Applied & Computational Mathematics Seminar

photon diffusion in the brain (A. Barnett)

The new ACMS brings together researchers across the Dartmouth campus who share common interests in the real-world applications of mathematical models (both continuous and discrete), and tools to tackle the resulting numerical simulation and computation challenges. Talks, enjoyed in a casual setting over lunch, include both outside speakers, and locals (for whom it is a chance to reach outside one's own department). The topics and audience will broadly cover the physical, neuro-, life, computational sciences, mathematics, medicine, engineering, etc. Although mathematics may form the common tongue, speakers will necessarily keep most language non-technical in order to bridge across disciplines.

block unstacking algorithms (D. Balkcom)

SPRING 2008 Schedule

• Apr 29: [Greg Leibon (Dartmouth Mathematics and Memento Security). talk postponed!]
• May 27: Dan Graham (Dartmouth Mathematics Dept). Mapping the Similarity Space of Paintings: Is There a Role for Image Statistics?.
• May 29 [note: Thurs, 1-2pm]: special seminar by visitor Aloknath Chakrabarti, (Mathematics Dept, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Singular integral equations arising in water wave problems (download slides 0.9MB PPT)

WINTER 2008 Schedule

• Jan 10 [note: Thursday 12-1pm] Greg Leibon (Dartmouth Mathematics and Memento Security). Fast Rotations
• Jan 15: Yuan Young (Dept of Mathematical Sciences NJIT). Novel Fluid Dynamics in Stokes Flows
• Jan 22: Giulio Genovese (Dartmouth Mathematics). An interesting connection between hierarchical clustering and kmeans clustering
• [Jan 29: no seminar]
• Feb 5: Fridon Shubitidze (Thayer School). The Method of Auxiliary Sources (MAS): theory and application to various inverse scattering problems
• Feb 12:
• Feb 19: Reza Olfati-Saber (Thayer School). Flocks: Self-Organizing Networked Systems
• Feb 26: Dan Graham (Dartmouth Mathematics, fresh from Cornell). Relationships Between Human Visual Coding and Painted Art
• Mar 4:
  [Fri Mar 28: not an ACMS talk, but I recommend the Jones Seminar by Wendy Zhang at 3pm, Spanos Auditorium (Room 100), Cummings Hall]

Questions? Want to speak? Organizers Alex Barnett and Petia Vlahovska welcome your input and energy. We are located in the glorious new Kemeny Hall mathematics building; see maps and travel info. We have a fabulous Mitsubishi XD490U DLP projector (please set your laptop to XGA 1024x768 for best picture).

Previous seminars:

WINTER 2007 Schedule

• Jan 9: Timo Betcke (Manchester, UK). The Method of Particular Solutions for the Laplace Eigenvalue Problem
• Jan 16: Eugene Demidenko (Dartmouth Medical School / Mathematics). Magic Toeplitz Matrix and Its Application in Laplace PDE, Markov Chain Models and Color Vision
• [Jan 23-Feb 27: Alex away]

SPRING 2007 Schedule

• Apr 3:
  [Note: Thurs Apr 5: I highly recommend Leslie Greengard's math colloquium talk on non-uniform FFT in medical imaging, 4pm, Kemeny 007]
• Apr 10:
• Apr 17: Luc Rey Bellet (UMass Amherst): Large deviations in hyperbolic billiards
• Apr 24: Bryan Hennelly (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), An Investigation of Discrete Sampling from a Phase-Space Perspective
• May 1: Peng Peng Yu (Dartmouth Physics Dept), The limiting behavior of the Liu-Yau quasi-local energy
• May 8: Petia Vlahovska (Thayer School), Microhydrodynamics of soft particles
• May 15: Afra Zomorodian (CS), Topological data analysis
• May 22: Markus Testorf (Thayer School), Superresolution in optics: what you see is what you get
• May 29:

FALL 2006 Schedule

• Sept 26: Pascal Heider (Lucent Labs/Columbia). Billiards with rational caustics as asymmetric resonant cavities
• Oct 3: Toby Driscoll (Delaware): Conformal Mapping 2.0
• Oct 10: Enam Hoq (Western New England College): Ring-Shaped Solitons in a "Dartboard" Photonic Lattice (or my excursion into nonlinear optics)
• [Oct 17: Alex away]
• [Oct 24: Alex away]
• Oct 31: Giulio Genovese (Dartmouth). Strategies for painting authentication and authorship recognition
• Nov 7: [no talk]
• Now 14: Andrea Borsic (Dartmouth, Thayer School). Total Variation regularization in Electric Impedance Tomography
• Nov 21: Matt Mahoney (Dartmouth). The Method of Particular Solutions and Billiards in Linear Potentials
• [Nov 28: Alex away]

SPRING 2006 Schedule

• May 9: Adi Rangan (Courant Institute). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Line-Motion Illusion in Primary Visual Cortex
• May 16: Devin Balkcom (CS, Dartmouth). Robots and math: from fast cars to origami
• May 23 Kevin Lin (Courant Institute). Entrainment and chaos in driven nonlinear oscillators