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Nov 24 2009:
Have a great Thanksgiving break! Next week: student presentations by Jae Kyoung Kim and Burhan Sadiq. In the AIM Seminar: Ioana Dumitriu, University of Washington.

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Schedule
Date In the AIM Student Seminar
(4096 East Hall, 12:10 PM)
In the AIM Research Seminar
(1084 East Hall, 3:10 PM)
Notes
September 11 Focus I: Using the Library System at the University of Michigan
JoAnn Sears
Jack Waddell
University of Michigan
September 18 Focus II: Journals (Panel discussion with several journal editors). Using the preprint archive and writing referee reports. David Dowling
University of Michigan
September 25 AIM Faculty Portraits I: Profs. Jeffrey Rauch and Al Hero (EECS) Oleg Zikanov
University of Michigan, Dearborn
October 2 Warm-up talk: A Toy Model for Nonlinear Diffusions
Adam Oberman
Adam Oberman
Simon Fraser University
Abstract (of warm-up talk): Imagine you are playing "snakes and ladders", but at each turn, you have a choice between rolling a die or moving one step forward. What is the optimal strategy? We will discuss a method for solving this problem, and relate it to controlled diffusions.
October 9 AIM Faculty Portraits II: Profs. Peter Smereka and Ed Larsen (NERS) Sherif El-Tawil
University of Michigan
October 16 Warm-up talk: Exploring Hopf Bifurcations with Examples from Neuroscience
Steven Baer
Steven Baer
Arizona State University
October 23 AIM Faculty Portraits III: Profs. Michael Zieve and Jussi Keppo (IOE)  Charlie Doering
University of Michigan
October 30 Warm-up talk: Opportunities for Creative Application of Random Matrix Theory
Raj Rao Nadakuditi
Raj Rao Nadakuditi
University of Michigan
November 6 Warm-up talk: Functionalized Energies: existence of minimizers and structure of the critical set
Keith Promislow
Keith Promislow
Michigan State University
November 13 Focus III: Applying for Fellowships
Peter Miller (and special guests)
Graeme Milton
University of Utah
Pdf file of the notes from the presentation. The PowerPoint presentation given by Chris Fink (tcgfink@umich.edu) about the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. The AIM student who presented information about the Krell Institute Fellowship and the CRASH research institute on campus was Dave Starinshak (davestar@umich.edu). Also, information about the Krell Institute Fellowship can be borrowed from the bin on my office door.
November 20 Focus IV: Summer Programs
Peter Miller
and
Student Talks I
Allen (Yilun) Wu
Christophe Clanet
L'Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre
Mock referee report due.

Pdf file of the notes from the presentation on Summer Programs. Allen Wu's slides.

November 27 THANKSGIVING BREAK THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 4 Student Talks II
Jae Kyoung Kim and Burhan Sadiq
Ioana Dumitriu
University of Washington
 
December 11 Student Talks III
Chandler (Jingchen) Wu and Jay (Yu-Jui) Huang
Jon Wilkening
University of California, Berkeley