Colloquium Series

Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

New Jersey Institute of Technology


Spring 2007

All talks are in Cullimore Lecture Hall II at 11:35 am unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are usually served at 11:30 am. If you have any questions about a particular colloquium, please contact the person hosting the speaker. For general questions about the colloquium schedule, please contact  Louis Tao (tao@njit.edu).

 


Date
Speaker and title
Host




  January 19

 Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
  Jamming (abstract)
 Lou Kondic
January 26
Andy Norris, Rutgers University
  Crack Front Waves and Matched Asymptotic Expansions (abstract)
  Greg Kriegsmann
February 2
Tobin Driscoll, University of Delaware
Living Off the Grid: Radial Basis Functions for Meshless PDE Computations (abstract)
 Roy Goodman
February 9
Annette Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion (abstract)
Yuan-Nan Young
February 16
Louis Tao, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Orientation Selectivity in Visual Cortex
(abstract)
Robert Miura
February 23
Clancy Rowley, Princeton University
Simple Dynamics from Complex Data: Model Reduction for Control of Fluids
(abstract)
Roy Goodman 
March 2
Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University
  Sparse Time-Frequency Representation (abstract)
Horacio Rotstein
March 9
Cyrus R. Mehta, Cytel Inc. and Harvard University
Flexible Adaptive Clinical Trials: Methods, Software and Case Studies (abstract)
Sunil Dhar 
March 16

Spring Break


March 23
Aaditya Rangan, New York University
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Line-Motion Illusion in Primary Visual Cortex (abstract)
Louis Tao
March 28
Andrew Noymer, University of California at Irvine
Mortality Selection: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic's Role in the Decline of Tuberculosis in the US (abstract)
Louis Tao
March 30
  S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma
Dynamic Data Assimilation: An Overview (abstract)
Manish Bhattacharjee
April 6

No colloquium:  Good Friday


April 13
Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
Red State, Blue State: What's the Matter with Connecticut?
A Demonstration of Multilevel Modeling
(abstract)
Sunil Dhar
 April 20 Jerry Nedelman, Novartis
Types of Models (abstract)
Manish Bhattacharjee
 April 27
Andrea Prosperetti, Johns Hopkins University
Stability of Rising Bubbles (abstract)
Eliza Michalopoulou