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 2005 Seminar Schedule

Date Speaker and Affiliation Title (click on title to view abstract, if available) Host
Sept 9
Serap Savari
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
On Networks of Two-Way Communication Channels
Anna Gilbert
Sept 16
Krishna Garikipati
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Program in Applied Physics
University of Michigan
A discontinuous Galerkin finite element formulation for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation
D. Viswanath
Sept 23
ROBERT S. EISENBERG
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology
Rush University Medical Center
Ion Channels: Living Transistors
Peter Smereka
Sept 30
Lisa J. Fauci
Professor of Mathematics
Associate Director
Center for Computational Science at Tulane and Xavier Universities
Spirochetes and spermatozoa: Fluid dynamic models of microorganism motility
Patrick Nelson
Oct 7
Zhilan Feng
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
Influence of anti-viral drug therapy on evolution of HIV-1 pathogen
Patrick Nelson
Oct 14
Andrew Belmonte
Department of Mathematics
Penn State
Breaking spaghetti by impact: stress and buckling in brittle rods
Charles Doering
Oct 21
Steven Kou
Department of IEOR
Columbia University
Credit Spreads, Optimal Capital Structure, and Implied Volatility with Endogenous Default and Jump Risk
Virginia Young
Oct 24
Special seminar
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: EH 3088
Doron Levy
Department of Mathematics
Stanford University
Post-Transplantation Dynamics of the Immune Response to Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Smadar Karni
Oct 28
Aaron King
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan
Rhythm and noise: Detection of temporal patterns in ecological data and what it tells us
Charles Doering
Oct 31
Special seminar
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: EH 3866
Bjorn Birnir
University of California at Santa Barbara
The Stochastic Theory of Fluvial Landsurfaces
Peter Smereka
Nov 4
Virginia R. Young
Cecil J. & Ethel M. Nesbitt Professor of Actuarial Mathematics
University of Michigan
Correspondence between Lifetime Minimum Wealth and Utility of Consumption (joint with Erhan Bayraktar)
AIM seminar organizers
Nov 11
Michael S. Jolly
Indiana University
Department of Mathematics
The attractor of the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in the energy-enstrophy plane
Charles Doering
Nov 18
Adi Bulsara
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
Coupling-Induced Cooperative Behavior in Overdamped Nonlinear (Bistable) Dynamic Systems
Charles Doering
Nov 18
Special seminar
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: EH 1084
Takashi Sakajo
Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University
A reduction method for the N vortex-point system on a sphere with pole vortices
Robert Krasny
Nov 25
Thanksgiving Break
Dec 2
Di Liu
Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University
Nested Stochastic Simulation Algorithms for Chemical Kinetic Systems with Multiple Time Scales
Peter Smereka
Dec 9
William Ross Morrow
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Design-Centered Policy Analysis: Nash Equilibirum Automotive Designs
D. Viswanath
Dec 16



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