Colloquium

Event Description:Dongbin Xiu, Department of Earth And Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue UniversityEfficient methods for numerical simulations with uncertaintyMost of the research efforts in scientific computing so far have been in developing efficient

Event Description:Webster Cash, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Scienes (APS), University of Colorado BoulderStruggling with the mathematics of diffraction and the search for life in the universeOur best hope of finding evidence of life in

Event Description:Natasha Flyer, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe), NCARModeling simple atmospheric flows on the sphere using radial basis functionsSince the early 1990s, radial basis functions (RBFs) have been applied to

Event Description:Sheldon Newhouse, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Scienes (APS), University of Colorado BoulderWhat we do and do not know about simple dynamical systemsIt is well-known that simple dynamical systems can have complicated

Event Description:Bengt Fornberg, Department of Applied Mathematics, CU BoulderRadial basis functions for solving PDEs - some recent developmentsRadial basis functions (RBFs) originated in the 1970s as a method for interpolating scattered data. More

Event Description:Nathan C. Thompson, CEO & Founder of Spectra Logic CorporationFrom Numerical Analysis to the Numerical BoardroomThis highly interactive presentation will trace the 24 year business history of Nathan Thompson from being one of

Event Description:Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute of Mathematial Sciences, New York UniversityMathematics and physics are different enterprises; physics is looking for the laws of nature, mathematics is trying to invent the structures and prove the

Event Description:Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ney York University100 years of electromagnetic waves: physics, simulation, and designWe will review the analytic and computational foundations of Green’s function based

Event Description:Ken Miller, Department of Mathematics, Wichita State UniversitySteady axisymmetric vortex flowsSteady axisymmetric vortex flows both with and without swirl will be discussed. Existence theorems for the non-linear partial

Event Description:Jean Hertzberg, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado BoulderBeautiful physics from ordinary fluidsHousehold fluids are capable of illustrating sublime physics, using very simple setups. Students in