Colloquium Chairs Tiejun Tong and Per-Gunnar Martinsson
Location ECCR 245
Time 3:00 pm, Fridays
Refreshments Between 2:30 pm and 3:00 pm Outside the APPM Office (ECOT 225)



Date Speaker Affiliation Title
01/12/09* Jeffrey Ovall
California Institute of Technology
A Robust and Flexible Error Estimator for Finite Element Discretizations of Elliptic PDEs
01/16/09 Andrew Christlieb
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
An Accurate Sub-cell Method for Mesh Based Lagrangian Particle Codes
01/23/09 Mark Kramer Center for BioDynamics, Boston University Brain Rhythms: In Sickness and in Health
01/30/09 David Anderson Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Biochemical Reaction Systems
02/06/09 Laurent Demanet
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Compressive Wave Computation
02/13/09 Margo Levine Department of Radiology, University of Chicago
Formation of Quantum Dots in Thin Films: From Step-Flow Growth to
Self-Assembly

02/20/09
Kamran Mohseni
Department of Aerospace, University of Colorado at Boulder
CFD and Dynamical System Techniques in Modeling Propulsion in Jellyfish
02/27/09 Dan Cooley
Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
A New Parametric Model for Multivarate Extremes and Prediction for Extremes Via an Angular Measure
03/06/09 Vladimir Rokhlin
Computer Science, Yale University
Accurate Randomized Algorithms of Numerical Analysis
03/13/09 Mark Newman
Department of Physics, University of Michigan
Networks and Influence
03/20/09 Matt McQueen
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Family-Based Methods in the Genome-Wide Association Era
03/20/09 Sam Stechmann
Department of Mathematics, University of California- Los Angeles
Models of Clouds and Atmospheric Waves in the Tropics
03/27/09 No Speaker
Spring Break

04/03/09** Mark Ablowitz Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Extraordinary Waves and Math-- From Beaches to Lasers
04/10/09 Joe Tribbia National Center For Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
Climate and Mathematics: 54 years later
04/17/09 Manuel Lladser
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder A New Approach to Population Diversity: The Extrapolation Problem
04/24/09 Daniel J. Scheeres Department of Aerospace, University of Colorado at Boulder Celestial Mechanics and the Lifestyles of Small Asteroids
05/01/09 TBD

*NOTE: The first colloquium of the semester is on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 4:00pm in ECCR 155.

**NOTE: Mark Ablowitz's lecture will take place at 3:30pm in Old Main Chapel