MIT Mathematics | Applied Math Colloquium

For more information, contact Philippe Rigollet and Laurent Demanet

Fall 2008

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 4-231.
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in Room 2-349 (Applied Math Common Room).

Fall 2008 Organizers: Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson, and Jonathan Kelner

Date	Speaker / Abstract
Sept. 8	Seffi Naor (Technion) A Primal Dual Approach to Online Optimization Problems
Sept. 15	NO SEMINAR
Sept. 22	Student Holiday -- no classes.
Sept. 29	Andrea L. Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles) Swarming by Nature and by Design Joint seminar with the Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Seminar
Oct. 6	NO SEMINAR
Oct. 13	Columbus Day - HOLIDAY
Oct. 20	Satyen Kale (Microsoft) Noise Tolerance of Expanders and Sublinear Expander Reconstruction
Oct. 27	Henry Cohn (Microsoft) Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Optimization Problems
Nov. 3	David Bindel (Courant Institute of Mathematics Sciences, NYU) Computer Aided Design of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems: From Energy Losses to Dick Tracy Watches
Nov. 10	Veteran's Day -- Holiday
Nov. 17	Daniel Spielman (Yale University) Graph Appromimation and Local Clustering, with Applications to the Solution of Diagonally-dominant Systems of Linear Equations
Nov. 24	James Lee (University of Washington) Eigenvalue Bounds, Spectral Partitioning, and Flow Deformations
Dec. 1	Marin Soljacic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Novel Electro-magnetic Phenomena: One-way-waveguides and Wireless Power Transfer
Dec. 8	John Gilbert (University of California, Santa Barbara) Challenges in Combinatorial Scientific Computing
Dec. 15	Nick Trefethen (Oxford University)