Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

University of Minnesota

400 Lind Hall

207 Church Street S.E.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Web: http://www.ima.umn.edu | Email: staff@ima.umn.edu | Telephone: (612) 624-6066 | Fax: (612) 626-7370
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Events:

CRNS: Climate Research Network Seminar; DSS: 2012/13 Dynamical systems; PS: IMA Postdoc Seminar; SS: Special Seminars; SW5.28.13: Special Events; W5.13-17.13: Stochastic Modeling of Biological Processes; MID5.3-4.13: NSF Math Institute Directors meeting; PI/IAB5.20.13: PI/IAB Meeting;

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

10:30am-10:30am Ruodu Wang, University of Waterloo
Special Seminar

Lind Hall 305 SS
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Thursday, May 2, 2013

10:30am-10:30am Peter Polacik, University of Minnesota
Dynamical System Seminar

DSS
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Friday, May 3, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Monday, May 6, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

11:15am-12:05pm Joint IMA/Mathematics and Climate Research Network Seminar

Lind Hall 305 CRNS
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400
3:30pm-4:30pm Postdoc Seminar, Leonardo Espin

Lind Hall 305 PS

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Thursday, May 9, 2013

10:30am-11:30am Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Dynamical System Seminar

Lind Hall 305 DSS
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Friday, May 10, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Monday, May 13, 2013

All Day Morning Chair: Bard Ermentrout
Afternoon Chair: Brent Doiron

W5.13-17.13
8:00am-8:45am Registration

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
8:45am-9:00am Welcome

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
9:00am-9:50am James Paul Keener, University of Utah
The effect of randomness in chemical reactions on decision-making: Two short stories

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
9:50am-10:15am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
10:15am-11:05am Peter R. Kramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stochastic Modeling of Molecular Motors Across Scales

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
11:05am-11:30am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
11:30am-12:20pm Lai-Sang Young, New York University
Dynamics of Mammalian Visual Cortex: Challenges in Computational and Mathematical Modeling

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
12:20pm-2:00pm Lunch

W5.13-17.13
2:00pm-2:50pm Hong Qian, University of Washington
Thermodynamics of Markov Systems: Dissipation, Conservation, and Phase Transition

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
2:50pm-3:15pm Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
3:15pm-4:05pm David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University
Mass Transport Methods to Describe Motion in Small Systems

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
4:05pm-5:00pm Discussion

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
6:00pm-8:00pm Social Hour
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Stub and Herbs W5.13-17.13

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

All Day Morning Chair: Peter Bates
Afternoon Chair: Wenxian Shen

W5.13-17.13
8:30am-9:00am Coffee

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
9:00am-9:50am Zachary P. Kilpatrick, University of Houston
Noise-induced Dynamics in Spatially Heterogeneous Neural Fields

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
9:50am-10:15am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
10:15am-11:05am Brent Doiron, University of Pittsburgh
Stochastic synaptic depression and information flow

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
11:05am-11:15am Group Photo

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
11:15am-11:30am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
11:30am-12:20pm G. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
The Effects of Noise on Oscillators

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
12:20pm-2:00pm Lunch

W5.13-17.13
2:00pm-2:50pm Timothy C. Elston, University of North Carolina
Mathematical Models of Cell Polarization and Migration

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
3:00pm-5:00pm Poster Session

Lind Hall 400 W5.13-17.13
Ridouan Bani, Northeastern Illinois University:
  Influence of Environmental Factors and Intervention Programs on Control of College Alcohol Drinking Patterns
Andrea Barreiro, Southern Methodist University:
  Filtering and Recurrent Connectivity Shape Higher-Order Correlations in Retinal Circuits
Katarina Bodova, Comenius University in Bratislava:
  Why People Walk in Circles?
Jinqiao Duan, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM):
  Non-Gaussian Effects in a Tumor Growth Model with Immunization
Radek Erban, University of Oxford:
  Stochastic and Multiscale Modelling in Molecular, Cell and Population Biology
Priscilla E. Greenwood, University of British Columbia:
  The Sub-Threshold Oscellation is Stationary of Subthreshold Dynamics in Stochastic Morris Lecar Model and in an Entorhinal Cortex Stellate Cell.
David Lipshutz, University of California, San Diego:
  Periodic Oscillations in a Genetic Circuit with Delayed Negative Feedback
Vasileios Maroulas, University of Tennessee:
  Tracking Intracellular Rapid movements: a Bayesian Random Set Approach
Johan Anton Jacob Metz, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden:
  Adaptive Dynamics: Some Basic Theory and an Application
Alvaro Javier Moraes, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology:
  Chernoff-based Hybrid Tau-Leap
Duane Nykamp, University of Minnesota:
  Capturing Effective Neuronal Dynamics in Random Networks with Complex Topologies
Sarah Dianne Olson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute:
  Modeling Sperm Trajectories Accounting for Signaling Noise
Hong Qian, University of Washington:
  Evolution Meets Thermodynamics: Fitness and Entropy Production in a Cell Population Dynamics with Epigenetic Phenotype Switching
Dominik Reinhold, Clark University:
  Near Critical Catalyst Reactant Branching Processes with Controlled Immigration
Robert Rosenbaum, University of Pittsburgh:
  The Impact of Short Term Depression and Stochastic Vesicle Dynamics on Neural Variability, Information Transmission and Correlations
Peter J Thomas Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University:
  Analysis of the Stochastic Shielding Approximation for Markovian Ion Channel Models via Random Graphs
Qiliang Wu, University of Minnesota:
  Diffusive Stability of Turing Patterns via Normal Forms

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

All Day Morning Chair: Brent Doiron
Afternoon Chair: Timothy Elston

W5.13-17.13
8:30am-9:00am Coffee

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
9:00am-9:50am Paul Bressloff, University of Utah
Metastability in a Stochastic Neural Network Modeled as a Velocity Jump Markov Process

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
9:50am-10:15am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
10:15am-11:05am Peter J Thomas Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Markov Jump Process Ion Channel Models

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
11:05am-11:30am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
11:30am-12:20pm Bastien Fernandez, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Transition to Massive Clustering in Populations of Degrade-and-fire Oscillators

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
12:20pm-2:00pm Lunch

W5.13-17.13
2:00pm-2:50pm Lee DeVille, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Emergent Metastability for Networks of Biological Oscillators

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
2:50pm-3:15pm Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
3:15pm-4:05pm Charles R. Doering, University of Michigan
Demographic Stochasticity and Evolution of Dispersion

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
4:05pm-5:00pm Discussion

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
8:00pm-9:00pm Informal Social Event

W5.13-17.13

Thursday, May 16, 2013

All Day Chair: Bard Ermentrout

W5.13-17.13
8:30am-9:00am Coffee

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
9:00am-9:50am Janet Best, Ohio State University
Dynamics of competing stochastic excitatory-inhibitory networks

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
9:50am-10:15am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
10:15am-11:05am David J. Odde, University of Minnesota
A Compliant Molecular Clutch Model for Kinetochore Motion Driven By Microtubule Disassembly

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
11:05am-11:30am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
11:30am-12:20pm David F. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stochastic Representations for Jump processes in Biology with Applications to Numerical Methods

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
12:00pm-1:00pm Morning Chair: Paul Bressloff

W5.13-17.13
12:20pm-2:00pm Lunch

W5.13-17.13
2:00pm-2:50pm Gerda de Vries, University of Alberta
Formation of Animal Groups: The Importance of Communication

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
2:50pm-3:15pm Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
3:15pm-4:05pm Hans G. Othmer, University of Minnesota
Stochastic Analysis of Reaction-diffusion Processes

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
4:05pm-5:00pm Discussion

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
8:00pm-9:00pm Informal Social Event

W5.13-17.13

Friday, May 17, 2013

8:30am-9:00am Coffee

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
9:00am-9:50am Jonathan D Touboul, Collège de France
Macroscopic Activity of Large-scale Stochastic Networks

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
9:50am-10:15am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
10:15am-11:05am Garyk Papoian, University of Maryland
Simulating Cytoskeletal Dynamics at High Spatial and Structural Resolutions

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
11:05am-11:30am Break

Keller Hall 3-176 W5.13-17.13
11:30am-12:30pm Discussion

Keller Hall 3-180 W5.13-17.13
12:00pm-1:00pm Chair: Janet Best

W5.13-17.13

Monday, May 20, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Thursday, May 23, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Friday, May 24, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Monday, May 27, 2013

All Day University Closed for Memorial Day Holiday

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

All Day Mini-Symposium: Analysis and Computation of Coherent Structures

Lind Hall 305 SW5.28.13
8:30am-9:00am Mini-Symposium: Coffee

Lind Hall 409 SW5.28.13
9:00am-10:15am Mini-Symposium: Stochastic Continuation of Fronts in Agent-Based-Models

Lind Hall 305 SW5.28.13
10:15am-10:45am Mini-Symposium: Break

Lind Hall 409 SW5.28.13
10:45am-12:00pm Mini-Symposium: Wavespeed Selection in Systems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Lind Hall 305
12:00pm-1:30pm Mini Symposium: Lunch

1:30pm-2:45pm Mini-Symposium: Continuation Methods in Computational Neuroscience with a Focus on Applications

Lind Hall 305
2:45pm-3:15pm Mini-Symposium: Break

Lind Hall 409
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400
3:15pm-4:05pm Mini-Symposium: Localized Crime Hotspots

Lind Hall 305
4:05pm-4:30pm Mini-Symposium: Break

Lind Hall 409
4:30pm-5:20pm Mini-Symposium: Small-Amplitude Grain Boundaries of Arbitrary Angle in the Swift-Hohemberg Equation

Lind Hall 305

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Thursday, May 30, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Friday, May 31, 2013

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Legend:

CRNS: Climate Research Network Seminar; DSS: 2012/13 Dynamical systems; PS: IMA Postdoc Seminar; SS: Special Seminars; SW5.28.13: Special Events; W5.13-17.13: Stochastic Modeling of Biological Processes;

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