Applied & Computational Mathematics Seminar

photon diffusion in the brain (A. Barnett)

The ACMS brings together researchers across the Dartmouth campus who share common interests in the real-world applications of mathematical models (both continuous and discrete), and tools to tackle the resulting numerical simulation and computation challenges. Talks, enjoyed in a casual setting over lunch, include both outside speakers, and locals (for whom it is a chance to reach outside one's own department). The topics and audience will broadly cover the physical, neuro-, life, computational sciences, mathematics, medicine, engineering, etc. Although mathematics may form the common tongue, speakers will necessarily keep most language non-technical in order to bridge across disciplines.

block unstacking algorithms (D. Balkcom)

FALL 2009 Schedule

• Nov 30, 3pm [note: Monday]: Mikael Rechtsman (Courant Institute, NYU). Upper bounds on photonic bandgaps.

WINTER 2010 Schedule

• Jan 28, 11am [note: Thursday]: Noah Graham (Middlebury College). Title TBA (something on quantum computing!)

  Questions? Want to speak? Organizers Alex Barnett and Petia Vlahovska welcome your input and energy. We are located in the glorious new Kemeny Hall mathematics building; see maps and travel info. We have a fabulous Mitsubishi XD490U DLP projector (please set your laptop to XGA 1024x768 for best picture).

  
  

  Previous seminars:

  WINTER/SPRING 2009 Schedule

  • Jan 27: Scott Pauls (Dartmouth). An introduction to the Partition Decoupling Method (PDM) and an application to the U.S. equities market. You may want to look at their accompanying short PNAS article.
  • Feb 3: Scott Pauls (Dartmouth). Ideology in U.S. Congress via the Partition Decoupling Method. Probably Kemeny 120.
  • Friday Feb 6, 11:15am: George Biros (Compu Sci & Eng, Georgia Tech). An efficient numerical method for vesicle simulations. Note location: MacLean Rm 201 (Thayer School)
  • Mar 31, 1pm, Haldeman 041: David G. Stork (Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University). Computer vision and pattern recognition for the analysis of paintings and drawings: New rigorous methods complement humanistic scholarship in the study of fine art

  SPRING 2008 Schedule

  • Apr 29: [Greg Leibon (Dartmouth Mathematics and Memento Security). talk postponed!]
  • May 27: Dan Graham (Dartmouth Mathematics Dept). Mapping the Similarity Space of Paintings: Is There a Role for Image Statistics?.
  • May 29 [note: Thurs, 1-2pm]: special seminar by visitor Aloknath Chakrabarti, (Mathematics Dept, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Singular integral equations arising in water wave problems (download slides 0.9MB PPT)

  WINTER 2008 Schedule

  • Jan 10 [note: Thursday 12-1pm] Greg Leibon (Dartmouth Mathematics and Memento Security). Fast Rotations
  • Jan 15: Yuan Young (Dept of Mathematical Sciences NJIT). Novel Fluid Dynamics in Stokes Flows
  • Jan 22: Giulio Genovese (Dartmouth Mathematics). An interesting connection between hierarchical clustering and kmeans clustering
  • [Jan 29: no seminar]
  • Feb 5: Fridon Shubitidze (Thayer School). The Method of Auxiliary Sources (MAS): theory and application to various inverse scattering problems
  • Feb 12:
  • Feb 19: Reza Olfati-Saber (Thayer School). Flocks: Self-Organizing Networked Systems
  • Feb 26: Dan Graham (Dartmouth Mathematics, fresh from Cornell). Relationships Between Human Visual Coding and Painted Art
  • Mar 4:
    [Fri Mar 28: not an ACMS talk, but I recommend the Jones Seminar by Wendy Zhang at 3pm, Spanos Auditorium (Room 100), Cummings Hall]

  WINTER 2007 Schedule

  • Jan 9: Timo Betcke (Manchester, UK). The Method of Particular Solutions for the Laplace Eigenvalue Problem
  • Jan 16: Eugene Demidenko (Dartmouth Medical School / Mathematics). Magic Toeplitz Matrix and Its Application in Laplace PDE, Markov Chain Models and Color Vision
  • [Jan 23-Feb 27: Alex away]

  SPRING 2007 Schedule

  • Apr 3:
    [Note: Thurs Apr 5: I highly recommend Leslie Greengard's math colloquium talk on non-uniform FFT in medical imaging, 4pm, Kemeny 007]
  • Apr 10:
  • Apr 17: Luc Rey Bellet (UMass Amherst): Large deviations in hyperbolic billiards
  • Apr 24: Bryan Hennelly (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), An Investigation of Discrete Sampling from a Phase-Space Perspective
  • May 1: Peng Peng Yu (Dartmouth Physics Dept), The limiting behavior of the Liu-Yau quasi-local energy
  • May 8: Petia Vlahovska (Thayer School), Microhydrodynamics of soft particles
  • May 15: Afra Zomorodian (CS), Topological data analysis
  • May 22: Markus Testorf (Thayer School), Superresolution in optics: what you see is what you get
  • May 29:

  FALL 2006 Schedule

  • Sept 26: Pascal Heider (Lucent Labs/Columbia). Billiards with rational caustics as asymmetric resonant cavities
  • Oct 3: Toby Driscoll (Delaware): Conformal Mapping 2.0
  • Oct 10: Enam Hoq (Western New England College): Ring-Shaped Solitons in a "Dartboard" Photonic Lattice (or my excursion into nonlinear optics)
  • [Oct 17: Alex away]
  • [Oct 24: Alex away]
  • Oct 31: Giulio Genovese (Dartmouth). Strategies for painting authentication and authorship recognition
  • Nov 7: [no talk]
  • Now 14: Andrea Borsic (Dartmouth, Thayer School). Total Variation regularization in Electric Impedance Tomography
  • Nov 21: Matt Mahoney (Dartmouth). The Method of Particular Solutions and Billiards in Linear Potentials
  • [Nov 28: Alex away]

  SPRING 2006 Schedule

  • May 9: Adi Rangan (Courant Institute). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Line-Motion Illusion in Primary Visual Cortex
  • May 16: Devin Balkcom (CS, Dartmouth). Robots and math: from fast cars to origami
  • May 23 Kevin Lin (Courant Institute). Entrainment and chaos in driven nonlinear oscillators