SIAM Gators Past Talks

Fall 2009 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title

More info

09/23/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

Dung Phun

A gradient-based algorithm for sparse recovery

abstract

09/30/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

Olivia Prosper

Vaccination Strategy and Optimal Control for Seasonal and H1N1 Influenza Outbreak

abstract

10/7/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

Dr. Rao

Renewal processes

abstract

10/14/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

Dhiman Bhadra

Estimation of Median Household Income of Small Areas : A Bayesian Semiparametric Approach

abstract

10/21/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

Claudio Fuentes

Testing for the Existence of Clusters with Applications to NIR Spectroscopy Data

abstract

10/28/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

Dr. De Leenheer

An introduction to synthetic biology

abstract

11/04/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

James Hungerford

On Finding the Min-Cut for a Graph using Continuous Quadratic Programming

abstract

11/18/2009

4:10-5:00PM

Atrium

Iluia Posirca

On Finding the Min-Cut for a Graph using Continuous Quadratic Programming

 

Spring 2009 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title

More info

01/27/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Atrium

Dr. William Hager

3D Discharging Structure of a Mountain Thunderstorm

photo

02/03/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Atrium

 NO SEMINAR

 

 

02/10/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Atrium

 Dhiman Bhadra

 Smoothing, Penalized Splines and Mixed Models

abstract

photo

02/17/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Lit305

Fuhua Chen

 A SOFT MULTIPHASE SEGMENTATION MODEL VIA GAUSSIAN MIXTURE

abstract

photo

02/24/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Atrium

Dr. Sergei Pilyugin

 Some notes on the mutation models

photo

03/17/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Lit305

 NO SEMINAR

 

 

03/24/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Atrium

Dr. Liqing Yan

 Gaussian copula

abstract

03/31/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Atrium

NO SEMINAR 

 

 

04/07/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Atrium

Dr. David Wilson

A converse to the Contraction Mapping Theorem, Iterated Function Systems, and the Existence of Fractals

abstract

photo

04/14/2009

1:55-2:45PM

Lit305

Dr. Necibe Tuncer

 Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biology and
Medicine

abstract

photo

 

Fall 2008 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title

More info

09/10/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Dr. Bruce Edwards

Introduction of the CORDIC method

abstract

photo

09/17/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Dr. Murali Rao

Generalised Poisson Distributions

abstract

09/24/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Remy Ndangali

The Bernoulli numbers using Riemann Lebesgue Lemma

abstract

10/01/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Dr. James Keesling

Fractal Geometry

abstract

photo

10/08/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Dr. David Wilson

A Short History of Root Finding, Contractions, Fractals, and Metrics

abstract

talk

photo

10/15/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Dr. Necibe Tuncer
Radially Projected Finite Elements

abstract

photo

10/22/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Jiangtao Luo

An Algorithm for Estimatinging the Genetic Traits

abstract

photo

10/29/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Shuguang Tan

An iterative solver for hybridized finite element method

abstract

photo

11/05/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Minah Oh

The multigrid analysis of the "meridian" problem

abstract

photo 

11/12/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Kiranmoy Das

 

Statistical genetics of quantitative traits: Linkage, Maps and QTL

abstract

photo 

11/19/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Aaron Smith

A Statistical Test of Mixing Algorithms

abstract 

12/03/2008

3:00-3:50PM

Lit339

Swati Debroy
Evaluating Treatment of Hepatitis C for Hemolytic Anemia Management

abstract 

 

Fall 2007 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title/TASK

Abstract

9/11

11:45AM

Lit305

Adnan Sabuwala
 

A Convergence Study Of Spectrally Matched Grids In The Presence Of
Non-Smooth Data And Anisotropy

abstract

pictures

9/18

11:45AM

Lit339

Kiranmoy Das

A genetic model for predicting the incidence of cancer with age

abstract

pictures

9/25

11:45AM

Lit339

Dr. S. Pilyugin

IMMUNE RESPONSE TO A MALARIA INFECTION: PROPERTIES OF A MATHEMATICAL MODEL

abstract

pictures

10/2 

11:45AM

Lit339

Dung Phan

Graph partitioning and continuous quadratic programming

abstract

pictures

10/9

11:45AM

Lit339

Micah Coleman

How Combinatorics is Saving the World Part III: The Wiener Index as a Topological   Invariant in Mathematical Chemistry and
its Myriad Applications to the Understanding of Phenylenes, Hydrocarbons, and other Molecules and their Interactions.
 

abstract

pictures

10/16 

11:45AM

Lit339

Qingguo Zeng

DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION IN RADIATION THERAPY

abstract

pictures

10/23

11:45AM

Lit339

Minah Oh

Decomposition of Sobolev Spaces

abstract

pictures

10/30

11:45AM

Lit339

Remy Ndangali

Green's functions , eigenfunctions and resonance

abstract

pictures

11/6

11:45AM

Lit339

Guifang Fu

A Simulation Approach for Functional Mapping of QTL Using Minimum L2 Parametric Criterion

abstract

pictures

11/13 

11:45AM

Lit339

Shuguang Tan

Solving PDE Using Finite Element Methods
 

abstract

pictures

11/20

11:45AM

Lit339

Souvik Bhattacharya

Mathematical Analysis of HIV-1 Dynamics in Vivo

abstract

pictures

11/27

11:45AM

Lit339

Dr. Wilson

Wavelets Made Easy (Almost)

abstract

pictures

12/4

11:45AM

Lit339

Jinseop Lee

Non-rigid image registration by using MLE
approach and AOS scheme
 

abstract

pictures

 

Spring 2007 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title/TASK

Abstract

1/23

3PM

Lit339

Jiangtao Luo

Estimating the Mean and Variance of a Normal Distribution
From Truncated or Censored Samples

abstract

pictures

1/30

3PM

Lit339

Dr. Maia Martcheva

Strain Replacement with Perfect Vaccination

abstract

pictures

2/6

3PM

Lit205

Adnan Sabuwala

Convergence Analysis of Optimal Grids on Finite Spatial Intervals

abstract

pictures

2/13 

3PM

Lit339

Vivekananda Roy

Random walks on finite abelian groups.

abstract

pictures

2/20

3PM

Lit339

Pengwen Chen

Make metrics from Bregman divergences

abstract

pictures

2/27

3PM

Lit339

Dr. Pilyugin

On Redfield's N:P ratio in oceanic algae:
Insights from Tilman's graphical theory of competition

abstract

pictures

3/6

3PM

Lit368

Bing Jian

 A continuous mixture of tensors model for diffusion-weighted MR signal
reconstruction

abstract

pictures

 3/13

 

 

Spring Break

 

 

3/20

3PM

Lit339

Dr. Shabanov

Mathematical Models of Surgical Threads

abstract

pictures

3/27 

3PM

Lit339

Ning Guo

Minimizing a quadratic over a sphere

abstract

pictures

4/3

3PM

Lit339

Minah Oh

Constructing preconditioners using extension operators

abstract

pictures

 4/10

3PM

Lit339

Souvik Bhattacharya

MATHEMATICS IN ANCIENT WORLD

abstract

pictures

4/17

3PM

Lit339

Swati Debroy

Modeling HIV/AIDS

abstract

pictures

4/24

3PM

Lit339

 

Special seminar about job hunting

abstract

pictures

 

Fall 2006 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title/TASK

Abstract

9/14

11:45am

Lit339

Dr. Keesling

     Biomathematics

Abstract

Pictures

9/21

11:45am

Lit339

Bing Jian

Computer Vision

Abstract

Pictures

9/28

11:45am

Lit339

Juan Liu

Reservoir Model Optimization under Uncertainty

Abstract

Pictures

10/5

11:45am

Lit339

Dzung Phan

Branch and bound approach to globally minimizing quadratically constrained quadratic programs

Abstract

Pictures

10/12

11:45am

Lit339

Micah Coleman

How Combinatorics is Saving the World Part I: Combinatorial Applications in the Study of Shuffles and Alignments of RNA Sequences and Prediction of RNA Secondary Structures

Abstract

Pictures

10/19

11:45am

Lit339

Pengwen Chen

Capacity Classifier

Abstract

Pictures

10/26

11:45am

Lit339

Dr. Jay

An application of the real method for interpolating spaces

Abstract

Pictures

11/2

11:45am

Lit339

Qingguo Zeng

Toward an Efficient Accumulative Non-rigid Image Registration Scheme

Abstract

Pictures

11/9

11:45am

Lit339

Dr. Yan

Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation of option prices

Abstract

Pictures

11/16

11:45am

Lit339

Weihong Guo

 Using Non-parametric Distribution Approximation to Smooth and
Segment Images Simultaneously

Abstract

Pictures

11/23

 

 

Thanksgiving

 

 

11/30

11:45am

Lit339

Xiqiang Zheng

A family of orthogonal exponential functions on a regular hexagon and some congruent relations of integers related to tiling

Abstract

Pictures

 

Spring 2006 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title/TASK

Abstract

1/26

3PM

Lit339

Aaron Smith

Testing for Anti-correlation Using the Binomial Distribution

abstract

2/2

3PM

Lit339

Dr. Yan

Approximate discrete Barrier Options

abstract

2/9

3PM

Lit339

Xiqiang Zeng

The fast algorithms of the discrete Fourier
transforms (DFT) on regular hexagonal structures

abstract

2/16 

3PM

Lit339

Dung Phan

Cancelled

 

2/23

3PM

Lit339

Juan Liu

 CVaR Model for Optimizing Crop Insurance under Climate Variabilit

abstract

3/2 

3PM

Lit339

Qingguo Zeng

Using Multiple Tensor Deflection to Reconstruct White Matter Fiber Traces With Branching

abstract

3/9 

3PM

Lit368

Dr. Patrick De Leenheer

Linear systems and the notion of observability

abstract

 3/16

 

 

Spring Break

 

 

3/23

3PM

Lit368

Sujeet Bhat

A multiscale analysis of a nonlinear boundary value problem modeling electrolytic voltage potential

abstract

3/30 

3PM

Lit368

Adnan Sabuwala

Optimal Grids: An Introduction

abstract

 4/6

3PM

Lit369

Beyza Aslan

Lightning and Other Atmospheric Events: Sprites, Blue Jets, and Elves

abstract

 4/13

3PM

Lit368

Jinseop Lee

On image decomposition by a TV-Gabor Model

abstract

4/20

3PM

Lit368

Dr. Bernard Mair

Review some of the research projects in
tomography.

abstract

Fall 2005 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title/TASK

Abstract

9/10

7PM

Tangewood

 

Portluck party

 

9/15

3PM

Lit339

Xiqiang Zheng

Image Transforms on Hexagonal Array Structures

abstract

9/22

3PM

Lit339

Weihong Guo

Markov chain monte carlo based white matter fiber tracking in diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging

abstract

9/29

3PM

Lit339

PengWen Chen

Sparse Aperture Radar Imaging

abstract

10/06

 

 

 

No talks ( Homecoming)

 

10/13

3PM

Lit339

Jinsoep Lee

On Geometric Active Contours in Texture image segmentation using Gabor functions 

abstract

10/20

3PM

Lit339

Chris

 Partial Regularity for Evolution Problems with Discontinuity

abstract

10/27

3PM

Lit339

Sergei Pilyugin

 Population dynamics of microbial growth in continuous cultures

abstract

11/3

3PM

Lit339

Hongchao

 Self-Adaptive Inexact Proximal Point Methods

abstract

11/15

2PM

Lit339

ChengYang Xu
Siemens Corporate Research

Siemens Corporate Research in Medical Imaging and Career Possibilities in a Large Company's R&D Center 

abstract

11/17

3PM

Lit339

Junha

 A piecewise constant soft Mumford-shah model based simultaneous segmentation and registration

abstract

11/24

 

 

 

Thanks giving

 

12/1

3PM

Lit339

Dr. Moskow

 Optimal Finite Difference Grids for Targeted Approximations

abstract

 

Spring 2005 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title/TASK

Abstract

1/13

3:00PM

Lit339

Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith will talk about the Employment Center and other job hunt
related opportunities available at the annual Joint Meeting (recently held in
Atlanta).

abstract

1/20

3:00PM

Lit339

Dr. David Wilson

On Writing Applied Mathematics Well

abstract

2/3

3:00PM

Lit339

Dr. David Wilson

"Mathematicians Give the Worst Talks"

abstract

2/10

3:00PM

Lit339

Sukanya Krishnaswamy

NAB

abstract

2/17

3:00PM

Lit339

 

SIAM Gator chapter meeting

report

2/24

3:00PM

Lit339

Dr. Maia Martcheva 

Two-Sex Population Modeling

abstract

3/10

3:00PM

Lit305

Dang Phan

Some Approaches To Solving Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs

abstract

3/17

3:00PM

Lit368

Adnan Sabuwala

Gaussian Spectral Rules for Three-Point Finite Differences

abstract

3/24

3:00PM

Lit368

Dr. Mair

Mathematical Aspects of Cardiac Imaging

abstract

3/31

3:00PM

Lit368

Bing Jian(CSE)

A study on the space of positive definite symmetric matrices

abstract

4/7

3:00PM

Lit368

Arun
Krishnaswamy

Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods in Finance

abstract

4/14

3:00PM

Lit368

Sujeet Bhat

Homogenization of an elliptic boundary value problem modeling galvanic corrosion

abstract

 

Fall 2004 Talks

 

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title/TASK

Abstract

8/24/2004

5:10PM

Lit368

Bayza

1.Summarizing great work done by our previous SIAM Gator offices.
2.Choosing new officers for this new academic year.

no talk

8/31/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Adnan/Chris

1.Open house, welcome new members.
2.Decided regular meeting time: Tuesdays 5:10PM at Lit339

no talk

9/06/2004

 

 

 

Cancelled because of Harrican Charley

no talk

9/14/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Adnan/Chris

Decide talk schedule for this semester

 

9/21/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Jungha An

The Unifying of Perspective on Attitude and Shape Control

abstract

9/28/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Yi Jiang (ECE)

the multi-input multi-output (MIMO)communication technology

abstract

10/5/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Jungha An

IMA Math Modeling: Mathematical Modeling in Industry - A Workshop for Graduate
Students, August 9 - August 18, 2004.

abstract

10/12/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Chris

Chris Tweddle will discuss a work in progress (with Y. Chen and M. Rao), 
"Fenchel Transforms of a Convex Functional."

abstract

10/19/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Qingguo

Additive Operator Splitting (AOS) method & its Application in Image Processing

abstract

10/26/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Jungha

 A Joint Segmentation and Non-Rigid Registration with an Application to
Medical Imaging

abstract

11/2/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Dr. Jay Gopalakrishnan

Modeling therapeutic cardiac ablation

abstract

11/09/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Dr. Patrick De Leenheer

A feedback perspective for models in mathematical biology

abstract

11/16/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Beyza

A continuous approach to the lightning discharge

abstract

11/23/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Bing Jian

Fingerprint recognition: techniques, applications and challenges

abstract

11/30/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Jungha An

Various Statistical Methods for Shape Analysis

abstract

12/07/2004

5:10PM

Lit339

Weihong Guo

Improvement of Piecewise Smooth Mumford-Shah Model

abstract

Spring 2004 Talks

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title

01/ 28/04 
WED

4:05 PM

LIT 305

Organizational Meeting

02/04/04
WED

4:05 PM

LIT 339

Dr. Hager

Brief outline and background descriptions for  the upcoming workshop(Multiscale Optimization Methods and  Applications)

02/11/04
WED

4:05 PM

LIT 339 

Dr.Moskow

Brief outline and background descriptions for the upcoming workshop(Computational Methods in Multiscale Analysis and Applications).

02/24/04
TUE

3:00
PM

LIT 339 

Dr.Gopalakrishnan

Brief outline and background  descriptions for the upcoming workshop(Computational Methods in 
Multiscale Analysis and Applications)

02/25/04
WED

4:05 PM

LIT 339

Dr.Alladi

The Rogers-Ramanujan identities and statistical mechanics

03/17/04
WED

4:05
PM

LIT 339

Chris Tweddle

Discuss a partial regularity result for the plasticity
problem. In particular, given a convex function \phi, with linear growth,  the solution u to the functional 
          min_{v\in BV(\Omega} {\int_\Omega\phi(Dv) - \int_\Omega fv dx}  will be Holder continuous on a region E (in \Omega) where grad u is  small.

03/31/04
WED

4:05 PM

LIT 339

Discussion about  articles related to department's newsletter and to the SIAM  newsletter.
 

04/07/04
WED

4:05 PM

LIT 339

Dr. Tim Davis

A sparse matrix factorization algorithm for matrices arising in circuit simulation.

04/14/04
WED

4:05 PM

LIT 339

Qingguo Zeng

Reconstruction and Characterization of Apparent Diffusion
Coefficient in Diffusion Weighted MRI


  Fall 2003 Talks

 

Date

Time

Place

Speaker

Title

Abstract

10/01/2003
WED

5 PM

LIT 339

Dr. Sergei  Pilyugin

A model of mixed microbial growth: 
Sufficient conditions for the Hopf bifurcation

Abstract

10/08/2003
WED

5 PM

LIT 339

Adnan Sabuwala

Modeling the conductivity of concrete

Abstract

10/15/2003
WED

5PM

LIT 339 

Dr.Soon-Chul Park

Partition of The Reduced Graph

Abstract

10/22/2003
WED

5PM

LIT 339 

Pengwen Chen

Effect of Interstitial gas on Powder Flow

Abstract

10/29/2003
WED

5PM

LIT 339 

Meeting

SIAM Conference Meeting

No Talk

11/05/2003
WED

5 PM

LIT 339

Dr. Tim Olson

Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, and Radar

Abstract

11/12/2003
WED

5PM

LIT 339 

Arun Krishnaswamy 

Simulation ?

Abstract

11/19/2003
WED

5PM

LIT 339 

Dr.Metzler

Measuring Mountains

Abstract

12/03/2003
WED

5PM

LIT 339 

Arun Krishnaswamy 

Simulation ? (continued from 11/12)

Abstract

 

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