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TALKS AND EVENTS
Fall 2006

Aug 28 - Sep 1

Sep 5 - 8

Sep 11 - 15

Sep 18 - 22

Sep 25 - 29

Oct 2 - 6

Oct 9 - 13

Oct 16 - 20

Oct 23 - 27

Oct 30 - Nov 3

Nov 6 - 10

Nov 13 - 17

Nov 27 - Dec 1

WEEK OF August 28 – September 1, 2006

Wednesday, August 30

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University
Soliton management in periodic systems

Departmental Tea
3:50-4:20, HA 243

WEEK OF September 5 – September 8, 2006

Tuesday, September 5

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:30, HA 210
Ben Redeling, Bioinformatics
Joint Bayesian estimation of alignment and phylogeny

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniel 406
Andrej Kosir, Univeristy of Ljubljana
On the scalability and the performance optimization

Thursday, September 7

Departmental Tea
3:30-4:00, HA 243

Friday, September 8

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, 1206 Nelson
Yaozhong Hu, University of Kansas
Optimal Anticipative Stopping

WEEK OF September 11 – September 15, 2006

Tuesday, September 12

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:30, HA 210
Sharon Lubkin, NCSU
Tissue dynamics

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Genetha Gray, Sandia National Laboratory
Derivative-free methods for simulation based optimization

Departmental Tea
3:50-4:20, HA 243

Wednesday, September 13

Diferential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Xiao-Biao Lin, NCSU
The Gearhart-Pruss theorem and linear stability for Riemannsolutions of conservation laws

Friday, September 15

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Mohan Putcha, NCSU
Conjugacy in algebraic monoids

WEEK OF September 18 – September 22, 2006

Tuesday, September 19

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:30, HA 210
Ken Pollock, NCSU
Tag return models for estimating fishing mortality and natural mortality: Application in fisheries research and management illustrated by Maryland striped bass tag return

Friday, September 22

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, 1206 Nelson
Jean-Pierre Fouque, University of California at Santa Barbara
Perturbation methods in default modeling

Departmental Tea (sponsored by Financial Math Program)
3:30-4:00, HA 243


WEEK OF September 25 – September 29, 2006

Tuesday, September 26

Joint Numerical Analysis/Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Erich Kaltofen, NC State University
Errors in variables and hybrid symbolic-numeric methods

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, HA 210
Hien Tran, NC State University
Dynamic multidrug therapies for HIV: Optimal and STI control approaches

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Craig Holcomb and Brian Hunt, National Security Agency
Summer program for operations research technology (SPORT)

Wednesday, September 27

SIAM/MGSA Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
12:30-1:00, HA 107 (bring your lunch, desert will be provided)
Kartik Sivaramakrishnan
Lagrangian relaxation techniques for large scale optimization

Thursday, September 28

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Jie Shen, Purdue University
Fast spectral-Galerkin method: Algorithms, analysis and applications

Departmental Tea
3:50-4:20, HA 243

WEEK OF October 2 – October 6, 2006

Monday, October 2

SIAM Student Chapter Seminar (snacks will be provided)
3:00-3:45, HA 335
Brian Lewis, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Feature extraction for classification: Class-independent statistics vs. class-dependent statistics
Correlating sensor tracks with the deterministic annealing method

Organizational Meeting
4:00, HA 263
Organizational meeting on the proof of the Poincare conjecture following the work of Perlman

Tuesday, October 3

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, HA 210
BMA Faculty Meeting

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Xin Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A tractable approximation of stochastic programming via robust optimization

Wednesday, October 4

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Existence of solutions of nonlinear Helmholtz systems

Thursday, October 5

Special Departmental Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Joel Brawley, Clemson University
In memory of Jack Levine (1907-2005)

Departmental Tea
3:50-4:20, HA 243

Friday, October 6

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Nathan Reading, NC State University
Some interesting lattice congruences of the weak order

WEEK OF October 9 – October 13, 2006

Monday, October 9

Seminaire Poincare
4:00, HA 263
Tom Lada, NC State University
Structure theory of compact surfaces (A precursor to Thurston's Conjectures)

Tuesday, October 10

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, HA 210
Jim Riviere, NC State University
Incorporation of complex chemical mixture effects into a qsar model of dermal absorption

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Kartik Sivaramakrishnan, NC State University
A conic interior point decomposition approach for structured semidefinite programs

Departmental Tea
3:50-4:20, HA 243

Wednesday, October 11

SAMSI
1:30-3:00, SAMSI - Room 203
Susie Bayarri, University of Valencia and Fei Liu, Duke University
Tutorial on emulation techniques for forest-climate models


WEEK OF October 16 – October 20, 2006

Monday, October 16

Joint Probability and Differential Equations Seminar (snacks will be provided)
3:00-3:55, HA 330
David Anderson, Duke University
Propagation of fluctuations in biochemical systems

Seminaire Poincare
4:00, HA 263
A. Fauntleroy, NC State University
Poincare's 1st conjecture circa 1900 and his counter-example circa 1904: The Dodecahedron

Tuesday, October 17

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, HA 210
Jim Selgrade, NC State University
An overview of the Hodgkin-Huxley and FItzHugh-Nagumo models

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Mark Lawley, Purdue University
The evolving field of healthcare engineering: Perspectives, examples and challenges

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Richard Mayr, NC State University
Infinite-state discrete Markov chains induced by probabilistic programs

Wednesday, October 18

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Peter Miller, University of Michigan and SAMSI
Integrable nonlinear waves and singular asymptotics

Departmental Tea
3:50-4:20, HA 243

Friday, October 20

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Frank Meyer, Republic Mortgage Insurance Company (RMIC)
Pricing mortgage risk - the non-trader perspective

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Alexey Ovchinnikov, NC State University
Representations of linear differential algebraic groups

WEEK OF October 23 – October 27, 2006
 
Monday, October 23
           
            Probability and Random Systems Seminar
            3:00-3:55, HA 330
            Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
            Mean, median and fluctuations of Levy processes
 
            Seminaire Poincare
            4:00, HA 263
            The constant curvature connections to PC: The 1/4-pinching sphere theorem
 
Tuesday, October 24
 
            Biomathematics Seminar
            4:30-5:45, HA 210
            Mette Olufsen, NC State University
            Short term regulation in the cardiovascular system
 
            Operations Research Seminar
            4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
            Julie Simmons Ivy, University of Michigan
            Balancing patient and payer preferences: A maintenance model-based efficient
               frontier for breast cancer detection and treatment
 
Wednesday,  October 25
 
            Differential Equations Seminar
            3:00-3:50, HA 330
            Jean-Michel Roquejoffre, University of Toulouse
            Existence and stability of multi-dimensional bistable fonts
 
                Symbolic Computation Seminar
            3:00-3:50, HA 335
            Chee Yap, New York University
            Real root isolation: Recent progress in the analysis of subdivision algorithms
 
Friday, October 27
 
            Algebra Seminar
            3:00-3:50, HA 335
            Christian Kassel, CNRS - Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
            Deformation spaces for Hopf-Galois extensions
 
            Departmental Tea
            3:50-4:20, HA 243

WEEK OF October 30 – November 3, 2006

Monday, October 30

Seminaire Poincare
4:00, HA 263
Amassa Fauntleroy, NC State University
The exponential map, injectivity radius and the sphere theorem

Tuesday, October 31

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, HA 210
John Franke, NC State University
Discrete Dynamical Systems in Population Genetics

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Pierre F. Maldague, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Planning for space exploration: Current techniques and future challenges

Wednesday, November 1

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Laurent Demanet, Stanford University
Fast computation of Fourier integral operators

Departmental Tea
3:30-4:00, HA 243

Friday, November 3

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Bojko Bakalov, NC State University
Non-linear Lie conformal algebras with three generators


WEEK OF November 6 – November 10, 2006

Monday, November 6

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Bruce Pitman, University at Buffalo and SAMSI
Computing geophysical flows in the face of uncertainty

Seminaire Poincare
4:00, HA 263
Amassa Fauntleroy, NC State University
Proof of the 1/4-pinching sphere theorem

Tuesday, November 7

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, HA 210
Mansoor Haider, NC State University
Artificial neural networks for analysis of cartilage repair using hydrogel scaffolds

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Bobby Ninan (PhD, May 2005); Chuan Lin (PhD, Dec 2006)
Alumni share their career choices

Thursday, November 9

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Tammy Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
Tensor decompositions, the MATLAB tensor toolbox,and applications to data analysis

Friday, November 10

Mathematics Department Colloquium
4:00, HA 201
Randy LeVeque, University of Washington
High-resolution finite volume methods and applications to Tsunami modeling

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Laurie Zach, NC State University
Nilpotent Lie algebras with a small second derived quotient

Departmental Tea
3:30-4:00, HA 243

WEEK OF November 13 – November 17, 2006

Monday, November 13

Seminaire Poincare
4:00, HA 263
Amassa Fauntleroy, NC State University
Proof of the sphere theorem

Tuesday, November 14

Mathematics Department Colloquium
4:00, HA 201
Bjorn Enquist, University of Texas
Heterogeneous Multi-scale Methods

Departmental Tea
3:30-4:00, HA 243

Wednesday, November 15

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Donald Richards, Penn State University
Algebraic methods toward higher-order probability inequalities

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Jian-Guo Liu, University at Maryland
Pressure estimate for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation in a bounded domain

WEEK OF November 27 – December 1, 2006

Monday, November 27

Seminaire Poincare
4:00, HA 263
Amassa Fauntleroy, NC State University
Curvatures: Operators, sectional, Ricci and scalar

Tuesday, November 28

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Vita Rutka, NC State University
Virtual material design of elastic materials & applications EJIIM for linear elastic systems

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, HA 210
Bill Atchley, NC State University
Computational biology and molecular architecture

Wednesday, November 29

SIAM NCSU Student Chapter Brown Bag Lunch
12:30, HA 107
Tim Kelley, NC State University
How to solve integral equations
Dmitry Zenkov, NC State University
Nonlinear control and variational integrators

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Mark Williams, UNC-Chapel Hill
Nonclassical multidimensional shocks

Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00, HA 335
Kartik Sivaramakrishnan, NC State University
Exploiting SPARSITY and SYMMETRY in semidefinite programming with applications in
polynomial optimization

Departmental Tea
3:30-4:00, HA 243

Department Meeting with Dean Solomon
4:00-5:00, HA 201

Friday, December 1

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, 1206 Nelson
Debra Elkins, General Motors R&D Center
Call center operations risk modeling- Potential impact of Avian flu

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Yi-Zhi Huang, Rutgers University
Logarithmic tensor product theory

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