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Department of Mathematical Sciences
Applied Math Days Fall 2008
Schedule of Talks


All talks will take place in the Fischbach Room in the Folsom Library. A map of the RPI campus is available here. Folsom Library is building #23 on the map.
Friday, October 31, 2008
12:00pm - 1:15pm — Lunch

1:15pm — Opening remarks - Peter Kramer and Yuri Lvov

1:30pm - 3:00pm — First Session
Session Chair: Gregor Kovacic
Synchronous Behavior in Current-Based Neuronal Network
Katherine Newhall

Chaos in integrate-and-fire neuronal networks
Douglas Zhou

Anatomic connectivity reconstruction from functional connectivity in scale-free neuronal networks
Maxim Shkarayev

3:00pm — Coffee

3:30pm - 5:00pm — Second Session
Session Chair: Peter Kramer
Mathematical Model of the Human Sleep Wake System
Lisa Rogers

An Adaptive Method for Computing Invariant Manifolds of 2-D Maps
Jacek Wrobel

Renormalized Resonance Quartets in Dispersive Wave Turbulence
Wonjung Lee

5:00pm - 6:00pm — Discussion
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Discussion Leader: Yuri Lvov

6:30pm — Dinner
Plum Blossom
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685 Hoosick Street
Troy, NY
(518)272-0036

Saturday, November 1, 2008
10:00am - 10:30am — Breakfast

10:30am - 12:00am — Third Session
Session Chair: Peter Kramer
A nonlinear test model for filtering slow-fast systems with strong fast forcing
Boris Gershgorin

Noise-induced transitions in the Lorenz system
Xiang Zhou

Event Driven Quantum Monte Carlo
Ethan Atkins

12:00pm-1:00pm — Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm — Fourth Session
Session Chair: Yuri Lvov
Patterns of convection in a mushy layer
Shane Keating

The Dynamics of a Fluid Membrane
Dan Hu

The new Mimetic Finite Difference method for stationary Stokes equation with applications to bacterial suspensions
Vitaliy Gyrya

2:30pm - 3:00pm — Coffee

3:00pm - 4:30pm — Fifth Session
Session Chair: Fengyan Li
Numerical Multi-Material Flow and Shock Wave Bubble Void Interactions
Melih Ozlem

Spectrally accurate solvers for the Poisson equation in free space
Andras Pataki

A Central DG Method for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Sergey Yakovlev
Optimizing Photonic Quasicrystals
Mikael Rechtsman

4:30pm-5:00pm — Summary Discussion and Review
Discussion Leader: Peter Kramer

6:00pm — Dinner
Karavelli
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9 Johnson Rd #B
Latham, NY 12110
(518)785-7600

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