SCAN Seminar 2009-10
List of Talks given in 2009-10
| Monday, September 14 | David Bindel, Cornell University Numerical analysis for nonlinear eigenvalue problems |
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| Monday, September 28 | Benjamin Seibold, Temple University Exact particle methods and gradient-augmented level set approaches |
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| Monday, October 5 | John Guckenheimer, Cornell University Boundary value problems and solvers for ODEs |
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| Monday, October 19 | Charles van Loan, Cornell University The Kronecker product SVD |
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| Monday, October 26 | Marc Bonnet, Ecole Polytechnique Adjoint solution-based small-inclusion asymptotics of cost functions, with application to defect identification |
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| Monday, November 9 | Jessica Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University High fidelity geometric modeling and finite element mesh generation from volumetric imaging data with applications in computational mechanics |
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| Monday, November 16 | Stefan Wild, Argonne National lab Estimating computational noise in numerical simulations |
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| Monday, November 23 | Doug James, Cornell University Enabling reduced-order dynamics for graphics, haptics, and sound |
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| Monday, November 30 | Attila Bergou, Cornell University Fruit flies modulate passive wing pitching to generate in-flight turns |
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| Monday, February 1 | Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University Causality, dimensionality, efficiency |
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| Monday, February 8 | James Sethna, Cornell University Sloppy models and differential geometry |
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| Monday, February 15 | Gil Strang, MIT Fast transforms: banded matrices with banded inverses |
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| Monday, February 22 | Noah Snavely, Cornell University Building Rome in a day: large-scale optimization problems in computer vision |
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| Monday, March 1 | Sergey Fomel, University of Texas at Austin Mathematical and computational problems in seismic imaging |
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| Monday, March 15 | Adrian Lewis, Cornell University A proximal method for composite minimization |
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| Monday, March 29 | Fengyan Li, RPI Discontinuous Galerkin based fast sweeping methods for Eikonal equations |
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| Monday, April 5 | Steve Koutsourelakis, Cornell University Scalable Bayesian reduced-order models for simulating high-dimensional multiscale dynamical systems |
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| Monday, April 12 | Hongkai Zhao, University of California at Irvine A new approximation for effective Hamiltonians for homogenization of a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations |
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| Wednesday, April 14 | Charles Peskin, New York University and Cornell A.D. White Professor-at-Large Generalizations of the immersed boundary method: nonuniform density and viscosity, fibers with bend and twist, and microscale fluid-structure interaction with Brownian motion |
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| Monday, April 19 | Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University Energy-aware scalability of parallel sparse scientific computing |
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| Monday, April 26 | Orly Alter, University of Texas at Austin Discovery of mechanisms from mathematical modeling of DNA microarray data |
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| Monday, May 3 | Jonathan Weare, New York University Toward practical rare event simulation in high dimensions |