Mathematics of Materials and Macromolecules: Multiple Scales, Disorder, and Singularities, September 2004 - June 2005

IMA Events, September 1, 2004 through August 31, 2005

Focus Group Meetings:

Monday Focus Group: Multiscale Modeling and Computing
Wednesday Focus Group: Singularities
Friday Focus Group: Soft Matter

• 9/3/04 Materials Seminar: Yitzhak Rabin (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Modeling of bio-filaments: elasticity and fluctuations combined, 11:15 am, Lind Hall 409
• 9/8/04 Materials Seminar: Martin Z. Bazant (Department of Mathematics, MIT), Stochastic conformal mapping and transport-limited aggregation
• 9/17/04 Materials Seminar: Benedict Leimkuhler (University of Leicester), Efficient sampling of molecular conformations
• 9/17/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Blaise Morton (EBF & Associates), An Introduction to Financial Correlation Products for Mathematicians
• 9/17/04 Materials Seminar: Helmut R. Brand (Theoretische Physik III, Universität Bayreuth), Patricia E. Cladis (Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies) , and Harald Pleiner (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research) , LC phases formed by banana-shaped molecules: possible consequences of tetrahedratic order
• 9/20-24/04 Tutorial: Mathematics of Materials
• 9/23/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Jamylle Carter (University of Minnesota), A Dual Model for Total Variation-Based Image Reconstruction
• 9/24/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Viktoria Averina (MCIM, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota), Stability of Linear Delay-Differential Equations
• 9/27-10/1/04 Workshop: Modeling of Soft Matter
• 9/30/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Baoquan Chen (University of Minnesota), Image Processing and Math are Close Allies of Computer Graphics - From 3D Sketching to 3D Digitization to Visualization
• 10/4/04 Materials Seminar: Ellad B. Tadmor (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Technology
• 10/05/04 IMA Public Lecture: Roger Penrose, Does Mathematics Rule the World?
• 10/05/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Stephen Watson (Northwestern University), Coursening Dynamics of the Convective Cahn-Hilliard Equation
• 10/6/04 Materials Seminar: Patricia Bauman (Department of Mathematics, Purdue University), Analysis of superconductivity with inhomogeneities. Singularities focus group
• 10/7/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Steen Moeller (University of Minnesota), Parallel Imaging Methods for Brain Imaging at 7 Tesla
• 10/8/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Pam Binns (Honeywell), A Statistical Verification Methodology and its Applications
• 10/8/04 Materials Seminar: Eugene M. Terentjev (Eugene M. Terentjev (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge), Stereo-selective swelling of gels with imprinted phase chirality
• 10/9-10/04 BOG Meeting
• 10/11/04 Materials Seminar: Frederic Legoll (IMA Postdoc), Analysis of a prototypical multiscale method coupling atomistic and continuum mechanics
• 10/12/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Douglas N. Arnold, Hans Othmer, and George R. Sell (IMA and School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota), Panel discussion on writing grant applications
• 10/13/04 Materials Seminar: Jorge Berger (Ort Braude College, Haifa) , Hall effect and pattern formation in superconductivity
• 10/14/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Alberto Bartesaghi (University of Minnesota), 3D Segmentation of Cellular Tomograms Obtained Using Electron Microscopy and its Application to HIV Research
• 10/15/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Chai Wah Wu (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY), Halftoning, Watermarking and Scheduling: Some Applications of the Error Diffusion Algorithm
• 10/15/04 Materials Seminar: Brian DiDonna (IMA Postdoc), Paper crumpling and other topics
• 10/18/04 Materials Seminar: Govind Menon (Brown University), A framework for dynamic scaling
• 10/19/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Xiaobing Feng (The University of Tennessee), The Least Gradient Flow, the Total Variation Flow, and the Inverse Mean Curvature Flow: Applications, Theory, and Numerical Approximations
• 10/20/04 Materials Seminar: Peter Sternberg (Department of Mathematics, Indiana University and IMA), Weak Jacobians as a tool in analyzing Ginzburg-Landau vortices
• 10/21/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Erik Schlicht (University of Minnesota), Statistical Decision Theory for Human Perception-Action Cycles
• 10/22/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: John R. Hoffman (Tactical Systems, Lockheed Martin), Several Problems of Interest to Lockheed Martin Tactical Systems
• 10/22/04 Materials Seminar: David C. Morse (Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota), What's wrong with the Langevin equations?
• 10/25-29/04 Workshop: Singularities in Materials
• 10/28/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Liron Yatziv (University of Minnesota), Light Field Completion
• 10/29/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Todd Wittman (MCIM, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota), Decreasing Blur and Increasing Resolution in Barcode Scanning
• 11/1/04 Materials Seminar: Markos Katsoulakis (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Mathematical strategies for stochastic multiscale problems: coarse-graining, loss of information and adaptivity
• 11/2/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Richard McGehee (University of Minnesota), Some Mathematical Aspects of Cluster Analysis
• 11/3/04 Materials Seminar: Fanghua Lin (Department of Mathematics, New York University), Multiple time scale dynamics for a coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations
• 11/3/04 Materials Seminar: David C. Morse (Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota), What's wrong with the Langevin equations? Part II
• 11/4/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): DanielKersten (University of Minnesota), Computational approaches to human object perception
• 11/5-6/04 Symposium: Prospects for Mathematics and Mechanics upon the 80th Birthday of Jerry Ericksen
• 11/8/04 Materials Seminar: James Sethna (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), Cornell University), Mathematical questions in the transitions between scales
• 11/9/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Peter Sternberg (Indiana University), Elliptic Variational Problems on Constricted Networks with Applications to Ginzburg-Landau Theory
• 11/10/04 Materials Seminar: Chun Liu (Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University), On Viscoelastic Materials: An Energetic Variational Approach
• 11/11/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Xiaoru Yuan (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota), Procedural Image Processing for Non-photorealistic Rendering and Visualization
• 11/12/04 Materials Seminar: Georg Dolzmann (Mathematics Department, University of Maryland College Park), Title: TBA
• 11/12/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: James Greenleaf (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN), Quantitative Promise of Vibro-acoustography and Vibrometry
• 11/15/04 Materials Seminar: Xiantao Li (IMA Postdoc), A multiscale model for the dynamics of solids at finite temperature
• 11/16/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Matthias Kurzke (IMA), Existence of multiply connected surfaces minimizing parametric integrals
• 11/16/04 Materials Seminar: Fang-hua Lin (Courant Institute), Superfluid passing an obstacle
• 11/18/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Bin He (Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota), Electrophysiological Neuroimaging
• 11/18-20/04 Workshop: Future Challenges in Multiscale Modeling and Simulations
• 11/18/04 IMA Public Lecture: James D. Murray (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington), The Marriage Equation: A Practical Theory for Predicting Divorce and a Scientifically-Based Marital Therapy
• 11/19/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Maria Ponomorenko (MCIM, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota), Approximation of Functions by Artificial Neural Networks
• 11/22/04 Materials Seminar: Richard D. James (Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota), Effective Hamiltonians for transforming materials
• 11/29/04 Materials Seminar: Petr Plechac (Warwick University), Title: TBA
• 11/30/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota), Comparing Point Clouds
• 12/1/04 Materials Seminar: Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Hokkaido University), Diffused interface motion with surface tension and transport effect
• 12/2/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Cheri Shakiban (Department of Mathematics, University of St. Thomas), Classification of Signature Curves Using Latent Semantic Analysis
• 12/3/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Douglas Allan (Corning Inc.), Adventures in Industrial Mathematics: Making Better Lenses for Making Computer Chips
• 12/3/04 Materials Seminar: Nasr Ghoniem (UCLA), Mathematical and computational models for dislocation dynamics
• 12/6/04 Materials Seminar: Jonathan C. Mattingly (Department of Mathematics, Duke University), Long time simulaton of stochastic differential equations
• 12/7/04 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Gerard Awanou (IMA), A family of stable rectangular mixed finite elements for plane elasticity
• 12/9/04 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): David A. Rottenberg (Neurology and Radiology, University of Minnesota), Cortical Surface Extraction and Conformal Flattening with Minimal Metric Distortion
• 12/10/04 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Kevin Vixie , (Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM), Image Analysis as an Inverse Problem: Overview and Examples
• 1/11/05 Materials Seminar: Antony N. Beris (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware), Introduction: One mode viscoelasticity
• 1/12/05 Materials Seminar: Daniel Spirn (Mathematics, University of Minnesota), Schrodinger Vortices II
• 1/14/05 Materials Seminar: Antony N. Beris (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware), NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems II
• 1/18/05 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Fulvio Bisi (Università di Pavia), Role and evidence of order reconstruction in nematic liquid crystal confined systems
• 1/18/05 Materials Seminar: Adrian Lew (Stanford University), Modeling and simulation of materials under highly dynamic loads
• 1/19/05 Materials Seminar: Mattias Kurzke, On the motion of boundary vortices
• 1/21/05 Materials Seminar: Antony N. Beris (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware), Modeling under constraints: Liquid crystals
• 1/21/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Yiju Chao (Morton Consulting Corporation, Minnetonka, MN), Algebraic-Topological Formulation and Distributed Control of Packet-Switched Networks of General Topology
• 1/24/05 Materials Seminar: Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin), Computations of multivalued solutions of nonlinear PDEs
• 1/25/05 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Brian DiDonna (University of Minnesota), Elasticity of Random Materials
• 1/26/05 Materials Seminar: Peter Takác (Universitaet Rostock), Elliptic and parabolic spectral problem with the p-Laplacian
• 1/27/05 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Zhi-Quan Luo (University of Minnesota), Convex Optimization Techniques for Signal Processing
• 1/28/05 Materials Seminar: Antony N. Beris (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware), Non-homogeneous systems: Surface effects
• 1/28/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Maria Ponomorenko (MCIM graduate student), Approximation of Functions by Artificial Neural Networks
• 1/31/05 Materials Seminar: Aaron Nung Kwan Yip (Purdue University), Pinning and De-Pinning Phenomena in Materials Interfacial Problems
• 1/31/05 Robert Pego (University of Maryland), Dynamic scaling, Smoluchowski's coagulation equation and Burgers (Vincent Hall 570)
• 2/1/05 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Hailiang Liu (Iowa State University), Wave breaking in a class of nonlocal dispersive wave equations
• 2/2/05 Materials Seminar: Baisheng Yan (Michigan State University), Singular solutions to a regular problem
• 2/3/05 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Kelvin Lim (University of Minnesota), Diffusion Tensor Imaging
• 2/3/05 Robert Pego (Carnegie Mellon University), Fifty Years after Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam: Nonlinear waves in Hamiltonian chains at low energy (Vincent Hall 16)
• 2/4-5/05 Career Options for Women in Mathematical Sciences
• 2/4/05 Materials Seminar: Xiantao Li (University of Minnesota), A multiscale model for the dynamics of solid
• 2/7-9/05 Tutorial/Workshop: Composites: Where Mathematics Meets Industry
• 2/9/05 IMA Public Lecture: David Baraff (Pixar Animation Studios), Math Behind the Curtains Dynamic Simulation at Pixar
• 2/10/05 Jacob Rubinstein (Indiana University), Differential equations in optical design (Vincent Hall 570)
• 2/10/05 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Amit Shesh (University of Minnesota), SMARTPAPER: Reconstruction of Line Drawings by Optimization
• 2/10/05 Materials Seminar: Liron Yatziv (University of Minnesota), Fast Image and Video Colorization Using Chrominance Blending
• 2/11/05 Materials Seminar: Jacob Rubinstein (Indiana University), The Vortex State of Mind
• 2/11/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Randy Jacobus (ASA LLC, Minnetonka, MN)
• 2/11/05 Materials Seminar: Mark E. Tuckerman (New York University - Courant Institute), Enhanced conformational sampling in molecular dynamics via novel variable transformations and large time-step molecular dynamics
• 2/14/05 Materials Seminar: Valery Smyshlyaev (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath), Multiscales and waves in high contrast photonic crystals
• 2/16/05 Materials Seminar: Piotr Rybka (Warsaw University), Singular solutions to driven curvature
• 2/17/05 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): George Kamberov (Stevens Institute of Technology), Point Cloud Topology
• 2/18/05 Materials Seminar: Eugene C. Gartland Jr. (Kent State University), Investigation of a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Film with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy: 1-D Analysis
• 2/18/05 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): John Anthony Dodson (American Express Financial Advisors), Selections from an applied mathematics research agenda for the finance and investments industry
• 2/18/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: John Dodson (American Express, Minneapolis, MN)
• 2/21/05 Robert Sacker (University of Southern California), The periodic and stochastic Beverton-Holt equation (Vincent Hall 570)
• 2/22/05 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Jim Evans (Iowa State University), Atomistic and continuum modeling strategies for homoepitaxial thin film growth
• 2/22/05 Materials Seminar: Robert D. Skeel (Purdue University), What makes molecular dynamics work?
• 2/23/05 Materials Seminar: Sookyung Joo (University of Minnesota), The Chen-Lubensky model for liquid crystals
• 2/23/05 Materials Seminar: Paul Tupper (McGill University, Canada), Using classical density functional theory for long-time simulation in materials science
• 2/24/05 Materials Seminar: Benedict Leimkuhler (University of Leicester), Robert D. Skeel (Purdue University), and Paul Tupper (McGill University, Canada), Joint molecular dynamics discussion session
• 2/24/05 Image Processing and Analysis Working Seminar (IPAWS): Emad S. Ebbini (University of Minnesota), Noninvasive two-dimensional temperature estimation using diagnostic ultrasound
• 2/28/05 Materials Seminar: Shankar Venkataramani (Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona), Natural patterns and minimizers of the regularized Cross-Newell energy
• 3/1/05 IMA Postdoc Seminar: Ryan S. Elliott (University of Michigan), Bifurcation and stability of multilattices with applications to martensitic transformations in shape memory alloys
• 3/2/05 Materials Seminar: Norman Dancer (University of Sydney), Stable and finite Morse index solutions on bounded domains with small diffusion
• 3/4/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Chenyang Xu (Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ)
• 3/30/05 IMA Public Lecture: Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh), Computers and the Future of Mathematical Proof
• 3/28-30/05 Tutorial/Workshop: New Paradigms in Computation
• 4/1/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Miroslav Trajkovic (Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, NY)
• 4/8/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Kevin Ellwood (Ford Research Lab, Dearborn, MI)
• 4/11-15/05 Workshop: Atomic Motion to Macroscopic Models: The Problem of Disparate Temporal and Spatial Scales in Matter
• 4/22/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: David Trebotich (Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Lawrence,CA)
• 4/26/05 Joint Meeting of the Industrial Advisory Board and the Participating Institutions Council
• 5/2-6/05 and 5/16-20/05 Workshop: Experiments in Physical Biology Parts I and II
• 5/6/05 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Geoffrey Burr (IBM Research, Almaden, CA)
• 5/7-8/05 Special Workshop: Modelling Sequence-Dependent DNA Dynamics: The Third ABC Debriefing
• 6/8-11/05 Workshop: Effective Theories for Materials and Macromolecules
• 6/13-7/1/05 PI Summer Program for Graduate Students: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Environmental and Geophysical Modeling, University of Wyoming, Laramie
• 6/17-18/05 Annual Meeting of Directors of US NSF-funded Math Institutes
• 6/22-7/1/05 Summer Program: Wireless Communications
• 7/11-22/05 New Directions Short Course: Quantum Computing
• 7/25-29/05 "Hot Topics" Workshop: Mixed Integer Programming
• 8-1-10/05 Mathematical Modeling in Industry - A Workshop for Graduate Students
• 8/5-6/05 "Hot Topics" Workshop: "New Directions in Probability Theory
• 8/15-26/05 New Directions Short Course: Quantum Computation