Joint Applied Math and Probability Seminar
Fall Quarter 2003
Friday, 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner, Building 380, Room 380-C
Organized by Amir Dembo and Doron Levy

September 26	Persi Diaconis Stanford University	The Fastest Mixing Markov Chains on a Graph
October 3	Gregoire Derveaux Stanford University	Numerical Simulation of the Acoustic Guitar
October 10	Frederic Gibou Stanford University	Discretization of the Stefan Problem: Fast Hybrid Levelset/k-Means Algorithm for Image Segmentation
October 17 Room 380-Y	Yiannis Kontoyiannis Brown University	Large Deviations, Multiplicative Ergodicity,and Spectral Theory for Markov Chains
October 24	Martin Zerner Stanford University	Some self-interacting random walks with bias
October 31	Jean-Claude Nedelec Ecole Polytechnique	Simulation of SAW devices with piezoelectric material. Related mathematics
November 7	Dimitrios Cheliotis Stanford University	Diffusion in random environment and the renewal theorem
November 14	George Papanicolaou Stanford University	Imaging, inverse problems and waves in random media
November 21	Gunnar Carlsson Stanford University	Algebraic topology of point cloud data and shape and feature recognition
November 28	Thanksgiving No seminar
December 5	H.T. Yau Stanford University	Superdiffusivity of Two Dimensional Lattice Gas with Navier-Stokes Equations as the Formal Limit

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