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General Seminar


1998

Wed Mar 18
Boris Kashin
Russian Academy of Science
Improved Lower Bounds on the Rigidity of Hadamard Matrices
Tue Apr 21
Pencho Petrushev
University of South Carolina
Approximation by Rational Functions
Tue Apr 21
Farhad Shahrokhi
University of North Texas, Denton
On the Crossing Number Problems
Tue Apr 28
Pencho Petrushev
University of South Carolina
Approximation by Rational Functions, Part 2
Mon Sep 21
Emmanuel Candes
Stanford University
Ridgelets: Theory and Applications
Thu Sep 24
Barbara Wohlmuth
Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Iterative Substructuring Methods for Vector Fields
Thu Oct 22
Hans Wallin
University of Umea, Sweden
The Story of Three Problems: 1) Iteration, 2) Rational Interpolation, 3) Signal disturbance and wavelets
Tue Nov 10
Ronald A. DeVore
Texas A&M University
Tree-Based Encoding
Tue Nov 17
Ronald A. DeVore
Texas A&M University
Tree-Based Encoding, Part 2
Sat Nov 28
Peter Wingren
University of Umea, Sweden
A Characterization of the Zygmund Space by Linear B-Splines
Wed Dec 16
Pencho Petrushev
University of South Carolina
Bases Consisting of Rational Functions of Uniformly Bounded Degrees

1999

Thu Jan 28 , 3:30pm
Guergana Petrova
Texas A&M University
Transport Equations and Velocity Averages
Tue Feb 16 , 2:30pm
Rostom Getsadze
Tbilisi State University
On Lebesgue Functions of Uniformly Bounded Orthogonal Systems
Tue Feb 23 , 2:30pm
Borislav Bojanov
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Kolmogorov Type Inequalities on the Finite Interval
Tue Mar 02 , 6pm
Vitaly E. Maiorov
Technion, Israel
On the Optimality of Neural Network Approximation Using Relaxed Greedy Algorithms
Tue Mar 16
Vitaly E. Maiorov
Technion, Israel
On the Optimality of Neural Network Approximation Using Relaxed Greedy Algorithms
Thu Mar 18
Vitaly E. Maiorov
Technion, Israel
Pseudo-dimension and Lower Bounds in Nonlinear Approximation
Tue Apr 13
John Lavery
Army Research Office
Shape-preserving, Multiresolution, Piecewise Polynomial Geometric Modeling without Human Interaction
Tue Apr 20
Grigor Karagulyan
Steklov Mathematics Institute, Russia
On Some Estimates of Partial Sums of Fourier and Randon Fourier Series
Thu May 06
Guergana Petrova
Texas A&M University
Averaging Lemma
Thu May 06
Bojan Popov
Vanderbilt University
Linear Transport Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients
Fri May 07
Bojan Popov
Vanderbilt University
Linear Transport Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients, Part 2
Fri May 07
Guergana Petrova
Texas A&M University
Averaging Lemma, part 2
Mon May 10
Stephen Fenner
University of South Carolina
Quantum Mechanics and Information Security
Tue May 11
Karl Dilcher
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Multiple zeta-sums via box splines
Thu May 13
Guergana Petrova
Texas A&M University
Averaging Lemma, part 3
Thu May 13
Bojan Popov
Vanderbilt University
Linear Transport Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients, Part 3
Mon May 17
Richard Baraniuk
Rice University
Title to be announced
Tue May 18
Peter G. Binev
University of South Carolina
Adaptive Refinement Methods for Elliptic PDEs
Wed May 26
Jim Sochacki
James Madison University
Picard Iteration and Differential Equations: A New Approach?
Tue Sep 07
Morten Nielsen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Size Properties of Wavelet Packets
Thu Sep 09
Alexander Petukhov
University of Georgia
Biorthogonal wavelet bases associated with recursive filters
Thu Sep 09
Robert C. Sharpley
University of South Carolina
Multiresolution and digital elevation maps
Tue Sep 14
Jungho Yoon
University of South Carolina
Approximation to Scattered Data by Radial Basis Function
Wed Sep 22 , 3:30pm
Stephen L. Lyons
Upstream Research Center, Mobil Technology Company
An Industrial R&D Perspective on Mathematical Challenges in the Energy Business
Tue Oct 05 , 2pm
Viktor I. Buslaev
Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Some Remarks to the Poincare's theorem about recurrence equations
Tue Oct 05 , 2:30pm
Viktor I. Buslaev
Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Some Applications of Poincare's theorem to the convergence of continued fractions
Thu Oct 07 , 2:30pm
Peter Oswald
International University of Bremen, Germany
Two Problems on Nonlinear Approximation with Haar Polynomials
Tue Oct 19 , 2pm
Remi Gribonval
University of South Carolina
Sound Signal Analysis with Matching Pursuit(s)
Thu Nov 04 , 2pm
Albert Cohen
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Wavelets, Interpolation Spaces, and Applications
Tue Nov 16 , 2pm
Alexander Andrianov
University of South Carolina
Nonlinear Haar Approximation of Some Multivariate Classes of Functions
Tue Nov 16 , 3:30pm
Daniel Dix
University of South Carolina
Mathematical Models of Protein Folding

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2000

Mon Jan 24 , 1:30pm
Peter G. Binev
University of South Carolina
Subdivision Schemes: An Overview and Working Seminar
Tue Jan 25 , 1:30pm
Peter G. Binev
University of South Carolina
Subdivision Schemes: An Overview and Working Seminar
Tue Feb 01 , 2:30pm
Przemyslaw Wojtaszczyk
Warsaw University
Orthogonal Polynomial Basis in C[0,1]
Thu Feb 03 , 2:30pm
Nira Dyn
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Subdivision Schemes for the Generation of Smooth Curves and Surfaces
Tue Mar 21 , 3:30pm
Archil B. Gulisashvili
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
On the Heat Equation with Time-Dependent Singular Potential
Tue Mar 28 , 2:30pm
Taoufik Elbouayachi
University of Abdelmalek Essasdi, Morocco
On the Indefinitely Oscillating Functions
Thu Mar 30 , 3:30pm
Yurii Kryakin
Odessa State University, Ukraine, and University of Wroclaw, Poland
Local Approximation by Polynomials and Whitney's Constants
Mon Apr 03 , 3:30pm
Oleg Davydov
University of Giessen, Germany
Smooth piecewise polynomial multiresolution analysis on irregular triangulations
Wed Apr 12 , 3:30pm
Maria Skopina
St. Petersburg State University
Algebraic orthogonal polynomial bases for C[-1,1] with optimal degrees
Tue Apr 25 , 3:45pm
Jeff Geronimo
Georgia Institute of Technology
On the solution of a 2D Autoregressive model with applications to the factorization of positive 2D trigonometric polynomials
Tue May 02 , 2:30pm
Tatiana Koulikova
Research Actuarial Financial Center, Moscow, Russia
Option pricing and its relation with function theory
Mon May 15 , 9:30amMini-Conference
Wed Sep 06
Remi Gribonval
University of South Carolina

Morten Nielsen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Approximate Weak Greedy Algorithms
Tue Sep 12 , 3:30pm
Allan Pinkus
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Some Remarks on Zero-Increasing Transformations
Wed Sep 13
Vladimir Temlyakov
University of South Carolina
A counter-example in the Theory of Greedy Algorithms
Wed Sep 20
Stephen J. Dilworth
Denka Kutzarova
University of South Carolina
A Greedy Property of the Haar System
Wed Sep 27
Stephen J. Dilworth
Denka Kutzarova
University of South Carolina
A Greedy Property of the Haar System, part 2
Wed Oct 04
Vladimir Temlyakov
University of South Carolina
Greedy algorithms in Banach spaces, proof of convergence
Wed Oct 11
Vladimir Temlyakov
University of South Carolina
Greedy algorithms in Banach spaces, proof of convergence
Wed Oct 18
Robert C. Sharpley
University of South Carolina
Digital Terrain Elevation Maps - Overview
Mon Oct 23
Remi Gribonval
University of South Carolina
Fast greedy algorithms with time-frequency dictionaries
Wed Nov 01 , 4:30pm
S. B. Damelin
Georgia Southern University
Uniform boundedness of the weighted Hilbert Transform on the real line and its applications.
Mon Nov 06 , 2:15pm
Ronald A. DeVore
Texas A&M University
On the Harmonic Analysis of the Space BV.
Wed Nov 08
Ozgur Yilmaz
Princeton University
Stability and robustness analysis for several Sigma-Delta methods of coarse quantization of band-limited functions
Mon Nov 13 , 2:15pm
Ronald A. DeVore
Texas A&M University
On the Harmonic Analysis of the Space BV. part 2
Mon Nov 20 , 2:15pm
Ronald A. DeVore
Texas A&M University
On the Harmonic Analysis of the Space BV. part 3
Mon Nov 27 , 2:15pm
Ronald A. DeVore
Texas A&M University
On the Harmonic Analysis of the Space BV. part 4

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2001

Tue Jan 30 , 3:30pm
Michael T. Lacey
Georgia Institute of Technology
On Pointwise Convergence of Fourier Series
Thu Feb 01 , 3:30pm
Anna Kamont
Polish Academy of Sciences
General Haar systems as greedy bases
Tue Apr 03 , 2pm
Oleg Davydov
University of Giessen, Germany
Smooth stable local spline bases on nested triangulations: Computation and stability of dimension
Thu Apr 26 , 3:30pm
Mark Lammers
University of South Carolina
Zak Algebras and Dual Frames
Wed May 30 , 3:30pm
John Spouge
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
A Numerical Method for Determining the Effective Burst Size and Cycle Time of a Virus
Thu Aug 30 , 3:30pm
Vladimir Gudkov
University of South Carolina
Network as a Complex System: Information Flow Analysis
Tue Sep 04 , 3:30pm
Vladimir Gudkov
University of South Carolina
Network as a Complex System: Information Flow Analysis
Tue Sep 25 , 3:30pm
Sergei Konyagin
Moscow State University
Estimates of the L_p -norms of some exponential sums
Fri Sep 28 , 4:30pm
Angela Kunoth
University of Paderborn, Germany
Wavelet Methods for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems in Optimal Control
Thu Oct 04 , 3:30pm
Joe Johnson
University of South Carolina
Some New Connections: Lie Groups & Algebras, Markov Transformations, Fibonacci Numbers, Fuzzy Logic, Numerical Uncertainty, Information Theory, Network & Graph Theory
Fri Oct 26 , 1:30pm
Peter Borwein
Simon Fraser University, Canada
The Integer Chebyshev Problem
Tue Dec 04 , 3:30pm
Anna Kamont
Polish Academy of Sciences

Vladimir Temlyakov
University of South Carolina
Greedy Approximation and Multivariate Haar System
Tue Dec 11 , 3:30pm
Anna Kamont
Polish Academy of Sciences

Vladimir Temlyakov
University of South Carolina
Greedy Approximation and Multivariate Haar System, part 2

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2002

Tue Mar 05 , 3:30pm
Gábor Hetyei
University of North Carolina
Counting chains in graded partially ordered sets
Tue Apr 02 , 3:30pm
Marius Mitria
University of Missouri
Elliptic Problems and Singular Integrals on Besov-Triebel-Lizorkin Spaces

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2003

Mon Nov 17 , 2:30pm
Jared Tanner
Adaptive Mollifiers

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2004

Thu Sep 09 , 3:30pm
Xu Yuan
University of Oregon
Weighted approximation on the unit sphere
Tue Nov 09 , 3:30pm
Shai Dekel
GE Healthcare, Israel
Topics in Multivariate Adaptive Approximation

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2005

Fri Feb 18 , 2:30pm
Alexander Petukhov
University of Georgia
Fast implementation of orthogonal greedy algorithm and its applications to image compression and compressed sensing
Thu Mar 24 , 2pm
Alexander Stokolos
Georgia Southern University
On tangential Fatou property
Thu Mar 24 , 5pm
Konstantin I. Oskolkov
University of South Carolina
Quadratic and quatric variations of the quantum particle in a box
Thu Mar 24 , 6pmOn the Lebesgue type inequalities for greedy approximation
Wed Sep 14 , 2:30pm
Shijun Zheng
University of South Carolina
Function spaces for differential operators - the Schroedinger case
Wed Sep 21 , 2:30pm
Shijun Zheng
University of South Carolina
Function spaces for Schroedinger operators - decay estimates and spectral multiplier
Wed Nov 02 , 2:30pm
Konstantin I. Oskolkov
University of South Carolina
Oscillations of Schroedinger particle, and the sequence of partial sums of Fourier sums
Tue Nov 22 , 2:30pm
Yuliya V. Babenko
Center for Constructive Approximation, Vanderbilt University
On asymptotically optimal methods of approximation by linear interpolating splines

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2006

Wed Mar 01 , 11am
Martin Campos Pinto
Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik, Aachen, Germany
A fully adaptive and accurate semi-Lagrangian scheme for the Vlasov-Poisson equation
Tue Mar 21 , 3:30pm
Dorothee D. Haroske
Mathematical Institute, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
Envelopes in function spaces
Wed Mar 22 , 11am
Shijun Zheng
University of South Carolina
Spectral calculus and dispersive estimates for wave and Schroedinger equations.
Mon Mar 27 , 11am
Konstantin I. Oskolkov
University of South Carolina
Measuring Oscillations of a Schroedinger Particle
Tue Apr 11 , 3:30pm
Yuliya V. Babenko
Center for Constructive Approximation, Vanderbilt University
Asymptotically Optimal Methods of Interpolation by Linear and Other Types of Splines
Fri Apr 21 , 2:30pm
Nurlan T. Temirgaliev
On the Developments of Real Analysis and Computational Mathematics in Astana
Tue Sep 12 , 3:30pm
Geoff Diestel
University of South Carolina
An introduction to multilinear Fourier multipliers
Wed Sep 27 , 3:30pm
Shijun Zheng
University of South Carolina
Spectral multipliers for Schroedinger operators in one and three dimensions
Tue Oct 31 , 2:30pm
Xu Yuan
University of Oregon
Radon transforms, orthogonal polynomials and CT
Thu Nov 09 , 3:30pm
Morten Nielsen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Frame decomposition of smoothness spaces

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2007

Tue Feb 13
John Chrispell
Jason Howell
Clemson University
Finite element approximation of partial differential equations using FreeFem++
Mon Feb 19 , 3:30pm
Barbara Wohlmuth
Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Nonconforming domain decomposition methods and applications in structural mechanics
Mon Mar 12 , 3:30pm
Gitta Kutyniok
Technische Universität Berlin
Shearlets: Multiscale geometric analysis using a wavelet-based approach
Thu May 03 , 1pm
Francisco Blanco-Silva
University of South Carolina
Function spaces via curvelet decompositions
Fri Sep 28 , 1:30pm
Lee Jones
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Local minimax estimation and price prediction
Wed Nov 14 , 3:30pm
Natalia Kopteva
University of Limerick, England
Maximum norm a posteriori error estimates for singularly perturbed differential equations
Thu Nov 15 , 3:30pm
Vladislav Babenko
Dnepropetrovsk National University, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of NAS of Ukraine
On optimization of formulae for approximate integration on various classes of univariate and multivariate functions
Fri Nov 16 , 3:30pm
John Spouge
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
The Statistics of Gapped Sequence Alignments
Mon Nov 26 , 3:30pm
Jutta Bikowski
Colorado State University
The Conductivity Problem as an Inverse Problem: the Calderon reconstruction and direct method
Thu Dec 06 , 3:30pm
Michael T. Lacey
Georgia Institute of Technology
Irregularity of Distributions, Harmonic Analysis, and Some Small Ball Problem

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2008

Mon Feb 04
Dimitrov Boyan
Kettering University
Dependence and its measuring
Wed Apr 16
Theresa Sparacio
University of South Carolina
Littlewood's conjecture on the lower bound L1 norms of exponential sums
Thu Apr 24
R. Bruce Kellogg
Cornell University
Boundary layers and corner singularities
Thu May 08
Brian Straughan
Durham University, UK
Decay bounds in a model for aggregation of microglia: application to Alzheimer's disease senile plaques
Thu Oct 02
Karl-Heinz Brakhage
RWTH Aachen
Least squares approximation and grid generation using subdivision schemes
Thu Oct 23
Cai Wei
University of North Carolina
Numerical Algorithms for Modeling Multi-Physics Phenomena in Biological and Engineering Systems
Sat Nov 22
Vladimir Temlyakov
S. A. Molchanov
University of South Carolina
Probability and Approximation in Applications

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2009

Mon Feb 16
Prashant Athavale
University of Maryland
Image decomposition with a novel integro-differential model
Wed Mar 04
Shai Dekel
GE Healthcare, Israel
Adaptive compressed image sensing based on wavelet trees
Mon May 04
Magomed Chakhkiev
Russian State Social University,Russia
Estimations of oscillatory integrals with convex phases
Thu May 07
Alexander Petukhov
Inna Kozloz
University of Georgia
Sparse representations and digital film restoration
Wed Sep 09
Karl-Heinz Brakhage
RWTH Aachen
Isosurface extraction generalized adaptive marching cubes
Thu Oct 29
Colin Bennett
University of South Carolina
Mathematicians of the Antebellum South Carolina College: Thomas S. Twiss, 1835-1846

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2010

Mon Mar 01 , 2:30pm
Gerrit Welper
IGPM RWTH Aachen
New Approaches to Transport Problems
Wed Mar 17 , 2:30pm
Nira Dyn
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Linear and Nonlinear Subdivision Schemes in Geometric Modeling
Fri Mar 26 , 2:30pm
Asen Dontchev
Mathematical Reviews and University of Michigan
Metric Regularity
Thu Apr 22 , 2pm
Zoltan Toroczkai
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Modeling Functional Networks of the Primate Cortex
Tue Jul 27 , 10am
Philipp Lamby
University of South Carolina
High-Dimensional Approximation with Sparse Occupancy Trees

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2011

Fri Jan 07 , 2:30pm
Dany Leviatan
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Uniform and Pointwise Shape Preserving Approximation by Algebraic Polynomials
Mon Mar 28 , 3:30pm
Brian Straughan
Durham University, UK
Modeling Binge Drinking
Tue Aug 09 , 2:30pm
Boris Kashin
Russian Academy of Science
Compressed Sensing and Approximation of the Partial Sum of the Dirichlet Series
Tue Aug 09 , 3:30pm
Tat'yana Kulikova
Russian Academy of Science
On a Quantitative Sharpening of a Theorem of Birch
Wed Aug 31 , 1:30pm
Cheng Wang
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Local and Global in Time Numerical Stability of Fully Discrete Pseudo-Spectral Schemes for Nonlinear PDEs
Thu Nov 17 , 3:30pm
Andras Kroo
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Georgia Institute of Technology
On Optimal Polynomial Meshes
Mon Nov 21 , 3:30pm
Yuan Lou
Ohio State University
Persistence of a Single Phytoplankton Species

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2012

Thu Feb 23 , 2:30pm
Shai Dekel
GE Healthcare, Israel
Duals of Anisotropic Hardy Spaces
Thu Mar 29 , 2:30pm
Dominique Picard
Université Paris-Diderot, Laboratoire Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
Grouping strategies for denoising
Mon Apr 02 , 2:30pm
Gerard Kerkyacharian
Université Paris-Diderot, Laboratoire Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
From statistical estimation to well localized frames, via heat kernel
Mon Apr 16 , 3:30pm
Mark Alber
University of Notre Dame
Multiscale Modeling in Biology
Thu Apr 26 , 3:30pm
James Glimm
SUNY at Stony Brook
Mathematical Theories of Existence for 3D Conservation Laws and Stochastic Convergence
Mon Apr 30 , 3:30pm
Jie Shen
Purdue University
Fast Spectral Methods: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications
Tue May 08 , 2pm
Nicholas Zabaras
Cornell University
A Bayesian Framework for Uncertainty Quantification with High-Dimensional Data-Driven Inputs
Thu May 17 , 3:30pm
Max D. Gunzburger
Florida State University
A nonlocal vector calculus and the analysis and approximation of nonlocal models for diffusion and mechanics
Tue Nov 13 , 3:30pm
Todd Wittman
College of Charleston
Geospatial Image Fusion

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2013

Tue Feb 19 , 3:30pm
Gitta Kutyniok
Technische Universität Berlin
Parabolic Molecules: Curvelets, Shearlets, and Beyond
Tue Mar 19 , 10am
Ching-Shan Chou
Ohio State University
Cell Polarization in Budding Yeast
Tue Mar 19 , 1pm
Cheng Wang
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Linear numerical schemes for epitaxial thin film growth model with energy stability
Wed Apr 10 , 2:30pm
Dominique Picard
Université Paris-Diderot, Laboratoire Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
Thomas Bayes' walk on Manifold
Wed Apr 10 , 3:30pm
Gerard Kerkyacharian
Université Paris-Diderot, Laboratoire Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
Some classical problems: The heat kernel point of view
Mon Apr 15 , 2pm
Huiyuan Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hexagonal Fourier-Galerkin Spectral Methods for Two-Dimensional Homogeneous Isotropic Decaying Turbulence
Wed Apr 17 , 3:30pm
Alexander Stokolos
Georgia Southern University
On some generalization of the DFC method in nonlinear dynamics

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