Seminars

Manuchehr Aminian, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University Using mathematical tools to understand the immune system How soon after exposure can we identify that you're infected with the flu? Can this be done prior to the onset of symptoms? Why do some animals tolerate bacterial infections better than others? It...

Lewis Baker, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Inference of Diffusion Coefficients from Single Particle Trajectories Membrane-targeting proteins are understood to diffuse on the surface of cells and occasionally associate with macromolecules integrated in the cell membrane. This association initiates reaction cascades within the cell, while introducing a...

Purnendu, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder The mathematical secrets of Computational Origami Origami is the Japanese name for the centuries-old art of folding paper into representations of birds, insects, animals, plants, human figures, inanimate objects, and abstract shapes. In the purest form of origami, the figure is folded from...

Steve Sain Jupiter Intelligence, Boulder CO Data Science @ Jupiter In 2017, the US faced over $300 billion in loses from hurricanes, severe weather, flooding, drought, fire, etc. These national catastrophes are placing an increasing burden on the public and are projected to worsen in the future. Jupiter Intelligence provides...

Xiangxiong Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University Monotonicity in high order accurate schemes for diffusion operators with applications to compressible Navier-Stokes equations For gas dynamics equations such as compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, preserving the positivity of density and pressure without losing conservation is crucial to stabilize the numerical computation...

Patrick Weidman Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder Steady flow of one uniformly rotating fluid layer above another immiscible uniformly rotating fluid layer. The steady laminar flow of two immiscible, uniformly rotating fluid layers is studied and exact similarity solutions of the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations in cylindrical polar...

Sabina Altus, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Multi-Structured Population Dynamics in Cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms with promising applications in renewable energy and agriculture as they are able to convert light energy into more stable forms of chemical energy, such as biomass, as well as kinetic energy...

Andreas Kloeckner Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Fast Algorithms for the Evaluation of Layer and Volume Potentials I will present new, asymptotically fast algorithms with high-order error bounds for the evaluation of layer and volume potentials in two and three dimensions. The efficient evaluation of both types of...

The Postdoctoral Association of Colorado, Boulder has organized this series of monthly tutorials/workshops on topics that may be useful to postdocs, students, and faculties across different disciplines. Everyone is invited to attend! If you'd like to offer to give one workshop, and/or have topic ideas, please fill out this form...

Bernd Krauskopf and Hinka Osinga Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland Hetero-dimensional Cycles and Blenders Recent theoretical work on partially hyperbolic systems by Bonatti and Diaz (and others) has shown that chaotic dynamics may occur C1-robustly in diffeomorphisms of dimension at least three. More specifically, the existence of hetero-dimensional cycles...