McGill Applied Mathematics Seminars Fall 2006

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Lab seminars

Talks @ McGill

Speakers

Talks are held in Burnside Hall 1205. Coffee and refreshments are served after the seminars.

Fall 2009

Winter 2009

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
January 9, 2009	Helmut Kröger	1/f behaviour in propagation of local field potentials in the brain
January 12, 2009	David Anderson	Deterministic and stochastic methods for biochemical systems
January 16, 2009	Margaret Beck	Nonlinear stability of time-periodic viscous shocks
January 19, 2009	Irina Mitrea	Boundary Value Problems for Higher Order Elliptic Operators
January 23, 2009	Bart Oldeman	Finding Homoclinic and Heteroclinic Connections to Periodic Orbits in the Restricted Three Body Problem
January 26, 2009	Vera Mikyoung Hur	Dispersive properties of the surface water waves
January 30, 2009	Laurent Demanet	Compressive wave computation
Febuary 2, 2009	Jing-Rebecca Li	Efficient and accurate spectral representation of fractional power time convolution kernels and application to the fast numerical solution of diffusion problems.
Febuary 6, 2009	Xuemin Tu	Inexact Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints Algorithms
Febuary 9, 2009	George Haller	Aerodynamic Separation and Invariant Manifolds: Recent Progress on a Century-old Problem
Febuary 13, 2009	Gantumur Tsogtgerel	On analysis and numerical treatment of Einstein's constraint equations in general relativity
Febuary 16, 2009	Rustum Choksi	Mathematical Paradigms for Periodic Phase Separation and Self-Assembly of Diblock Copolymers
Febuary 20, 2009	Chi-Kun Lin	Singular limits of the relativistic nonlinear wave equation
Febuary 27, 2009	Wayne Hayes	Complex Systems in Dynamics, Biology, and Astrophysics
March 6, 2009	John Gibson	Equilibria, traveling waves, and periodic orbits in plane Couette flow
March 11, 2009	Dmitry Pelinovsky	Global well-posedness and wave breaking in the short-pulse equation
March 13, 2009	Claude Mangoubi	Free energy dissipative schemes for a prototypical viscoelastic model
March 20, 2009	Thorsten Riess	Bifurcation analysis of EtoP cycles
March 27, 2009	Nicola Guglielmi	Uniform stability of nonautonomous time-discrete linear systems
April 3, 2009	Eliot Fried	TBA
April 17, 2009	Yuan yuan	Stability, Bifurcation and Pattern Formation in a Ring Network with Delay

Fall 2008

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
Sept 5, 2008	Jean-Philippe Lessard	Validated continuation for infinite dimensional problems
Sept 12, 2008	Chris Paige	Orthonormal Completion of an array of Unit Length Vectors
Sept 19, 2008	Lennaert van Veen	The computation of 2D unstable manifolds in models of turbulent shear flow
Sept 26, 2008	David Titley-Peloquin	Stopping Criteria for the Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Linear Least Squares Problems
Monday, Sept 29, 2008	Jie Shen	Modeling and simulation of multiphase incompressible flows using an energetic variational phase field model
Oct 3, 2008	Dmitry Pelinovsky	Spectrum of an advection-diffusion operator with sign-varying diffusion coefficient
Oct 10, 2008	Pam Cook	Highly Entangled Wormlike Micellar Solutions - Model and Predictions in LAOS and Extensional Flows
Oct 17, 2008	Geoffrey Hinton	The Next Generation of Neural Networks
Oct 24, 2008	Chen Greif	An Inner-Outer Iteration for Computing PageRank
Oct 31, 2008	Francisco Javier Sayas	Boundary integral scattering
Nov 14, 2008	Michael Saunders	40 Years of Linear Algebra and Optimization at Stanford
Nov 21, 2008	David Steinman	Lessons Learned from Nearly Two Decades(!) Imaging and Modeling Blood Flow
Nov 28, 2008	Rebecca Tyson	Modelling Anguilliform Swimming using the Immersed Boundary Method

Winter 2008

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
January 15, 2008	Vahid Shahrezaei	Colored extrinsic noise and stochastic gene expression
January 22, 2008	Yves Bourgault	A posteriori error estimation and anisotropic mesh adaptation in 3-D compressible flow simulations
January 29, 2008	Felix Kwok	Efficient linear and nonlinear solvers for multiphase flow in porous media
February 5, 2008	Andrei Draganescu	Multigrid methods for large-scale inverse problems
February 12, 2008	David Bindel	Computer Aided Design of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems: From Energy Losses to Dick Tracy Watches
February 19, 2008	Rebecca Tyson	Modelling the swimming behaviour of the nematode using the Immersed Boundary Method
February 26, 2008	Brian Moore	Bistable Waves in Discrete Inhomogeneous Media
March 4, 2008	Sean Bohun	Modelling the Czochralski Growth of Type III-V Binary Semiconductors
March 11, 2008	Alex Barnett	Eigenmodes and quantum chaos: Lost on the frequency axis? Check your Dirichlet-to-Neumann map!
March 18, 2008	Mark Embree	Approximation and Recovery of Damped Wave Operators
March 25, 2008	Benjamin Stamm	Bubble stabilized discontinuous Galerkin method for elliptic, parabolic and Stokes' problems
April 1, 2008	Victor LeBlanc	Interactions of spiral waves with media imperfections : a dynamical systems approach
April 8, 2008	Michael Haslam	Fast High-Order Integral Equation Methods (with application to optical gratings and antenna design)

Fall 2007

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
4 September 2007	Ilse Ipsen	The mathematics behind Google's PageRank
11 September 2007	Abderrazak Ramadane	Numerical simulation of clogging and back flushing operation in a filter element in liquid filtration
18 September 2007	Louis Rossi	Re-projection: Mathematical and computational challenges for high order vortex methods
Sep. 24, 2007 (Joint AOS/Applied Math)	Djoko Wirosoetisno University of Durham)	Asymptotics of the primitive equations
25 September 2007	Béatrice Rivière	On coupled flow and two-phase flow problems
2 October 2007	Jason Cooper	A pruned basis method for exact wavepacket propagation in scattering problems with many bound degrees of freedom
9 October 2007	Samuel Isaacson	Connections between several stochastic reaction diffusion methods for modeling biochemical systems
16 October 2007	Tim Phillips	The spectral element method with applications to non-Newtonian flows
Oct.22 2007 Joint with Analysis	George Hsiao University of Delaware	Boundary element methods for the last 30 years
30 October 2007	Luciano Buono	Realization theorems for delay-differential equations and applications
6 November 2007	Jayme De Luca	Variational structure and delay equation of the electromagnetic two-body problem.
Nov. 8 2007	Jay Gopalakrishnan University of Florida	Polynomial extension operators
Nov. 9 2007	Leszek Demkowicz University of Texas, Austin	Polynomial Extension Operators for H1,H(curl) and H(div) Spaces on a Cube.
Nov. 12-16 2007	Arieh Iserles U. Cambridge	Modified Fourier expansions and spectral problems for highly oscillatory Fredholm operators.
13 November 2007	Frédéric Lesage	Application of compressed sampling to photo-acoustic imaging
20 November 2007	JF Williams
27 November 2007	Nathalie Lanson	Renormalized mesh-free schemes: convergence analysis and applications
Nov. 30 2007 Joint CSE/Applied Math	Arun Chawla NOAA.	TBA
4 December 2007	Lennaert van Veen	Connecting orbits: the missing link in the theory of bursting shear flows

Winter 2007

Date	SPEAKER	TITLE
Jan. 15, 2007	Robert Batterman U. Western Ontario (Lab event)	On the Specialness of Special Functions (The Nonrandom Effusions of the Divine Mathematician)
Jan 22, 2007	Christian Michler U. Texas at Austin (Lab Event)	Efficient computation of acoustic sensing by means of adaptive finite elements
Feb 5, 2007	Peter Caines CIM, McGill (Lab Event)	Nash Certainty Equivalence in Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games: Connections with the Physics of Interacting Particle Systems
Feb 9, 2007	Olaf Steinbach Institut fuer Numerische Mathematik (Math D), Graz. (joint Analysis/CSE)	Boundary Integral Equations: Analysis and Applications
Feb 12, 2007	Svetlana Komarova Faculty of Dentistry, McGill (Lab event)	Mathematical modeling of bone turnover
Feb. 26 2007	Joel Phillips McGill	Higher order finite elements on pyramids.
March 5 2007	Olivier Dubois McGill	Efficient domain decomposition methods for problems with discontinuous coefficients
March 9 2007	Bard Ermentrout U. Pittsburgh (Lab event)	What makes a neuron spike: Optimality, noise, and phase resetting
March 19 2007	Simon Gemmrich McGill	A Multigrid Algorithm For A First-Kind Boundary Integral Equation From Acoustics.
March 30 2007	Benjamin Kennedy Rutgers	Periodic solutions of differential delay equations with several delays
April 2, 2007	Andrea Cangiani Pavia (Lab event)	Mimetic Finite difference Methods
April 3, 2007	Chichia Chiu Michigan State	A Multi-scale Mathematical Model for Combinatorial Control of DNA Transcription

Fall 2006

Date	SPEAKER	TITLE
Sep. 11, 2006 (Joint with CPM)	Hong Guo McGill	Toward Quantitative Analysis and Simulation of Nanoelectronics
Sep. 18, 2006	Oscar Bruno Caltech	High-order scattering solvers and surface representation algorithms
Sep. 25, 2006 (Lab event)	Leonid Berlyand Penn State	Discrete network approximation for highly packed particle-filled composites
Sep. 29, 2006	Lia Bronsard McMaster	Vortices in rotating toroidal Bose-Einstein Condensates
Oct. 2, 2006 (Lab Event)	Roni Khazaka ECE, McGill	Managing the complexity of electronic design automation
Oct.16 2006 (Lab event)	Shari Moskow U. Florida	An approximate method for scattering by thin structures
Oct. 23 2006	Stephane Pelletier Center for Intelligent Machines, McGill	Preconditioning for temporal video super-resolution
Oct. 30, 2006	David Colton, U. Delaware	The linear sampling method in inverse scattering theory
Nov. 9 2006 (Lab event)	Leszek Demkowicz U. Texas at Austin	hp-Finite Elements for Maxwell equations: Discrete Compactness and hp-Convergence for Maxwell Eigenvalues
Nov. 13 2006 (Lab event)	Robert Skeel Purdue	Fastest N-Body Solver (for Molecular Dynamics)
Nov. 20 2006	Bernd Krauskopf Bristol University	Bifurcations of global reinjection orbits near a saddle-node Hopf bifurcation
Nov. 20 2006	Hinke Osinga Bristol University	Global bifurcations of the Lorenz manifold
Nov. 27 2006	Susanne Brenner Louisiana State University	Non-conforming methods for time-harmonic Maxwell's equations
Dec. 4 2006	Robert Funnell BioMedical Eng. & Otolaryngology, McGill	Issues in modelling the mechanics of the middle ear
Dec. 11 2006	Brian Wetton U. British Columbia	Reduced Dimensional Computational Models of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Stacks

2005/6

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
12 September 2005	Robert Beardmore	Bifurcation problems in differential-algebraic equations
26 September 2005	Steve Thomas	High-order finite element methods for geophysical flows
3 October 2005	Arian Novruzi	Some problems and mathematical results related to shape optimization of hydrogen fuel cells
17 October 2005, 14:35	Gabor Domokos	Bifurcations of optima in structural design
17 October 2005, 16:00	Edriss S. Titi	Global Regularity for the Three-dimensional Primitive Equations of Ocean and Atmosphere Dynamics
24 October 2005	Fadil Santosa	An inverse problem in photolithography
31 October 2005	Ioannis Kevrekidis	Some applications of equation-free computation for complex systems
7 November 2005	Ming Mei	Nonlinear stability of travelling waves for time-delayed Nicholson's Blowflies
14 November 2005	Keith Ngan	Aspect ratio effects in quasi-2D turbulence
21 November 2005, 14:35	Marc Thiriet	Image-based computational flows in physiological vessels.
21 November 2005, 16:00	Jean-Paul Zolésio	Level set method. Existence of solution through topological change.
28 November 2005	Tucker Carrington	New ideas for computing complex eigenvalues of a nonsymmetric matrix applied to metastable states
5 December 2005	Emmanuel Lorin	The reservoir technique for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws: a way to make Godunov-type schemes zero or low diffusive
9 January 2006	Dhavide Aruliah	An analysis of partitioned systems of nonlinear equations.
16 January 2006	Peter Kramer	Immersed boundary method for microbiological systems with thermal fluctuations.
23 January 2006	Rupert Klein	A systematic multiscale framework for meteorological modelling
6 February 2006	Wotau Yin	The theories, computation, and applications of minimizing the total variation (TV) regularized L1 functional
13 February 2006	Yousef Saad	Computational challenges and algorithms in electronic structures calculations
17 February 2006	Annalisa Buffa	Eigenvalue computations by the discontinuous Galerkin method
13 March 2006	Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez	Transient effects in oilfield cementing flows
20 March 2006	Jacques Bélair	Modeling oscillations and delays in hormonal regulation and drug administration
27 March 2006	Luca Cortelezzi	Stirring generated by a pair of elliptic vortexppatches
3 April 2006	Amy Novick-Cohen	A degenerate Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard system
10 April 2006	Anita Layton	An explicit jump method for the two-fluid Stokes equations with a water-permeable immersed elastic boundary
24 April 2006	Daniel Szyld	Practical use of Krylov subspace methods: inexact and truncated versions

Winter 2005

Jan 10	Andrea Toselli	ETH	Domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations
Jan 17	David Straub	AOS-- McGill	Energetics of wind-driven ocean circulation
Jan 24	Guido Kanschat	Heidelberg	Discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible flow
Jan 31	Selim Esedoglu	UCLA	Threshold dynamics for the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah functional of image segmentation
Feb 4	Alexandre Ern	CERMICS	Adaptive multimodeling and local mesh refinement controlled by a posteriori error estimates
Feb 7	Thomas Wihler	Minnesota	Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods
Feb 10	Dongbin Xiu	Princeton	Stochastic Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering Applications
Feb 14	Caroline Colijn	McGill	A comprehensive model of blood cell production and regulation
Feb 28	Esteban G. Tabak	Courant	The ocean's internal wave field
Mar 7	David Nichols	Notre Dame	Stable, High-Order Computational Methods in Fluid Mechanics and Electromagnetics
Mar 14	John Mallet-Paret	Brown	Dynamics of Lattice Dynamical Systems
Mar 21	Robert Owens	U de M	Modelling blood flow using dumbbells
Apr 4	Sanjo Zlobec	McGill	Convexifiable Smooth Functions
Apr 8	McKay Hyde	Rice	Fast, High-Order Integral Equation Methods for Scattering by Inhomogeneous Media
Apr 11	Govind Menon	Brown	Dynamic scaling in models of coalescence
Apr 18	Dimitri Breda	Udine	Linear time delay systems:from characteristic roots to stability charts

Fall 2004

Sept 13	Claude LeBris	CERMICS-ENPC	On the Energy of Microscopic Stochastic Lattices and their Macroscopic Limits
Sept 20	Marc LaForest	École Polytechnique Montréal	An Error Estimator for a Lagrangian Method Applied to Euler's Equations
Sept 27	Sherwin Maslowe	McGill	Stability of Swirling Flows
Oct 4	Susan Friedlander	University of Illinois, Chicago	Blow up in a 3-d toy model for the Euler equations
Oct 18	Stefanella Boatto	McMaster	Periodic solutions of the Euler equation on a sphere
Oct 25	Tony Lelièvre	CRM	Quantum Monte Carlo simulations: The fixed-node approximation for fermion systems.
Nov 1	Peter Monk	Delaware	Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Linear Wave Propagation
Nov 8	Olivier Lafitte	Paris 13, CEA - Saclay	A linear analysis of hydrodynamic instabilities for the inertial confinement fusion.
Nov 12	Tim Myers	UBC	The flow and solidification of a thin water layer on a cold surface
Nov 15	Jan Sieber	Bristol	Bifurcation analysis for a balancing problem with delay
Nov 22	André Longtin	Ottawa	Stochastic dynamics of Excitable Systems
Nov 29	Stephane Dellacherie	CEA - Saclay	Numerical simulation of ion-electron collisions with a non-linear Fokker-Planck-Landau equation
Dec 6	Alexander Melnikov	Alberta	On quantile pricing methodology applied to equity-linked life insurance

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 Feb Montreal Scientific Computing Days
At the CRM. Follow link for details Main Speakers: Ernst Hairer Genève, Switzerland
Eric Darve Stanford

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.

28-29 Feb	Montreal Scientific Computing Days At the CRM. Follow link for details	Main Speakers:	Ernst Hairer	Genève, Switzerland
			Eric Darve	Stanford

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