Applied Math Seminar
Spring Quarter 2007
Friday, 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner, Building 380, Room 380-C
Organized by Laurent Demanet

 

April 6

 

Ron Lifshitz
Physics
Caltech

 

Quasicrystals - Some of nature's most intriguing forms of matter

April 13

 

Jean-Domimique Deuschel
Mathematics
TU Berlin

 

Laplacian pinning and wetting models in (1+1)-dimensions

April 20

 

Gabriel Peyre
Ceremade
Paris

 

Adaptive Sparse Representation of Geometric Textures

April 27

 

Rachel Kuske
Applied Math
U British Columbia

 

Transients + instabilities + noise = structure?

May 4

 

Thomas Strohmer
Mathematics
UC Davis

 

The unreasonable effectiveness of Banach algebras in numerical analysis

May 11

 

Jonathan Mattingly
Mathematics
Duke U.

 

Transfer of dissipation and fluctuations in a simple example

May 18

 

Yaakov Tsaig
Statistics
Stanford

 

Fast Approximate Solution of Underdetermined Systems of Linear Equations

May 25

 

Qing Nie
Mathematics
UC Irvine

 

Specificity and Robustness of Cell Signalling

June 1

 

Michael Lustig
EE
Stanford

 

Sparse MRI: The Application of Compressed Sensing for Rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging

June 8

 

Houman Owhadi
Applied math
Caltech

 

Homogenization and inverse homogenization of divergence form elliptic operators with a continuum of scales

 

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