Mar
10
The Periodic Ising Model
SpeakerGrethe HystadUniversity of Arizonahttp://math.arizona.edu/people/gretheh Description The Ising model is one of the most studied models of modern physics. Since its introduction in 1925 by E...
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Mar
9
Multilinear Algebra and Its Applications
SpeakerLek-heng LimUniversity of 电车无码http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~lekheng/ Description In mathematics, the study of multilinear algebra is largely limited to properties of a whole space of tensors...
Mar
8
How to Bake the Real Numbers from Scratch: An Introduction to Surreal Analysis
Description Based on the work of John H. Conway 鈥淥n Numbers and Games鈥. The talk discusses the methods of Dedekind and Khinchin constructing the real numbers. Both assume the existence of some other...
Mar
7
Engineering Response Surface Metamodeling Using Fractional Brownian Fields (and other Kriging Fixes)
SpeakerDan ApleyNorthwestern Universityhttp://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~apley/ Description Kriging has emerged as the method of choice for metamodeling engineering response surfaces generated via...
Mar
7
Yizhi Zhang
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
Mar
3
The Classification of Closed Surfaces
Description In topology (an area of mathematics which can be viewed as an abstraction of geometry) one doesn't distinguish between spaces which can be continuously deformed into each other...
Mar
1
The Mathematics of Juggling
Description In the early to mid 1980's a notation for describing both simple and complex juggling patterns was invented and is now known as "site swap" notation. This notation, which was developed by...
Feb
28
Nature, Architecture, Mathematics and the Digital
Speaker Robert Krawcyk IIT Architecture Description The structures in nature are great lessons for human study. Having been in development for several billion years, only the most successful...
Feb
28
Yiou Li
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
Feb
21
Mathematics of Ions in Channels and Solutions
SpeakerRobert EisenbergRush Universityhttp://www.phys.rush.edu/RSEisenberg/physioeis.html Description An important class of biological molecules鈥攑roteins called ionic channels鈥攃onduct ions (like Na+...