Apr
25
Optimal Delaunay Triangulations
SpeakerLong ChenUniversity of California - Irvinehttp://www.math.uci.edu/~chenlong/ Description Optimal Delaunay triangulations (ODTs) are optimal meshes minimizing the inter- polation error to a...
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Apr
20
A Continuum Variational Approach to Vesicle Membrane Modeling
Description Biological membranes remodel in lipid pore formation, fusion, endocytosis and other processes. Traditionally, continuum membrane mechanics has been used to describe the physics of these...
Apr
15
A mathematical model of platelet deposition and blood coagulation under flow
Speaker Karin Leiderman Duke University http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/karin Description To explore how blood flow affects the growth of thrombi (blood clots) and how the growing masses, in turn...
Apr
11
Hard-Constraint Spin Systems: Some Results and Questions
Speaker David Galvin University of Notre Dame http://math.nd.edu/people/faculty/david-galvin/ Description In last week's Menger Lecture, Peter Winkler discussed the use of combinatorial methods in...
Apr
4
Statistical Combinatorics, 2011 Karl Menger Lecture
Speaker Peter Winkler Dartmouth College http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/ Description Statistical physics is the study of global behavior resulting from interaction of many small particles...
Mar
30
The Engineer's Bread and Butter – How Engineers do Math for a Living
Description Product design engineering focuses on the goal of developing a solution of a particular problem, for a particular market, by generating a product. The development process generally starts...
Mar
28
Atomistic and coarse-grained modeling of epitaxial thin film growth and relaxation
Description Thin film deposition provides a pathway to create a variety of functional surface nanostructures. However, once created such nanostructures must be stable in order to be useful. This talk...
Mar
10
The Periodic Ising Model
SpeakerGrethe HystadUniversity of Arizonahttp://math.arizona.edu/people/gretheh Description The Ising model is one of the most studied models of modern physics. Since its introduction in 1925 by E...
Mar
9
Multilinear Algebra and Its Applications
SpeakerLek-heng LimUniversity of Chicagohttp://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~lekheng/ Description In mathematics, the study of multilinear algebra is largely limited to properties of a whole space of tensors...
Mar
8
How to Bake the Real Numbers from Scratch: An Introduction to Surreal Analysis
Description Based on the work of John H. Conway “On Numbers and Games”. The talk discusses the methods of Dedekind and Khinchin constructing the real numbers. Both assume the existence of some other...