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Spring 2006
Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 2-105. Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in Room 4-174 (Math Majors Lounge).
Spring 2006 Organizers: Alan Edelman and Santosh Vempala
| Date | Speaker / Abstract |
|---|---|
| Feb 10 Fri 4:30 PM Room 4-237 |
Santosh Vempala (MIT) Dispersion of Mass and the Complexity of Randomized Algorithms |
| Feb. 13 | Rob Freund (MIT) Projective Pre-Conditioners for Improving the Behavior of a Linear or Conic Inequality System |
| Feb. 17 4:00 PM Room 4-237 |
Ioana Dumitriu (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Feb. 20 | Presidents Day - HOLIDAY |
| Feb. 21 | Eric Rains (University of California, Davis) |
| Feb. 27 | Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University) Towards Combinatorial Preconditioners for Finite-Elements Problems |
| Mar 6 | Eli Upfal (Brown University) |
| Mar. 13 | Michael Saks (Rutgers University) |
| Mar. 20 | Joachim Krug (University of Cologne, GERMANY) Discrete and Continuous Models of Step Bunching on Vicinal Surfaces |
| Mar. 27 | Spring Vacation |
| Apr. 3 | Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton University) |
| Apr. 7 4:00 PM Room 4-237 |
Erich Kaltofen (North Carolina State University) |
| Apr. 10 | Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge - U.K.) Fluid Processes in Volcanology |
| Apr. 17 | Patriots Day - HOLIDAY |
| Apr. 24 | Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland) |
| May 1 3:00 PM Room 3-343 |
Michael Overton (New York University) Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications |
| May 8 2:00 PM Room 2-135 |
Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota) |
| May 15 | Alexander Panfilov (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Vortex Dynamics in Reaction-diffusion Equations with Applications to Electrophysiology |
| May 22 | |
| May 29 | Memorial Day - HOLIDAY |