Applied Math Colloquium

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For more information, contact Philippe Rigollet and Laurent Demanet

Spring 2005

Most talks are at 4:15 pm in Room 4-231. Refreshments are typically served at 3:45 pm in Room 2-349. For more information, contact the organizer

Spring 2005 Organizer: Alan Edelman

Date Speaker / Abstract
Feb 7

Michael Weinstein (Columbia University)

Resonant Energy Transfer and Selection of The Ground State

Feb 14

Ping Ma (Harvard University)

Functional Clustering of Temporal Microarray Data

Feb 17

Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University)

The Snap-Back Pivoting Method for Symmetric Banded Indefinite Matrices

(Special Colloquium)

Feb 21

(Presidents' Day -- Holiday)

Feb 28

David Goldschmidt )Center for Communications Research, Princeton, New Jersey)

Breaking ENIGMA: Applied Group Theory in Action

Mar 7

Ioana Dumitriu (UC Berkeley)

Towards Accurate Polynomial Evaluation or When Can Numerical Linear Algebra Be Done Accurately?

Mar 14

Charles Bennett (IBM Yorktown Heights)

Assisted Capacities of Quantum Channels

Mar 21

(Spring Break)

Mar 28

(DATE CANCELLED)

Apr 4

Irene Moroz (Oxford)

The Extended Malkus-Robbins Dynamo as a Perturbed Lorenz System

Apr 11

Tandy Warnow (U Texas)

The Disk-covering Method for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction

Apr 18

(Patriot's Day -- Holiday)

Apr 25

Assaf Naor (Microsoft)

The Lipschitz Extension Problem

May 2

Momar Dieng (UC Davis)

Edge Eigenvalues in Gaussian Ensembles and Application to Statistics

May 9

George Fikioris (National Technical University of Athens)

On the Solvability and Application of Numerical Methods to certain Fredholm-like Integral Equations of Antenna Theory