Colloquium

Event Description:Scot Elkington, LASP, University of Colorado BoulderPhysical Models of the Earth’s space radiation environmentThe outer zone of the Van Allen radiation belts consists of highly energetic (MeV) electrons trapped in electromagnetic

Event Description:David Kassoy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado BoulderConfessions of a Master Perturbator: a Matter of ScalesImagine a physical system in which phenomena occur on diverse length and time scales

Event Description:Larry Hunter, Center for Computational Parmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences CenterStaying at the forefront of biomedical knowledge: text mining and semantic data integrationThe advent of “high-throughput” molecular

Event Description:Tom Bogdan, Space Environment Center, NOAAA tale of three waves: coupled wave equations used in the ‘sounding’ of magnetized atmospheresPropagating and standing waves are especially useful for the remote sensing of distant and

Event Description:Mike Breed, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado BoulderNestmate recognition and perceptual dimensions in honey beesHoney bees discriminate nestmates from non-nestmates using pheromonal signals.

Event Description:John Boyd, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science, University of MichiganExponentially accurate Rung-free approximation from samples on an evenly-spaced grid for non-periodic functionsApproximating a function from its

Event Description:Richard Rotunno, Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory, NCARA generalization of Lorentz’s model for the predictability of flows with many scales of motionThe idea that there is an inherent finite range of predictability for certain

Event Description:Greg Lyng, Department of Mathematics, University of WyomingThe secondary caustic in the semiclassical limit for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equationWe consider the cubic focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in one space

Event Description:Jim Keener, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of UtahHow cells make measurementsA fundamental problem of cell biology is to understand how cells make measurements and then make

Event Description:Ying Lu, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado BoulderVerbal autopsy methods with multiple causes of deathVerbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas without medical death