Seminar

“Tradeoffs between complexity and accuracy in nonhydrostatic ocean modeling”

by Oliver Fringer
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

ACE 2.302 (AVAYA)
Thursday, May 17, 2012
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Clint Dawson

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“Integrated Radiation Transport and Nuclear Fuel Performance for Assembly-Level Simulations”

by Kevin Taylor Clarno
Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ACE 6.304
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Robert Moser

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“(REVISION #2: Please note room change): Computational Tools for Molecular Programming: Design, Simulation, and Analysis”

by Erik Winfree
Cal Tech

ACE 2.302 (AVAYA)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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“From Insect Flight to Heart Murmurs: Multiphysics Modeling and Analysis of Complex Biological Flows”

by Rajat Mittal
Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Michael Sacks

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“Dynamically and kinematically consistent global ocean and sea-ice state estimates of the WOCE and satellite era”

by Patrick Heimbach
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ACE 2.302 (AVAYA)
Monday, May 7, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Hosted by Omar Ghattas

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“Situational Awareness using Information-Driven Control of Networked Autonomous Vehicles”

by Reza Olfati-Saber
Dartmouth College

ACE 6.304
Thursday, May 3, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Greg Rodin

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Seminar

“ Numerical Simulation of Giant Middle East Oil & Gas Reservoirs”

by Ali Dogru
Saudi Aramco

ACE 2.402 (Electronic)
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Hosted by Mary Wheeler

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Seminar

“Asymptotic preserving schemes for magnetic confinement”

by Mihai Bostan
Aix-Marseille University, France

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 27, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Irene Gamba

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“Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions: Fundamental Insights Towards Predictive Models”

by Jacqueline H. Chen
Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 27, 2012
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Robert Moser

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Seminar

“Coupling Boundary Layer Methods with Inviscid Flow Solvers”

by David Young
Boeing Technical Fellow

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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“Direct numerical simulations for transition investigations in high-enthalpy boundary-layer flows”

by Christian Stemmer
Technical University, Munich, Germany

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Hosted by Robert Moser

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Seminar

“Who’s Afraid of the Hydrophobic Effect?”

by Dr. Hank Ashbaugh
Tulane University

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 23, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Dr. T. Truskett

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Seminar

“Efficiently Sampling Multiplicative Attribute Graphs Using a Ball-Dropping Process”

by S V N Vishwanathan
Purdue University

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 20, 2012
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Inderjit Dhillon

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Seminar

“Point source identification in non-linear advection-diffusion-reaction systems”

by Alexander Mamonov
ICES, UT Austin

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 20, 2012
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Kui Ren

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Seminar

“Diffusion Analysis for Layered Brain Structures”

by Karel Segeth
Institute of Mathematics of Czech Academy of Sciences

ACE 6.304
Thursday, April 19, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Dispersion Engineering in Electromagnetic Meta-materials”

by Robert Lipton
LSU

ACE 6.304
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Effective Velocity and Pressure Interface Laws Between aViscous Fluid and a Porous Medium Using Homogenization”

by Andro Mikelic
Universite Lyon 1, Departement de Mathematiques, Lyon, France

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Mary Wheeler

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Seminar

“Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polynucleotide and its Partners”

by Serdal Kirmizialtin
ICES

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 16, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“National Instruments’ Tech Talk: New Technologies for Real-Time Simulation, Measurement and Control in Oil & Gas”

by Igor Alvarado
National Instruments

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 16, 2012
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Hosted by Mary Wheeler

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Seminar

“Isoperimetric Inequalities in Mechanics”

by Robert Lipton
Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 13, 2012
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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“Scalable Domain Decomposition Algorithms for Contact Problems: Theory, Numerical Experiments, and Realworld Problems”

by Z. Dostal
Dept. of Appl. Math. and CE IT4I, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

ACE 6.304
Thursday, April 12, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Tties of the Human Cornea: From Molecular to Macroscopic Scale Models”

by Peter M. Pinsky
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Michael Sacks

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“Molecular Simulation Studies of Nucleic Acid Systems for Biological Applications”

by Arthi Jayaraman
University of Colorado, Boulder

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 9, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Venkat Ganesan, Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Electromagnetic Cloaking at All Frequencies”

by Michael Vogelius
Rutgers University

ACE 6.304
Thursday, April 5, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Insights into the Initiation of Protein Unfolding via a Long Helix ”

by Steven Kreuzer
University of Texas at Austin

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 2, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Dr. Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Convergent Finite Difference Methods for Singular Solutions of the Elliptic Monge-Ampère Equation”

by Adam Oberman
Mathematics Department, Simon Fraser University

ACE 6.304
Thursday, March 29, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Richard Tsai

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Seminar

“Finite element spaces, new and old”

by Douglas Arnold
The University of Minnesota

ACE 4.304
Monday, March 26, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Irene Gamba

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“STRUCTURE, SLIP AND RHEOLOGY OF SOFT PARTICLE GLASSES”

by Roger Bonnecaze
Chemical Engineering, UT Austin

ACE 6.304
Friday, March 23, 2012
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Uncertainties in Shock-Tube and Flame Speed Measurements at Extreme Conditions”

by Eric L. Petersen
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

ACE 6.304
Thursday, March 22, 2012
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Noel Clemens, Bob Moser

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Seminar

“What Entitles Us to Make Predictions?”

by Robert Moser, Gabriel Terejanu & Todd Oliver
Center for Predictive Engineering and Computational Sciences, ICES

ACE 6.304
Thursday, March 22, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Multi-scale Transport and Dissipation in the Wave-Driven Ocean”

by Juan M. Restrepo
University of Arizona

ACE 2.302 (AVAYA)
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Hosted by Omar Ghattas

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Seminar

“Structure Preserving Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Ideal MHD Simulation”

by Fengyan Li
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Irene Gamba

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“Dynamics and Mechanism of DNA-Bending Proteins in Binding Site Recognition”

by Anjum Ansari
University of Illinois

ACE 6.304
Monday, March 19, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Uncertainty Driven Engineering for Heterogeneous Media & Structures”

by Timothy Breitzman
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

ACE 6.304
Thursday, March 15, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“A Product Line Architecture for a Network Product”

by Dewayne Perry
Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin

ACE 6.304
Friday, March 9, 2012
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Genome-wide protein structure prediction and structure-based function annotation”

by Yang Zhang
University of Michigan

ACE 6.304
Thursday, March 8, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Research Directions at IBM Research - India”

by Ashish Verma
Manager - Contact Center and Speech Technologies, IBM Research, New Delhi, India

ACE 4.304
Thursday, March 8, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Hosted by Indjerit Dhillon

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Seminar

“Simulations of biomolecular assembly processes at interfaces”

by Jeetain Mittal
Lehigh University

ACE 6.304
Monday, March 5, 2012
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Thomas Truskett, Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Making GPGPU easier: Software and hardware developments in GPU computing”

by Lee Howes
Advanced Micro Devices

ACE 2.402 (Electronic)
Thursday, March 1, 2012
12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Hosted by Keshav Pingali

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Seminar

“1) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering: the Tree and the Fruit and 2) Missing Mathematics of Extreme Scale Simulation”

by David Keyes
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology and Columbia University

ACE 2.302 (AVAYA)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Hosted by Robert Moser

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Seminar

“Isogeometric Analysis: Recent Developments”

by Thomas J.R. Hughes
ICES

ACE 6.304
Friday, February 24, 2012
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Software Composability for Implicit Multiphysics with High Throughput”

by Towards Algorithmic and Software Composability for Implicit >> Multiphysics with High Throughput
Jed Brown, Argonne National Labs

ACE 4.304
Thursday, February 23, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Robert Moser, Karl Schultz

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Seminar

“Bayesian inference with spectral approximations and optimal maps”

by Youssef Marzouk
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hosted by Robert Moser

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Seminar

“Robust DPG method for convection-dominated diffusion problems”

by Norbert Heuer
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

ACE 6.304
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Stability and convergence of Galerkin discretizations of the Helmholtz equation”

by J.M. Melenk
Vienna University of Technology

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Models”

by Habib Najm
Distinguished Member-Technical Staff, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratorie

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Hosted by Robert Moser

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Seminar

“Greedy Algorithms for Structurally Constrained High Dimensional Problems”

by Pradeep Ravikumar
Computer Sciences, UT Austin

ACE 6.304
Friday, February 3, 2012
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Irene Gamba

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“Life at the interface of computer science and chemistry”

by Erik Winfree
California Institute of Technology

ACE 6.304
Thursday, February 2, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Kinetic theory derivation of nonequilibrium hydrodynamic models for atmospheric entry plasmas”

by Thierry E. Magin
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

ACE 6.304
Friday, January 27, 2012
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Irene Gamba

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“On the Choice of the Prior Distribution in Bayesian Statistics”

by Fabrizio Ruggeri
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche

ACE 6.304
Thursday, January 26, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Gabriel Terejanu

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Seminar

“Theory and Numerical Treatment of the Einstein Constraint Equations ”

by Michael Holst
Department of Mathematics Department of Physics University of California, San Diego

ACE 6.304
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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Seminar

“Preconditioning Discrete Biharmonic Operators by Discrete Laplacians”

by Jinchao Xu Dept. of Math., Penn State

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Atomistic to Continuum Modeling of DNA Molecules”

by Chung-Hao Lee
UCLA

ACE 6.304
Thursday, December 15, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Michael Sacks

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“Geometric PDE, Adaptive Methods, Finite Element Exterior Calculus, and Applications in Relativity”

by Michael Holst
Departments of Mathematics and Physics, UCSD

ACE 4.304
Thursday, December 15, 2011
4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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Seminar

“Finite Element Exterior Calculus for Evolution Problems”

by Andrew Gillette
Departments of Mathematics and Physics, UCSD

ACE 6.304
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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Seminar

“A General Framework of Domain Integration in Meshfree Methods”

by Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen
Professor, UCLA

ACE 4.304
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by T.J.R. Hughes

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Seminar

“Geometry of distance functions for probability distributions”

by Scott Mitchell
Sandia National Laboratories

ACE 4.304
Monday, December 12, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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“Random Unstructured Meshes via Maximal Poisson-disk Sampling”

by Mohamed Ebeida
Sandia National Laboratories

ACE 4.304
Monday, December 12, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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Seminar

“Towards a pollution-free finite element method for wave propagation”

by Jay Gopalakrishan
Portland State University

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Proteins that switch folds”

by John Orban, University of Maryland

ACE 6.304
Monday, December 5, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Multi-scale modeling of soft tissues - where we are and where we want to go”

by MIchael Sacks
ICES

ACE 6.304
Friday, December 2, 2011
10:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Riemann-Cartan Geometry of Nonlinear Dislocation Mechanics”

by Arash Yavari
Civil Engineering & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Bayesian calibration and emulation of geophysical computer models''”

by Serge Guillas, Department of Statistical Science, University College London

ACE 6.304
Monday, November 28, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Omar Ghattas

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Seminar

“Destruction Effects and Sparse Matrix Factorization”

by James F. O'Brien
EECS, Computer Science Division, U.C. Berkeley

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj and Thomas Hughes

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Seminar

“Multiscale Methods for Protein and Virus Shell Mechanics ”

by Ankush Aggarwal
UCLA

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hosted by Michael Sacks

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“Perception, Measurement, and Simulation ”

by James O'Brien
EECS, Computer Science Division, U.C. Berkeley

ACE 6.304
Monday, November 21, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj and Thomas Hughes

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Seminar

“ Multiscale Methods for Protein and Virus Shell Mechanics ”

by Andro Mikelic
UCLA

ACE 6.304
Friday, November 18, 2011
10:30 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Michael Sacks

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Seminar

“Hessian-based approximate solution of large-scale statistical inverse seismic wave propagation”

by George Stadler, ICES

ACE 6.304
Friday, November 18, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Kui Ren

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“The History of the Finite Element Method from -\infty to 1970”

by Ivo Babuska
ICES

ACE 6.304
Friday, November 18, 2011
10:30 p.m. – noon

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Free-form Shape Modeling Using Cyclides Splines”

by Wenping Wang, University of Hong Kong

ACE 4.304
Thursday, November 17, 2011
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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Seminar

“Statistical distributions as stationary measures of stochastic-dynamical systems: formulation, numerical integrators, and applications”

by Ben Leimkuhler, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Richard Tsai

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Seminar

“Dynamical Networks in Translation: From Molecules to Cells”

by Zaida Luthey-Schulten

ACE 6.304
Monday, November 14, 2011
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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“Dynamical Networks in Translation: From Molecules to Cells”

by Zaida Luthey-Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ACE 6.304
Monday, November 14, 2011
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“The Computational Microscope Images Biomolecular Machines and Nanodevices”

by Klaus Schulten

ACE 6.304
Monday, November 14, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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“The Computational Microscope Images Biomolecular Machines and Nanodevices”

by Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ACE 6.304
Monday, November 14, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Improving Complex Models through Stochastic Parameterization and Information Theory”

by Andrew J. Majda, Department of Mathematics and Climate Atmosphere, Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Ins

ACE 6.304
Thursday, November 10, 2011
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Hosted by Clint Dawson

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“Mathematical Strategies for Real Time Filtering of Turbulent Dynamical Systems”

by Andrew J. Majda, Department of Mathematics and Climate Atmosphere, Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Ins

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Clint Dawson

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“Crowding and hydrodynamic interactions likely dominate in vivo macromolecular motion”

by Jeffrey Skolnick, Georgia Institute of Technology

ACE 6.304
Monday, November 7, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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“A fast algorithm for inverse medium problems with multiple excitations”

by George Biros, ICES

ACE 6.304
Friday, November 4, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Kui Ren

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“Uncertainty Quantification for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Predictions”

by Todd Oliver, PECOS, ICES

ACE 6.304
Friday, November 4, 2011
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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“An Immersed Boundary Energy-Based Method for Incompressible Viscoelasticity”

by Dharshi Devendran, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

ACE 6.304
Thursday, November 3, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by MIchael Sacks and Tom Hughes

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Seminar

“Discrete Geometric Mechanics of Elastic Rods and Viscous Threads”

by Eitan Grinspun, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University

6.304
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Chandra Bajaj and Tom Hughes

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“Geometric Computation of Physical Systems”

by Eitan Grinspun, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University

ACE 6.304
Monday, October 31, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Chandra Bajaj and Tom Hughes

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“Geometry in Compression Structures”

by Philippe Block, Assistant Professor, Building Structure Institute of Technology in Architecture

ACE 4.304
Friday, October 28, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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“Large Scale Debugging of Parallel Tasks using Scaling Properties and “Triumph of Majority” Principle”

by Saurabh Bagchi, Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University

ACE 6.304
Friday, October 28, 2011
noon – 1:15 p.m.

Hosted by Keshev Pingali

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“Gradient-Enhanced Uncertainty Propagation”

by Mihai Anitescu, Argonne National Labs

ACE 6.304
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Bob Moser - Ernesto Prudencia

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“Probing organic adsorbate - metal binding chemistry with Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”

by Alexey Zayak, Associate Specialist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ACE 4.304
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hosted by Jim Chelikowsky

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Seminar

“Building Confidence in Other People's Software”

by Chris Simmons and Nicholas Malaya, ICES and PECOS

ACE 6.304
Friday, October 21, 2011
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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“Software Architecture”

by Dewayne Perry, Computer Science

ACE 6.304
Saturday, October 8, 2011
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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“Towards the optimal basis set in the Kohn-Sham density functional theory”

by Lin Lin, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

ACE 6.304
Friday, October 7, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Lexing Ying

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“ Thermostats for control of the molecular dynamics ensemble”

by Ben Leimkuhler

ACE 6.304
Thursday, October 6, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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“Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Simulations of Nucleosomes, Proteins and DNA”

by Garegin A. Papoian

ACE 6.304
Monday, October 3, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Dmitrii Makarov

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“Recent Progress in Time-domain Finite Element Modeling of Wave Propagation in Metamaterials”

by Jichun Li, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

ACE 6.304
Thursday, September 29, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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“Coupling Methods for Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods and Boundary Element Methods”

by Matthias Taus, ICES

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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“Current and Future Directions of HDF: a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data.”

by Quincey Koziol, Director of Core Technology, (Chief Architect for HDF5), The HDF Group Champaign, IL

ACE 4.304
Monday, September 26, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Hosted by Bill Moser - Karl Schulz

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“Physics-based inverse problems in medical image analysis”

by George Biros, ICES

ACE 6.304
Friday, September 23, 2011
10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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“Multi-scale Stochastic Parametrization of Wave Breaking and Wave/Current Interactions”

by Juan Restrepo, Mathematics, University of Arizona

ACE 6.304
Thursday, September 22, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Clint Dawson

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“How mechanical forces speed up chemical reactions: The quantum Bell formula”

by Dmitrii E Makarov, ICES and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Rapid Expansion in Orthogonal Polynomials”

by Dr. Arieh Iserles, Cambridge University

ACE 6.304
Monday, September 19, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Richard Tsai

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“Enzymatic Catalysis and Protein Dynamics”

by Steven Schwartz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

ACE 6.304
Monday, September 12, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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“BEM-based FEM: residual error estimates and extensions to higher order approximation”

by Stefan Weisser, Universität des Saarlandes (Germany)

6.304
Friday, September 9, 2011
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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“Quantifying Uncertainty in Simulations of Complex Engineered Systems”

by Robert Moser, ICES, PECOS

ACE 6.304
Friday, September 9, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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“An Analysis of the Practical DPG Method”

by Dr. Weifeng (Frederick) Qiu IMA, U. Minnesota

ACE 6.304
Thursday, August 18, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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“Uncertainty reduction by optimal experimental design in the framework of PDE”

by Thomas Carraro, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg

ACE 6.304
Monday, August 8, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Robert Moser

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“Analysis of Three-Dimensional Propagating Cracks: A Two-Scale Approach Using Coarse Finite Element Meshes ”

by C. Armando Duarte, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champagne

ACE 6.304
Thursday, June 16, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Description of Hypersonic Effects on Wall Turbulence”

by M. Pino Martín, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Department and the University of Maryland Institute

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Bob Moser

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Seminar

“Construction of Sparse Preconditioners for High-Order Finite Element Problems”

by Chetan Jhurani, Tech-X Corporation

ACE 6.304
Thursday, May 19, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by L. Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Approximate Radiation Boundary Conditions for Time-Dependent Waves”

by Thomas Hagstrom, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by L. Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Numerical Analysis Series: Subspace-based Optimization Methods for Solving Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problem ”

by Xudong Chen, National University of Singapore

ACE 6.304
Friday, May 13, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Kui Ren

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Seminar

“CVC Series:Sampling macromolecular recognition landscapes using Fast Fourier Transforms based approaches and their generalizations.”

by Dima Kozakov, Boston University

ACE 6.304
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Hosted by C. Bajaj

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Seminar

“Extracting coarse grain sequence-dependent model parameters for rigid base and rigid base-pair models of DNA from molecular dynamics simulations of DNA”

by Professor John H. Maddocks

ACE 4.304
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Prof. Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Numerical Analysis Series: Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs”

by Per-Gunnar Martinsson, University of Colorado at Boulder

ACE 6.304
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Hosted by Lexing Ying

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Seminar

“CVC Series:Linear codes, classical varieties and enumerative combinatorics ”

by Sudhir Ghorpade, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

ACE 6.304
Monday, May 9, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Chandrajit Bajaj

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Seminar

“Electrostatic mechanisms in protein stability and folding”

by Jana Shen

ACE 6.304
Monday, May 9, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Pengyu Ren

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Seminar

“Molecular Biology Series:Electrostatic mechanisms in protein stability and folding”

by Jana Shen, University of Oklahoma

ACE 6.304
Monday, May 9, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by P.G. Ren

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Seminar

“Babuska Series: Overview and computational challenges in controlled fusion program ”

by Herbert Berk, Physics, University of Texas

6.304
Friday, May 6, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by I. Babuska

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Seminar

“CVC Series: Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation vs. Optimal Delaunay Triangulation”

by Wenping Wang, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong

ACE 4.304
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by C. Bajaj

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Seminar

“Computational Molecular Sciences Series:Investigating Light Induced Processes in DNA using Ground State Dynamics”

by Martin McCullagh, Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University

ACE 6.304
Monday, May 2, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Peter Rossky

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Seminar

“Molecular Biology Series: Recent Progress in Development and Application of Non-Additive Interaction Models for Molecular Simulations of Biophysical Systems”

by Sandeep Patel

ACE 6.304
Monday, May 2, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

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Seminar

“Babuska Forum Series: Generalized Finite Element Method”

by Uday Banerjee, Syracuse University

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 29, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by I. Babuska

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Seminar

“CCV Series: Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation vs. Optimal Delaunay Triangulation”

by Wenping Wan, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 29, 2011
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Hosted by C. Bajaj

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Seminar

“Numerical Analysis Series: What makes uncertainty quantification in climate prediction so hard?”

by Charles Jackson, Institute of Geophysics, UT Austin

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 29, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Kui Ren

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Seminar

“A New Approach to Robust and Flexible High-dimensional Statistics”

by Sujay Sanghavi, ECE, UT Austin

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 22, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Kui Ren

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Seminar

“Krzysztof Kucera, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas”

by Krzysztof Kuczera

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 18, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Ron Elber

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Seminar

“Designing optimal sparse signal recovery systems”

by Anna C. Gilbert, University of Michigan

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 15, 2011
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Hosted by Allison Moore & Kui Ren

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Seminar

“Modeling interaction and information updating in networks”

by David Aldous, Statistics, UC-Berkeley

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 15, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by W. Beckner

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Seminar

“Numerical Analysis Series: An application of the discontinuous Galerkin method to numerical models of kinetic equations.”

by Armando Majorana, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - University of Catania - Italy

ACES 6.304
Thursday, April 14, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Irene Gamba

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Seminar

“Scalable stochastic programming”

by Cosmin G. Petra

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 11, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Omar Ghattas

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Seminar

“Babuska Forum Series: New Computing Technologies and Trends at the Texas Advanced Computing Center”

by Jay Boisseau, TACC, UT Austin

ACE 6.304
Friday, April 8, 2011
11 a.m.

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Numerical Analysis Series: Inverse Lax-Wendroff Procedure for Numerical Boundary Conditions of Hyperbolic Equations ”

by Chi-Wang Shu, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

ACES 6.304
Thursday, April 7, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Irene Gamba

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Seminar

“Molecular Biology Series: Theory and Computation in DNA Biophysics and Protein Assembly”

by Andrew Spakowitz

ACE 6.304
Monday, April 4, 2011
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Lauren Webb

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Seminar

“An hp DPG Method for Linear Elasticity with Symmetric Stresses”

by Weifeng Qiu

ACES 6.304
Thursday, March 31, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Leszek Demkowicz

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Seminar

“Numerical Analysis Series: An adaptive anisotropic perfectly matched layer method for 3-D time harmonic electromagnetic scattering problems”

by Zhiming Chen

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Lexing Ying

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Seminar

“Babuska Forum: Cracking the Zinc Finger Code: Work in Progress”

by William Press, ICES, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology

ACE 6.304
Friday, March 25, 2011
11 a.m. – noon

Hosted by Ivo Babuska

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Seminar

“Random Matrices in Numerical Linear Algebra”

by Ioana Dumitriu, Washington University

ACES 6.304
Friday, March 25, 2011
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Lexing Ying

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Seminar

“Flux-based level set method and its applications”

by Peter Frolkovic

ACES 6.304
Friday, March 18, 2011
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hosted by Clint Dawson

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Seminar

“Nonlinear PDEs, their numerical solution and applications in biomedical image processing”

by Karol Mikula

ACES 6.304
Thursday, March 17, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Multiscale analysis of solids”

by Jianfeng Lu

ACES 6.304
Friday, March 11, 2011
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Lexing Ying

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Seminar

“Reduced Order Modeling in Sensitivity Analysis,Uncertainty Quantification, and Data Assimilation”

by Hany Abdel-Khalik, Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University

ACE 6.304
Thursday, March 10, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Serge Prudhomme

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by William Beckner

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Seminar

“Residual-Based Error Estimation for Finite Difference and Finite Volume Schemes”

by Christopher J. Roy

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations: Lecture 3”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Monday, March 7, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hosted by William Beckner

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations: Lecture II”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Friday, March 4, 2011
10 a.m.

Seminar

“Accelerated Kinetic Monte Carlo methods: hierarchical parallel algorithms and coarse-graining ”

by Markos Katsoulakis

ACES 6.304
Thursday, March 3, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations ”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Thursday, March 3, 2011
10 a.m.

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Seminar

“Anticipating Resistance”

by Bruce Donald

ACES 6.304
Monday, February 28, 2011
2 p.m.

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Seminar

“Current challenges in pedestrian dynamics and crowd modeling”

by Pierre Degond

ACES 6.304
Friday, February 25, 2011
3 p.m.

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Seminar

“Modeling and Simulation of Quantum Dots and and Other Nanostructure”

by Solmaz Torabi

ACES 6.304
Thursday, February 24, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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“New frontiers in quantum chemistry using supercomputers”

by Jeff Hammond

ACES 6.304
Thursday, February 24, 2011
1:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Time-Dependent Shortest Paths ”

by Subhash Suri

ACES 4.304
Friday, February 18, 2011
11 a.m.

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Seminar

“Issues in the Design of Large-Eddy Simulations that are Independent of the Model for Subfilter Scale Fluxes”

by James G. Brasseur

ACES 6.304
Thursday, February 17, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“High order FEM, fast solvers for tensor product elements”

by Sven Beuchler

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“A Numerical Scheme for Quantum Boltzmann Equation Efficient in Fluid Regime”

by Jingwei Hu

ACES 6.304
Friday, February 11, 2011
1 p.m.

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Seminar

“Fast algorithms for oscillatory kernels”

by Lexing Ying

ACES 6.304
Friday, February 11, 2011
3 p.m.

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Seminar

“Simulation of Transmission Electron Microscope Images of Biological Specimens”

by Ozan Oktem

ACES 4.304
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
1:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Inference and experimental design in complex physical systems ”

by Youssef Marzouk

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Residual-Based Error Estimation for Finite Difference and Finite Volume Schemes”

by Christopher J. Roy

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations ”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Monday, February 7, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations, Lecture 3”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Monday, February 7, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations, Lecture 3”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Monday, February 7, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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Seminar

“ Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Friday, February 4, 2011
10 a.m.

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Seminar

“A New Approach to Robust and Flexible High-dimensional Statistics ”

by Sujay Sanghavi

ACES 6.304
Friday, February 4, 2011
3 p.m.

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations ”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Friday, February 4, 2011
10 a.m.

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Seminar

“Regularity and Uniqueness for Mean Field Equations”

by Pierre-Louis Lions

ACES 6.304
Friday, February 4, 2011
10 a.m.

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Seminar

“Exploring laminar-to-turbulent transition in hypersonic boundary layers using planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF)”

by Paul M. Danehy

ACES 6.304
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
2 p.m.

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“Advances in Tetrahedral Shock Hydrodynamics Methods for Lagrangian and ALE Computations in Complex Geometry”

by Guglielmo Scovazzi

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
1:15 p.m.

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“Numerical Linear Algebra Opportunities on Scalable”

by Michael A. Heroux

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

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Seminar

“Simulation of Protein-Protein Binding: From Encounter Complexes to Multi-Protein Assemblies ”

by Gerhard Hummer

ACES 6.304
Monday, January 31, 2011
2 p.m.

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“Directed assembly of macromolecules, and its application to nanofabrication”

by Juan J. de Pablo

ACES 6.304
Thursday, January 27, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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“Vision and Strategy for the AFOSR Mathematics, Information and Life Sciences Directorate”

by Frederica Darema

ACES 6.304
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

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“Vision and Strategy for the AFOSR Mathematics, Information and Life Sciences Directorate”

by Frederica Darema

ACES 6.304
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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“A Collision-Based Hybrid Method for Linear Transport”

by Cory D. Hauck

ACES 6.304
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
3:30 p.m.

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“Analysis of the DPG Method for the Helmholtz Equation in Multi-dimensions”

ACES 6.304
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Seminar

“TBA”

by Henry S. Ashbaugh

ACE 6.304
Sunday, December 5, 2010
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Hosted by Dr. Thomas Truskett

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“A fast method for Stokesian particulate flows”

ACES 2.302 - AVAYA Auditorium
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Seminar

“Homogenization of Metamaterials via Whitney Forms”

ACES 6.304
Thursday, December 2, 2010