Applied Math Seminar

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Spring 2013


February 7, 2012 9:15 - 10:15 EWG 336
Michael J. Mkisis, Northwestern University
Title: Drying Processes
February 19, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 366 Colburn Lab
Special Seminar sponsored by the Center for Molecular & Engineering Thermodynamics
Dr. Erin Koos, Institute for Mechanical Process Engineering & Mechanics Applied Mechanics Group Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Title: Capillary Suspensions: How a Small Amount of Liquid Can Make a Huge Difference
March 5, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Holly Gaff, Old Dominion University
Title: Estimating risk of tick-borne diseases: surveillance and modeling
March 19, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Alan Lindsay, Heriot-Watt University
Title: Singular perturbation techniques for strongly localized phenomena
April 9, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Natalia Toporikova, Washington and Lee University
Title: Intrinsic bursting activity in respiratory neurons
April 16, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Vladimir Ajaev, Southern Methodist University
Title: Rupture of thin aqueous films on flat and structured electrically charged solid surfaces
April 30, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Chuan Xue, Ohio State University
Title: Multiscale models of bacterial chemotaxis
May 7, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Tim Schultze, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Title:TBA

Fall 2012


Sept 4, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Pak-Wing Fok, University of Delaware
Title: A mathematical model of intimal thickening: an application to atherosclerosis
Sept 25, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware
Algorithms for Saddle Point Problems and a Least Squares Method
Oct 9, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Laura Ellwein, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: Patient-specific 3D Reconstruction of a Stented Coronary Artery for Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease
Oct 16, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Julia Arciero, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Title: Theoretical model of blood flow autoregulation in the retina
Oct 23, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
John Jungck, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
Title: Valuing Voronoi Visualization: Computational Geometric, Graph Theoretic, and Spatio-Temporal Statistical Analyses of Dynamic Tessellations and Spatial Point Distributions Applied to “Tissue Network Topology”
Nov 13, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Bill Henshaw, Centre for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Efficient Solution of Incompressible Flows with Moving Bodies
Nov 20, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Abhyudai Singh, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware
Title: Stochastic inference of regulatory networks inside living cells
Nov 27, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Sarah Olson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Integrative models of sperm motility
This speaker is sponsored in part by the SIAM student chapter and the program "Increasing Diversity in STEM at the University of Delaware" from the President's Diversity Initiative.
Dec 4, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Jeff Banks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Overcoming the added mass instability for compressible fluid-structure interaction

Summer 2012

June 18, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Chris Breward, University of Oxford
Title: Thin Liquid Films in Industry
June 27, 2012 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Kara Maki, Rochester Institute of Technology
Title: Dynamics of a thixotropic yield stress fluid: A mathematical perspective of ketchup?

Spring 2012

Mar 6, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Philippe Guyenne, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Title: On Water Waves
Mar 13, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Shahriar Afkhami, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Confined slender drops in a microfluidic T-junction
Mar 20, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Benjamin Seibold, Temple University
Title: On optimally sparse meshfree stencils and characteristic particles
Apr 3, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Reinhard Laubenbacher , Virginia Tech
Title: Algebraic models in systems biology
Apr 10, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Maciek Antoniewicz, University of Delaware, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Title: Measuring Metabolic Fluxes in Living Cells using Rationally Designed 13C-Tracer Experiments
Apr 17, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Chetan Pahlajani, University of Delaware
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Apr 24, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Geoffrey McFadden, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Title: Bubble motion and size variation during thermal migration with phase change
May 1, 2012 2:25 - 3:25 EWG 336
Phil Trinh , Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics,Princeton University
Title: Have You Seen Our Water Waves?

Fall 2011

Sept 6, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Nick Gewecke, University of Delaware
Title: Dynamics of Mushy Layers
Sept 13, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Evangelia Kalligiannaki, University of Delaware
Title: Multilevel Coarse Graining Monte Carlo methods for stochastic lattice systems
Sept 20, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Marco Montes de Oca, University of Delaware
Title: Incremental Social Learning in Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Optimization
Sept 27, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
 
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Oct 4, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
 
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Oct 11, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
David A. Edwards, University of Delaware
Title: Increasing the Utility of Optical Biosensors
Oct 19, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Guangming Yao, Rowan University
Title: Reaction-Diffusion Modeling of Calcium Dynamics in Ventricular Myocytes
Nov 1, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Junghoon Lee
Title: Mathematics in Action in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Nov 7, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Jon Bell, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Title: Diffusion Equations on Graph Domains Motivated by Neurobiology
Nov 15, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Jingyi Zhu, University of Utah
Title: A Numerical Study of Volatility Boundary Conditions in Stochastic Volatility Models
Nov 30, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Doron Levy
Title: Mathematical Models of Leukemia, Cancer Stem Cells, and Drug Resistance
Dec. 6, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Natalie Germann, University of Delaware
Title: Benchmark calculations in eccentric Taylor-Couette systems
Dec 8, 2011 4:00 - 5:00 EWG 336
Mette Olufsen, North Carolina State University
Title: Modeling Cardiovascular Dynamics and its Control

Summer 2011

June 8, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
P.E. King-Smith, College of Optometry, The Ohio State University
Title: Fluid Dynamics of the Tear Film and Its Lipid Layer
June 20, 2011 10:00 - 11:00 MEM 124
Dr Vladimir Zubkov, Oxford Center for Collaborative Applied Mathematics
Title: A model of tear film osmolarity

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