Applied Math Colloquium

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For more information, contact Philippe Rigollet and Laurent Demanet

Fall 2009

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 4-370.
Refreshments will be served in Room 2-290 from 3:30-4:30 PM.

Fall 2009 Organizers: Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson, and Jonathan Kelner

Date	Speaker / Abstract
Sept. 21	Elchanan Mossel (University of California at Berkeley) Second Order Interfaces and Manipulation
Sept. 28	Vijay V. Vazirani (Georgia Tech) Combinatorial Algorithms for Convex Programs (Capturing Market Equilibria and Nash Bargaining Solutions)
October 5	Kai Schneider (Universite de Provence, Marseille, France) Adaptive Space-time Multiresolution Techniques for Nonlinear PDEs Joint Seminar with Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Seminar
Oct. 12	Columbus Day - HOLIDAY
Oct. 19	Stephen Boyd (Stanford University) Convex Optimization of Graph Laplacian Eigenvalues
Oct.26	No Seminar
Nov. 2	Adam Kalai (Microsoft Research) Learning and Smoothed Analysis
Nov. 9	Alexander Barnett (Dartmouth College) Robust and efficient computation of two-dimensional photonic crystal band structure using second-kind integral equations
Nov. 16	Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge) Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems
Nov. 23	No Seminar
Nov. 30 (Rescheduled to the Spring Semester)	Michael J. Shelley (The Courant Institute, New York University)
Dec. 7	Ran Raz (Weizmann Institute of Science) How to Fool People to Work on Circuit Lower Bounds
Dec. 14	L. N. Trefethen (Oxford University) Impossibility of approximating analytic functions from equispaced samples