Applied Math Colloquium

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For more information, contact Philippe Rigollet and Laurent Demanet

Spring 2011

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.

Spring 2017 Organizers: Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson, and Jonathan Kelner

Date Speaker / Abstract
Feb 7

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota)

Atomistic-to-Continuum Coupling Methods for Solids

Feb 21

Presidents Day

Mar 14

Deanna Needell (Stanford University)

Compressive Sampling and Redundancy

Mar 28

David G. Rand (Harvard University)

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Cooperation

Apr 4

Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft)

Topological Phases of Matter: Modeling and Application to Quantum Computing

Apr 11

Salil P. Vadhan (Harvard University)

Computational Complexity in Differential Privacy

Apr 18

Patriots Day

Apr 25

SIMONS LECTURES - Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University)

Orbits of Group Representations and Arithmetic

May 2

Philip Klein (Brown University)

Quickly Computing Approximate Solutions to NP-hard Optimization Problems in Planar Graphs

May 9

Martin Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley)

Noisy Matrix Decomposition: Applications and Methods

May 16

Linda Petzold (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Spatial Stochastic Simulation of Polarization in Yeast Mating