NCSU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Department of Mathematics

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Tom Beale, Duke University
"Computing with singular and nearly singular integrals"

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

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Brooke Steele, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill
"A simulation-based medical planning system for occlusive
cardiovascular disease using one-dimensional analysis techniques"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. in HA 215
Hoon Hong, North Carolina State University
"Computer Algebra for Composed Polynomials"

Thursday, January 22

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 261
James Cook, North Carolina State University
"A beginner's guide to supersymmetry"

Friday, January 23

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30-3:00 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Kay Giesecke, ORIE Department, Cornell University
"The market price of credit risk"

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Normal forms of dynamical systems"

WEEK OF JANUARY 26 - 30, 2004>

Monday, January 26

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Heinrich Matzinger, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Some ideas used in scenery reconstruction"

Tuesday, January 27

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Semyon Tsynkov, North Carolina State University
"The Huygens' principle in computational electromagnetics and beyond"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Elisabeth Loboa, Department of Biomedical Engineering, NC State
Title TBA

Wednesday, January 28

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

COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan
"Dynamics and control of oscillators and spins coupled to the environment"

Thursday, January 29

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 261
James Cook, North Carolina State University
"Supersymmetry II"

Friday, January 30

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30-3:00 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Denis Pelletier, Department of Economics, NC State
"Backtesting value-at-risk: a duration-based approach"

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Normal forms of dynamical systems"

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2 - 6, 2004>

Monday, February 2

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Initial-boundary value problems for nonhyperbolic first-order systems
of balance laws"

Tuesday, February 3

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Yingjie Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Backward error compensation for transportation equations
with application to the level set method"

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

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Michael Zager, UNC Department of Toxicology and U.S. EPA Office of
Research and Development
"A Feedback Model for Testicular-Pituitary Axis Hormone Kinetics and
their Effects on the Regulation of the Prostate in Adult Male Rats"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. In HA 215
Michael Singer , NC State
"Rational general solutions of algebraic ordinary differential equations
(after Feng and Gao)"

Wednesday, February 4

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Kris Jenssen, NC State
"Reactive Flow and Detonations. Part 1: Background"

Thursday, February 5

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 261
James Cook, North Carolina State University
"Supersymmetry III"

Friday, February 6

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30-3:00 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Mou-Hsiung Chang, U.S. Army Research Office
"Hereditary portfolio optimization with transaction costs and taxes:
A quasi-variational HJB inequality in infinite dimensions"

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Invariant manifolds"

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9 - 13, 2004>

Tuesday, February 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Semyon Tsynkov, NC State
"The Huygens' principle in computational electromagnetics and beyond"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Julia Kimbell, CIIT
"Applications of computational fluid dynamics to studies of nasal uptake and
deposition"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. In HA 215
Olivier Ruatta, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
"Symbolic/numeric and algebraic/differential interface"

Wednesday, February 11

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Stephanos Venakides , Duke University
"The semiclassical focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation"

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

Thursday, February 12

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 261
James Cook, NC State
"Supersymmetry IV"

Friday, February 13

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30-3:00 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Denis Pelletier, Department of Economics, NC State
"Backtesting value-at-risk: A duration-based approach"

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Classical bifurcations: Fold, transcritical, pitchfork, Hopf, etc."

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 16 - 20, 2004

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Monday, February 16

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Philip Protter, Cornell University
"Liquidity risk and arbitrage pricing theory"

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Kristian Jenssen, NC State
"Multi-dimensional stability of planar detonations"

Tuesday, February 17

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
William Atchely, Departments of Genetics and Statistics, NC State
Title TBA at
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/biomath/courses/BMAseminarschedule.html

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. In HA 215
Carla Savage, Department of Computer Science, NC State
"Lecture hall partitions and variations "

Wednesday, February 18

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
W. Garrett Mitchener , Duke University
"A mathematical model of a change in the word order of Middle English"

Thursday, February 19

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

FACULTY MEETING
4:00 p.m. in HA 201

Friday, February 20

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Normal forms of control systems"

CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 23 - 27, 2004
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Monday, February 23

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Kristian Jenssen, NC State
"Multi-dimensional stability of planar detonations (continued)"

Tuesday, February 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Robert Krasny, University of Michigan
"A treecode algorithm for long-range particle interactions"

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

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Mike Reed, Duke University
"Mathematics and cell metabolism"

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Liqun Qi, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
"Semismooth Newton methods for shape-preserving interpolation, option
pricing and semi-infinite programs"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. in HA 215
John May, NC State
"Approximate factorization of bivariate polynomials via SVD methods"

Thursday, February 26

JOINT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
N. Harris McClamroch , Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of
Michigan
"Variational integrators: A review, some new results, and applications to
the simulation of a dumbbell body in space"

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 261
Jason Osbourne, NC State
"The role of connections in non-holonomic mechanical systems with symmetry"

WEEK OF MARCH 1 - 5, 2004
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Monday, March 1

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Kristian Jenssen, NC State
"Stability of Detonations: the Gap Lemma and low frequency stability"

Tuesday, March 2

SAMSI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
4:30 p.m. in MCNC-RDI Auditorium
Jonathan Chapman, Oxford University
"A hierarchy of models for type-II superconductors"

Wednesday, March 3

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION LUNCHTIME SEMINAR
12:15 p.m. in HA 377
Min Kang, NC State
"Probability theory and the related fields"
and
Mette Olufsen, NC State
"Modeling control of blood flow during postural change from sitting to
standing"

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Hayk Melikyan, North Carolina Central University
"Maximal subalgebras of modular simple Lie algebras"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Mark Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Stability of multidimensional viscous shocks"

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

Thursday, March 4

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 261
Jason Osbourne, NC State
"The role of connections in non-holonomic mechanical systems with symmetry"

Friday, March 5

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Control bifurcations"

WEEK OF MARCH 15 - 19, 2004>

Monday, March 15

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Kristian Jenssen, NC State
"Reduced Lopatinski determinant for reactive Euler equations"

Tuesday, March 16

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION LUNCHTIME SEMINAR
12:15 p.m. in HA 325
Mansoor Haider, NC State
"The role of cartilage mechanics in osteoarthritis"
and
Steve Campbell, NC State
"Problems involving differential algebraic equations: a collage"

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Pierre Gremaud, NC State
"Numerical methods for stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equations"

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

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Keith Weninger, Department of Physics, NC State
"Snare proteins and membrane fusion"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. in HA 215
Wen-shin Lee, INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France)
"Symbolic-numeric sparse polynomial interpolation"

Wednesday, March 17

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Ruhai Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The phase diagram for nematic polymers"

Friday, March 19

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Control bifurcations revisited"

WEEK OF MARCH 22-26, 2004
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Monday, March 22

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
"Random permutations and random matrix"

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Jesus Carlos da Mota, Universidade Federal de Goias (Brazil) and NC State
"Chapman-Jouguet combustion processes"

Tuesday, March 23

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
"Numerical methods for stochastic differential equations"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. in HA 215
Agnes Szanto, NC State
"Over-constrained Weierstrass iteration computes the distance to consistent systems"

Wednesday, March 24

JOINT ALGEBRA/SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Seth Sullivant, University of California at Berkeley
"Phylogenic invariants"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
"Continuous Glimm-type functionals in hyperbolic systems of conservation
laws"

Thursday, March 25

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 261
Irina Kogan, NC State
"Introduction to the variational bicomplex"

Friday, March 26

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Low codimension control bifurcations"

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA335
Haisheng Li, Rutgers University-Camden
"On certain categories of modules for affine Lie algebras"

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

DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 325
Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland
"Critical Thresholds in Eulerian Dynamics"

WEEK OF MARCH 29 - APRIL 2, 2004>

Monday, March 29

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Jack Silverstein, NC State
"Eigenvalues of large dimensional sample covariance matrices"

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Jesus Carlos da Mota, Universidade Federal de Goias (Brazil) and NC State
"Chapman-Jouguet combustion processes (continued)"

Tuesday, March 30

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Chris Kees, NC State
"Numerical solution of advection-diffusion-reaction equations with
non-differentiable coefficients"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. in HA 215
Brandilyn Stigler, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
"Discrete models in computational biology"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Tom Kepler, Duke University
"Computational immunology of primary lymphoid transplantation: Basic
research and clinical support"

Wednesday, March 31

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Rudy Horne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Optical pulse interactions: Four-wave mixing and randomness in
return-to-zero systems"

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

Thursday, March 25

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:05 p.m. in HA 261
Irina Kogan, NC State
"Introduction to the variational bicomplex (continued)"

Friday, April 2

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION LUNCHTIME SEMINAR
12:15 p.m. in HA 377
Elmor Peterson, NC State
"A generalization of the traditional first-order optimality conditions"
and
Sharon Lubkin, NC State
Title TBA

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Yong Li, Progress Energy
"An introduction to energy markets: Commonly traded instruments, contract
Types, and how the modeling Is usually done"

WEEK OF APRIL 5 - 9, 2004>

Monday, April 5

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

COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Norden Huang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"A new mathematical method for nonlinear and nonstationary time series
analysis: Empirical mode decomposition"

Tuesday, April 6

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Paul Tiesinga, Department of Physics, UNC Chapel Hill
"Precision, reliability and the neural code"

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Robert Buche, NC State
"Adaptive optimization of tracking algorithms via stochastic approximation"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. in HA 215
Jack Perry, NC State
"Groebner basis detection for two polynomials"

SAMSI DISTINGUISED LECTURE
4:30 p.m. in MCNC-RDI Auditorium
Thomas G. Kurtz, University of Wisconsin
"Particle representations of continuum models"

Wednesday, April 7

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Dmitry Zenkov , NC State
"Constrained dynamics and variational integrators on Lie groups"

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

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 330
Norden Huang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"On trends, detrending and the variability of nonlinear and nonstationary
time series"

WEEK OF APRIL 12 - 16, 2004>

Monday, April 12

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Steve Schecter, NC State
"Gasser-Szmolyan theory of viscous combustion waves"

Tuesday, April 13

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Celeste Sagui, Department of Physics, NC State
"New distributed multipole methods for accurate electrostatics in
large-scale biomolecular simulation"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:30 p.m. in HA 368
Timothy Elston, UNC Chapel Hill
"Stochastic effects in signaling pathways"

OPERATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Rada Chirkova, Department of Computer Science, NC State
"Self-organizing databases"

Wednesday, April 14

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Bojko Bakalov, NC State
"Twisted modules over lattice vertex algebras"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Michael Shearer, NC State
"Wave structures in the flow of driven thin liquid films: Kinetics and
nucleation in scalar conservation laws"

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

Friday, April 16

VISSTA
10:00 a.m. in EGRC 136
Irina Kogan, NC State
"Applications of Moving Frames and Differential Invariants in Computer Vision"

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Local solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and related equations"

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Paul Fackler, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, NC State
"Introduction to indirect inference"

WEEK OF APRIL 19 - 23, 2004>

Monday, April 19

COMBUSTION SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Steve Schecter, NC State
"Gasser-Szmolyan theory of viscous combustion waves (continued)"

Tuesday, April 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Jan Hesthaven, Brown University
"High-order accurate computational methods for time-domain
electromagnetics"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 245

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 368
Will Wilson, Duke University
"Population dynamical models for patterns of ecological communities: Making the most of Lotka-Volterra Theory"

SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
4:10 p.m. in HA 215
Elizabeth Mansfield
University of Kent, United Kingdom
"Towards a variational complex of the Finite Element Method"

Wednesday, April 21

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330

Thursday, April 22

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Patricia Hersh, University of Michigan
"A GL_n(q) analogue of the partition lattice and discrete Morse theory for
posets "

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

FACULTY MEETING
4:00 p.m. in HA 201

Friday, April 23

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTROL SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Art Krener, University of California at Davis
"Nonlinear regulation and the FBI equation"

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Jean-Pierre Fouque, NC State
"Credit risk: First passage structural models revisited"

WEEK OF APRIL 26 - 30, 2004>

Monday, April 26

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

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION INVITED LECTURE
4:00 p.m. in HA 330
Jeff Knisley, East Tennessee State University
"Mathematical models of the neuron"

WORKSHOP ON DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRA AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION
4:10 p.m. in HA 335
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota
"Moving frames for pseudogroups"
and
Agnes Szanto, NC State
"Over-constrained Weierstrass iteration computes the distance to consistent
systems"

Tuesday, April 27

WORKSHOP ON DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRA AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION
10 a.m. in HA 330
Irina Kogan, NC State
"Noether correspondence for group-invariant variational problems"
and
Michael Singer, NC State
"Inverse problems in differential Galois theory"

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Doron Levy, Stanford University
"High-order Godunov-type schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi equations"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:30 p.m. in HA 368
Chris Portier, NIEHS
Title TBA

Wednesday, April 28

WORKSHOP ON DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRA AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION
2:00-4:00 p.m. in HA 314
Evelyne Hubert, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (France)
"Differential algebra for derivations with nontrivial commutation rules"
and
Elizabeth L. Mansfield, University of Kent (United Kingdom)
"Difference Forms - from local to global"

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

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Kenneth McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title TBA

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

AWARDS DAY
4:00 p.m. in HA 201

Thursday, April 29

UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Please come support our undergraduates. Refreshments and snacks will be
provided after the presentation.

Friday, April 30

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30 p.m. in Kilgore 125
Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville
"Insider's hedging in a jump diffusion model"