Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Fall 2012
The focus of this seminar is various methods in scientific computing,
the analysis of their convergence properties and computational efficiency,
and their adaptation to specific applications.
Questions or comments about the seminar should be sent to
David Bindel or
Alex Vladimirsky.
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Students who plan to attend regularly may take the seminar for credit
as CS 7290 or MATH 7290, and should contact the organizers for more
information.
The seminar meets Mondays, 1:25-2:15 pm, in 315 Upson Hall.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sep 10 |
Charlie Van Loan,
CS, Cornell
|
New matrix factorizations related to tensors |
| Sep 17 |
John Guckenheimer,
Math, Cornell
|
Mixed Mode Oscillations of the BZ Reaction |
| Sep 24 |
Petros Drineas,
CS, RPI
|
Leverage scores, the column subset selection problem, and least-squares problems |
| Oct 1 |
Jeffrey Varner,
CBE, Cornell
|
Modeling and Analysis
of Intracellular
Signal Transduction Networks Important to Human Health |
| Oct 8 |
Fall Break |
|
| Oct 15 |
Colin Ponce,
CS, Cornell |
Identifying power line failures with fingerprint subspaces |
| Oct 22 |
Jing Xie,
ORIE, Cornell
|
Optimization of
Computationally Expensive Simulations with Gaussian Processes
and Parameter Uncertainty: Application to Cardiovascular Surgery |
| Oct 29 |
Klaus BöhmerPhilipps-Universität Marburg |
CANCELED
Dew drops on
spider webs: a symmetry breaking bifurcation for a parabolic
differential-algebraic equation |
| Nov 5 |
Steve MarschnerCS, Cornell |
Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport |
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