Applied Mathematics Student Seminar Archives for Fall 2017 to Spring 2018


"A latent variable model for analyzing neural population activity" and "Finite-difference formulas with operator calculus"

When: Wed, September 21, 2016 - 11:00am
Where: Kirwan Hall 0305
Speaker: Matt Whiteway and Kilian Cooley (AMSC) -


"Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media" and "Modeling the Dynamics of High-grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Progression for Transvaginal Ultrasound-based Screening and Early Detection"

When: Wed, October 5, 2016 - 11:00am
Where: Kirwan Hall 0305
Speaker: Quan Bui and Dana Botesteanu (AMSC) -


"Machine learning on DNA sequences" and "Branching processes with time-dependent branching rates"

When: Wed, October 19, 2016 - 11:00am
Where: Kirwan Hall 0305
Speaker: Franck Njeunje and Pratima Hebbar (AMSC) -


"Misspecified sampling weights in weight-smoothing methods" and "A Mathematical Model of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia"

When: Wed, November 2, 2016 - 11:00am
Where: Kirwan Hall 0305
Speaker: Xia Li and Asia Wyatt (AMSC) -


"Discriminative embeddings of molecular structures" and "Modeling P-gp Transfer and its Effect on Multidrug Resistance in Solid Tumors"

When: Wed, November 16, 2016 - 11:00am
Where: Kirwan Hall 0305
Speaker: Yiran Li and Matt Becker (AMSC) -


"Aggregation Equations and Wasserstein Distances" and "A Machine Learning Framework for Case Management Enrollee Selection"

When: Wed, December 7, 2016 - 11:00am
Where: Kirwan Hall 0305
Speaker: Martin Molina Fructuoso and Summer Hu (AMSC) -


"Representative data points: a data exploration method" and "Selection of Regularization Penalty for One-dimensional Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry"

When: Wed, February 15, 2017 - 3:00pm
Where: CSS 4301
Speaker: Alex Estes and Christiana Sabett (AMSC) -


"Magic points in finance: Empirical integration for parametric option pricing" and "Central schemes for hyperbolic problems"

When: Wed, March 1, 2017 - 3:00pm
Where: CSS 4301
Speaker: Sahil Chopra and Kilian Cooley (AMSC) -


"Optimization Problems in Routing and Logistics." and "Projection operator methods for coarse graining"

When: Wed, March 15, 2017 - 3:00pm
Where: CSS 4301
Speaker: Oliver Lum and Sam Punshon-Smith (AMSC) -


"An Overview of Turbulence and Stochastic Navier Stokes" and "Two Methods for Computing Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Ocean Flows"

When: Wed, April 5, 2017 - 3:00pm
Where: CSS 4301
Speaker: Nick Paskal and David Russell (AMSC) -


"Shifted Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Pattern Decomposition of Materials" and "The Traveling Salesman with a Drone and Other Problems"

When: Wed, April 19, 2017 - 3:00pm
Where: CSS 4301
Speaker: Graham Antoszewski and Stefan Poikonen (AMSC) -


"Quantum Many Body Problems and Mean Field Theory" and "Policy gradient and its application on Deep Reinforcement Learning"

When: Wed, May 3, 2017 - 3:00pm
Where: CSS 4301
Speaker: Stephen Sorokanich and Cheng Jie (AMSC) -