epshteyn (at)
math.utah.edu) or to
Akil Narayan (akil (at) sci.utah.edu) August 24.
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
September 14. Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar.
Speaker: Leandro Recova, T-Mobile, INC
Title: Applications of Critical Point Theory to Semilinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
Abstract: Abstract of Leandro Recova's talk
September 21. Utah Joint Applied Math/Stochastics Seminar.
Speaker: Sean Lawley
Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
Title: Extreme first passage times
Abstract: Why do 300 million sperm cells search for the oocyte in human fertilization when only a single sperm cell is necessary? Why do 1000 calcium ions enter a dendritic spine when only two ions are necessary to activate the relevant receptors? The seeming redundancy in these and many other systems can be understood in terms of extreme first passage time (FPT) theory.
While FPT theory is often used to estimate timescales in biology, the overwhelming majority of studies focus on the time it takes a given single searcher to find a target. However, in many scenarios the more relevant timescale is the FPT of the first searcher to find a target from a large group of searchers. This fastest FPT is called an extreme FPT and is often orders of magnitude faster than the FPT of a given single searcher. In this talk, we will explain recent results in extreme FPT theory and show how they modify traditional notions of diffusion timescales.
September 28. Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar.
Speaker: Petronela Radu,
Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Title: Nonlocal operators: from interior to the boundary
Abstract: The emergence of nonlocal theories as promising models in different areas
of science (continuum mechanics, biology, image processing) has led the mathematical
community to conduct varied investigations of systems of integro-differential
equations. In this talk I will present some recent results on systems of integral
equations with weakly singular kernels, flux-type boundary conditions, as well as
some recent results on nonlocal Helmholtz-Hodge type decompositions with
applications at both, theoretical, and applied levels.
October 5. Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar.
Speaker:
Jennifer Ryan, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Colorado School of Mines
Title: Multiwavelet discontinuous Galerkin methods and automated parameters for troubled cell indication
Abstract: This talk focuses on using a multiwavelet representation of the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approximation for trouble cell indication. The multiwavelet representation is related to the jumps in the (derivatives of) the DG approximation. We then compare this indicator with other, more established indicators as well as machine learning approaches and demonstrate that it is possible to choose the parameters for troubled cell indicators automatically and appropriately.
October 12. Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar.
Speaker: Heather Zinn-Brooks,
Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
Title: Bounded-confidence models for opinion dynamics on online social networks
Abstract: Online social media networks have become extremely influential sources of news and information. Given the large audience and the ease of sharing content online, the content that spreads on online social networks can have important consequences on public opinion, policy, and voting. To better understand the online content spread, mathematical modeling of opinion dynamics is becoming an increasingly popular field of study. In this talk, I will introduce you to a special class of models of opinion dynamics on networks called bounded-confidence models. I will then discuss some of the applications and theory that my collaborators and I have been developing with these models, including the impact of media, opinion dissemination, mean-field dynamics, and extensions to hypergraphs and multilayer networks. This talk will also include some unsolved questions for future work.
October 26 (Stundent's talk). Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar.
Speaker: Yadong Ruan,
Department of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University
Title: Thin liquid film resulting from a distributed source on a vertical wall
Abstract: In this talk, we will talk about the thin film model derived for liquid film resulting from a distributed source on a vertical wall and some distinct properties about the model. We will discuss the different behavior and properties of the model with and without considering surface tension. When the surface tension is neglected, a critical source strength is found below which the film flows entirely upward due to the airflow, and above which some of the flow is carried downward by gravity. In both cases, a steady state is established over the region where the finite source is located. The presence of surface tension, even when small, causes a dramatic change in the film profiles and the speed and structure of the shock waves. These are studied in more detail by examining the traveling wave solutions away from the source region.
November 2. Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar.
Speaker:
Franziska Weber,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Numerical approximation of statistical solutions of hyperbolic
systems of conservation laws
Abstract: Statistical solutions are time-parameterized probability measures
on spaces of integrable functions, which have been proposed recently as a
framework for global solutions for multi-dimensional hyperbolic systems of
conservation laws. We present a numerical algorithm to approximate
statistical solutions of conservation laws and show that under the
assumption of 'weak statistical scaling', which is inspired by Kolmogorov's
1941 turbulence theory, the approximations converge in an appropriate
topology to statistical solutions. We will show numerical experiments which
indicate that the assumption might hold true.
November 9. Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar.
Speaker: Qing Xia,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: Multiscale analysis and high-order schemes for nonlinear multilevel
Maxwell-Bloch equations
Abstract: In this talk, we will present a recent study of the Maxwell-Bloch
equations that model the nonlinear interactions of light and matter, where the light
is modeled classically by the Maxwell's equations with dispersions and the medium is
modeled quantum-mechanically by the multilevel rate equations. We will show the
connection between rate equations and the density matrix, where the former
formulation is widely used in the engineering community and the latter in the
Physics literature. A multiscale analysis of the Maxwell-Bloch equations based on
asymptotic expansions will also be discussed. The resulting reduced envelope
equations (or slow equations) capture amplitude dynamics of the underlying solutions
accurately and efficiently. In addition, we will talk about high-order accurate
numerical schemes based on finite difference approximations in space and modified
equation approach in time. The proposed schemes allow point-wise update of the
solutions for both single domains and domains with material interfaces, thus
enabling superb parallelism for arbitrary geometry. This is joint work with A. V.
Kildishev and L. J. Prokopeva from Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center, and J. W.
Banks, W. D. Henshaw, G. Kovacic and D. W. Schwendeman from RPI.
November 23. Claremont & Utah Joint Applied Math
Seminar: Social Hour
epshteyn (at)
math.utah.edu) and Akil Narayan (akil (at)sci.utah.edu).
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