Scientific and Statistical Computing Seminar

Statistics Colloquium


Lek-Heng Lim	Ridgway Scott	Jonathan Weare

The Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and the Computation Institute

Organizers: Lek-Heng Lim, Department of Statistics; Ridgway Scott, Departments of Computer Science
and Mathematics; Jonathan Weare, Department of Mathematics and the Computation Institute

Usual Time/Venue: Thursdays 4:30–5:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
(unless indicated otherwise in red)

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SPRING QUARTER 2013

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WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2013, from 4:00–5:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ANDRÉ USCHMAJEW, Mathematics Institute of Computational Science and Engineering (MATHICSE)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
"Approximation Rates for the Hierarchical Tensor Format in Periodic Sobolev
Spaces"

THURSDAY, June 6, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
SHAMGAR GUREVICH, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Solving the GPS Problem in Almost Linear Time"

THURSDAY, May 30, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
DIMITRIS GIANNAKIS, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS),
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
"Capturing Intermittent and Low-frequency Variability in High-dimensional Data
Through Nonlinear Laplacian Spectral Analysis"

THURSDAY, May 23, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
OMIROS PAPASPILIOPOULOS, ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
"Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling in Inverse Problems: Methods and Algorithms"

THURSDAY, May 16, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MICHAEL OVERTON, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
"Optimization of Polynomial Roots, Eigenvalues and Pseudospectra"

THURSDAY, May 9, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
LESLIE HOGBEN, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
"Average Minimum Rank of a Graph"

FRIDAY, May 3, 2013, at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ERIC CANCES, CERMICS—Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
"Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Electronic Structure Calculation"

THURSDAY, April 25, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PAUL DUPUIS, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
"Infinite Swapping Schemes for Accelerated Monte Carlo Approximation"

THURSDAY, April 18, 2013, no seminar because of the Bahadur Lectures

THURSDAY, April 11, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
RICHARD HAHN, Econometrics and Statistics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
"Decoupled Shrinkage and Selection: A New Tool for Posterior Summaries in Linear Regression"

THURSDAY, April 4, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PETER OLVER, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
"Invariant Histograms and Signatures for Object Recognition, Symmetry Detection, and Jigsaw Puzzle Assembly"

TUESDAY, April 2, 2013, from 4:00-5:00 PM, in Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street
SPECIAL SEMINAR
BORIS KASHIN, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Moscow State University
"Dirichlet Polynomial in Connection with Φ-widths and Compressed Sensing"

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UPCOMING SEMINARS FOR 2013–2014

Winter Quarter 2014 [Click for Winter 2014 schedule]

THURSDAY, March 6, 2014, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MICHELE BENZI, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University
TBA

THURSDAY, January 23, 2014, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
VIN DE SILVA, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College
TBA

THURSDAY, January 9, 2014, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
STEFAN WILD, Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulations, Argonne National Laboratory
TBA

Autumn Quarter 2013 [Click for Autumn 2013 schedule]

THURSDAY, November 21, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
SHUZHONG ZHANG, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota
TBA

THURSDAY, November 14, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
EMIL CONSTANTINESCU, Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulations at Argonne National Laboratory
TBA

THURSDAY, November 7, 2013, at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
NILIMA NIGAM, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
TBA
and
THURSDAY, November 7, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PAUL TUPPER, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
TBA

THURSDAY, October 31, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
CLAUDE LE BRIS, CERMICS—Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
TBA

THURSDAY, October 24, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
CLAUDE LE BRIS, CERMICS—Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
TBA

THURSDAY, October 17, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ARI STERN, Department of Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis
TBA

THURSDAY, October 10, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIANFENG LU, Mathematics Department, Duke University
TBA

THURSDAY, October 3, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
RICHARD COTTLE, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
TBA

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PAST SEMINARS

Winter Quarter 2013 [Click for Winter 2013 schedule]

TUESDAY, March 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
SPECIAL SEMINAR (Live broadcast via Adobe Connect)
MICHAEL C. FERRIS, Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"MOPEC: Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints"
Host/Organizer: Sou-Cheng (Terrya) Choi (CI/RDCEP and ANL)

THURSDAY, March 14, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PANOS STINIS, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
"Scale Dependence and Renormalization in Model Reduction"

THURSDAY, March 7, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
DONGBIN XIU, Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
"Multi-dimensional Polynomial Interpolation on Arbitrary Nodes"

THURSDAY, February 28, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
NIKOS SIDIROPOULOS, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Digital
Technology Center, University of Minnesota
"Big Tensor Data, Compressed Sensing, and Preference Measurement"

THURSDAY, February 21, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ERIC SHEA-BROWN, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
"Collective Dynamics in Simple Neural Circuits"

THURSDAY, February 14, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
YOUSSEF MARZOUK, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Bayesian Inference and Data Assimilation with Optimal Maps"

THURSDAY, February 7, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
JOHN GUNNAR CARLSSON, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota
"Geographic Partitioning and Continuous Location Problems"

FRIDAY, February 1, 2013 (This is a joint event with the Department of Computer Science.)
DAVID E. KEYES, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
SPECIAL SEMINAR: "Large-scale Simulation in Science and Engineering: Digesting the Fruit, Replanting the Fields"
2:30PM, in Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street
Refreshments following this seminar, at 3:30pm, in Ryerson 255
KAUST STUDENT RECRUIMENT TALK: "Paradigms for a 21^st Century University"
4:30PM, in Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street

THURSDAY, January 31, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PETR PLECHAC, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
"Multilevel Approximations and Parametrization of Coarse-grained Dynamics in KMC Simulations"

THURSDAY, January 24, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MARIA CAMERON, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
"Dijkstra-like Methods for the Study of Rare Events"

WEDNESDAY, January 23, 2013, at 2:30 PM, in Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street
SPECIAL SEMINAR
DONGWOOK LEE, The Flash Center for Computational Science, The University of Chicago
"High-Performance Scientific Computing for Today and Tomorrow"

THURSDAY, January 17, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
LIN LIN, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Fast Algorithms for the Electronic Structure Analysis"
Joint seminar with the James Franck Institute

THURSDAY, January 10, 2013, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHRISTOPHER M. DANFORTH, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont
"Improving Numerical Weather Predictions Using Ideas from Nonlinear Dynamics"

Autumn Quarter 2012 [Click for Autumn 2012 schedule]

THURSDAY, December 6, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 206, 5734 S. University Avenue
ILSE IPSEN, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
"Randomly Sampling Rows from Orthonormal Matrices, with Application to Least Squares Problems"

THURSDAY, November 29, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
CARL-FREDRIK WESTIN, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Harvard Medical School
"Computational Methods for Assessing Brain Structure and Connectivity from Diffusion MRI" [VIDEO]

THURSDAY, November 22, 2012, THANKSGIVING.

THURSDAY, November 15, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
ALEXANDRE CHORIN, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
"Implicit Sampling with Applications" [VIDEO]

TIME CHANGE!
FRIDAY, November 9, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
SAYAN MUKHERJEE, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
"A Cheeger-Type Inequality on Simplicial Complexes" [VIDEO] [SLIDES]

THURSDAY, November 8, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
NIGEL BOSTON, Departments of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Novel Applications of Algebra to Engineering and Computer Science" [VIDEO] [SLIDES]

THURSDAY, November 1, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
KEN JUDD, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago
"Methods for Solving Large Dynamic Optimization Problems in Economics" [VIDEO1] [VIDEO2]

THURSDAY, October 25, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
DANIEL SZYLD, Department of Mathematics, Temple University
"Modern Krylov Subspace Methods (and Applications to Parabolic Control Problems)" [SLIDES] [VIDEO]

THURSDAY, October 18, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 206, 5734 S. University Avenue
CLAUDE LE BRIS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees
"Topics in Numerical Integration of Hamiltonian Systems" [SLIDES]

TUESDAY, October 16, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
PAUL VAN DOOREN, ICTEAM, Department of Mathematical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain
"Some Graph Optimization Problems in Data Mining" [SLIDES]

THURSDAY, October 11, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
EUGENE TYRTYSHNIKOV, Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences
"New Tensor Decompositions in Numerical Analysis and Data Processing" [SLIDES] [VIDEO]

THURSDAY, October 4, 2012, at 3:00 PM, in Stevanovich Center 112, 5727 S. University Avenue
PETER MCCULLAGH, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Asymptotic Behaviour of the Permanent of a Doubly Stochastic Matrix" [VIDEO]

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