Applied Math Colloquium

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

Winter 2023 

• January 18: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, Trefftz and quasi-Trefftz methods

Fall 2022

• November 9: David Hu, Ant rafts and maggot flows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fall 2012 

• November 1: Susan Allen, A bio-physical coupled model of the upper Strait of Georgia