some results on the asymptotics of stationary solutions using tools from the calculus of variations.
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Professor Zhilin Li, North Carolina State University, UNIV 201
20080512T184005Z23768@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.New Cartesian Grid Methods for Interface Problems Using the Finite Element Formulation
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ESTComputational Finance Seminar, Professor Igor Cialenco, Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, BRNG 1238
20080512T184005Z23788@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Statistical inference for Stochastic PDEs with applications to fixed income marketWe will discuss a parameter estimation problem for a large class of parabolic Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDE) driven by Gaussian noises, and present two types of estimates for the drift coefficient. Given that the solution of the equation exists in an infinite dimensional space, the obtained estimates obey some interesting properties that have no analogues in finite-dimension case. We will also show how this problem can be applied to fixed income market (modeling forward interest rates). Finally, if time permits, we will touch the basis of regularity properties of some parabolic SPDEs, their implication in modeling forward interest rates, and present some exact estimates of the smoothness of the solution in both variables, space and time.
Friday, March 21, 2008, 2:30 - 3:30 PM EDTComputational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Professor Alexander Alekseenko, Cal State University at Northridge, REC 308
20080512T184005Z23789@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Numerical Treatment of Differential Constraints in Evolution Systems
Friday, March 21, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM EDTPDE Seminar, Professor Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University, REC 315
20080512T184005Z23799@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public. Effects of Coating Materials on Superconducting Systems
Abstract: The physics literature has explored over the years the possibility of increasing the critical parameters of a superconductor, such as critical fields and critical currents, by cold working its surface, or by placing it in contact with either a properly chosen semiconductor or with a different superconductor having larger transition temperature. The available studies suggest as well that larger increases are present in mesoscopic or microscopically small samples. similarly, the presence of a coating normal material gives rise to interesting behaviors in the superconductor. In this talk, we will give a review of some results, obtained via the Ginzburg Landau approach, that analytically recover some of these effects.
PDE Seminar, Professor Rolf Ryham, Rice University, REC 315
20080512T184006Z23810@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public. Analysis in Electrohydrodynamics
Abstract: I will discuss the existence theory for the equations of EHD, a system of nonlocal parabolic equations coupled via transport to the Navier Stokes equations. Solutions enjoy several nice properties, namely they are energetically dissipative and extend to global solutions in low dimensions. Time permitting I will also discuss some results on the asymptotics of stationary solutions using tools from the calculus of variations.
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Professor Keith Promislow, Michigan State University, REC 308
20080512T184006Z23814@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Pore Formation in Polymer Electrolytes
Friday, April 4, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM EDTPDE Seminar, Professor Henry Wente, University of Toledo, REC 315
20080512T184006Z23822@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public. Exotic Capillary Tubes
Abstract: Exotic containers are vessels containing fluid which for certain volumes support a continuum of non-congruent equilibria. The construction of such vessels was initiated in the work of R. Gulliver-S. Hildebrandt (1986) and greatly expanded in papers of P. Concus - R. Finn (1989). In this lecture we introduce families of exotic capillary tubes. Such tubes, whose construction is not so difficult, exhibit some very surprising properties. We discuss the construction of these tubes along with their strange behavior.
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Chjan Lim, Mathematical Sciences, RPI, REC 308
20080512T184006Z23825@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Super-rotation and Great Red Spots - Statistical Mechanics Predictions and Simulations
Friday, April 11, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM EDTComputational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Professor Roland Pulch, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, REC 308
20080512T184006Z23837@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Stochastic Models for Analysing the Stability of Oscillators
Friday, April 18, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM EDTComputational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Professor David P. Nicholls, University of Illinois at Chicago, REC 308
20080512T184006Z23848@128.210.3.176 This meeting is public.Spectral Stability of Traveling Water Waves
Friday, April 25, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM EDT