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Fall 2010
Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room 2-105 unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments will be served in Room 2-290 from 3:30-4:30 PM.
Fall 2010 Organizers: Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson, and Jonathan Kelner
| Date | Speaker / Abstract |
|---|---|
| Sep 27 | Andrew R Conn (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Some Recent Work in Derivative-Free Optimization: An Introduction |
| Oct 4 | Steven Johnson (MIT) |
| Oct 11 | Columbus Day -- Holiday |
| Oct 18 | Kerry A. Emanuel (MIT) |
| Oct 25 | Ian H. Sloan (University of New South Wales) Lifting the Curse of Dimensionaity: Numerical Integration in Very High Dimensions |
| Nov 15 | Weinan E (Princeton University) The Mathematics and the Physics of the Moving Contact Line Problem |
| Nov 22 | Andrew Wathen (University of Oxford) Iterative Linear Solvers for PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems Involving Fluid Flow |
| Nov 29 | Alexander Sherstov (Microsoft Research New England) Direct Product Theorems for Communication and Query Complexity |
| Dec 6 | Stuart Geman (Brown University) |
| Dec 13 | James Demmel (University of California at Berkeley) |