Fall 2014
Colloquia are held on Fridays at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II, unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are served at 11:30 am. For questions about the seminar schedule, please contact Yassine Boubendir.
Schedule
| Date | Speaker and Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| September 5 | Kate Stebe, University of Pennsylvania Energy Stored in Deformation Fields: Opportunities for Directed Assembly in Soft Matter |
Linda Cummings |
| September 12 | Paul A. Martin, Colorado School of Mines Acoustic and Electric Faraday Cages |
Michael Siegel |
| September 19 | Fioralba Cakoni, University of Delaware A Qualitative Approach to Inverse Scattering for Inhomogeneous Media: The Transmission Eigenvalue Problem |
Yassine Boubendir |
| September 26 | Li-Shi Luo, Old Dominion University Kinetic Methods for CFD |
Shidong Jiang |
| October 3 | Jianliang Qian, Michigan State University Fast Huygens Sweeping Methods for Helmholtz Equations in Inhomogeneous Media in the High Frequency Regime |
Peter Petropoulos |
| October 10 | Yuriko Renardy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University A Viscoelastic Constitutive Model That Predicts Thixotropic Yield Stress Behavior for Large Relaxation Time |
Shahriar Afkhami |
| October 17 | John Wettlaufer, Yale University and the University of Oxford Sea Ice and Climate: A Model System in Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamics |
Yuan-Nan Young |
| October 24 | Arthur Sherman, National Institutes of Health Modeling the Causes and Cures of Diabetes |
Victor Matveev |
| October 31 | Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University Variational Methods for Crystal Surface Instability |
Yassine Boubendir |
| November 7 | Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota Multilevel Low-Rank Approximation Preconditioners |
Catalin Turc |
| November 14 | Peter Howell, University of Oxford Deterministic and Stochastic Modelling of Lithiation/Delithiation in a Lithium-ion Battery Electrode |
Linda Cummings |
| November 21 | Margaret Beck, Boston University Nonlinear Stability of Coherent Structures via Pointwise Estimates |
Roy Goodman |
| November 28 | No Colloquium - Thanksgiving Break | --- |
| December 5 | Evelyn Sander, George Mason University The Dynamics of Nucleation |
Amit Bose |