Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Spring 2007

(listings for other semesters)

The Applied Mathematics Colloquium combines lectures by our faculty, visiting scholars from other institutions, and scholars from other science departments at UNC. The latter contributions are particularly important as we develop collaborations on our own research interests, on shared applied science curricula, and on the developments of our graduate program. These seminar lectures allow faculty and graduate students to view applied science with a mathematical flavor, to meet a diverse group of applied scientists, and for graduate students in particular to get a sense of potential career opportunities. All are welcome!

Refreshments prior to the talk will be served in Phillips Hall, Room 330, at 3:30pm. The seminars will be held in Phillips Hall, Room 332, unless otherwise noted.

Friday January 19, 4pm, Phillips 383

Todd Squires, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Probing the nonlinear response of soft materials by active microrheology"

Friday January 26, 4pm, Phillips 383

Zhi "George" Lin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Evolution of the Probability Measure for the Majda Model: New Invariant Measures and Breathing PDFs"

Friday February 2, 4pm, Phillips 383

Gregory Beylkin, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Fast algorithms for adaptive application of integral operators in high dimensions"

Friday February 9, 4pm, Phillips 332

Jun Zhang, Department of Physics and Courant Institute, New York University
"On Unidirectional Flapping Flight of a Symmetric Wing"

Friday February 16, 4pm, Phillips 332

Pierre Gremaud, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
"Modeling and computational issues in slow granular flows"

Friday March 2, 4pm, Phillips 332

Ann Almgren, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
"Low Mach Number Modeling of Type Ia Supernovae"

Friday March 23, 4pm, Phillips 332

Carl Bender, Department of Physics, Washington University
"Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians"

Friday March 30, 4pm, Phillips 332

Colleen Mitchell, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
"Neural Timing in Highly Convergent Systems"

Friday April 13, 4pm, Phillips 332

Thomas Hughes, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
"Computational Geometry and Computational Mechanics"

Friday April 20, 4pm, Phillips 332

Mayetri Gupta, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill
"Variable selection in high dimensional regression models with applications to gene regulatory networks"