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Spring 2009
Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 4-237.
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in Room 2-349 (Applied Math Common Room).
Spring 2009 Organizers: Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson, and Jonathan Kelner
| Date | Speaker / Abstract |
|---|---|
| Feb. 9 | Matt Hastings (Los Alamos National Lab) A Counter-example to Additivity: Using Entanglement to Boost Communication Capacity Joint Seminar with Quantum Information Processing Seminar |
| Feb. 16 | Presidents Day - HOLIDAY |
| Feb. 23 | Jean-Christophe Nave (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Numerical Solution to Discontinuous PDEs: From Liquid Films to Bouncing Droplets |
| Mar. 2 | Leslie Greengard (Courant Institute, New York University) A New Formalism for Electromagnetic Scattering in Complex Geometry |
| Mar. 9 | No Seminar |
| Mar. 16 | No Seminar |
| Mar. 23 | SPRING VACATION WEEK |
| Mar. 30 | Hermann Mena (Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito-Ecuador) Efficient Solution of Differential Riccati Equations arising in Optimal Control for parabolic PDEs |
| Apr. 6 | John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine) Multi-scale Models of Solid Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis Joint Seminar with Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Seminar |
| April 13 | No seminar |
| Apr. 20 | Patriots Day -- HOLIDAY |
| Apr. 27 | Shanghua Teng (Microsoft New England/Boston University) |
| May 4 Time: 4:30 PM Location: 3-270 |
SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics -- Robert Schapire (Princeton University) |
| May 11 | Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley) |
| May 19 TUESDAY BUILDING 4 ROOM 231 |
Van Vu (Rutgers) Random matrices: The distribution of the smallest singular values (Universality at the Hard Edge) |