Seminars 2009

All IMI Seminars for 2009

- General Seminars
- IMI International Seminar Series 2009: Imaging in Electron Microscopy
- Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminars
- Combinatorics Seminars
- Compressed Sensing Seminars
- Nanoscale Theory, Modeling and Simulation Seminar Series
- Number Theory Seminars
- Seminars from previous years

General Seminars

Monday February 16: Prashant Athavale University of Maryland	"Image decomposition with a novel integro-differential model "
Wednesday March 4: Shai Dekel GE Healthcare, Israel	"Adaptive compressed image sensing based on wavelet trees"
Monday May 4: Magomed Chakhkiev Russian State Social University,Russia	"Estimations of oscillatory integrals with convex phases"
Thursday May 7: Alexander Petukhov and Inna Kozlov University of Georgia	"Sparse representations and digital film restoration"
Wednesday September 9: Karl-Heinz Brakhage RWTH Aachen	"Isosurface extraction generalized adaptive marching cubes"
Thursday October 29: Colin Bennett University of South Carolina	"Mathematicians of the Antebellum South Carolina College: Thomas S. Twist, 1835-1846"

IMI International Seminar Series 2009
"Imaging in Electron Microscopy"

Jointly Organized by IMI and Nanocenter

TTh 3:30-4:30 pm Sumwalt Building Room 102

Professor Wolfgang Dahmen, Facilitator & Leader of Seminar
Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik
RWTH Aachen

(lecture notes will be available)

Tuesday February 10: Morteza Shahram Stanford University	"Statistical and Information-Theoretic Analysis of Resolution in Imaging"
Thursday February 12: Douglas Blom University of South Carolina	"(Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy: Overview and Examples for the Non-Microscopist"
Tuesday February 17: Albina Borisevich Oak Ridge National Laboratory	"Seeing Atoms on the Crossroads of Microscopy and Mathematics"
Thursday February 19: Wolfgang Dahmen (Seminar starts at 2pm)	"Open Discussion"
Tuesday February 24: Michael Dickson University of South Carolina	"Kantianism at the Nanoscale"
Thursday February 26: Amit Singer Princeton University (Seminar starts at 2pm)	"Reference free cryo-EM algorithms using self-consistent data fusion, Part I"
Thursday February 26: Yoel Shkolnisky Yale University (Seminar starts at 3pm)	"Reference free cryo-EM algorithms using self-consistent data fusion, Part II"
Tuesday March 3: Masashi Watanabe Lehigh University	"Applications of multivariate statistical analysis for large scale spectrum-image datasets and high resolution images"
Thursday March 5: Ronald A. DeVore Texas A&M and USC (Seminar starts at 2pm)	"Compressed Sensing" Note: Seminar starts at 2 PM
Tuesday March 17: Lawrence Allard Oak Ridge National Laboratory	"Imaging the behavior of atoms, clusters and nanoparticles during elevated temperature experiments in an aberration-corrected electron microscope"
Friday March 20: Angus Kirkland University of Oxford	"Aberration Correction and Compensation in Electron Microscopy: Applications to Quantitative Imaging of Nanostructures."
Tuesday March 24: Alberto Bartesaghi NIH	"Image registration, classification and averaging in cryo-electron tomography "
Thursday March 26: Nigel Browning University of California-Davis	"(Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy with High spatial, temporal and energy resolution"
Tuesday March 31: Paul M. Voyles University of Wisconsin	"Fluctuation microscopy: nanoscale order in amorphous materials from electron nanodiffraction"
Thursday April 2: Eran Mukamel Stanford University	"Information in super-resolution microscopy and automated analysis of large-scale calcium imaging data"
Tuesday April 7: Wolfgang Dahmen (Seminar starts at 2:30 pm!)	"Concluding Remarks on Imaging in Electron Microscopy"

Committee: Wolfgang Dahmen, Thomas Vogt, Robert Sharpley, Peter Binev

Assisting Editor: Francisco Blanco-Silva

Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminars

Wednesday September 9: Xiaofeng Yang University of South Carolina	"Phase-field theory of multi-phase flows" LeConte, Room 312, 2:30-3:25pm
Wednesday September 23: Xinfeng Liu University of South Carolina	"Front tracking method and its various applications" LeConte, Room 312, 2:30-3:25pm
Wednesday September 30: Xiongbin Lu University of South Carolina	"Wip1 is a key regulator for the DNA damage-induced p53 activation" LeConte, Room 312, 2:30-3:25pm
Wednesday October 7: Bin Yu University of South Carolina	"The self-assembly of block copolymers in confinement: A simulated annealing study" LeConte, Room 312, 2:30-3:25pm
Wednesday October 14: Lili Ju University of South Carolina	"An edge-weighted centroidal Voronoi tessellation model for image segmentation" LeConte, Room 312, 2:30-3:25pm
Wednesday October 21: Haomin Zhou Georgia Institute of Technology	"Numerical methods for stochastic Maxwell equations and applications in spectrometer design" LeConte, Room 312, 2:30-3:25pm
Wednesday November 4: Jijun Tang University of South Carolina	Phylogenetic reconstruction from gene rearrangement events LeConte, Room 312, 2:30-3:25pm
Wednesday November 11: Vladimir Mironov Medical University of South Carolina	Why mathematical modeling, computational biology and computer simulation is essential for proper development of organ printing technology Sumwalt, Room 102, 2:30-3:30pm

Combinatorics Seminars

Compressed Sensing Seminars

Thursday January 22: Vladimir Temlyakov University of South Carolina	"Recent progress and open problems in discrepancy and small ball inequalities, Part I" LeConte, Room 312, 11-12pm
Thursday January 29: Vladimir Temlyakov University of South Carolina	"Recent progress and open problems in discrepancy and small ball inequalities, Part II" LeConte, Room 312, 11-12pm
Thursday February 5: Eutao Liu University of South Carolina	"Instance optimal decoding by thresholding in compressed sensing, Part I" LeConte, Room 312, 11-12pm
Thursday February 12: Eutao Liu University of South Carolina	"Instance optimal decoding by thresholding in compressed sensing, Part II" LeConte, Room 312, 11-12pm
Thursday March 5: Mingrui Yang & Eutao Liu University of South Carolina	"A report on the counterence on compressed sensing" LeConte, Room 312, 11-12pm
Thursday March 5: Dan Savu University of South Carolina	"Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery by l, - uninimization, Part I" LeConte, Room 312, 11-12pm
Thursday March 19: Dan Savu University of South Carolina	"Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery by l, - uninimization, Part II" LeConte, Room 312, 11-12pm

Nanoscale Theory, Modeling and Simulation Seminar

Friday February 13: Oleg Prezhdo University of Wisconsin	Jones Physical Science Center, Room 006, 4-5pm
Wednesday March 18: Jack Wells Oak Ridge National Lab	"Emergent Phenomena at the Nanoscale" Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Thursday March 19: Weinan E Princeton University	2009 IMI Distinguished Lecturer LeConte, Room 412, 3:30-4:30pm Refreshments, Wyman Williams Room 408, 3pm
Wednesday March 25: Jay Walton Texas A&M	"A Theory of Brittle Fracture Based upon an Extension of Continuum Mechanics to the Nano-Scale" Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Wednesday April 1: Alex Rey McGill	Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Friday April 3: Yanzhao Cao Auburn University	Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Wednesday April 15: Chun Liu IMA/UMN/PSU	Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Thursday April 16: Stephen Irle	Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Wednesday April 22: Adri Duin Penn State University	Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Wednesday April 29: Di Ventra UCSD	Sumwalt, Room 102, 3-4pm
Wednesday November 11: Vladimir Mironov MD, PhD Medical University of South Carolina	"Why mathematical modeling, computational biology and computer simulation is essential for proper development of organ printing technology" Sumwalt, Room 102, 2:30-3:30pm

Bioinformatics Seminars

Friday April 3: Istvan Miklos Budapest/Oxford	"Towards an FPRAS on the number of optimal sorting reversal scenarios" LeConte, Room 112, 3:30pm
Monday April 6: John Spouge NCBI/NLM/NIH	"Binding site sequence does not determine function- but position helps" Sumwalt, Room 102, 11-12:05pm

Number Theory Seminars

Current Seminars