Fall 2024
- September 12: Matthias Möller, Opportunities of Quantum Computing for Computational Science and Engineering
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September 19: Eugene Kolomeisky, Coulomb Universe in a Jellium Droplet
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October 10: Sarah Olson, Fluid Flows with Immersed Structures: from micro-swimmers to rigid obstacles
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October 24: Amaury Hayat, How can Machine Learning Help Mathematicians?
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November 7: Thomas Hillen, Non-local Models for Cellular Adhesion
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November 21: Kirsten Morris, Optimal controller and actuator design for partial differential equations
Archived Colloquiums
2024
Spring 2024
- May 2: Michael Fisher, Optimal Constrained Control and Nonlinear Stability Analysis for Complex Systems
- May 16: Arezoo Ardekani, Swimming and settling in density stratified fluids
- June 20: Cecile Devaud, Conditional Moment Closure methods for turbulent flames
Winter 2024
- January 11: Jeff Orchard, Efficient Cognition with Spiking Neurons
- March 7: Kirill Serkh, The Approximation of Singular Functions by Series of Non-integer Power
- March 21: Lorena Bociu, Multiscale Interface Coupling of PDEs and ODEs for Tissue Perfusion
- April 4: Siva Nadarajah, Shock Capturing in Nonlinearly Stable High-Order Methods
2023
Fall 2023
- September 21: Jane Heffernan, Modelling Immunity
- October 19: Roya Mohayaee, Optimal Transport theory and applications to astrophysics
- November 2: Kate Larson, Cooperative AI
- November 23: Robert McCann, Duality and free boundaries for optimal nonlinear pricing
- December 7: Yue Hu, From Robots and humans to Robots with humans: control and interaction
Winter 2023
- January 18: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, Trefftz and quasi-Trefftz methods
2022
Fall 2022
- November 9: David Hu, Ant rafts and maggot flows
2020
Fall 2020
- September 17: Richard Bertram, TBA
Spring 2020
- May 14: Luis Garay, TBA
Winter 2020
- January 30: Achim Kempf, Superoscillations: Faster than Fourier
- February 13: Nilima Nigam, Where should we put the Neumann data?
- March 5: Ann Almgren, Low Mach Number Modeling
- March 12: Marek Stastna, Simulating mode-2 internal waves: how a mathematical oddity went mainstream
- March 12: Heidi Nepf, TBA
2019
Fall 2019
- September 26: Ed Vrscay, The "Waterloo Fractal Analysis and Coding Project”: Generalized fractal transforms, contraction maps and associated inverse problems, and, like some other stuff
- October 24: Kevin Lamb, The Strange World of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean
- November 28: Eduardo Martin-Martinez, Quantum Information and Curved Spacetimes: The adventure of Relativistic Quantum information (RQI)
- December 5: Annick Pouquet, Interactions of eddies and waves in rotating stratified turbulence
Spring 2019
- May 2: Ken Breuer, Aeromechanics of compliant membranes - from Bat flight to flexible wings
Winter 2019
- January 10: Caroline Colijn, Comparing trees and using them for prediction in pathogen sequence data
- March 7: Leslie Smith, Modeling Atmospheric Flows with Phase Changes of Water
- April 4: Bruce Sutherland, Particles in Fluid Flows: Small Things Making a Big Difference
2018
Fall 2018
- November 8: Peter Imkeller, Model selection for paleo-climatic time series: stable and fractional noise
- December 13: Neil Turok, Quantum Universe
Spring 2018
- June 15: Alain Tapp, The deep learning revolution in Artificial Intelligence, what it means and how you can help
Winter 2018
- January 18: Andreas Hilfinger, Stochastic models in cell biology: how they fail and why we need them
2017
Spring 2017
- May 11: Mary-Louise Timmermans, Summer heat overwinters in the Arctic Ocean
- June 16: Terry Lyons, From Hopf Algebras to Machine learning via Rough Paths
2016
Fall 2016
- October 14: Alexander "Sasha" Gutfraind, Math on the frontlines : applications of complex systems methods in conflict research
Spring 2016
- February 4: [Cancelled] Joshua Horwood, Sausages, Pancakes, and Bananas: The Diet of Uncertainty Quantification in Space Surveillanc
- April 7: Katja Fennel, Numerical simulation of hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico and implications for Mississippi River nutrient management
2015
Fall 2015
- October 20: Eduardo Cerpa, Control of some reaction-diffusion equations
- October 29: Vakhtang Putkaradze, Geometric theory of garden hose dynamics
- December 3: Rob Spekkens, Tools for causal inference
Winter 2015
- January 29: James Keener, The dynamics of fibrin gel formation
- February 23: Niky Kamran, Inverse scattering at fixed energy on asymptotically hyperbolic Liouville surfaces
- March 19: Walter Craig, Vortex filament dynamics
- April 30: Scott David Kelly, Geometric Mechanics in Aquatic Locomotion and Particle Manipulation
2014
Fall 2014
- October 2: Paul Chodas, Finding and Tracking Near-Earth Objects, and Maybe Even Capturing One
Winter 2014
- January 23: Robert Finn, Mutual Attractions of Floating Objects: An Idealized Example
- March 13: David Kopriva, Accurate Computation of Wave Scattering in Discontinuous Media with a Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method
- April 22: Lydia Bourouiba, Disease transmission through the lens of fluid fragmentation
2013
Fall 2013
- September 19: Irad Yavneh, A Multilevel Algorithm for L_1 Minimization with Application to Sparse Representation of Signals
Spring 2013
- April 19: Dieter Armbruster, Netball - The Network Structure of NBA Basketball
2012
Fall 2012
- November 1: Susan Allen, A bio-physical coupled model of the upper Strait of Georgia