Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 2009)

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 4-237. Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in Room 2-349 (Applied Math Common Room). For more information, contact Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson and Jonathan Kelner.

ARCHIVES: Applied Math Colloquia back to 1995 through coming attractions for next semester

Feb. 9: Matt Hastings (Los Alamos National Lab)
A Counter-example to Additivity: Using Entanglement to Boost Communication Capacity
Joint Seminar with Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Feb. 16: Presidents Day - HOLIDAY
Feb. 23: Jean-Christophe Nave (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Numerical Solution to Discontinuous PDEs: From Liquid Films to Bouncing Droplets
Mar. 2: Leslie Greengard (Courant Institute, New York University)
A New Formalism for Electromagnetic Scattering in Complex Geometry
Mar. 9: No Seminar
Mar. 16: No Seminar
Mar. 23: SPRING VACATION WEEK
Mar. 30: Hermann Mena (Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito-Ecuador)
Efficient Solution of Differential Riccati Equations arising in Optimal Control for parabolic PDEs
Apr. 6: John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine)
Multi-scale Models of Solid Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis
Joint Seminar with Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Seminar
April 13: No seminar
Apr. 20: Patriots Day -- HOLIDAY
Apr. 27: Shanghua Teng (Microsoft New England/Boston University)
On the Complexity of a Network Connection Game
May 4: SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics-- Robert Schapire,(Princeton University) Time: 4:30 PM, Location: 3-270
The boosting approach to machine learning: foundations, perspectives, applications: Lecture 1: The AdaBoost algorithm and its analysis
May 11: Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley)
Convex Algebraic Geometry
TUESDAY May 19: Van Vu (Rutgers) **** NEW LOCATION: BUILDING 4, ROOM 231 ****
Random matrices: The distribution of the smallest singular values (Universality at the Hard Edge)

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