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The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Nodal Statistics for Graphs and Matrices
Abstract: The study of discrete nodal statistics, that is, data regarding the zeros of Laplacian eigenvectors, provides insight into structural properties of graphs and matrices, and draws strong parallels with… Read more
Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Professor of Neurobiology and Biophysics and Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences!
Professor Fairhall has made foundational contributions to the problem of the neural code -- deciphering the set of patterns that the brain uses to compute -- and to the questions of how these patterns arise through the nonlinear dynamics of… Read more
Cooper Simpson was awarded the prestigious DOE Fellowship, and Josephine Thacher Noone was awarded the NSF fellowship.
Cooper Simpson:
I received the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) in the Mathematics and Computer Science track, with Professor Aleksandr (Sasha) Aravkin as my advisor. The DOE CSGF funds doctoral students to pursue research in computational science and… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Fast inference in generative modeling of time-dependent stochastic processes
Abstract: The aim of this work is to learn models of population dynamics of physical systems that feature stochastic and mean-field effects and that depend on physics parameters. The learned models can… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: Convex Optimization
Abstract: Convex optimization has emerged as a useful tool for applications that include data analysis and model fitting, machine learning, and statistics, resource… Read more
Speaker: Paolo Ventura , University of Milan
Date: April 3, 2025
Title: Instability Isolas of Stokes Waves
Abstract: Stokes waves are the simplest nontrivial form of water waves, featuring a periodic profile moving steadily in one direction. In the '70s, Benjamin and Feir discovered through experiments that the steady profile is unstable under long-wave perturbations, i.e. disturbances that, although… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: Magnetic fields, Pseudo-magnetic fields and Applications
Abstract: Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon which plays an important role in, for example, physical, chemical and biological… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Integrable Hamiltonian and gradient flows and total positivity
Abstract: In this talk I will discuss various connections between the dynamics of integrable (solvable) Hamiltonian flows, gradient flows, and geometry. A key example will be the Toda lattice flow which describes the… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Extensions of the General Solution Families for the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations for Sixth- and Eighth-order Ordinary Differential Equations
Abstract: New third- and fourth-order Lagrangian hierarchies are derived in this study. The free coefficients in… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Identifying treatment and vaccine targets using mechanistic mathematical models
Abstract: Immunological heterogeneity heavily influences treatment and vaccine successes and failures. Many factors contribute to disparate outcomes in cancer therapies and immunizations,… Read more