Applied Math Colloquium

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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)

On the Complexity of a Network Connection Game

May 4 Time: 4:30 PM
Location: 3-270

SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics -- Robert Schapire (Princeton University)

The boosting approach to machine learning: foundations, perspectives, applications: Lecture 1: The AdaBoost algorithm and its analysis

May 11

Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley)

Convex Algebraic Geometry

May 19 TUESDAY
BUILDING 4
ROOM 231

Van Vu (Rutgers)

Random matrices: The distribution of the smallest singular values (Universality at the Hard Edge)