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Spring 2011

WEEK

Date	Title	Speaker	Abstract/Reading material
Week 1 (1/19)	organizing meeting	Drew Lamar	How to be a winner: advices for students starting into research (Andre DeHon) Advice for undergraduates considering graduate schools (Phil Agre) Does one have to be a genius to do mathematics? (Terry Tao) The importance of stupidity in scientific research (Martin Schwartz)
Week 2 (1/26)			Complex systems: Ecology for bankers, Robert M. May, Simon A. Levin & George Sugihara, (2008) Nature, 451, 893-895. Systemic risk in banking ecosystems, Andrew G. Haldane & Robert M. May, (2011), Nature, 469, 351-355. Can ecological models explain global financial markets and make them more stable?, Katherine Harmon, (Jan 19, 2011), Scientific American.
Week 3 (2/2)	Synchronization of Biological Oscillators	Drew LaMar	Coupled oscillators and biological synchronization, Steven Strogatz and Ian Stewart, Scientific American (1993). Scale-free networks, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Eric Bonabeau, Scientific American (2003).
Week 4 (2/9)	Maximizing algebraic connectivity on graphs with a given degree distribution	David Phillips	(See Discussion Board on Blackboard for reading material)
Week 5 (2/16)	Graph coloring	Gexin Yu
Week 6 (2/23)	Population dynamics in multipatch models	Leah Shaw	Chaotic desynchronization of multistrain diseases, Schwartz et al, Physical Review E (2005). Asymmetry in the Presence of Migration Stabilizes Multistrain Disease Outbreaks, Simone Bianco and Leah B. Shaw, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2011).
Week 7 (3/2)	Dynamics via computational topology	Sarah Day	Three examples of applied and computational homology, Robert Ghrist, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 5/9 no. 2 (2008).
Week 8 (3/9)	Spring Break (no class)
Week 9 (3/16)	Computational Biology	Greg Smith	Theoretical Neuroscience Rising, L.F. Abbott, Neuron 60 (2008). Why Are Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology So Separate?, Erik De Schutter, PLoS Computational Biology (2008), no. 4 (5). COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS: IN NUMERO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Jeff Hasty et al, Nature Reviews (2001). Intracellular Signaling: Spatial and Temporal Control, Ion I. Moraru and Leslie M. Loew, Physiology 20: 169-179 (2005). Bringing cartoons to life, John Tyson, Nature Vol 445 (2007).
Week 10 (3/23)	Patterns in Extinction in a Coupled Ricker Model	Ben Holman
Week 11 (3/30)	Sophomore registration (no class)
Week 12 (4/6)	Digraph Sampling	Drew LaMar
Week 13 (4/13)	Ecosystem Modeling in Marine Science	Mark Brush	Introduction to the special issue of Ecological Modelling: "Advances in Modeling Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Approaches, Validation, and Applications", Mark Brush & Lora Harris, Ecological Modelling 221 (2010).
Week 14 (4/20)	Computational Probability	Larry Leemis
Week 15 (4/27)	Predator-Prey	Junping Shi

Spring 2009

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Time	Location	Host
2/6	Chi-Kwong Li	William and Mary	Preserver problems	3pm	Jones 302	n/a
2/13	Gexin Yu	William and Mary	Graphs containing every 2-factor	3pm	Jones 302	n/a
2/23	Ashok K. Singh	University of Nevada at Las Vegas	Statistics in Environmental Remediation	3pm	Jones 302	Iaci
3/20	Yiu-Tung Poon	Iowa State University	Joint Higher Rank Numerical Range in Quantum Computation	3pm	Jones 302	Li
3/27	Bree Aldridge	Harvard University	On the edge of life and death: cell fate mapping with direct Lyapunov exponents	3pm	Jones 302	Phillips
4/3	Paul Brooks	Virginia Commonwealth University	L1 Projection	3pm	Jones 302	Phillips
4/24	Dan Cranstan	DIMACS, Rutgers University	Coloring and List-coloring of Graphs	3pm	Jones 302	Yu

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Time	Location	Host
9/12	Hyunju Ban	William and Mary	A biofilm and yeast colony, and its modeling and computational approach	3-4pm	Jones 302	N/A
9/19	Sarah Day	William and Mary	Braids and connecting orbits in parabolic PDEs	3-4pm	Jones 302	N/A
9/26	Jin Wang	Old Dominion University	Numerical and Asymptotic Study of Viscous Interfacial Flow	3-4pm	Jones 302	Tian
9/29	Rafael Frongillo	University of California at Berkeley		3-4pm	Jones 131	Day
10/3	Daniel Vasiliu	Christopher Newport University	On a sufficient condition for compensated compactness and beyond	3-4pm	Jones 302	Shi
10/10	David Phillips	William and Mary	Scheduling Patients in a Radiology Department	3-4pm	Jones 302	N/A
10/24	Ken Kawarabayashi	National Institute of Informatics, Japan	Coloring and list-coloring planar graphs and graphs on a fixed surface	3-4pm	Jones 302	Yu
10/31	Tanujit Dey	William and Mary	Fully Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis in Regression Model with Serially Correlated Errors	3-4pm	Jones 302	N/A
11/7	Jie Zheng	National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH	Population Genomics Approaches to finding regulators of meiotic recombination hotspots	3-4pm	Jones 302	Tian
11/14	Konstantin Mischaikow	Rutgers University	Databases for Multiparameter Nonlinear Systems	3-4pm	Jones 302	Day
11/17	Garud Iyengar	Columbia University	Robust Portfolio Selection	3-4	Jones 302	Phillips
11/21	Alexander Meadows	St. Mary's College	Spinning Soap Film Surfaces, Symmetry, and Singularities for Differential Equations	3-4pm	Jones 302	Vinroot
12/6	Lynne Seymour	University of Georgia	Probability Maps for Brain Activity Via fMRI	3-4pm	Jones 302	Dey

Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Time	Location	Host
3/20	David Phillips	College of William and Mary	Some prorblems on graph optimization	3:30-5pm	Morton 203	Day
4/11	Xiaofeng Ren	George Washington University	Analysis and computation of some pattern formation problems	3-4pm	Jones 131	Shi
4/18	Michael Trosset	Indiana University	Locally Linear Embedding is a Laplacian Eigenmap	3-4pm	Jones 131	Lewis
4/24	Laura Sheppardson	University of Mississippi	Exploiting structural aspects of graph models	3:30-5pm	Morton 203	Day
4/25	Zlatko Drmac	University of Zagreb	Subspace gap residuals for Rayleigh--Ritz approximations	1-2pm	Jones 131	Li

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Time	Location	Host
10/19	Bill Kalies	Florida Atlantic University	Computational dynamics from a topological point of view	3–4 p.m.	Jones 131	Day
11/12	Tom Wanner	George Mason University	Homological analysis of complicated random patterns	2–3 p.m.	Jones 131	Day
11/16	Evelyn Sander	George Mason University	Pattern formation in reaction diffusion models	3–4 p.m.	Jones 131	Day
12/3	Chris Siefert	Sandia National Laboratories	Introduction to multilevel solvers for the physical sciences	2–3 p.m.	Jones 131	Torczon