Applied Math Colloquium

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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)