NCSU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Department of Mathematics

Biomathematics Alumnus Seminar
4:30-5:45, Cox Hall 214
Grace Kepler, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, NCSU
A Dynamic Model for Induced Reactivation of Latent Virus

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

WEEK OF January 17 – January 20, 2006

Tuesday, January 17

Operations Research Seminar
4:00-5:00, Daniels 401 (pizza)
Orientation to OR and meet the new students

Wednesday, January 18

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Dejan Slepcev, UCLA
Coarsening in thin liquid films
Dr. Slepcev is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations

Symbolic Computation Seminar (New Time)
4:00-5:00, HA 330
Kartik Sivaramakrishnan, NCSU
Solving polynomial optimization problems via real algebraic geometry and semidefinite programming

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

Friday, January 20

Joint NA/DE Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Melvin Leok, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Computational geometric mechanics and its applications to geometric optimal control theory
Dr. Leok is a candidate for a faculty position

WEEK OF January 23 – January 27, 2006

Tuesday, January 24

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 330
Zhiwu Lin, New York University
Stability of collisionless plasmas
Dr. Lin is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations

Biomathematics Alumni Seminar
4:30-5:45, Cox Hall 214
Jason Pirone, Constella Health Sciences
Applications of computational methods in toxicology

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

Wednesday, January 25

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 330
Horacio Rotstein, Boston University
The dynamic structure underlying subthreshold oscillatory activity and the onset of spikes in a
model of medial entorhinal cortex stellate cells
Dr. Rotstein is a candidate for a faculty position

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

Thursday, January 26

Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 330
Ruriko Yoshida, Duke University
The generalized neighbor joining method
Dr. Yoshida is a candidate for a faculty position

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

Friday, January 27

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 330
Jesenko Vukadinovic, University of Chicago
A Smoluchowski equation arising in the Doi-Hess model of nematic liquid crystalline polymers
Dr. Vukadinovic is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations

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

WEEK OF January 30 – February 3, 2006

Monday, January 30

NCSU SIAM Student Chapter
12:15-12:45, HA 261

Tuesday, January 31

Special Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 330
Nathan Reading, University of Michigan
Catalan combinatorics of finite coxeter groups
Dr. Reading is a candidate for a faculty position

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

Wednesday, February 1

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 330
Plamen Koev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computing accurate eigenvalues - From electrical impedance tomography to 3D target recognition
Dr. Koev is a candidate for a faculty position

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

Thursday, February 2

Special Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 330
Pavel Lushnikov, University of Notre Dame
Singularity formation in hydrodynamics, nonlinear optics, and biology
Dr. Lushnikov is a candidate for a faculty position

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

Friday, February 3

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
TBA

WEEK OF February 6 – 10, 2006

Tuesday, February 7

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Murthy N. Guddati, Department of Civil Engineering, NC State University
New one-way wave equations for complex elastic media, with applications to subsurface
imaging and unbounded domain modeling

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Matthias F. (Matt) Stallman, Department of Computer Science, NC State University
Optimal solutions for generalized covering problems

Wednesday, February 8

Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Jack Perry, North Carolina Wesleyan College
A search for chains of S-polynomial representations

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

Friday, February 10

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Bojko Bakalov, NC State University
Polylocality of quantum fields

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Jesus F. Rodriguez, SAMSI
Financial derivatives in the electricity market

WEEK OF February 13 – 17, 2006

Monday, February 13

SAMSI Seminar
2:00-3:00, NISS/SAMSI Building, Room 104 (19 TW Alexander Dr. RTP)
Bo Li, Department of Statistics and Electrical Engineering
A geostatistical method for Texas NexRad data calibration

Tuesday, February 14

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Guowei Wei, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
Mathematical problems in implicit solvent approaches for biomolecular modeling

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Samuel Burer, Department of Management Science, The University of Iowa
A finite branch-and-bound algorithm for nonconvex quadratic programming via semidefinite programming

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

Friday, February 17

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Alberto De Sole, Harvard University
Quantum and classical W algebras

WEEK OF February 20 – 24, 2006

Monday, February 20

SAMSI Colloquia
2:30-3:30, SAMSI 104
Gentry White, University of Missouri
Bayesian spatio-temporal smoothing of cancer mortality rates, Missouri 1969-2001

Tuesday, February 21

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Pierre Gremaud, NC State University
Numerical investigation of vacuum formation in compressible flows

Biomathematics Seminar
4:30-5:45, Cox 214
Eric Stone, NCSU Bioinformatics Research Center and Dept. of Statistics
Robustness of the phylogenetic comparative method

Wednesday, February 22

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Peter Gordon, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Propagation of fronts in porous media combustion

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

Friday, February 24

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Stephen Zhou, PhD defense presentation
Application of perturbation methods to modeling correlated defaults in financial markets

SAMSI Colloquia
11:30-12:30, SAMSI 104
Asher Shamam, University of Southern California
Modeling and deconvolution of alcohol transport through human skin

WEEK OF February 27 – March 3, 2006

Monday, February 27

SIAM Student Chapter
12:20, HA 261
Monthly meeting

Tuesday, February 28

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, 406 Daniels
Don Warsing, NCSU College of Management
Forecast updating and supplier coordination for complementary component purchases

Wednesday, March 1

Mathematics Department Colloquium
4:00-5:00, HA 201
Douglas Arnold, IMA and the University of Minnesota
Finite element exterior calculus and its applications

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri
Fredholm, Evans, Jost

Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Douglas Marks, NCSU
Simplification of Sturm-Habicht based quantifier elimination

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

Thursday, March 2

Special Seminar
1:05-1:50, HA 320
Douglas Arnold, IMA and the University of Minnesota
IMA activities and how to participate: An informal overview

WEEK OF March 13 – 17, 2006

Tuesday, March 14

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Tim Kelley, NC State University
Pseudo-transient continuation

Biomathemtics Student Seminar
4:30-5:45, Cox 214
Mamiko Arai, NCSU Biomath
TBA

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Abdelhakim Artiba, Ecole de Technolgie Superieure, Montreal
Forecast updating and supplier coordination for complementary component purchases

Wednesday, March 15

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Eugene Tsyganov, NC State University
Uniqueness and continuous dependence on initial data in compressible magnetohydrodynamics

Thursday, March 16

Departmental Colloquium
4:00-5:00, HA 201
Sergei Novikov, Landau Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Maryland
Fermi surfaces, quasiperiodic functions, and Hamiltonian systems

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

Friday, March 17

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
John McCleary, Vassar College
Stringy algebra

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Denis Pelletier, Department of Economics, NCSU
TBA

WEEK OF March 20 – 24, 2006

Monday, March 20

AMGSS Seminar
4:15-5:05, HA 330
Chris Lipa, Cornell University
Some structure of the Mandelbrot set

Tuesday, March 21

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Sethu Raman, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, NC State University
Challenges in weather prediction in winter and summer

Wednesday, March 22

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Richar Kollar, University of Michigan
Linear stability of stratified fluids and he associated nonlinear eigenvalue problem

Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Oleg Golubitsky, Queen's University Kingston
Computation of differential rankings

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

Thursday, March 23

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Brett Bush, OR PhD Candidate
Analysis of fuel consumption for an aircraft deployment with multiple aerial refuelings

Friday, March 24

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Moustapha Pemy, SAMSI
Liquidation of a large block of stock

WEEK OF March 27 – 31, 2006

Tuesday, March 28

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Ping Lin, National University of Singapore
A quasi-continuum approximation in material fracture and its analysis

BMA Student Seminar
4:30-5:45, Cox 214
Yabo Wu, NCSU Biomath

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

Wednesday, March 29

SAMSI Seminar
10:00-12:00, SAMSI Room 201
Michael lavine, Duke University
An introduction to Markov random fields with an illustration from archeology

Thursday, March 30

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Alice Smith, Auburn University
The particle swarm approach to optimization with an application in facility location

Friday, March 31

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Yan Gao, Progress Energy
Risk management in energy markets

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Shrawan Kumar, UNC Chapel Hill
On Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture for simple Lie algebras

SAMSI Seminar
11:00-12:00, SAMSI Room 104
Lawrence H. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics
Mathematical models for data security problems in tables

WEEK OF April 3 –- April 7, 2006

Tuesday, April 4

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Robert Buche, NC State University
Numerical methods for stochastic control: A wireless power control application

BMA Student Seminar
4:30-5:45, Cox 214
Miyuki Breen and Althea Smith, NCSU Biomath
MRI image-guided tumor ablation: Model to predict cell death from MRI temperature images (Miyuki Breen)
Mechanistic model of escherichia coli cell death under acidic conditions (Althea Smith)

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Vijay Nair, University of Michigan
Taguchi's robust parameter design: A 25-year retrospective look at the contributions and impact

Wednesday, April 5

Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Itnuit Janovitz Freireich, NC State University
Approximate radical of ideals with clusters of roots

Friday, April 7

Mathematics Colloquium
4:00-5:00, HA 201
P.S. Krishnaprasad, University of Maryland, College Park
Pursuit, stealth, and cohesion: Lessons from nature

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Shijie Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Option pricing by fast convolution transform

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Nick Loehr, The College of William and Mary
Building Macdonald polynomials

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

WEEK OF April 10 – April 14, 2006

Monday, April 10

Joint Mathematics/Engineering Colloquium
4:00-5:00, HA 201
Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist of the NASA Langley Research Center
The'Bots, 'Borgs, and (Genetically Modified) Humans Welcome you to 2025 A.D.

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

Tuesday, April 11

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Leszek Demkowicz, University of Texas
Fully automatic hp-adaptive simulations for elliptic and Maxwell problems

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Sidney Resnick, Cornell University
Data network models of burstiness

Wednesday, April 12

Joint Differential Equations/Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Maria Lukacova, Hamburg University of Technology
Theory of bicharacteristics and genuinely multidimensional finite volume schemes for hyperbolic balance laws

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

WEEK OF April 17 – April 21, 2006

Tuesday, April 18

BMA Student Seminar
4:30-5:45, Cox 214
Ji Zhang and Matt Hamilton, NCSU Biomath

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Ranji Ranijithan, NCSU CCE
Evolutionary algorithms in addressing contamination threat management in civil infrastructures

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

Wednesday, April 19

Symbolic Computation Seminar
3:00-4:00, HA 335
Robert Quinn, NC State University
Parametric real root counting

Friday, April 21

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Naihuan Jing, NCSU
Vertex operators and quantum cohomology of the grassmannians

Differential Equations Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Alexander Oron, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and Duke University
Pattern formation in the longware Marangoni instability of a binary liquid with the Soret effect

Financial Mathematics Seminar
1:30-2:30, Nelson 1206
Yan Zeng, Florida State University
Intensity process and compensator: A new filtration expansion approach and the Jeulin-Yor formula

WEEK OF April 24 – 28, 2006

Tuesday, April 25

Undergraduate Research Presentations
2:45-3:30, HA 335
Steven Major, Predicting Resonant and Attenuant Population Cycles in Periodically Forced Environments
Ben Perryman, A Game Theoretic Approach to Billiards

Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Vrushali Bokil, CRSC
Homogenization of periodically varying coefficients in electromagnetic materials

Operations Research Seminar
4:30-5:30, Daniels 406
Rock Rosenthal, Naval Postgraduate School
Secrets of success with optimization

Refreshments
3:30-4:00, HA 243

Wednesday, April 26

Joint Differential Equations/Numerical Analysis Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 330
Bo Li, University of California at San Diego
Surface diffusion vs. the Ehrlich-Schwoebel effect in thin-film growth

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Ben Cox, College of Charleston
Boson type realizations of 4-point algebras

Awards Ceremony
4:00-5:00, HA 201

Awards Reception
3:30-4:00, HA 243

WEEK OF May 1 –- 5, 2006

Monday, May 1

Differential Equations Seminar
4:10-5:10, HA 330
Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute
The one-dimensional force NLS equation: Towards classifying the structure of its chaotic solutions

Tuesday, May 2

Retirement Luncheon
11:30-1:00, Bowling Alley (Hillsborough Street)
Honoring the retirement of Lavon Page and William Waters

Wednesday, May 3

Joint Differential Equations/Probability Seminar
1:30-2:30, HA 330
Hyung Ju Hwang, Trinity College (Ireland)
Hyperbolic models for chemosensitive movement in interacting cell systems

Math Department Meeting
2:30-3:30, HA 201

Refreshments
3:30-4:00, HA 243

Friday, May 5

Algebra Seminar
3:00-3:50, HA 335
Yi-Zhi Huang, Rutgers University
Towards a mathematical construction of conformal field theories