Applied Math Colloquium

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For more information, contact Philippe Rigollet and Laurent Demanet

Fall 2015

Most talks are at 4:30 pm in Room E17-122 unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2015 Organizers: Michel Goemans, Steven G. Johnson, and Jonathan Kelner

Date Speaker / Abstract
Monday Oct. 5

Vladislav Voroninski (MIT)

ShapeFit: Exact Location Recovery from Corrupted Pair-Wise Directions

Monday Oct. 12

(Columbus Day)

Friday Oct. 30 Room E25-117

Yuji Nakatsukasa (University of Tokyo)

Computing fundamental matrix decompositions accurately via the matrix sign function in two iterations: the power of Zolotarev's functions

Special Day and Location

Monday Nov. 2

Zhizhen Jane Zhao (Courant Institute)

Class Averaging of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Images

Monday Nov. 9

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota)

A Theoretical Examination of Diffusive Molecular Dynamics

Joint event with the Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations Seminar

Monday Dec. 7

Grady Wright (Boise State University)

Computing with functions on the sphere using low rank approximations