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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Fall 2004 Talks

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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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