Colloquia & Seminars

All talks will be held in 257 Spanagel, unless noted.

• Speaker: Darshan Bryner, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City, FL
  Title: Multi-input, multi-output waveform design.
  Date and Time: 20 September, 2012 at 1500
• Speaker: Carmeliza Navasca, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
  Title: Alborithms and applications for tensor decomposition.
  Date and Time: 24 July, 2012 at 1500
• Speaker: Frank Giraldo, Naval Postgraduate School
  Title: The development of high-order accurate and scalable models for the atmosphere and ocean
  Date and Time: 19 April, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Peter Winkler, Dartmouth/MSRI
  Title: New extremes for random walk on a graph
  Date and Time: 12 April, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Nancy Nichols, University of Reading
  Title: A moving-mesh technique together with data assimilation for simulating glaciers and ice sheets
  Date and Time: 5 April, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Simeon Reich, Technion
  Title:  Problems and results in non-linear analysis
  Date and Time: 3 April, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Bradley Marchand, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City
  Title: The local discriminant basis method
  Date and Time: 8 March, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Saverio Spagnolie, Brown University
  Title: Non-local hydrodynamic effects, from biofilm formation to flapping locomotion
  Date and Time: 2 February, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Lucas Wilcox, HyPerComp, Inc.
  Title: High-order accurate solution of acoustic-elastic interface problems on adapted meshes using a discontinuous Galerkin method
  Date and Time: 30 January, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Troy Butler, University of Texas at Austin
  Title: Propagation of numerical errors and probability distributions through polynomial approximated response surfaces
  Date and Time: 26 January, 2012 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Jeremy Kozdon, Stanford University
  Title: Computational methods for understanding the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami
  Date and Time: 19 January, 2012 at 1500

Talks from 2011

• Speaker: Gabriel Turbay, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
  Title: Measuring the likelihood of coalition formation
  Date and Time: 20 October, 2011 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Wei Kang, Naval Postgraduate School
  Title: Some research projects on the control and estimation of dynamical systems
  Date and Time: 13 October, 2011 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Jon Butler, Naval Postgraduate School
  Title: Combinatorial Computing - One result per iteration
  Date and Time: 27 July, 2011 at 1500
  Location: Room 408, Spanagel Hall
  
• Speaker: Sean K. Lehman, LLNL
  Title: Scattering and migration for remote and non-invasive imaging
  Date and Time: 11 July, 2011 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Anders Lindquist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  Title: The separation principle in stochastic control, redux
  Date and Time: 5 July, 2011 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Guillermo Owen, Naval Postgraduate School
  Title: A game-theoretic approach to networks
  Date and Time: 2 June, 2011 at 1500
  
• Speaker: CPT James K. Starling, USA
  Title: Prioritizing Unaided Search in Military Simulations
  Date and Time: 25 May, 2011 at 1530
  Location: Room 231, Spanagel Hall
  
• Speaker: Tom Hunt, University of California, Davis
  Title: Accuracy of the Patchy Method for Solving the Infinite Horizon Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation
  Date and Time: 9 May, 2011 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Marcello Romano, Naval Postgraduate School
  Title: On New Exact Solutions for the Rotation of a Rigid Body
  Date and Time: 20 April, 2011 at 1500
  Location: Room 231, Spanagel Hall
  
• Speaker: Carlos F. Borges, Naval Postgraduate School
  Title: A Century of Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School
  Date and Time: 14 April, 2011 at 1600
  Location: Room 231, Spanagel Hall
  
• Speaker: Luca Bonaventura, Politecnico di Milano
  Title: Exponential Rosenbrock methods for accurate simulation of geophysical scale flows
  Date and Time: 7 April, 2011 at 1500
  
• Speaker: Gabriel Turbay, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.
  Title: Understanding Deterrence in Complex Environments
  Date and Time: 22 March, 2011 at 1400

Talks from 2010

• Speaker: Alan Laub, UCLA 
  Title: Statistical Condition Estimation
  Date and Time: 21 January, 2010 at 1500
• Speaker: Catalin Trenchea, University of Pittsburgh
  Title: Bounds on energy, magnetic helicity and cross helicity dissipation rates of approximate deconvolution models of turbulence for MHD flows
  Date and Time: 6 May, 2010 at 1600
• Speaker: David Murray, California Institute of Technology
  Title: Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Embedded Systems.
  Date and Time: 20 May, 2010 at 1500
• Speaker: Cesar Aguilar, Queens University
  Title: Local controllability of quadratic control-affine systems
  Date and Time: 9 June, 2010 at 1500
• Speaker: Helene Frankowska, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
  Title: Some Regularity Issues arising in Constrained Control Systems
  Date and Time: 3 August, 2010 at 1500
• Speaker: Eitan Tadmor, Distinguished Professor of the Institute for Physical Science & Technology
  Title: Entropy Stable Approximations of Navier-Stokes Equations with No Artificial Numerical Viscosity
  Date and Time: 17 September, 2010 at 1100
• Speaker: Gabriel Turbay, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.   
  Title: A new approach to von Neumann-Morgenstern solutions
  Date and Time: 20 September, 2010 at 1100
  
• Speaker: James F. Kelly, Naval Postgraduate School
  Title: Nonhydrostatic Unified Model for the Atmosphere (NUMA): An Element-Based Galerkin (EBG) Approach
  Date and Time: 2 December, 2010 at 1500 in Spanagel 226.