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Colloquia and Seminars Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all colloquium meetings are held:

Mondays
Amos Eaton 214
4 p.m. — 5 p.m.

Colloquium Chair: Fengyan Li

Spring 2008

Monday, February 4, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Seth Major (Hamilton College) "The Attractiveness of Loops and Ribbons" (Abstract)
Host: Analee Miranda

Joint colloquium held with the RPI chapter of SIAM.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Greg Kriegsmann (New Jersey Institute of Technology) "Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media" (Abstract)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Alejandro Aceves (University of New Mexico) "Modeling nonlinear pulse dynamics in photonic structures" (Abstract)
Where: Sage 3101

Monday, February 25, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Gang Bao (Michigan State University) "Direct and Inverse Scattering Problems for Electromagnetic and Optical Wave Propagation" (Abstract)

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Donald Estep (Colorado State University) "Stability, Adjoints, and Uncertainty" (Abstract)

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Erkki Somersalo (Helsinki University of Technology) "Hypermodels and Qualitative Information in Imaging" (Abstract)

Prior to the colloquium, there will be an IPRPI reception from 3-4 on the fourth floor of Amos Eaton. Poster display by IPRPI advised grad student/postdocs will be included.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Ildar Gabitov (University of Arizona) "Transition Phenomena in Metamaterials" (Abstract)

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Jie Shen (Purdue University) "Fast Spectral-Galerkin Methods: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications" (Abstract)

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Class of '27 Lecture
Speaker: David E. Keyes (Columbia University) "A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto" (Abstract)
When: 4 p.m.
Where: Sage 3510

A reception will be held after this lecture, at 5 p.m. in the Amos Eaton fourth floor lounge.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Class of '27 Lecture
Speaker: David E. Keyes (Columbia University) "Domain Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations" (Abstract)
When: 4 p.m.
Where: Amos Eaton 214

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
DiPrima Lecture

Speaker: Dr. Linda Petzold (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Systems" (Abstract)
When: 4 p.m.
Where: Amos Eaton 214
Host: Don Drew

Monday, April 28, 2008
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Speaker: Robert F. Henrick (Johns Hopkins University) "Mathematics as a Launching Pad" (Abstract)
Host: William Siegmann

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