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Fall 2009 Schedule

October 22, 2009 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor James D. Murray, Center for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
Title: The Marriage Equation: A practical theory for predicting divorce and a scientifically-based marital therapy
October 23, 2009 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor James D. Murray, Center for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
Title: On the Growth of Brain Tumours: enhancing imaging techniques & highlighting inadequacies of current therapies
November 20, 2009 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Professor Mary F. Wheeler, Director Center for Subsurface Modeling, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Title: Computational Environments for Coupling Multiphase Flow, Transport, and Geomechanics in Porous Media for Modeling Carbon Sequestration

 

Spring 2009 Schedule

March 5, 2009 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 117
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Michael J. Steele, Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title: A Streetwise Gambler Goes to Wall Street
March 6, 2009 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 117
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Michael J. Steele, Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Probability Theory of Minimal Spanning Trees
April 23, 2009 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 117
Professor Nilima Nigam, Department of Mathematics, Simon Frazer University, Canada
Title: Bone growth and destruction at the cellular level: a mathematical model

 

Fall 2008 Schedule

October 24, 2008 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 102
Professor Peter Sin, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida
Title: Group actions on Dirichlet Series
November 6, 2008 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 116
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Fadil Santosa, Director of IMA, University of Minnesota
Title: Compressed sensing -- Seeing with less (Undergraduate talk)
November 7, 2008 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 116
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Fadil Santosa, Director of IMA, University of Minnesota
Title: The mathematics of progressive lens design (Colloquium talk)

 

Spring 2008 Schedule

March 20, 2008 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. 127 Memorial Hall
Patrick T. Harker, President, University of Delaware
Title: A Gradient-based Method for Analyzing Stochastic Variational Inequalities

 

May 2, 2008 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. 318 Gore Hall
Liliana Borcea, Noah G. Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Title: Edge illumination and imaging of extended reflectors

Fall 2007 Schedule

October 19, 2007 3:30 - 4:30 Sharp Lab 130
Professor Winne Li , Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
Title: Pseudo-codewords of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Codes

 

November 7, 2007 3:30 - 4:30 Gore Hall 102
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Richard Falk, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Title: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Approximation (Undergraduate Talk)

 

November 9, 2007 3:30 - 4:30 Gore Hall 102
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Richard Falk, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Title: Numerical Stability is a Subtle Issue (Research Level Talk)

 

Spring 2007 Schedule

March 19, 2007 3:30 - 4:30 Gore 102
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Dr. Aart Blokhuis , Tech. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: Button Madness

 

March 21, 2007 3:30 - 4:30 Gore 102
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Dr. Aart Blokhuis , Tech. University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: Do we know all 3-colorable distance regular graphs.

 

April 13, 2007 3:30 - 4:30 Gore 104
Professor Qiang Du , Pennsylvania State University
Title: Phase field models for curvature related interface problems
Refreshments following the colloquium (4:45) in Ewing 436

 

Fall 2006 Schedule

September 28, 2006 4:00 - 5:00 Gore 103
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Dr. Tony Chan , Math Dept, University of California at Los Angeles
Title: Image Processing: A new frontier for applied math

 

September 29 , 2006 4:00 - 5:00 Gore 103
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Dr. Tony Chan , Math Dept, University of California at Los Angeles
Title: Variational PDE Techniques in Wavelet Based Image Processing

 

November 3 , 2006 3:30 - 4:30 Gore 103
Professor Michael P. Brenner , Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, Harvard University
Title: Mathematical issues and opportunities in self assembly
Refreshments following the colloquium (4:45) in Ewing 436

 

December 1 , 2006 3:30 - 4:30 Gore 104
Dr. David B. Saunders , Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
Title: The case for exact linear algebra computation
Refreshments following the colloquium (4:45) in Ewing 436

 

Spring 2006 Schedule

April 27, 2006 4:00 - 5:00 Purnell 105
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series and Math Awareness Month
Dr. Daniel Bailey , RSA Laboratories
Title: Authenticating Pervasive Devices with Human Protocols

 

April 28, 2006 4:00 - 5:00 Kirkbride 006
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series and Math Awareness Month
Dr. Daniel Bailey , RSA Laboratories
Title: Cloning Real-World Payment Tokens
Refreshments immediately following the talk in 209/211 Trabant

 

May 12, 2006 4:00 - 5:00 Gore 104
Prof. Ronald Hoppe, University of Houston
Title: Convergence Analysis of Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Constrained Distributed and Boundary Control Problems

 

Fall 2005 Schedule

Sep 29, 2005 006 Kirkbride Hall 3:30 - 5:00
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Prof. Ian H. Sloan, University New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Approximating and Designing on the Sphere
Sep 30, 2005 104 Gore Hall 3:45 - 5:00
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Prof. Ian H. Sloan, University New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Numerical integration in high dimensions - lifting the curse of dimension
Oct 7, 2005 104 Gore Hall 3:45 - 4:45
Prof. Anthony Leonard, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology
Deformation of Material Lines and Surfaces in Chaotic Flows
Oct 14, 2005 104 Gore Hall 3:45 - 4:45
Dr. David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University
Lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Art
Did the great masters "cheat" using optics? The mysterious rise in naturalism in Renaissance painting
Nov 11, 2005 116 Gore Hall 3:00 - 4:00
Dr. David Stockman , Department of Economics, University of Delaware
Balanced-Budget Rules: Cycles and Complex Dynamics
Nov 29, 2005 004 Kirkbride Hall 4:00 - 5:00
Carl J. Rees Professor Inaugural Lecture
Dr. George C. Hsiao , Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
Stokes Paradox and its Consequences

 

Spring 2005 Schedule

March 18, 2005 104 Gore Hall 3:30 - 4:30
Prof. Fioralba Cakoni, University of Delaware
Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problems
April 21, 2005 126 Alfred Lerner Hall 3:30 - 4:30
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Prof. Keith Ball , University College, London, England
Pools of Blood and the End of the Universe
April 22, 2005 104 Gore Hall 3:30 - 4:30
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Prof. Keith Ball , University College, London, England
The "Second Law" of Probablility

Fall 2004 Schedule

Oct. 29 104 Gore Hall 3:30 - 5:30
Prof. Margaret Cheney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Synthetic Aperture Radar and Microlocal Analysis
Dec. 2 104 Gore Hall 3:30 - 4:30
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Prof. Andrew Thomason, University of Cambridge, England
Patterns of Random Behavior
Dec. 3 104 Gore Hall 3:45 - 4:45
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Prof. Andrew Thomason, University of Cambridge, England
Forcing Minors in Graphs

 

Spring 2004 Schedule

April 9    
Prof. Richard M. Wilson, California Institute of Technology
Decomposition of Edge-Colored Complete Graphs
April 23    
Prof. Richard Taylor, University of Oregon
Jack the Dripper - Fractals in Art, Nature and Science
May 13    
Prof. Linda Petzold, University of California Santa Barbara
The Coming of Age of Computational Science
May 14    
Prof. Linda Petzold, University of California Santa Barbara
Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Networks

 

Fall 2003 Schedule

Oct. 16, 2003    
Prof. Joel Spencer, Computer Science Dept. at NYU
Liar
Oct. 17, 2003    
Prof. Joel Spencer, Computer Science Dept. at NYU
Erdos Magic
Nov. 11, 2003    
Dr. Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University
Electromagnetic Imaging for Small Inhomogeneities
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