NCSU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Department of Mathematics

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Xiaodong Yan, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
"An upper bound on the rate of coarsening in epitaxial growth"
Dr. Yan is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations.

TEA
3:30 p.m. In HA 243

SPECIAL SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
Jeff Moehlis, Princeton University
"Response of neurons in the brain region locus coeruleus to stimuli"
Dr. Moehlis is a candidate for a faculty position.

Tuesday, January 28

COLLOQUIUM
2:35 p.m. in HA 307
Stéphane Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique
"Sparse geometrical representations with bandelets"

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

ALGEBRA
4:00 p.m.in HA 335
Antun Milas, University of Arizona
"Some applications of the theory of vertex operator algebras"
Dr. Milas is a candidate for a faculty position in algebra.

Wednesday, January 29

SPECIAL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Irina Kogan, Yale University
"Applications of Cartan's method of moving frames"
Dr. Kogan is a candidate for a faculty position.

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Friday, January 31

TEA
3:00 p.m. in HA 243

ALGEBRA
3:40 p.m. in HA 330
Sarah Witherspoon, Amherst College
"Cohomology in algebra"
Dr. Witherspoon is a candidate for a faculty position in algebra.

Week of February 3 - 7, 2003

Monday, February 3

ALGEBRA
1:30 p.m. in HA 330
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts
"Enumerative real algebraic geometry"
Prof. Sottile is a candidate for a faculty position.

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Helge Kristian Jenssen, Indiana University
"Large solutions to systems of nonlinear equations"
Dr. Jenssen is a candidate for a faculty position.

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Tuesday, February 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory
"Computing mountain passes and transition states"
Dr. Munson is a candidate for a faculty position.

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

SAMSI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
4:30 p.m. in Radisson Governors Inn, 3rd floor ballroom
Andrew Majda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
"Mathematical strategies for stochastic modeling in climate"

Wednesday, February 5

ALGEBRA
1:30 p.m. in HA 330
Bojko Bakalov, University of California- Berkeley
"Conformal Algebras in Higher Dimensions"
Dr. Bakalov is a candidate for a faculty position.

SPECIAL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Michael Sullivan, University of Michigan
"Counting holomorphic curves: 'hard' results in symplectic geometry"
Dr. Sullivan is a candidate for a faculty position.

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Thursday, February 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Michael Gertz, Argonne National Laboratory
"Interior-point optimization through trust regions"
Dr. Gertz is a candidate for a faculty position.

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Friday, February 7

TEA
3:00 p.m. in HA 243

ALGEBRA
3:40 p.m. in HA 330
David Hemmer, University of Georgia
"Specht module filtrations for representations of the symmetric group"
Dr. Hemmer is a candidate for a faculty position.

Week of February 10 - 14, 2003

Monday, February 10

GRADUATE STUDENT ALGEBRA
1:30 p.m. in HA 330
Marilyn Daily, North Carolina State University
"Morse Theory"

SPECIAL SEMINAR
2:35 in HA 330
Boualem Khouider, New York University
"A rigorous perspective for large eddy simulations of turbulent premixed flames"
Dr. Khouider is a candidate for a faculty position.

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Wednesday, February 12

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m.in HA 335
Hien Tran , North Carolina State University
"The Human Respiratory Control System: Models, Applications, and Analysis"

Friday, February 14

PROBABILITY - FINANCIAL MATH
1:30 p.m. in 125 Kilgore Hall
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University
"Utility indifference pricing and optimal trading with derivatives"

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
Samer Al-Ashhab, North carolina State University
"The role of sh-Lie algebras in Lagrangian field theory"

Week of February 17 - 21, 2003

Monday, February 17

GRADUATE STUDENT ALGEBRA
1:30 p.m. in HA 330
Marilyn Daily, North Carolina State University
"Morse Theory Part 2"

Tuesday, February 18

SPECIAL SEMINAR - CANCELLED
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Marcin Bownik, University of Michigan
"How to construct multidimensional wavelets with good time-frequency
localization?"
Dr. Bownik is a candidate for a faculty position.

TEA - CANCELLED
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Thursday, February 20

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS/PROBABILITY
3:15 p.m. in SAMSI
Rene Carmona, Princeton University
"Particle Filtering and Applications"

TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Friday, February 21

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS/PROBABILITY
1:00 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Rene Carmona, Princeton University
"Spread, Swing, and Temperature Options: Mathematical Challenges"

MATH-PHYSICS
4:00 p.m. in HA 335
Samer Al-Ashhab, North Carolina State University

Week of February 24 - 28, 2003

Monday, February 24

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m.in HA 335
Allan Lloyd
"Spatiotemporal dynamics of childhood diseases in the US, 1950-present"
Dr. Lloyd is a candidate for a faculty position.

BIOMATHEMATICS TEA
4:30 p.m. in HA 243

Tuesday, February 25

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Suncica Canic, University of Houston
Title TBA
Dr. Canic is a candidate for a faculty position.

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Wednesday, February 26

SPECIAL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Demetrio Labate, Washington University in St. Louis
"A Unified theory of reproducing function systems"
Dr. Labate in a candidate for a faculty position

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m.in HA 335
Daniel Coombs, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Chirality Inversions Propagating on Bacterial Flagella"
Dr. Coombs is a candidate for a faculty position.

BIOMATHEMATICS TEA
4:30 p.m. in HA 243

Week of March 3 - 7, 2003

Monday, March 3

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
11:20 a.m. in HA 272
Ron Fulp, North Carolina State University
"Gauge symmetries: something old , something new"

CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
3:40 p.m. in HA 307
Frank Tobin, GlaxoSmithKline
"Challenges in very large biological pathway modeling"

Tuesday, March 4

SPECIAL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Marcin Bownik, University of Michigan
"How to construct multidimensional wavelets with good time-frequency
localization?"
Dr. Bownik is a candidate for a faculty position in analysis.

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Week of March 17 - 21, 2003

Wednesday, March 19

GRADUATE STUDENT ALGEBRA
2:35 p.m in HA 335
John May, North Carolina State University
"On approximate irreducibility of bivariate polynomial"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
"Unidirectional versus bidirectional dispersal in discrete-time metapopulation models"

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Zhi Wang, North Carolina State University
ñComputer experiments on genetic recombinationî

Friday, March 21

SPECIAL SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Nelson 1130
Wendell Fleming, Brown University
"Some optimal investment, production and consumption models"

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Week of March 24 - 28, 2003

Monday, March 24

PROBABILITY
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Francesco Russo, Université Paris 13 Institut Galilée, Mathématiques
"Recent Results on Stochastic Differential Equations and Generalized Dirichlet Processes"

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Wednesday, March 26

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Jerrold Marsden, California Institute of Technology.
Geometric mechanics, variational integrators, and asteroid pairs.

Week of March 30 - April 4, 2003

Wednesday, April 2

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Jeff Thorne, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
"Protein Evolution With Dependence Among Codons Due to Tertiary Structure"

Friday, April 4

PROBABILITY
2:35 pm in HA 335
Xia Chen, University of Tennessee
"Intersection Local Times : Exponential Asymptotics and Laws of the Iterated Logarithm"

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Week of April 7 - 11, 2003

Monday, April 7

PROBABILITY
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Stanislav Volkov, University of Bristol
"Vertex-reinforced Jump Processes"

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

BIOMATHEMATICS
4:00 pm in HA 335
Brian Dennis, University of Idaho
"Theorems or theories: Do mathematical population models really work?"
Professor Dennis is a candidate for director of the Biomathematics program.

Tuesday, April 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
2:35 p.m., in HA 330
David Chopp, Northwestern University
"The coupled eXtended-finite element method and level set method applied to crack propagation"

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Wednesday, April 9

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Thursday, April 10

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Mansoor Haider, North Carolina State University
"The role of cartilage mechanics in osteoarthritis: models and experiments"

Friday, April 11

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS
1:30-3:00 p.m. in Nelson 1130, NCSU
Michael Winchell, Bear Wagner Specialists, LLC, Wall Street, New York
Chris Shin and Torben Botts, Bear Stearns, New York
Discussion

ALGEBRA
1:30 p.m. in HA 26
Noriko Yui, University of Toronto
"Calabi-Yau varieties and mirror symmetry"

Week of April 14 - 18, 2003

Monday, April 14

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Florian Potra, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"A superlinearly convergent interior point method for LCP based on a large neighborhood of the central path with optimal computational complexity"

PROBABILITY SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Vladas Pipiras, UNC Chapel Hill
"The structure of stable self-similar processes with stationary increments"

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Tuesday, April 15

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

MATHEMATICAL BRIDGES / NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Carl Meyer, North Carolina State University
"Mathematical fuel for search engines"

Wednesday, April 16

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Charlie Smith, North Carolina State University
Title: TBA

Week of April 21 - 25, 2003

Monday, April 21

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Tuesday, April 22

OPERATIONS RESEARCH
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Robert Buche, North Carolina State University
"Stability and control of wireless systems"

Wednesday, April 23

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Chad Topaz, Duke University
"Dynamics of a two-dimensional continuum model for swarming"

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
3:30-5:00 p.m. in HA 261
David Johnson, Jason Blevins and Chris Lipa.
The second is April 28, from 3:30-5:00 in HA 261 with presentors Pat Barrow and Franklin Goldsmith.

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Sharon Lubkin, North Carolina State University
Title: TBA

Week of April 28 - May 2, 2003

Monday, April 28

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in HA 261
Pat Barrow will present work he did at the MASS program at Penn State.
Franklin Goldsmith will speak on "Numerical simulation of an annular fuel
cell."

Tuesday, April 29

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Qing H. Liu, Duke University
"Fast 3-D algorithms for electromagnetic forward and inverse problems in photonics and subsurface sensing"

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Wednesday, April 30

GRADUATE STUDENT/ FACULTY TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BIOMATHEMATICS
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Carol Hall, North Carolina State University
ñComputer simulation of protein aggregationî

COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Carla Savage, North Carolina State University
"Venn diagrams and symmetric chain decompositions in the Boolean lattice"

Thursday, May 1

AWARDS DAY
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in HA 201
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in HA 245

Week of May 5 - 9, 2003

BIOMATHEMATICS
Eugene Bruce, University of Kentucky
2:50-3:40 p.m. in Cox 206
"Does Disorder in Breathing Signify a Breathing Disorder?"
Candidate for the Biomath Director Position.