COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
PROSEMINAR - SPRING 2011
Default time: Friday, 12:00 p.m.
Default place: PSA 113
Registration: MAT 591, 1-3 credits
Time and place may change for some talks
Organizer:
Hans Mittelmann,
GWC 646, 480-965-6595,
mittelmann at asu.edu
Confirmed Talks(
), Tentative Talks(
)
Friday, January 28, 12:00 p.m. PSA 206
Organizational meeting
Friday, February 4, 12:00 p.m. PSA 113
Hans Mittelmann
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Computing Strong Bounds in Combinatorial Optimization
(slides)
Friday, February 11, 12:00 p.m. PSA 113
Anne Gelb
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Functions from Non-uniform Fourier Data
(slides)
Friday, February 18, 12:00 p.m. PSA 113
Bruno Welfert
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Wave Problems: A Review of current Practices and future Perspectives
(slides)
Friday, February 25, 12:15 p.m. GIOS 101
Ron Henderson
DreamWorks Animation SKG
Art-Directed Reality: Tools for Animation and Visual Effects (this talk is also a colloquium)
Wednesday, March 2, 3:00 p.m. GIOS 201
Lloyd N. Trefethen
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Computing with Chebfun
Thursday, March 3, 4:30 p.m. PSF 101
Lloyd N. Trefethen
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Robust Rational Interpolation (this talk is in the Distinguished Lecture Series)
Friday, March 4, 12:00 p.m. PSA 113
Kuan-Chuen Wu
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Introduction to FDTD Simulation for Nanophotonics
Friday, March 25, 12:00 p.m. PSA 113
Jordan Martel, Helene Rhodes (honors thesis presentations)
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Radial Basis Function Methods for Time-Dependent Problems on the Sphere (J. Martel)
Medical Image Processing: Quantative Analysis on Brain Tumor MRIs (H. Rhodes)
Tuesday, March 29, 4:30 p.m. PSA 109
Matthias Köppe
Dept Math, UC Davis
Recent developments in primal integer programming, with applications to stochastic IP
(slides)
Thursday, April 7, 4:30 p.m. PSF 101
Natasha Flyer
Comp Math Group, Inst for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, Natl Ctr for Atmospheric Research
Radial Basis Functions for Computational Geoscience (this talk is also a colloquium)
Friday, April 15, 12 p.m. PSA 111
Joshua McDaniel
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Data Assimilation in a Brain Tumor Model (oral PhD exam)
Thursday, April 21, 10:30 a.m. PSA 206
Wei Shen
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
A Sparsity Enforcing Framework with TVL1 Regularization and
its Application in MR Imaging and Source Localization (PhD defense)
Friday, April 29, 12:00 p.m. PSA 113
Robert Thompson
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Reverse-Engineering Dynamical Systems From Time Series Data Using
Compressed Sensing Techniques
