Seminars 2008
IMI Seminars for 2008
- General Seminars
- Wolfgang Dahmen Special Seminar Series: High-Dimensional Approximation
- Number Theory Seminars
- Combinatorics Seminars
- Compressed Sensing Seminars
- Seminars from previous years
General Seminars
| Monday, February 4: Boyan Dimitrov Kettering University |
"Dependence and its measuring" |
| Wednesday, April 16: Theresa Sparacio University of South Carolina |
"Littlewood's conjecture on the lower bound L1 norms of exponential sums" |
| Thursday, April 24: R. Bruce Kellogg University of South Carolina |
"Boundary layers and corner singularities" |
| Thursday, May 8: Brian Straughan University of Durham, UK |
"Decay bounds in a model for aggregation of microglia: application to Alzheimer's disease senile plaques" |
| Thursday, October 2: Karl-Heinz Brakhage RWTH — Aachen |
"Least squares approximation and grid generation using subdivision schemes" |
| Thursday, October 23: Cai Wei University of North Carolina |
"Numerical Algorithms for Modeling Multi-Physics Phenomena in Biological and Engineering Systems" |
Computational Nanoscience and Mathematical Modeling Seminar Series
| Tuesday, September 9: Brandon Lindley University of South Carolina |
"Shear Wave Propagation in Viscoelastic Media" |
| Friday, September 19: Tianyu Zhang Montana State University |
"Phase-Field Models for Biofilm Growth and Biofilm-Flow Interactions" |
| Tuesday, September 23: Eric Choate University of South Carolina |
"Linear Rheology of Nematic Liquid Crystal Polymer Solutions" |
Wolfgang Dahmen Special Seminar Series
(lecture notes are available)
| Wednesday, February 13: Wolfgang Dahmen RWTH Aachen, Germany |
"High Dimensional Approximation - Background and Sources" |
| Monday, February 18: Wolfgang Dahmen RWTH Aachen, Germany |
"Concentration Inequalities, Part 1" |
| Wednesday, February 20: Wolfgang Dahmen RWTH Aachen, Germany |
"Concentration Inequalities, Part 2" |
| Monday, February 25: Wolfgang Dahmen RWTH Aachen, Germany |
"Concentration Inequalities, Part 3" |
| Wednesday, February 27: Peter Binev University of South Carolina |
"Sparse Occupancy Trees" |
| Monday, March 3: Mauro Maggioni Duke University |
"Harmonic Analysis on data sets in high-dimensional space" |
| Wednesday, March 5: Mauro Maggioni Duke University |
"Parametrizations of manifolds with heat kernels, multiscale analysis on graphs, and applications to analysis of data sets" |
| Monday, March 17: Ivan Yotov University of Pittsburgh |
"Multiscale mortar mixed finite element methods for flow in porous media" |
| Monday, March 31: Gitta Kutyniok Stanford University |
"L1-Minimization and the Geometric Separation Problem from a Microlocal Analysis Viewpoint" |
| Wednesday, April 2: Xiaoliang Wan Brown University/MIT |
"Stochastic Galerkin approximations of elliptic PDEs driven by spatial white noise" |
| Friday, May 16: Dominique Picard Université Paris VII, France |
"Thresholding and Learning Theory" |
| Friday, May 16: Gerard Kerkyacharian Université Paris VII, France |
"Denoising Radon transform using needlets" |
| Thursday, October 2: Karl-Heinz Brakhage Aachen-RWTH |
"Least Squares Approximation and Grid Generation using Subdivision Schemes" |
Number Theory Seminars
| Thursday, January 31: Matt Boylan University of South Carolina |
"Integer weight mock theta analogues" |
| Thursday, February 7: Dan Baczkowski University of South Carolina |
"On rational numbers associated with arithmetic functions evaluated at factorials" |
| Thursday, February 14: Matt Boylan University of South Carolina |
"Differential operators on harmonic weak Maass forms" |
| Tuesday, February 19: Frank Thorne University of Wisconsin at Madison |
"Extensions of results on the distribution of primes" |
| Thursday, February 28: Michael Filaseta University of South Carolina |
"Diophantine Equations Arising from the Study of Galois Groups, Part 2" |
| Thursday, March 20: Vsevolod Lev Georgia Tech/University of Haifa |
"Additive bases in abelian groups" |
| Thursday, April 3: Karl Mahlburg MIT |
"Asymptotics for partitions without sequences" |
| Thursday, April 20: Hui Xue Clemson University |
"Central derivatives of certain L-series" |
| Thursday, April 24: Jennifer Larson University of South Carolina |
"The partition function and Dyson's rank conjecture" |
Combinatorics Seminars
| Thursday, January 24: Richard Anstee University of British Columbia, Canada |
"Some Non-simple Forbidden Configurations and Design Theory" |
| Thursday, February 7: Josh Cooper University of South Carolina |
"Klee's Measure Problem, Multiobjective Optimization, and Monotone Boolean Functions" |
| Thursday, February 14: Éva Czabarka University of South Carolina |
"Diameter of 4-colorable graphs with given minimum degree" |
| Tuesday, February 19: Vladimir Temlyakov University of South Carolina |
"Some problems where approximation theory meets number theory" |
| Thursday, February 21: Lincoln Lu University of South Carolina |
"An exact result and its application on hypergraph Turan numbers" |
| Thursday, March 6: Josh Cooper University of South Carolina |
"Symmetric and Asymptotically Symmetric Permutations, Part 1" |
| Thursday, March 20: Josh Cooper University of South Carolina |
"Symmetric and Asymptotically Symmetric Permutations, Part 2" |
| Thursday, April 3: William Gasarch University of Maryland |
"Grid Colorings" |
| Thursday, April 10: Richard Anstee University of British Columbia, Canada |
"Some progress towards a conjectured bound for forbidden configurations" |
| Thursday, April 17: Darren Narayan Rochester Institute of Technology |
"Graph Representations and Extremal Sets" |
| Thursday, April 24: Paul Horn University of California at San Diego |
"The spectral gap of a random subgraph of a graph" |
| Thursday, May 1: Mark Walters University of South Carolina |
"Iterated Point-Line Configurations Grow Doubly-Exponentially" |
Compressed Sensing Seminars
| Tuesday, February 5: Stephen Dilworth University of South Carolina |
"Partial unconditionality for subsequences of weakly null sequences in Banach spaces" |
| Tuesday, February 12: Daniel Savu University of South Carolina |
"Optimization problems related to compressed sensing, Part 1" |
| Tuesday, February 19: Vladimir Temlyakov University of South Carolina |
"Some problems where approximation theory meets number theory" |
| Tuesday, February 26: Daniel Savu University of South Carolina |
"Optimization problems related to compressed sensing, Part 2" |
| Tuesday, March 18: Wolfgang Dahmen RWTH Aachen, Germany |
"Nearly optimal recovery techniques" |
| Tuesday, April 1: Daniel Savu University of South Carolina |
"Optimization problems related to compressed sensing, Part 3" |
| Tuesday, April 8: Vladimir Temlyakov University of South Carolina |
"Open problems in multivariate approximation" |
| Tuesday, April 15: Entao Liu University of South Carolina |
"Deterministic constructions of CS matrices" |
| Tuesday, April 22: Vladimir Temlyakov University of South Carolina |
"Greedy approximation of characteristic functions" |
Seminars from Previous Years
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 |