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CIMMS Seminars in 2003

Thursday December 4, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Modeling Ear Hair Cells and Sound Compression in Hearing Aids
Jack Xin, Department of Mathematics and ICES, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday November 13, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Discrete Differential Geometry: Surfaces made from circles
Alexander Bobenko, Techische Universitaet Berlin

Monday November 10, 2003
4:30 pm, 114 Steele Library.
CIMMS Tutorial: Discrete Conformal Maps: An Introduction
Peter Schroder, Caltech, Department of Computer Science

Monday October 27, 2003
12 noon, .
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Set Oriented Numerics in Multiobjective Optimization
Michael Dellnitz, University of Paderborn, Institute of Mathematics

Thursday October 23, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Design of low energy space missions using dynamical systems theory
Shane Ross, Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech

Thursday October 9, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Spatial focusing and intersymbol interference in time reversal communications communications
George Papanicolaou, Stanford University, Mathematics

Thursday October 2, 2003
1:30 pm, 114 Steele (CDS Library).
Local force computation in CEM: a strong motivation for differential-geometric approaches
Alain Bossavit, CNRS France

Wednesday October 1, 2003
1:30 pm, 114 Steele (CDS Library).
Computational Electromagnetism (CEM) and Geometry: Are finite differences back?
Alain Bossavit, CNRS France

Thursday September 25, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: A Variational Approach to Optimal Parameterization
Nathan Litke, Computer Science, Caltech

Thursday September 25, 2003
1:30 pm, CDS Library (Steele 114).
Computational Electromagnetism (CEM) and Geometry: Are finite difference
Alain Bossavit, CNRS France

Thursday September 4, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Genesis Trajectory Design
Dr. Roby S. Wilson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Thursday August 21, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele.
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Links between POD and balanced truncation
Clancy Rowley, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton Unversity

Friday July 25, 2003
2:00 pm, 114 Steele.
Particle Methods for Some Nonlinear PDEs
Alina Chertock, North Carolina State University, Department of Mathematics

Wednesday July 23, 2003
1:30 pm, 125 Steele.
Equation-free computation in multiscale/complex systems modeling: Enabling microscopic simulators to perform system-level tasks
Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Chemical Engineering, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Mathematics, Princeton University

Thursday July 17, 2003
noon, 114 Steele.
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Shape-memory polycrystals
Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology, Mechanics and Materials Science

Thursday July 3, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Finite Elasticity of Curved Lattices and Coarse-Grained Simulations of Carbon Nanotubes
Marino Arroyo, California Institute of Technology, Aeronautics

Tuesday June 10, 2003
1:30 p.m., 114 Steele (Library):.
Curvature Flow and Parameterization Problems
Ulrich Clarenz, Institut fur Mathematik, Universitaet Duisburg

Thursday June 5, 2003
noon, 114 Steele (Library).
Climate and the Macroturbulence of the Atmosphere
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering

Thursday May 22, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
Multiscale Nature of Frictional Sliding and Earthquake Modeling
Nadia Lapusta, California Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics

Thursday May 8, 2003
noon, 114 Steele - Library.
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Issues in Computational Nucleic Acid Design
Niles Pierce, Caltech, Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering

Thursday April 24, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Asynchronous Simulation of High-Explosive Detonations
Adrian Lew, Department of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology

Tuesday April 15, 2003
10:30 am, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Mechanics of DNA Packing in Viruses
Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics

Tuesday April 15, 2003
12:30 pm, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: How the World's Smallest Rotary Motor Works
George Oster, UC Berkeley

Thursday February 20, 2003
noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Some Multiscale Methods for Elliptic Problems in Geometric PDE
Michael Holst,, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego

Monday February 10, 2003
2 - 3 pm, 114 STL.
Eddy viscosity of cellular flows
Alexei Novikov, California Institute of Technology, Applied and Computational Mathematics

Thursday February 6, 2003
12 noon, 114 Steele (Library).
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: New Multiscale Thoughts on Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
Emmanuel Candes, Caltech, Applied and Computational Mathematics

Monday February 3, 2003
4:15 pm, 101 Guggenheim.
Two-Quasiconvexity = Quasiconvexity
Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday January 23, 2003
1:30 pm, 114 Steele - Library.
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Martensites: from Crystalline Structures to Macroscopic Properties
Johannes Zimmer, Caltech, Mechanical Engineering

Thursday January 16, 2003
4 - 5 pm, 101 Guggenheim.
Homogenization of Transport and Diffusion Equations with Applications to Numerical Simulations
Gregoire Allaire, Centre de Matematique Apliquees, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Thursday January 9, 2003
noon, 114 Steele - Library.
CIMMS Lunchtime Series: Progress Report on the Einstein Equation Variational Integrator Project
Lee Lindblom, Caltech, Theoretical Astrophysics



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