Seminars

APPM Colloquium - Peter F. Craigmile

Sept. 28, 2018

Peter F. Craigmile, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University Enhancing statistical inference for stochastic processes using modern statistical methods (This is joint research with Radu Herbei, Matthew Pratola, Huong Nguyen, and Grant Schneider, at The Ohio State University.) Stochastic processes such as stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and Gaussian processes...

APPM Colloquium - Yingda Cheng

Sept. 21, 2018

Sparse Grid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for High-Dimensional Transport Equations In this talk, we present sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for solving high-dimensional PDEs. We will discuss the construction of the scheme based on sparse finite element spaces built from multiwavelets, its properties and applications in kinetic transport equations, such...

APPM Colloquium - Paul Sava

Sept. 18, 2018

3D radar wavefield imaging of comet interiors The Rosetta mission to comet 67P/C-G revolutionized comet science, but left major questions on the table. Are cometary nuclei primordial or are they collisionally-evolved as predicted by modern theories of planet formation? The CONSERT radar experiment sounded the interior of the nucleus showing...

APPM Colloquium - Michael Stutzer

Sept. 7, 2018

How to Gamble or Invest If You Must: A Large Deviations Approach The Kelly Criterion (a.k.a. expected log utility maximization) is a well-known criterion function used to select optimal repeated gambles or long-term portfolio investments. It is often rationalized by its asymptotic properties as the investment horizon grows to infinity...

APPM Colloquium - Jem Corcoran

Aug. 31, 2018

Birth, Death, and Barcodes: Discretization of Continuous Attributes in Bayesian Network Structure Recovery Bayesian networks are graphical models that can be used to represent complex relationships between a large number of random variables. A Bayesian network consists, in part, of a directed acyclic graph in which nodes represent the variables...

Department Colloquium - Meredith Betterton

April 20, 2018

Mathematical modeling of cell division Cells are the basic unit of life. All life on earth depends on cells' ability to duplicate themselves. In order to divide successfully, cells must solve fascinating mathematics and physics problems, which this talk will introduce assuming no biology background. A key step in cell...

Department Colloquium - Leo Radzihovsky

April 13, 2018

Critical matter I will discuss examples of novel soft condensed matter, such as liquid crystals, membranes, and rubber, with particular focus on ubiquitous thermal fluctuations that lead to phenomena qualitatively beyond Euler-Lagrange solutions.

Department Colloquium - Karin Leiderman

April 6, 2018

Mathematical modeling of hemostasis Hemostasis is the process by which a blood clot forms to prevent bleeding at a site of injury. The formation time, size, and structure of a blood clot depends on the local hemodynamics and the nature of the injury. Our group has previously developed computational models...

Department Colloquium - Shane R. Keating

March 23, 2018

Flavors of Baroclinic Instability in the Global Ocean Baroclinic instability is the fundamental mechanism responsible for large-scale and mesoscale motions in rotating, stratified fluids. In Earth's atmosphere, it produces weather systems in midlatitudes; in the ocean, it drives the formation of the mesoscale eddy field, releasing the superabundant available potential...

Department Colloquium - Will Kleiber and Jim Meiss

March 9, 2018

Will Kleiber The challenge of creating historical weather products for the United States Abstract: Historical gridded weather products are critical components in climate, hydrologic and ecologic applications. A large number of historical gridded data products exist, but many of these do not adequately account for various sources of uncertainty. We...

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