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 :

Statistics Seminar Series

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.

Winter 2008 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker and Affiliation	Title (click on title to view abstract, if available)	Host
Jan 4	Martin Mohlenkamp Ohio University	Multivariate regression and machine learning with sums of separable functions	Selim Esedoglu and Peter Smereka
Jan 11	Paul Federbush University of Michigan	New Asymptotics for the Dimer Problem	AIM Seminar Organizers
Jan 18	Juan Meza LBNL	A Direct Constrained Optimization Method for Solving the Kohn-Sham Equations	D. Viswanath
Jan 25	Jared Bronski University of Illinois	Krein Signatures for the Faddeev-Takhtajan Eigenvalue Problem	Peter Miller
Feb 1	Jing Shi Wayne State CANCELLED	Numerical Methods for Multidimensional Tunneling Transitions: A Quantum Transition State Theory	Peter Smereka and Divakar Viswanath
Feb 8	Herbert G. Winful University of Michigan	Physical Mechanism for Apparent Superluminality in Barrier Tunneling	Peter Miller
Feb 15	Todd Kapitula Calvin College	The Dynamics of Matter Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates	Peter Miller
Feb 22	George Lin University of Michigan	Dynamics of Probability Measures for Single Point Statistics of Random Passive Scalars	AIM Seminar Organizers
Feb 29	SPRING BREAK
Mar 7	Jing Shi Wayne State	Numerical Methods for Multidimensional Tunneling Transitions: A Quantum Transition State Theory	Peter Smereka and Divakar Viswanath
Mar 14	Fabian Heitsch Astronomy, University of Michigan	The Formation of Molecular Clouds and the Initial Conditions of Star Formation	Peter Miller
Mar 21	Peter Smereka University of Michigan	Efficient Computation of Heteroepitaxial Growth Using Kinetic Monte Carlo	AIM Seminar Organizers
Mar 25 Mathematics Colloquium Place and Time: 1360 East Hall, 4:10-5:00 PM	Randy LeVeque University of Washington	High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods and Applications to Tsunami Modeling	Mathematics Colloquium Committee
Mar 28 Special Joint Seminar with Statistics	Kevin Ross Stanford University CANCELLED	Optimal Stopping and Free Boundary Characterizations for Some Brownian Control Problems	Anna Amirdjanova
April 4	Andrew Christlieb Michigan State University	A Step Towards Temporal Multi-Scale Problems	Peter Miller
April 11	Gerard Roe University of Washington	Knowability and No Ability in Climate Change Prediction	Smadar Karni
April 12 Great Lakes SIAM Spring Meeting 2008		Snapshots of Applied Mathematics

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