Professor of Mathematics
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.
| Date | In the AIM Student Seminar (4096 East Hall, 12:10 PM) |
In the AIM Research Seminar (1084 East Hall, 3:10 PM) |
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| September 11 | Focus I: Using the Library System at the University of Michigan JoAnn Sears |
Jack Waddell University of Michigan |
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| September 18 | Focus II: Journals (Panel discussion with several journal editors). Using the preprint archive and writing referee reports. | David Dowling University of Michigan |
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| September 25 | AIM Faculty Portraits I: Profs. Jeffrey Rauch and Al Hero (EECS) | Oleg Zikanov University of Michigan, Dearborn |
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| 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 |
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| October 16 | Warm-up talk: Exploring Hopf Bifurcations with Examples from Neuroscience Steven Baer |
Steven Baer Arizona State University |
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| October 23 | AIM Faculty Portraits III: Profs. Michael Zieve and Jussi Keppo (IOE) | Charlie Doering University of Michigan |
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| October 30 | Warm-up talk: Opportunities for Creative Application of Random Matrix Theory Raj Rao Nadakuditi |
Raj Rao Nadakuditi University of Michigan |
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| November 6 | Warm-up talk: Functionalized Energies: existence of minimizers and structure of the critical set Keith Promislow |
Keith Promislow Michigan State University |
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| 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 |
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| December 11 | Student Talks III Chandler (Jingchen) Wu and Jay (Yu-Jui) Huang |
Jon Wilkening University of California, Berkeley |