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-CRM Applied Mathematics Seminar

This is an archive of previous seminars. For this semesters seminars see here.

Winter 2004

19 Jan Martin Gander McGill Modern Waveform Relaxation Methods
26 Jan Victor Roytburd Rensselaer PI, NY Dynamics of Sharp Exothermic Interfaces
9 Feb Mary Pugh Toronto Blowing-up exact solutions of long-wave unstable thin film equations
16 Feb Mathieu Blanchette MCB, McGill Algorithms and statistics for comparative genomics
23 Feb Yves Bourgault Ottawa Numerical modelling of electrophysiological waves with bidomain models

28-29 FebMontreal Scientific Computing Days
At the CRM. Follow link for details		 Main Speakers:Ernst HairerGenève, Switzerland
Eric DarveStanford

8 Mar Horacio Rotstein Boston University Localization of oscillations in a model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
15 Mar Lia Bronsard McMaster Giant vortex and the breakdown of strong pinning in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
22 Mar Nataliia Rossokhata Kiev NTS, Ukraine A Functional Discrete Method for Eigenvalue Transmission Problems
29 Mar André Dieter Bandrauk Sherbrooke Molecules in Intense Laser Fields-Femtosecond to Attosecond Dynamics via Supercomputer Simulations
5 Apr Jianhong Wu York Weaving Temporal Lags with Spatial Dispersal in Population Dynamics: Modeling and Dynamics
12 Apr Easter Monday   No seminar
19 Apr Huaxiong Huang York Thermal stress and defects inside a single crystal grown by the Czochralski technique
26 Apr Harbir Lamba George Mason, Virginia Efficiency considerations for the numerical integration of stochastic differential equations

Fall 2003
15 Sep Eusebius Doedel Concordia Elemental Periodic Orbits of the Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem
22 Sep Markus Riedle Humboldt-University, Berlin Affine stochastic differential equations with finite and infinite delay
29 Sep Chris Paige McGill Accuracy and Effectiveness of Krylov Space Methods
6 Oct Weiwei Sun City University, Hong Kong Fast algorithms for the electromagnetic scattering from a large cavity
13 Oct Thanksgiving No seminar
20 Oct Giles Auchmuty Houston Well-posed boundary value problems for 3d div-curl systems
27 Oct Javier de Frutos Valladolid, Spain Adaptivity in the numerical solution of parabolic equations: the p version of the finite element method
3 Nov Brian Moore McGill A modified equations approach for multi-symplectic integration methods
10 Nov Erik Van Vleck Kansas Some FitzHugh-Nagumo Type Equations
BH920 at 10am
Tues 11 Nov*
 Mitchell Luskin* Minnesota* Joint Applied Math/CSE Seminar
Metastability and Microstructure in Structural Phase Transformations*
17 Nov Bob Russell Simon Fraser An Overview of Several Types of Moving Grid Methods for Solving Higher Dimensional PDEs
24 Nov     No seminar
McD357at 2:30pm
Fri 28 Nov*
Alistair Spence* Bath, England* Joint Applied Math/CSE Seminar
Inexact Inverse Iteration*
1 Dec Peter Swain McGill Stochastic Gene Expression in Single Cells
8 Dec Philippe Caillol Loughborough, England The Rossby solitary wave in the presence of a critical layer

Winter 2003
Jan 20 Jian-Jun Xu  Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill Asymptotic theory for disc-like crystal growth,
Jan 27 Martin Glicksman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dendritic Growth
Feb 3 Leon Glass CND (JOINT APPLIED MATH/CND SEMINAR) Dynamics of Genetic Networks
Feb10  Tony Humphries  Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill  Dynamics of Adaptive Time-Stepping ODE solvers
Feb 17 Uri Keich U. California, San Diego. On designing seeds for similarity search in genomic DNA
Feb 19  Pietro-Luciano Buono CRM Modeling of Central Pattern Generators with 
Symmetric ODEs: Examples from Locomotion and Heartbeat.
March 3 David Gomez-Ullate  CRM Integrable many-body problems: tricks of the trade and recent developments.
March 10  A. Ray  Chemical Engineering, McGill
March 14  David Nicholls U. Notre Dame  cancelled
March 17 Tadashi Tokieda  U. de Montreal  New ideas in vortex dynamics
March 24  Joseph Coyle  Monmouth    H(curl)-conforming Finite Elements
March 31  Moises Santillan  Instituto Politecnico Nacional  Why the lysogenic state of phage lambda is so stable
April 7 Fernando Reitich  U.of Minnesota (JOINT APPLIED MATH/CSE SEMINAR)  Efficient high-order methods for acoustic and electromagneticscattering simulations

Fall 2002

 Sept. 23 AM  Michele Titcombe  (Math/Stats), McGill   Asymptotic-Numerical Method for 2D Singular Perturbation Problems
Sept. 30  AM Amik St-Cyr (CFD lab), McGill Domain Decomposition methods: tools for software refactoring
Oct. 7th  AM. Michael Mackey CNLD, McGill Modeling Operon Dynamics: The Tryptophan and Lactose Operons as Paradigms
Oct 15th AM  Dmitry Jakobson (Math/Stats), McGill Extremal problems in graph theory
Nov. 4 AM Eric Cytrynbaum Maths, UC Davis Aggregation and centering in fish melanophore cells - a quantitative
exploration of cytoskeletal dynamics
Nov. 11 AM Bruce Reed CS, McGill  Rooted Routing
Nov18 AM  Lahcen Laayouni (Math/Stats), McGill Anisotropic a posteriori error estimations  in convection-diffusion with dominant convection
Nov. 25 AM  Adrian Vetta CS, McGill On the quality of competitive equilibria in games with submodular social objective functions.
Dec 02 AM.  Daniel LeRoux Université Laval FEM discretization for  Shallow Water Equations.

 

Winter 2002

Jan 20th
 Am  Rachel Kuske  U. Minnesota  Stochastic dynamics in models sensitive to noise
Jan 25th CSE Ken Jackson U. Toronto An Introduction to Validated Methods for Initial Value Problems for Ordinary Differential Equations 
Feb 8th AM  Yingjie Liu Stony Brook Conservative Interface Tracking Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Feb 8th CSE Dhavide Aruliah U. BC Multigrid Preconditioning for Time-harmonic Maxwell's Equations in 3D
Feb 8th  Joint AM
-Analysis		 Victor LeBlanc  U. Ottawa Euclidean Symmetry and Spiral Wave Dynamics 
Feb 21st AM J. Vanneste U. Edinburgh  Adiabatic invariance and geometric phase in two-dimensional fluids 
Feb 22nd Joint AM-CSE Nail 
Yamaleev		 ICASE, 
NASA Langley		 Insight Into the Accuracy of Adaptive Grid Methods for Captured
Shocks
March 2  Joint AM-CSE Boris Diskin ICASE, 
NASA Langley		  Textbook Multigrid Efficiency in Computational Fluid Dynamics
March 8th  CSE Rock Santerrie Laval GPS (Global Positioning System) Research Projects at Laval University 
March 22nd CSE Anne Bourlioux U. de Montreal Effective Hamiltonians and the Large Scale Simulation of Turbulent
       Premixed Flames 
March 25th  AM  David Bryant McGill  A guided tour of mathematical phylogenetics.
April 5 AM Eric Vanden Eijnden Courant  Reduced dynamics for metastable systems driven by small thermal noise: switching pathways, free energy barriers, and switching rates.
April 5 CSE Sanzheng Qiao McMaster U. The SVD Algorithms for Structured Matrices 
April 15  AM George Hsiao U. Delaware  Wavelets and Applications
April 22nd Joint AM-
Discrete Math.		 Keith Mellinger U. Illinois at Chicago Projections on Codes
April 29nd AM  Dr. Sanjive Qazi Parker Hughes
Cancer 		 Mathematical models that explore signal processing by cell membrane receptors

 
 

   Fall, 2001

Sept. 14th  (Applied Math)  Ming Mei   A 2X2 systems of conservation laws with relaxation
Sept. 21st (CSE) Hans Vangeluve   Object-Oriented Modelling and Simulation of Physical Systems 
Sept. 28th  (Applied Math)  Georg Schmidt On the modelling, analysis and control of flows through networks of canals
Oct. 5th  (CSE)   Paul Tupper   Computing Statistics for Hamiltonian Systems
Oct. 12th  (Applied Math) Martin Gugat Optimal Control of Flow Through Networks of Channels
Oct. 25th   (CSE)   Gene Golub (joint Stats) Numerical Methods for Solving Least Squares Problems with Constraints
Oct. 26th  (Applied Math)  Walter Littman  Geometric methods in boundary control of PDEs.
Nov. 2nd (CSE)  Tony Humphries Travelling Waves (TWs) in Lattice Differential Equations (LDEs)
Nov. 9th (Applied Math)  Kevin Kerns (joint CSE)   Spiral Inductors - their modelling and uses.
Nov. 16th (CSE)   Kaleem Siddiqi Flux Maximizing Geometric Flows 
Nov. 23nd  (Applied Math) Debra Lewis Geometric integration and rigid body dynamics
Nov. 30th  (CSE)  Keith Ngan
Dec. 7th  Applied Math   Tark Bouhennache  Point Spectrum of elliptic operators in fibered half-cylinders and the related completeness problem.