Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar

Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan

Fridays 3:10-4:00pm, 1084 East Hall






The Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (AIM) seminar in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Michigan meets (unless otherwise noted) on Friday afternoons at 3:10pm in 1084 East Hall.

Some related seminars in the Mathematics Department:

Other related seminars/activities outside of the department :

Link to past semester archives.

Available slots for speakers are blank in the table below. Please contact Peter Miller at millerpd@umich.edu or D.Viswanath at divakar@umich.edu to schedule a speaker for any of these slots.



Fall 2004 Seminar Schedule

Date Speaker and Affiliation Title (click on title to view abstract, if available) Host
Sept 10
Greg Lyng
University of Michigan
Low-frequency stability of multidimensional detonations in three models of combustion: A spectral equivalence theorem
AIM seminar organizers
Sept 17
Anna Gilbert
University of Michigan
Algorithms for sparse data representations
AIM seminar organizers
Sept 24
Robert L. Smith
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
A fictitious play approach to complex systems optimization
D. Viswanath
Oct 1
Fadil Santosa
School of Mathematics
University of Minnesota
Design of Ophthalmic Lenses: Seeing Better through Mathematics
Robert Krasny
Oct 8
L. Craig Davis
Department of Physics
University of Michigan
Modeling the flow of freeway traffic
Charlie Doering
Oct 15
Martin Strauss
University of Michigan
Improved time bounds for near-optimal sparse Fourier representations
AIM seminar organizers
Oct 22
Giovanni Russo
Università di Catania
Time relaxed Monte Carlo methods for the Boltzmann equation
Peter Smereka
Oct 22 (Special seminar)
Location: 1084 EH
Time: 4:20-5:10 p.m.
Jointly with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Avner Friedman
The Ohio State University
Mathematical models in tumor growth
Carl P. Simon
Oct 29
Dmitry Zenkov
North Carolina State University
Nonholonomic Integrators on Lie Groups
Anthony Bloch
Nov 5
Konstantina Trivisa
University of Maryland
On a multidimensional model for the dynamic combustion of compressible reacting flows
Smadar Karni
Nov 12
Andrew J. Christlieb
University of Michigan
A Boundary Integral/Treecode approach for Plasma Simulations
AIM seminar organizers
Nov 19
Jason Devita
University of Michigan
Multi-scale kinetic monte-carlo for surface growth
Peter Smereka
Nov 26
Thanksgiving Break
Special Seminar
Date: Monday 29 Nov
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: EH 3096
Shi Jin
University of Wisconsin
Computations of Multivalued Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs
Peter Miller and
Robert Krasny
Dec 3
Patrick Nelson
University of Michigan
Back to the basics to improve our ability to model infectious diseases
Charlie Doering
Dec 10
Chrysoula Tsogka
The fictitious domain method and applications in wave propagation problems
Smadar Karni
Dec 17
Sylvia Chiang
National University of Singapore
Cellular Structure of Detonation Waves in Several Tube Configurations for Applications to the Pulse Detonation Engine
Sijue Wu



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