Math Faculty Seminars

Previous Seminars

Upcoming/Recent Colloquia and Seminars

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Scientific Computing Seminar, Monday December 5 - Ben Holder, Ryerson University (PhD, Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 2006)
Title: Mathematical models for the characterization of drug-resistant influenza strains
MC5158 at 12:30pm

Seminar, Thursday December 1 - Bruce R. Sutherland, Departments of Physics and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
MC5136 at 3:30pm

Scientific Computing Seminar, Monday November 28 - Lucian Ivan, University of Waterloo
Title: Towards a Parallel High-Order Solution-Adaptive Scheme for Space-Physics Flows on Three-Dimensional Cubed-Sphere Grids
MC5158 at 12:30pm

Colloquium, Friday, November 25- Paul Ullrich Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan
Title: New Approaches to Numerical Modeling of the Atmosphere
MC5158 at 2pm

Colloquium, Wednesday November 23 - Dr. Joshua T. Horwood, Research Scientist Numerica Corporation Loveland, Colorado
Title: Space Situational Awareness
MC5136 at 3:30pm

Coordinating Departmental Seminars 2011: Prof. Francis Poulin

Past Months Year 2011

October/November 2011

Numerical Analysis Seminar, Monday November 21- Marty Fuhry
Title: A New Tikhonov Regularization Method
MC5158 at 12:30pm

Colloquium, Thursday November 17 - Dr. Sasha Gutfraind, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Crime and Terror: Mathematical Exploration and Modeling of Dark Networks
MC5136 at 2:30pm

Colloquium, Thursday November 10- Dr. Lorenzo Fatibene, Department of Mathematics, University of Turin
Title: Possible implications of superluminal neutrinos for General Relativity and Special Relativity
MC5136 at 3:30pm
Thursday October 27, 2011 - Peter J. Diamessis, School of Civil and Enviromental Engineering, Cornell University
A quadrillateral spectral multidomain penalty method model for the simulation of highly nonlinear and non-hydrostatic enviromental flows.
MC5136 at 3:30pm

Monday October 3, 2011 - Chris Ferrie, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
How to best sample a periodic probability distribution
MC5136 at 4:30pm

January 2011

Thursday January 13, 2011- Robert Gracie, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo
Adaptive Continuum-Atomistic Simulations of Dislocations
MC 5136 at 02:30 pm

Thursday January 20, 2011- Mary Pugh, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
Coating Flows on Slowly Rotating Cylinders
MC 5136 at 2:30 pm
Thursday January 27, 2011 -Giovanni Rastelli
Last Affiliation: Giovanni Rastelli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Torino
Separation of Variables: Geometry, Integrability and Superintegrability
MC 5136 at 2:30 pm

February 2011

Tuesday February 2011 - Razvan Gurau, Perimeter Institute
The 1/N Expansion In Colored Group Field Theory
MC 5158 at 10:30 am

March 2011

Thursday March 10, 2011 - Mikko Karttunen, Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Western Ontario
Soft materials in nano- and microscales: from cytokinesis to microfluidics
MC 5136 at 2:30 pm

Friday March 18, 2011 - Gabor Orosz, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Trafic Jams: Dynamics and Control
MC 5136B at 3:00 pm

Past Months Year 2010

January 2010

Thursday, Januray 21, 2010 - Youngsheng Chen, York University
- High-Resolution Modeling and Ensemble Data Assimilation for Hurricane Prediction
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 28, 2009 - Peter Berg, McMaster University
- An Energy-economic Hubbert Model
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.

February 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - Giovanni Rastelli
- Last Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Torino - ITALY
- Superintegrable three-body systems on the line and dihedral symmetries
- DC1304 at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - Connell McCluskey, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Global Stability for Epidemic Models using Functional Differential Equations.
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - Nicholas Kevlahan, McMaster University
- Shock generated vorticity in the interstellar medium and the origin of the stellar initial mass function
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
Friday, February 12, 2010 - Chris Nielsen, ECE
- Transverse feedback linearization with partial information
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
- This is a Control Theory Seminar
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - Peter Forsyth, University of Waterloo
- A Numerical Scheme for the Impulse Control Formulation for Pricing Variable Annuities with a Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB)
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
Friday, February 26, 2010 - Prof. Birgit Jacob, University of Paderborn, Germany
- Controllability of distributed parameter systems
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.

March 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010 - Dana Kulic, University of British Columbia
- Incremental Learning of Motion Primitives for Full Body Motions
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
- Submesoscale dynamics and transport in the upper ocean
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - Maria Barbero Linan, Queen's University
- How to find abnormal extremals in optimal control problems for
  nonholonomic mechanical control systems
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.

April 2010

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 - NO SEMINAR
Friday, April 2nd, 2010 - EASTER HOLIDAY-GOOD FRIDAY
- NO SEMINAR
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - Patrick Reynolds, Queen's University
- Construction of a class of Poisson brackets
- MC 5136 at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - Todd L. Parsons