Department of Mathematics - NC State University

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"An existence theorem for nonlinear Helmholtz systems"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 100
Elizabeth Loboa, Department of Biomedical Engineering, NC State
"Mechanobiology of soft skeletal tissue regeneration"

Wednesday, September 1

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Bojko Bakalov, NC State
"Representations of the Lie pseudoalgebra W(d)"

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Eli Turkel, Tel Aviv University
"Precondtioning for low Mach steady and unsteady flows"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
5:00 p.m. in HA 335
Ruriko Yoshida, Duke University
"Short rational functions for toric algebra and applications"

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 6 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2004

Tuesday, September 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Saul Abarbanel, Tel Aviv University
"Nonlinear PML equations for time-dependent electromagnetics in three
dimensions"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 100
Zhi Wang, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics, NC State
"Spectral analysis of periodicities in bHLH amino acidsSequences "

Wednesday, September 8

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
9:10 a.m. in HA 265
Alexander Kaganovich, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
"Some old puzzles of particle physics and cosmology in the light of the
two measures theory"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Kristian Jenssen, NC State
"BV instability of numerical schemes for conservation laws"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
Jack Perry, NC State
"When can we skip S-polynomial reduction?"

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 13 - SEPTEMBER 17, 2004

Monday, September 13

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in Cox 206
Tim Elston , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Stochastic effects in signaling pathways"

Wednesday, September 15

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Shao-Ming Fei, Capital Normal University (China) and University of Bonn
(Germany)
"An introduction to quantum information and computation"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Steve Schecter, NC State
"Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for the Dafermos regularization of a system of conservation laws"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
David Saunders, University of Delaware
"Integer matrix determinants and formulas for pi"

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 20 - SEPTEMBER 24, 2004

Tuesday, September 21

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Jari Toivanen, NC State
"Fictitious domain methods for scattering problems and applications"

Wednesday, September 22

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Shao-Ming Fei, Capital Normal University (China) and University of Bonn
(Germany)
"Theory of quantum entanglement and related mathematics"

Thursday, September 23

OPERATIONS RESEARCH/FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Yong Li, Progress Energy
"Energy market and trading: Commonly used contracts and instruments, and how they are modeled"

Friday, September 24

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Nelson 3210
Mingxin Xu , University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"Minimizing shortfall risk using duality approach: An application
to partial hedging in incomplete markets"

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 1, 2004

Tuesday, September 28

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Semyon Tsynkov, NC State
"Numerical solution of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation using nonorthogonal expansions"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

UNDERGRADUATE POSTER PRESENTATION
3:30 p.m. in HA 243
Daniella Valdez-Jasso, Student, NC State
"Modeling Pressure-Area Relation for Blood Flow in Arteries"

SPECIAL SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Raimond Struble, Professor Emeritus, NC State
"Can one do serious mathematics using pictures and calculus?"

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Kazufumi Ito, NC State
"Semi-smooth Newton method and globalization"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 100
Larry Nelson, Assistant Dean for International Programs, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, NC State
"Research ethics and the use and misuse of statistics"

Wednesday, September 29

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Tom Lada, NC State
"Symmetric brace algebras"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
"Global solutions of some multi-dimensional problems for conservation laws"

Friday, October 1

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Nelson 3210
Eric Hillebrand, Department of Economics, Louisiana State University
"Neglecting parameter changes in autoregressive models"

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
3:40 p.m. in TBA
Roman Smirnov, Dalhousie University
"Invariant theory of (generalized) Killing tensors"

WEEK OF OCTOBER 4 - 8, 2004

Tuesday, October 5

JOINT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Alina Chertock, NC State
"Effects of saturating diffusion on strongly degenerate parabolic equations"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 100
Robert Xiaohai Wan, NC State
"Numerical modeling of biological interface: Immersed interface method with level set methods"

Wednesday, October 6

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
George E. Collins
"Coefficients of factor polynomials"

WEEK OF OCTOBER 11 - 15, 2004

Tuesday, October 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Ralph Smith, NC State
"Model development and control design for high performance nonlinear smart material systems"

Wednesday, October 13

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Jesus da Mota, Universidade Federal de Goias (Brazil) and NC State
"Combustion fronts in heterogeneous porous media"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Naihuan Jing, NC State University,
"Spin Characters of Generalized Hyperoctahedral Groups"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
Teresa Krick, Universidad de Buenos Aires
"Sparse univariate polynomial interpolation"

Friday, October 15

JOINT PROBABILITY/FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Nelson 3210
Paul Glasserman, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
"Importance sampling for portfolio credit risk"

WEEK OF OCTOBER 18 - 22, 2004

Monday, October 18

SPECIAL SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Talley Student Center Ballroom
Dr, Abraham Nemeth, Retired Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Detroit
Creator of the Standard Braille Code for Mathematical Symbols
"The Nemeth Code: Connecting the Dots for Math, Science, and Technology for Persons with Blindness"

Tuesday, October 19

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Rachid Touzani, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
"A parameter-free stabilized finite element method for incompressible fluid flow"

Wednesday, October 20

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Gregory Lyng, University of Michigan
"The N-soliton of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation for N large"

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Kailash Misra, NC State
"Crystals for Demazure Modules"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:30 p.m. in HA 335
Carlos D'Andrea, University of California at Berkeley
"The jacobian scheme of the discriminant"

Thursday, October 21

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
4:00pm in Withers 402A
Erich Kaltofen, Department of Mathematics, NCSU
"The Art of Symbolic Computation"

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00pm in Riddick 11
Tamika Barnes and Stephen Meyer, NC State Library
"Navigating the NCSU libraries"

WEEK OF OCTOBER 25 - 29, 2004

Monday, October 25

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
"Time reversal, imaging and communications in random media"

Tuesday, October 26

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Hamid Krim, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State
"Morse theory in object representation and classification"

Wednesday, October 27

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
David Schaeffer, Duke University
"Mathematical models with memory for cardiac restitution, or how doing it right led to a better model"

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Jining Gao, NC State
"L_infinity algebra structures of Lie algebra deformations"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
Zhendong Wan, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
"Exactly solve integer linear systems using numerical methods"

Thursday, October 28

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Ruey-Lin Sheu, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)
"Maximum flow problem in the distribution network"

Friday, October 29

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Nelson 3210
Steven Kou, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
"A tale of two growths: Modeling stochastic endogenous growth and growth stocks"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 330
Alicia Dickenstein, Department of Mathematics, Universidad de Buenos Aires
"Binomial Complete Intersections"

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 1 - 5, 2004

Tuesday, November 2

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Tim Kelley, NC State
"A fast continuation method for the Ornstein-Zernike equations"

BIOMATHEMATICS JOURNAL CLUB
4:05 p.m. In HA 100
Min Kang, NC State
"An introduction to interacting particles"

Wednesday, November 3

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
David Hoff, Indiana University
"Intermediate solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible flow"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Jining Gao, NC State
"L_infinity algebra structures of Lie algebra deformations"

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 8 - 12, 2004

Tuesday, November 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Richard McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Drag and flow in hydrodynamics: Some new phenomena and solutions"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

SPECIAL SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Karen St. Clair, Faculty Center for Teaching And Learning, NC State
"Effective teaching: Converging to student achievement"

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Sean X. Zhou, NC State
"Analysis of supply chains with and without expedited shipment"

Wednesday, November 10

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Sandra Wieland, Duke University
Title TBA

Thursday, November 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Isaac Klapper, Montana State University
"Large jump asymptotics for computations with highly discontinuous coefficients"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Victor Kac, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Vertex algebras and quantum Hamiltonian reduction"

Friday, November 12

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Nelson 3210
Abel Cadenillas, University of Alberta
"On the problem of optimal compensation of executives"

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 15 - 19, 2004

Tuesday, November 16

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Sorin Mitran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"High-order adaptive mesh refinement for aeroacoustics"

Wednesday, November 17

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Chris Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Can viscosity and forcing in a fluid flow result in chaotic advection?"

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Alexander Retakh, MIT
"Structure theory and representations of conformal algebras"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Thursday, November 18

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore
"Efficient and stable numerical methods for the generalized and vector Zakharov system"

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Steve Roberts, Department of Industrial Engineering, NC State
Title TBA

Friday, November 19

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
POSTPONED
Eric Renault, Department of Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill
"Extended method of moments with application to derivative pricing"