Applied Math seminar

Spring 2024

May 14: Marco Morandotti, Variational modeling of disclinations
May 10: Aycil Cesmelioglu, Stokes/Darcy model and related problems

Winter 2024

April 2: Leo Zhou, Quantum Computational Advantages in Energy Minimization
March 26: Yihui Quek, The (Quantum) Signal and the Noise: towards the intermediate term of quantum computation
March 22: Peter Stechlinski, Analyzing Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems using Generalized Derivatives
February 21: Mohamed Hibat Allah, Language models for many-body physics
February 16: Xiaoting Yang, Three-dimensional structure of mid-depth Meridional Overturning Circulation: a study on the dynamics and paths of the Ocean Deep Eastern Boundary Currents
February 14: Di Luo, Machine Learning meets Quantum Many-body Physics
February 8: Amir Atoufi, Topographically driven stratified turbulent mixing
February 7: Giovanni Rastelli, From classical to quantum: integrability and superintegrability between classical and quantum mechanics
February 6: Jiarong Wu, Ocean surface wave dynamics with high-fidelity numerical simulations
February 1: Daniel Messenger, Weak-form equation learning with applications to cell migration and general multiscale phenomena
January 31: Annabelle Bohrdt, Machine learning methods for quantum many-body systems
January 26: Ali Kara, Reinforcement Learning in Non-Markovian Environments under General Information Structures
January 25: Peter Yichen Chen, Neural PDE: Towards AI-enhanced Physics Simulation
January 23: Barbara Zemskova, Bridging the gaps in ocean modeling
January 19: Madeleine Youngs, The Southern Ocean Circulation and Climate: The Localizing Effect of Topography
January 18: Kirill Neklyudov, Applications of Deep Learning and Otto Calculus in Natural Sciences

Fall 2023

November 7: Melusi Khumalo, Iterated Function System of Generalized Cyclic Contractions in Partial Metric Spaces

Spring 2023

August 18: Anmar Khadra, Characterizing anatomical and electrical properties of axonal fibers in gene edited mice using computational approaches
August 8: Bryan Quaife, Transport in Viscous Eroded Media

Winter 2023

February 16: Marius Yamakou, A simple parameter can switch between different weak-noise–induced phenomena in neurons
February 9: Wilten Nicola, Mesoscale Imaging Reveals the Markovian Dynamics of the Brain

Fall 2022

December 8: Sookkyung Lim, Mathematical modeling reveals mysteries of bacterial swimming

Spring 2022

July 28: Magdalena Boureanu, Anisotropic systems with variable exponents
May 31: Natalia Komarova, Mathematical methods in evolutionary dynamics
May 5: Edgar Solomonik, Tensor Methods for Quantum Systems and Beyond
May 2: Graeme Smith, The theory of quantum information: Channels, Capacities, and all that

Fall 2021

September 23: Han Wang, Disentangling balanced and unbalanced flows under weak nonlinearity via a Helmholtz decomposition-based approach

Winter 2021

February 11: Eric Bembenek, Effects of Precipitation in Idealized Models of the Atmosphere
February 4: David Del Rey Fernandez, Mathematically rigorous discretizations for high-performance computing
February 4: William Gilpin, Inferring chaos and emergent low-dimensionality in living dynamical systems
February 2: Yuan Gao, From rare events to almost sure events: optimally controlled random walk on point clouds
January 27: Bamdad Hosseini, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning
January 26: Yunan Yang, Optimal Transport for Inverse Problems and the Implicit Regularization

Winter 2020

March 26: Olga Trichtchenko, TBA
February 11: Robert Hester, Mathematical Modeling of Integrative Human Physiology for Medical Device Development
February 4: Roberto Guglielmi, Control and stabilization of evolution models
January 23: Peng Luo, An FBSDE approach to market impact games with stochastic parameters
January 21: Ruimeng Hu, Deep fictitious play for stochastic differential games
January 16: Matthias Voigt, Mathematical Modeling of the Immune-Mediated Theory of Metastasis
January 14: Dena Firoozi, Electronic Markets and Mean Field Games

Fall 2019

December 6: Thomas Hillen, Mathematical Modeling of the Immune-Mediated Theory of Metastasis
December 5: Mireille E. Broucke, A Control-Theoretic Model of the Oculmotor System and the Cerebellum
November 14: Christopher Bergevin, Overtone focusing in biphonic Tuvan throat singing
September 16: Jemma Shipton, Compatible finite element methods and parallel-in-time schemes for numerical weather prediction
September 10: Bahman Gharesifard, Fundamental Limits in Control and Optimization of Networked Systems

Spring 2019

August 22: Peter Kloeden, Random ordinary differential equations and their numerical approximation
August 20: Andersen (Man Shun) Ang, Non-negative Matrix Factorization: Applications, Theory and Computations
August 6: Roya Zandi, Physics and mathematics of virus assembly
July 29: George Hanson, Gyrotropic Graphene and Substrate Models, and Faraday Rotation with Nonreciprocal Quasi-Two-Dimensional Structures
July 18: Nicolas Perkowski, Pathway Analysis of Stochastic PDEs
July 17: Jean Auriol, Operating methods for the robust control of hyperbolic systems and application to directional drilling
May 23: Ben Southworth, On Nonsymmetric Algebraic Multigrid Solvers and Hyperbolic PDEs
May 23: Peter J. Diamessis, Self-sustained instability, transition and turbulence in the separating boundary layer under an internal solitary wave of depression
May 15: Matthew Wade, Metabolic pathway switching in anaerobic microbial communities – modelling approaches

Winter 2019

April 25: Roman Smirnov, In search of a new economic model determined by logistic growth
March 28: Martin Lysy, Stochastic Modeling of Observables in Nanoscopic Systems
March 26: Serghei Bocaniov, Process-based modeling as a powerful tool for improving scientific knowledge and making better informed management decisions
February 28: Hermann Eberl, Spatially implicit and spatially explicit models of bacterial cellulose degradation
February 7: Giovanni Rastelli, Twisted products of Hamiltonians: from complete separation to block-separation

Fall 2018

December 6: Krishan Rajaratnam, Vortex lattice solutions of the ZHK Chern-Simons equations
December 5: Roger Sidje, An adaptive Magnus expansion method for solving the chemical master equation with time-dependent rates
November 22: Colin Denniston, Modelling Moving Objects in a Complex Fluid
November 15: Mansoor Haider, Mathematical models for extracellular matrix regeneration and remodeling in biological soft tissues
October 22: Yuan-Nan Young, Fluid-structure interactions: from fluid mechanics to mathematical biology
September 20: Adam Stinchcombe, The Population Density Particle Method to Simulate Oscillator Populations
September 13: Sina Khani, Subgrid-scale mesoscale eddies in a hierarchy of models for ocean simulations

Spring 2018

June 14: Todd Parsons, The Population Genetics of Pathogen Virulence
May 22: Sidhartha Goyal, How adaptive immunity constrains composition and fate of large bacterial populations
May 15: Tao Dong, Microbial warfare mediated by the type VI protein secretion system
May 14: Marco Morandotti, Structured deformations of continua: theory and applications
April 17: Silong Zong, An Electro-Neutral Model for ion transport

Winter 2018

March 1: Xueying Wang, Impact of bacterial hyperinfectivity on cholera epidemics in spatially heterogeneous environments
February 8: Christine Dow, Numerical modeling approaches for examining water flow under ice sheets
January 11: Hwayeon Ryu, Geometric Analysis of Synchronization in Neuronal Networks with Global Inhibition and Coupling Delays

Fall 2017

December 19: Lindi Wahl, Modelling provirus, the reservoir of viral genes in our DNA
December 8: Wenying Feng, Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems in Ordered Banach Spaces
November 30: Serhiy Yarusevych, Stability, transition, and response to controlled perturbations in separating-reattaching shear flows
November 9: Yang Cao, Hybrid stochastic modeling of the budding yeast cell cycle control mechanism
September 29: Xiao-Chuan Cai, A Parallel Domain Decomposition Method for Computational Biomechanics
September 20: Alexei Rybkin, The Korteweg-de Vries equation and Hankel operators
September 14: Sohrab Rahvar, Exoplanets and habitable world

Spring 2017

August 2: Neil Magoski, Control of synchronous bursting in neuroendocrine cells by a cationic conductance and electrical synapses
August 3: Robert Butera, Slow noise — evidence for a new role for noise in neural systems?
August 8: Duncan Mowbray, Using Neural Networks for Approximating Functionals: Applications in the Computational Materials Science
August 10: Albert C.J. Luo, Analytical Periodic Motions to Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Winter 2017

April 3: Anita T. Layton, Understanding Kidney Physiology: A Modeling Approach
March 2: Navaratnam Sri Namachchivaya, Random and Data Driven Dynamical Systems
February 1: Zahra Aminzare, Gait transitions in a phase oscillator model of an insect central pattern generator
January 31: Giovanni Rastelli, Superintegrability and Quantization
January 31: Michael Vynnycky, PAT-oriented asymptotic modelling for pharmaceutical freeze-drying
January 30: C. Nadir Kaplan, Rational design of self-organization in chemical precipitation
January 27: Giang Tran, Sparsity-Inducing Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations
January 25: Davit Harutyunyan, From buckling to rigidity of shells: Recent mathematical progress
January 19: Yoonsang Lee, Multiscale methods for filtering turbulent systems
January 17: Henry Shum, Harnessing Chemical Reactions for Novel Functionality in Microfluidic Systems
January 16: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, Variable coefficients and numerical methods for electromagnetic waves
January 5: Chunming Wang, New Mathematical Approaches for Space Weather Forecast

Fall 2016

December 1: Noah Cowan, Stabilizing the Unstable Brain

Spring 2016

August 9: Guang Zhang, Existence of positive solutions for a class of nonlinear algebraic systems
July 28: Duncan J. Mowbray, The Role of Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation in Nanotechnology
June 3: Stephanie Waterman, A geometric decomposition of eddy-mean flow interactions
May 26: Mahi R. Singh, Switching and sensing mechanism in graphene nanocomposites
May 3: Morris Flynn, Gravity current flow in density-stratified media and porous media filling box flow: towards improved models of environmental transport

Winter 2016

March 31: Manuele Santoprete, Canonoid and Poissonoid Transformations, Symmetries and bi-Hamiltonian structures
February 10: Yongmin Cho, Abelian Decomposition of Einstein’s Theory
February 2: J.C.B. da Silva, Internal waves on the upstream side of a large sill of the Mascarene Ridge (Indian Ocean): a comprehensive view of their generation mechanisms and evolution
January 27: Eduardo Martin-Martinez, What happens when we combine Relativity, Quantum Theory and Information Theory? From Cosmology to the Quantum Seismograph
January 21: Jun Lai, Fast algorithm for electromagnetic cavity problem
January 7: Karen Smith, Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in an idealized atmospheric model

Fall 2015

November 24: Pei Yu, Modelling and Dynamical Analysis of Recurrent Infections
November 19: Gustaaf Jacobs, Lagrangian Coherent Structures and DNS with Discontinuous Galerkin methods
November 12: Fredric Laliberte, A moist atmospheric heat engine perspective on the thermodynamics of climate change
October 8: Mercedes Perez Millan, Steady States of MESSI biological systems

Spring 2015

August 28: Vitali Vougalter, Existence of stationary solutions for some integro-differential equations with anomalous diffusion
August 13: Davide La Torre, Inverse Problems for Differential Equations via the "Collage Theorem”: Recent Results and Future Directions
July 9: Dominique Brunet, Image processing in metric spaces with applications to weather forecasting
June 10: Guanrong (Ron) Chen, Searching for Undirected Networks with Best Synchronizability

Winter 2015

April 2: Boumediene Hamzi, Embedology for Control and Random Dynamical Systems in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
April 2: Maciej Floryan, Certain aspects of flows over rough surfaces
March 17: Manfredi Maggiore, An Introduction to Virtual Holonomic Constraints
March 10: Nicolas Grisouard, Damping of Geostrophic Motions by Oceanic Internal Waves, Critically Reflecting off the Sea Surface
February 25: Jody Klymak , Parameterizing turbulence in low Froude number stratified turbulent flowsExport this event to calendar
February 12: Khai T. Nguyen, Conservation laws and some applications to traffic flows
January 28: Yannick Sire, Some problems involving anomalous diffusion
January 26: Camelia Pop, Harnack Inequalities for degenerate diffusions
January 23: Peter Ruoff, Reaction kinetics leading to integral control and robust homeostasis
January 22: Jun Liu, Correct-by-Design Control Synthesis: A Temporal Logic Game Approach
January 19: Daniel Onofrei, Active control of electromagnetic fields

Fall 2014

December 5: Gualtiero Badin, On the representation of submesoscale dynamics
October 30: Alexander Gurevich, Mathematical Model of Space-Time Development of Turbulent Structures, in Application to Flow Measurement
October 16: Issa Karambal, Evans function and Fredholm determinants
October 9: Edgardo Cheb-Terrab, Computer Algebra for Theoretical Physics
September 25: Ryan Mulligan, Coastal responses to hurricane forcing from beaches to estuaries
September 19: Majid Jaberi-Douraki, Predictive models of autoimmune progression: Unraveling the contribution of pancreatic beta-cell suicide/homicide in type 1 diabetes
September 25: Jennifer Mecking, Is it possible for the Gulf Stream to Shutdown?

Winter 2014

April 29: Klemens Fellner, Entropy- and Duality Methods for Reaction-Diffusion Systems
April 3: Ian M. Mitchell,The Monotone Acceptance Ordered Upwind Method (A Causal Algorithm for Minimum Time / Cost Optimal Control) and some Lessons in (Ir) Reproducible Research in Computational Math
March 20: Anna-Karin Tornberg, Accelerated boundary integral simulations of particulate and two-phase flows
March 4 : Sander Rhebergen, Computational tools for coupled magma/mantle dynamics
February 27: Ray McLenaghan, Huygens' principle and Hadamard's problem of diffusion of waves
February 27: David Shirokoff, High order penalty methods: a Fourier approach to solving PDE's on domains with curved boundaries
February 6: Dong Eui Chang, On the Damping-Induced Self-Recovery Phenomenon in Mechanical Systems

January 30: Giovanni Rastelli, Extensions of natural Hamiltonians
January 27: Yau Shu Wong, Efficient and Accurate Numerical Solutions for Helmholtz Equation at Large Wave Numbers

Spring 2013

June 27: Leo Maas, Waves and Wave Attractors in Geophysical Flows

Winter 2013

Mar 6: Mehran Ebrahimi, Inverse Problems in Imaging and Applications in Medicine
Feb. 14: PhD Seminar (Lecturing Requirement) | Minghua Lin, Matrix Inequalities III: Fischer Determinantal Inequality and Accretive-Dissipative Matrices
Feb. 7: PhD Seminar (Lecturing Requirement) | Minghua Lin, Matrix Inequalities II: Techniques and Standard Results (second part)
Feb. 5: PhD Seminar (Lecturing Requirement) | Minghua Lin, Matrix Inequalities I: Techniques and Standard Results (first part)

Fall 2012

Oct. 4: Duncan J. Mowbray, Theoretical spectroscopy of graphene and carbon nanotubes