Applied Math seminar

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