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Colloquium / Special Lectures

Colloquium talks are held every Monday (except for breaks and summer) at 3:00 p.m. in room 1064 of Duncan Hall.

Spring Colloquium Schedule

Fall Speakers (2009)

August 24, 2009
First Day of Classes - Department Orientation  



August 31, 2009
Joanna Papakonstantinou

Title: Origin and Extensions of the Secant Method and Characterizations of the BFGS Secant Method

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September 7, 2009
Labor Day - No Classes  



September 14, 2009 - Co-Sponsored with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andreas Krause

Title: Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web
Host: Wotao Yin & Volkan Cevher

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September 21, 2009
Lexing Ying

Title: Some Progress on Fast Algorithms of Electron Structure Calculation
Host: William W. Symes & Wotao Yin

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September 28, 2009
Amina A. Qutub

Title: Systems Biology of Hypoxia: Intracellular Signaling to Capillary Sprouting
Host: Wotao Yin

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October 5, 2009
Ilinca Stanciulescu

Title: Stability Boundaries of Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Thin Curved Structures
Host: Matthias Heinkenschloss

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October 12, 2009
Midterm Recess - No Classes  



October 19, 2009
Matt Bennett

Title: Modeling the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks
Host: Steven J. Cox

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October 26, 2009
No CAAM Colloquium  



November 2, 2009
Richard A. Tapia

Title: Math at Top Speed: Exploring and Breaking Myths in the Drag Racing Folklore

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November 9, 2009
Ricardo Alonso

Title: On the Mathematical Theory for the Boltzmann Equation

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November 16, 2009
Andrew Schaefer

Title: Optimal Flu Shot Design Under Uncertainty
Host: Illya V. Hicks

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November 23, 2009
Paul Van Dooren

Title: Some Graph Optimization Problems in Data Mining
Host: Danny C. Sorensen

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November 30, 2009
John Schotland

Title: Optical Tomography
Host: Liliana Borcea

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