PhD comprehensive seminars

Spring 2024

• August 28: Esteban Henriquez, A Robust Preconditioning Strategy for the Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method
• July 16: Juju (Thanin) Quartz, Continuous Action Space Reinforcement Learning for Control Problems with Theoretical Guarantees
• July 16: Sukanya Ghosal, Novel Quantum Capacity Superadditivity with Platypus Channels and its Extensions

Winter 2024

• March 8: Dorsa Sadat Hosseini KHajouei, Connection between binary black hole mergers (BBHs) and the astrophysical properties of their host galaxies

• March 6: Ziyi Cai, Fast-Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries: Optimization with SPMeT and a Reinforcement Learning Approach

Fall 2023

• December 18: Eric Culf, Connections between Entanglement and Complexity
• November 22: Zoya Abbasi, Multi-Agent Epidemiological Modeling
• September 14: Guilherme Macieira De Araujo, Parallel-in-time methods for speeding up optimization algorithms 

Spring 2023

• August 29: Christopher Pollack, Extending Noether’s Theorem to Symmetries of Euler-Lagrange Equations of Motion Using the Covariant Phase Space Method: Applications to Poisson-Lie Groups and Integrable Systems
• August 22: Maria Rosa Preciado Rivas, Quantum detectors freely falling into black holes
• August 8: Hassaan Qazi, Applications of Control Methods to Life Sciences
• July 19: Yun Su, Deep neural network for solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
• July 10: Marty Mukherjee, Methods and applications of reinforcement learning with partial differential equations

Winter 2023

• March 3: Melissa Stadt, Mathematical modelling of calcium homeostasis: Impact of sex, pregnancy, and lactation
• February 3: Nico Castro-Folker, Three-Dimensional Simulations of Gravity Currents Undergoing a Lobe-Cleft Instability in Cold Fresh Water

Fall 2022

• December 14: Yazdan Babazadeh Maghsoodlo, The effect of different types of noise on early warning signals of tipping points in climate systems
• December 14: Jesse Legaspi, Exploration of the full nonlinear wave/potential-vortex mode decomposition of stratified turbulence DN
• December 6: Sefah Frimpong, Bayesian Parameterization of coupled behaviour-disease models
• November 30: Yingqi Li, Impulsive Switched Neutral Systems with Time Delay
• November 23: Mahdi Yavarian, Modeling of Charging Dynamics in Electrochemical Systems with a Graphene Electrode
• November 15: Brayden Hull, Investigations into Higher Curvature Gravity Theories
• November 4: Zhibing Sun, Verification of Stochastic Systems
• October 27: Adam Teixido-Bonfill, Connecting Quantum Fields to Thermodynamics and Experiments
• October 5: Phuong Dong Le, Neural Network Architecture to Solve the Partial Differential Equations

Spring 2022

• July 22: Yating Yuan, Planning and Control as Probabilistic Inference on Factor Graphs
• July 19: Brittany Howell, The physiological origin of the antagonism between DNA-synthesis- and protein-synthesis-targeting antibiotics
• June 20: Yanming Kang, Multi-level Transformer

Winter 2022

• April 28: Athira Satheesh Kumar, Rumor Propagation and Climate Change: A Mathematical Model
• April 21: Ruikun Zhou, Learning-based Lyapunov Control of Unknown Nonlinear Systems with Stability Guarantees
• January 21: Jose Polo Gomez, AQFT meets RQI: from foundations of quantum field theory to thermodynamics and machine learning

Winter 2020 

•  March 2: Aditya Jain, Optimal control and compiling of quantum circuits

Fall 2019 

• November 19:  Maxwell Fitzsimmons, Theory of Computation for Analysis and Control of Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems
• September 23: Andrew Grace, Numerical modeling of wintertime dynamics in a small lake

Spring 2019 

• August 16: Krishna Dutt, Limiting on Triangular Meshes for Discontinuous Galerkin Method
• August 12: Maria Chugunova, Synchronized secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) by GnRH neurons.
• August 8: Vahid Nourian, Modeling of monotrichous and peritrichous bacterial locomotion in a viscous fluid
• July 10: Peter Tsimiklis, Discretization of 3+1D BF Theory Featuring Edgemodes
• July 10: Qiaoyin Pan, Holographic Duality for Canonical Quantum Gravity

Winter 2019

• April 8: Alison Cheeseman, Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) for Digital Histopathology

Fall 2018

• November 30: Nadine Stritzelberger, Explorations in Quantum Theory, General Relativity and Cosmology
• October 17: Brydon Eastman, Machine Learning in Cellular Automata Models of Invasive Solid Tumours
• September 21: Keenan Lyon, Theoretical and Computational Approaches for Determining the Electronic Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials

Spring 2018

• August 31: Hyungjin Kim, Mysteries in Cosmology: Dark Energy and the Beginning of the Universe
• August 17: Julien Smith-Roberge, Modelling Cellular Systems: Individual-Based Approaches
• August 14: Mana Donganont, Consensus Problems in Multi-agent Systems
• August 10: Naser Alqutaifi, Network-based models of transmission of infectious diseases
• July 19: Jose de Ramon Rivera, Particle detectors for probing of relativistic quantum theories
• July 17: Richard Lopp, Light-matter interactions without breaking Lorentz covariance
• April 20: Keegan Kirk (PhD Transfer Exam), Analysis of a Space-time Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Advection-Diffusion Problems on Evolving Domains

Winter 2018

• April 2: Sumit Sijher, Measurement Benchmarking for Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance
• March 27: Chuanzheng Wang, Motion Planning Under Uncertainty 
• January 15: Guillaume Verdon-Akzam, Near-Term Quantum Algorithms for Simulation and Machine Learning
• January 11: Nathan Braniff, Characterization of Biological Systems using Time-Varying Optogenetic Stimuli

Fall 2017

• December 11: Supranta Sarma Boruah (PhD Transfer Exam), Topics in early and late time cosmology
• December 11: Peter Jentsch (PhD Transfer Exam), Multiple Disturbances in Forest Ecosystems: A Dynamical Model of  

  Forest Pests and Wildfire

• November 29: Nicholas Funai, Light matter interaction and their consequences in relativistic theory
• November 28: Aaron Coutino, Stability of the Yucatan aquifer and modeling variability in sediment paleo-records
• October 26: Milad Farsi, Switching Optimal Control with an Application in Maximum Power Point Tracking of Photovoltaic Systems
• October 5: Hanzhe Chen, Problems in Capillarity
• September 25: Giselle Sosa Jones, Space-Time Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Free Surface Flow Problems
• September 21: Abdullah Ali Sivas, Efficient Preconditioning of Hybridizable/Embedded Discontinuous Galerkin for the Navier-Stokes Equations

Spring 2017

• July 13: Justin Shaw (PhD Comprehensive Seminar), A Simple Example of Dimension Reduction

Winter 2017

• April 26: HyungJin Kim (PhD Transfer Exam), Cuscuton Gravity, Pulsar Timing, and Super Excited Modified Dispersion Relation
• January 17: Yinan Li, Control Synthesis for Dynamical Systems with Linear-Time Specifications

Fall 2016

• December 6: Brendon Phillips (PhD Transfer Exam), Signals of Critical Transitions in Coupled Belief-Behaviour Systems
• November 1: Yuen Shen (PhD Transfer Exam), Impulsive synchronization of general complex dynamical networks
• October 21: Mohammad Sajjad Edalatzadeh, Optimal Sensor Location for Semi-linear Flexible Structures
• October 12: Abdulmajid Osumanu, Time Gauge Fixing in 3d Loop Quantum Gravity
• September 27 : Matthew Harris, Instabilities of fronts
• September 7: Kevin Church, Bifurcations in impulsive systems

Spring 2016

• August 11: Tom Bury, Critical Transitions and Endogenisation in Coupled Behaviour-Disease Systems
• August 11: Jason Pye, Covariant Minimum Length in Quantum Field Theory
• July 8: Kamran Akbari, Radiation from nanostructures induced by moving charged particles

Winter 2016

• April 14: Yangxin He, Internal waves on the continental shelf: interactions with along shelf currents and shoaling solitary waves
• April 7: Leon Avery (PhD Transfer Exam), Models of social behavior in C. elegans larvae
• March 24: Janelle Resch, A Three-Dimensional Study of Nonlinear Acoustic Models
• January 20: Daniel Puzzuoli, Ancilla dimension for optimal channel discrimination
• January 11: Lindsey Daniels (PhD Transfer Exam), Modeling the Interaction of Graphene with a Liquid Electrolyte

Fall 2015

• December 16: Yangxin He, The interaction of tidally generated internal waves with an along-shelf current
• December 9: Kathryn Fair (PhD Transfer Exam), Complexity in Human-Environment Systems: Understanding and Responding to Shocks
• December 9 : Yangang Chen, Numerical solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with applications
• December 7: Chengzhu Xu, Wave-Mean Flow Interaction
• November 23: Moriah Magcalas (PhD Transfer Exam), Mathematical and experimental studies of tumour heterogeneity and plasticity
• November 6: Lorena Cid-Montiel, Higher dimensional slow manifolds in chemical reaction networks
• November 4: Ian Hincks, Practical and Robust Quantum Control

Spring 2015

• September 11: Julian Rennert, The cosmological constant in 3d Loop Quantum Gravity
• August 10: Joe Pharaon, Anticipating critical transitions in coupled human-environment systems
• June 9: Arnaud Carignan-Dugas (PhD Transfer exam), Investigating and Benchmarking Quantum Noise Channels

Winter 2015

• March 10: Humeyra Kiyak, Dynamics of Singular Systems

Fall 2014

• December 12: Andrew Giuliani (PhD Transfer exam), Efficient adaptive mesh algorithms for the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws on graphics processing units (GPUs)
• December 11: Ben Storer (PhD Transfer exam), Eigen-analysis of Rotating Shallow Water Systems
• December 4: Alex Howse, Iterative and Multilevel Optimization Methods: the Tucker Tensor Decomposition Problem and Beyond
• December 3: Vivek Thampi, Utilizing A Coupled-Human Environment System To Model The Loss of Resilience in the Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem
• December 1: Farinaz Forouzannia, Mathematical modeling of second cancer risks arising from low dose radiation

Spring 2014

• August 5: Mikhail Panine, Inverse Spectral Geometry
• July 28: Ali Madipour Shirayeh, Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancers
• July 14: Monjur Morshed, Sensitivity analysis for stochastic models of biochemical reaction networks

Winter 2014

• April 23: Tung Hoang, Post-processing and superconvergence for discontinuous Galerkin solutions
• April 8: Cong Wu, Model-based Fault Estimation
• February 4: Keegan Keplinger, Modeling the switching dynamics of Aplysia bag cell neurons

Fall 2013

• November 22: Tahmina Akhter, Pharmacokinetics; Processes and Mathematical Models
• November 22: Giuseppe Sellaroli
• November 27: Zhen Wang, Clustering Behavior in Neural Network with Time-Delay
• November 28: David Deepwell (PhD Transfer Exam), Generation and evolution of mode-2 internal waves in conjunction with mass transport
• November 28: Kexue Zhang, Impulsive Control of Discrete Complex Dynamical Networks with Time-Delay
• November 29: Jonathan Murley, Modeling Therapeutic Ultrasound

Spring 2013

• June 27: John Yawny, Numerical Methods to Simulate a Hierarchy of Ocean Models

Fall 2012

• December 17: Manda Winlaw, Graph Generation via Multilevel Clustering and Preconditioning for Nonlinear Optimization Methods

• December 11: John Lang, Information Flow and Decision Making Over Social Networks

• September 25: Minghua Lin, Angles, Majorization, Wielandt Inequality and Applications