IMA Postdoc Seminar 2003 - 2004

Tuesday : 11:15 - 12:15 at 409 Lind Hall

The IMA Postdoc Seminar is intended for expository talks from the visitors on their current research interests. For the year 2003-2004 it is organized by Antar Bandyopadhyay and Gerard Awanou The seminar meets at 409 Lind Hall on Tuesdays at 11:15 only on the weeks when there is no IMA workshop or tutorial. If you are interested to give a talk please contact the organizers at antar@ima.umn.edu or awanou@ima.umn.edu. Note that in Fall 2003 Balaji Gopalakrishnan was one of the co-organizer.

Spring 2004 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 20	Dr. Gerard Awanou	IMA	Trivariate Spline Approximations of 3D Navier-Stokes Equations
January 27	Dr. Olga Brezhneva	IMA	Modified methods for nonlinear optimization and complementarity problems in the absence of strict complementarity
February 3	Prof. Greg Rempala	University of Louisville	Bootstrapping Parametric Models of Mortality
February 10	--	--	No Seminar : Robustness in Complex Systems Workshop
February 17 (joint with the Brown Bag Seminar) No change of time and place	Dr. Lili Ju	IMA	Finite Volume Method on Spherical Voronoi Meshes
February 17 (Special meeting joint with Random Matrix Seminar) Time : 12:45 - 2:15 at 570 Vincent Hall	Dr. Tim Garoni	IMA	Absolute moments of products of characteristic polynomials, and impenetrable bosons - I
February 24 (joint with Random Matrix Seminar) Time : 12:45 - 2:15 at 570 Vincent Hall	Dr. Tim Garoni	IMA	Absolute moments of products of characteristic polynomials, and impenetrable bosons - II
March 2	TBA	TBA	No Seminar
March 9	--	--	No Seminar : Control and Pricing Workshop
March 16	Prof. Ilze Ziedins	University of Auckland, New Zealand	Optimal routing in parallel tandem queues with loss
March 23	Dr. Noam Berger	California Institute of Technology	Non-uniqueness for specifications in l^{2+\epsilon}
March 30	--	--	No Seminar : Short Course on Tools for Modeling and Data Analysis in Finance
April 6	Prof. Peter Bank	Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany	American Options, Finite-Fuel Problems, and the Multi-Armed Bandit
April 13	--	--	No Seminar : Risk Management Workshop
April 20	Prof. Yuhong Yang	Iowa State University	Multi-armed Bandits with Covariates
April 27	--	--	No Seminar : "Hot Topics" Workshop
May 4	--	--	No Seminar : Model Implementation Workshop
May 11	--	--	No Seminar : "Hot Topics" Workshop
May 18	Prof. Scot Adams	Associate Director, IMA	Some Remarks on Finite Element Method
May 25	--	--	No Seminar : Financial Data Analysis Workshop

Fall 2003 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
October 7	Dr. Taerim Lee	Korea National Open University	Tree Structured Prognostic Model for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
October 14	Dr. Simon Morgan	University of Minnesota	Applications of Geometric Measure Theory to Variational Problems with Surfaces
October 21	--	--	No Seminar : Comparative Genomics Workshop
October 28	Prof. Mohammad Kazim Khan	Kent State University	On SPRT and CUSUM Procedures and Some Open Problems
November 4	--	--	No Seminar : IMA "Hot Topics" Workshop
November 11	Prof. Tom Kurtz	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Introduction to Martingale Problems (Note : A follow up talk will be on November 12 in the Complex System Seminar)
November 18	--	--	No Seminar : Networks and The Population Dynamics Workshop
November 25	Dr. Karen Ball	IMA	Factors of Processes on Groups and Graphs
December 2	Dr. Amir Niknejad	University of Illinois at Chicago	Missing Data Imputation for Gene Expression Arrays : An Algebraic Approach
December 9	Dr. Soohan Ahn	IMA	Transient Analysis of Fluid Flow Models via Stochastic Coupling to a Queue
December 16	--	--	No Seminar

Slides of some of the talks can be found at the Postdoc Seminar Archive.

Last modified May 11, 2004.