Applied and Computational Math Seminar

The Appled and Computational Mathematics seminar combines lectures by our faculty, students and visitors from other departments of George Mason University and other institutions. This series serves the purpose of fostering research collaborations and keeping us informed of the recent advances in the field. Questions and suggestions on possible contributions should be addressed to Evelyn Sander or Maria Emelianenko.

Everyone is Welcome to Attend!

Talks occur weekly on Fridays, 1:30pm - 2:30pm in ST I, Room 242, unless noted otherwise.

FALL 2009

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
Sep. 11	No seminar
Sep. 18	Igor Griva	Mathematics & CDS George Mason University	Convergence properties of primal-dual interior- and exterior-point methods for nonlinear constrained optimization.
Sep. 25	Andrew Corrigan	CDS George Mason University	Meshless methods using adaptive and symmetric kernels
Oct. 2	Murahan Rathinam	Mathematics UMBC	Modeling trader behavior and its effect on stock price dynamics
Oct. 9	Jonathan Guyer	NIST	FiPy: An Open Source Finite Volume PDE Solver implemented in Python
Oct. 16	Simone Bianco	Mathematics College of William and Mary	Epidemics with multistrain interactions: cross immunity and antibody-dependent enhancement
Oct. 23	Dongbin Xiu	Mathematics Purdue University	CANCELLED
Oct. 30	Pak-Wing Fok	Mathematics University of Delaware	Reconstruction of bond potentials from multiple rupturing time data
Nov. 6	Junping Wang	NSF	A maximum value principle for finite element approximations
Nov. 13	Valerie Coffman	NIST	OOF: An Image-Based Finite Element Solver for Materials Science
Nov. 20	Jean-Philippe Lessard	Rutgers University and IAS	A priori estimates and validated continuation for equilibria of high dimensional PDEs
Nov. 27	No seminar, Thanksgiving break
Dec. 4	Aaron Lott	NIST	TBA
Dec. 11	No seminar, End-of-the semester party

SPRING 2010

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 22	Dongbin Xiu	Mathematics Purdue University	Uncertainty Analysis for Complex Systems: Algorithms and Data
Jan. 29	TBA
Feb. 5	TBA
Feb. 12	John Spouge	NIH, Nat. Center of Biotechnology Information	TBA
Feb. 19	TBA
Feb. 26	TBA
Mar. 5	TBA
Mar. 12	No seminar, Spring break
Mar. 19	TBA
Mar. 26	TBA
Apr. 2	TBA
Apr. 9	TBA
Apr. 16	TBA
Apr. 23	TBA
Apr. 30	TBA

PREVIOUS SEMESTERS

SPRING 2009

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 23	Joyce Lin	Mathematics University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	A Falling Sphere Through Strongly Stratified Fluid at Low Reyolds Number
Jan. 30	Diane O'Leary	Mathematics University of Maryland	Validating Approximate Solutions to Ill-Posed Problems
Feb. 6	Janusz Wojtusiak	Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory George Mason University	Selected Aspects of the Learnable Evolution Model
Feb. 13	Hans Engler	Mathematics Georgetown University	On second order differential equations with asymptotically small dissipation
Feb. 20	Brian Hunt	Mathematics University of Maryland	Determining the initial conditions for a weather forecast
Feb. 27	Andy Bernoff	Harvey Mudd College	(CANCELLED)Domain Evolution and Relaxation in Langmuir Films
Mar. 6	Hans Kaper	Argonne National Lab	Reduction Methods for Systems of Differential Equations
Mar. 13	No seminar, Spring break
Mar. 20	John Pelesko	Mathematics University of Delaware	Soap Films in Electric Fields
Mar. 27	No seminar, Rainald Lohner's symposium on Comp. Mechanics
Apr. 3	Qiang Du	Mathematics Pennsylvania State University	Diffuse interface modeling of some interface problems involving elastic energy contributions
Apr. 10	Dionisios Margetis	Mathematics University of Maryland	Kinetic Aspects of Crystal Surface Evolution: Modeling and Analysis
Apr. 17	Peter Bates	Mathematics Michigan State University	The motion of particles driven by Allen-Cahn dynamics on the boundary of a smooth domain
Apr. 24	Ashwin Vaidya	Mathematics University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	A Mathematical Theory of Fluid-Solid Interaction with Application to Particle Sedimentation
May 1	No seminar, End-of-the-semester luncheon

FALL 2008

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
Sep. 5	Semester kick-off luncheon, no seminar
Sep. 12	Robert Allen	Mathematics George Mason University	Turing Instabilities in Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Sep. 19	Stanislaus Maier-Paape	RWTH Aachen, Germany	Computer assisted proofs of heteroclinic connections
Sep. 26	James Warren	NIST	Phase field modeling of wetting, nucleation and more
Oct. 3	Gabriel Prajitura	Mathematics College of Brockport, SUNY	Linear chaos
Oct. 10	Dmitry Golovaty	Mathematics University of Akron	A Ginzburg-Landau-type model of carbon nanotubes
Oct. 17	Howard Sheng	Computational Sciences George Mason University	Computational approaches toward the structure and formation of metallic glasses
Oct. 24	David Levermore	Mathematics University of Maryland	Dispersive Corrections to the Compressible Navier-Stokes System
Oct. 31	Frank Baginski	Mathematics George Washington University	Structural Analysis of Thin Compliant Pneumatic Envelopes
Nov. 7	Jim Yorke	Mathematics University of Maryland	Period-doubling Cascades galore - explaining a phenomenon we see in dynamical systems
Nov. 14	Ed Scheinerman	Applied Mathematics & Statistics Johns Hopkins University	Random Threshold Graphs
Nov. 21	Björn Sandstede	Applied Mathematics Brown University	Localized patterns in the Swift-Hohenberg equation
Nov. 28	No seminar, Thanksgiving break
Dec. 5	Harbir Lamba	Mathematics George Mason University	Modeling Imperfect Financial Markets

SPRING 2008

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 25	Rainald Löhner	Comp. Fluid Dynamics George Mason University	Adaptive Unstructured Embedded/Immersed Methods
Feb. 1	Edward W. Swim	Mathematics US Military Academy	Nonlinear fluid-structure interaction models for biologically inspired elastic membrane wings
Feb. 8	Drew LaMar	Applied Sciences College of William and Mary	Periodic Orbit Continuation in Multiple Time Scale Systems
Feb. 15	Edwin Fuller	NIST	Mesoscale Computer Simulations: from exploding ceramics to tumor ablation
Feb. 22	Xiaofeng Ren	Mathematics George Washington University	Droplet solutions of a 2D free boundary problem from diblock copolymer morphology
Feb. 29	Yekaterina Epshteyn	Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University	New Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Chemotaxis Model and Closely Related Biomedical Problems
Mar. 7	Tianyu Zhang	Mathematics Florida State University	Phase-Field Models for Biofilm Growth, Expansion, and Biofilm-Flow Interaction
Mar. 14	No seminar, Spring break
Mar. 21	Lili Ju	Mathematics University of South Carolina	2:30pm: 3D open shape correspondence through topologically consistent triangulations
Mar. 28	No seminar
Apr. 4	Konstantin Mischaikow	Mathematics Rutgers University	Building a Database for the Global Dynamics of Multi-Parameter Systems
Apr. 11	Walter Villanueva	NIST	Diffuse-interface Simulations of Some Capillary-Driven Flows
Apr. 18	David Saylor	FDA	Microstructure-Based Modeling of Controlled Drug Release Coatings
Apr. 25	Stephen Davis	Mathematics Northwestern University	Dynamics and stability of foams
May 2	No seminar, End-of-semester Luncheon

FALL 2007

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 7	Dan Anderson	Mathematics George Mason University	Liquid Droplets Dynamics: Variations on a Theme
Sept. 14	No Seminar, Math Student Luncheon
Sept. 21	Maria Emelianenko	Mathematics George Mason University	Microstructure Evolution: Recent Progress and Open Questions
Sept. 28	Padmanabhan Seshaiyer	Mathematics George Mason University	Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering
Oct. 5	Yuri Mishin	Physics George Mason University	Atomic structure and dynamics of grain boundaries
Oct. 12	Tom Wanner	Mathematics George Mason University	Homological Analysis of Complicated Random Patterns
Oct. 19	Harbir Lamba	Mathematics George Mason University	The Efficient Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations
Oct. 26	Alfa Heryudono	Mathematics University of Delaware	Numerical computations for the tear film equations in a blink cycle with spectral collocation methods.
Nov. 2	Alexandra Landsman	NRL	Some synchronization phenomena of nonlinear oscillators-Theory and Examples.
Nov. 9	Domenico Napoletani	Mathematics George Mason University	Augmented Sparse Reconstruction of Protein Signaling Networks
Nov. 16	Dmitri Klimov	Bioinformatics and Comp. Biology George Mason University	Mechanical dissociation of amyloid fibrils
Nov. 23	No Seminar, Thanksgiving break
Nov. 30	Alina Alexeenko	School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Purdue University	Thermally Driven Microflows: Phenomena and Modeling Approaches
Dec. 7	Ernest Barreto	Physics and Krasnow Institute George Mason University	Synchronization in interacting populations of oscillators