Seminars

Julie K. Lundquist, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Fellow, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder Turbulence to turbine wakes: challenges in the atmospheric science of wind energy (that could benefit from applied mathematicians) As the world moves away from fossil fuels and towards more...

Michael D. Schneider, Group Leader for Astronomy & Astrophysics Analytics, Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Quantum Machine Learning using Gaussian Processes Quantum computers may be transformative for a variety of computational tasks. We are pursuing machine learning methods for near-term quantum devices that may show advantage over classical computers...

Béatrice M. Rivière, Noah Harding Chair and Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University Diffuse Interface Methods for Two-Phase Flows in Digital Rock Modeling multicomponent flows in porous media is important for many applications relevant to energy and environment. Advances in pore-scale imaging, increasing availability of computational resources, and...

Persi Diaconis, Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University ADDING NUMBERS AND SHUFFLING CARDS When numbers are added in the usual way, 'carries' accrue along the way. It is natural to ask 'how do the carries go?' Is there a carry 'about half the time? If there...

Lou Pecora, Naval Research Laboratory Cluster Synchronization of Chaotic Systems in Complex Networks The concept of synchronized systems has been around for centuries with one of the earliest studies being on the synchronization of clocks by Christiaan Huygens in the mid 1700’s. By the mid 1900’s it was well-known how...

Owen Miller, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University Upper bounds to electromagnetic response via convexity, causality, and duality Nanophotonics, the study of light interacting with materials patterned at the scale of the wavelength, is developing at a rapid pace, with ever more materials, form factors, and structural degrees of freedom...

Laura Miller, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Flow through the hairy appendages of small animals: The leaky rake to solid plate transition. Numerous small organisms that swim, fly, smell, or feed in flows at the mesoscale, where inertial and viscous forces are balanced, use branched,...

Bengt Fornberg, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Euler-Maclaurin without analytic derivatives We consider here the Euler-Maclaurin (EM) formulas in the context of approximating infinite sums. If the function to be summed can be integrated analytically, these formulas provide highly accurate asymptotic expansions for the difference between the...

Katie Oliveras, Department of Mathematics, Seattle University Measuring Water Waves: Using Pressure to Reconstruct Wave Profiles Euler's equations describe water-waves on the surface of an ideal fluid. In this talk, I will discuss an inverse problem related to measuring water-waves using pressure sensors placed inside the fluid. Using a non-local...

Jeremy Hoskins, Department of Mathematics, Yale University Elliptic PDEs on regions with corners Many of the boundary value problems frequently encountered in the simulation of physical problems (electrostatics, wave propagation, fluid dynamics in small devices, etc.) can be solved by reformulating them as boundary integral equations. This approach reduces the...