Industrial Problems Seminar

In collaboration with the Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics, the Industrial Problems Seminars are a forum for industrial researchers to present their work to an audience of IMA postdocs, visitors, and graduate students, offering a first-hand glimpse into industrial research. The seminar series is often useful for initiating contact with industrial scientists. The IMA’s seminar series is the oldest and longest running seminar series in industrial mathematics.

The 2018-2019 seminars are organized by Gilad Lerman, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.

Seminars take place Fridays from 1:25-2:25 p.m. in Lind Hall 305.

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2019-2020
February 28, 2020	Lecture	Onur Ozyesil (INTECH Investment Management LLC)
February 21, 2020	Lecture	Martin Lacasse (ExxonMobil)
January 31, 2020	Lecture	Madeline Handschy (NextEra Analytics Inc)
November 22, 2019	Machine Learning Problems at Target	Mauricio Flores (Target Corporation)
November 15, 2019	Pipelines, Graphs, and the Language of Shopping: Architecting Next Gen Machine Learning Capabilities for Retail	Jonah White (Best Buy)
October 25, 2019	Gamma Guidance - The Mathematics Applied to a Launch Vehicle	Gary Green (The Aerospace Corporation)
October 11, 2019	Data Science in Healthcare	Yinglong Guo (UnitedHealth Group)
October 03, 2019	Language and Interaction in Minecraft	Arthur Szlam (Facebook)
September 27, 2019	Sampling from an Alternate Universe: Overview of Privacy-preserving Synthetic Data	Christine Task (Knexus Research Corporation)
September 20, 2019	SIAM Industrial Panel
September 04, 2019	3M Data Scientist Information Session

2018-2019
May 03, 2019	Startup vs. BigCo: Industry Experiences Compared	Ben Peirce (Samsung Research America)
April 12, 2019	Stating the Obvious - Job Search to Analytics Leadership	Sandhya Surapanenii (Stratasys)
March 29, 2019	So, How Do You Get a Job?	Chang Lee (Lowe's)
March 15, 2019	Infectious Disease Modeling in Public Health	Karyn Sutton (The Institute for Disease Modeling)
March 08, 2019	Internship/Job Searching 101: Answering Your Most Asked Beginner Questions	Whitney Moore (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 01, 2019	Solar + Storage – Opportunities and Innovations	Sohan Das (EVS, Inc.)
February 22, 2019	Industrial Problems in Digital Retail	Samantha Schumacher (Target Corporation)
February 08, 2019	Using Wearable Sensors to Predict Pain States	Kyle Srivastava (Boston Scientific)
January 25, 2019	Probabilistic Analysis of Operational Transit Data to Create Insights for Planners	Eric Lind (Metro Transit)
December 07, 2018	When Seeing is not Believing: New Forensics Algorithms to Detect Image Manipulations	Michael Albright (Honeywell)
November 30, 2018	Recap of MinneMUDAC: Challenges and Improvements
November 16, 2018	Advanced Dynamics Systems Analysis and Synthesis for Future Storage Challenges	Raye Sosseh (Seagate Technology)
November 02, 2018	Using Electronic Health Record Data for Clinical Analyses: Early Learnings	Joao Montero (Medtronic)
October 12, 2018	Artificial Intelligence in a Material World	Jennifer Schumacher (3M)
September 28, 2018	If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears, does it make a sound? (Or, making sure your code runs anywhere.)	Tyler Whitehouse (Gigantum)
September 27, 2018	SIAM Internship Panel
September 17, 2018	ExxonMobil information sessions for Ph.D. students	Jeremy Bedard (ExxonMobil), Alison Cozard (ExxonMobil)
September 14, 2018	The Unfulfilled Fourth Industrial Revolution	Marcus Braun (DataRobot)
September 14, 2018	ExxonMobil information sessions for Ph.D. students	Jeremy Bedard (ExxonMobil), Alison Cozard (ExxonMobil)
September 13, 2018	ExxonMobil information sessions for Ph.D. students	Jeremy Bedard (ExxonMobil), Alison Cozard (ExxonMobil)

2017-2018
May 01, 2018	Application of artificial intelligence to the standard 12 lead ECG to identify people with left ventricular dysfunction	Zachi Attia (Mayo Clinic)
April 27, 2018	Data Science in Risk Underwriting and Pricing: Challenges and Opportunities	Guy-vanie Miakonkana (Travelers Insurance)
April 20, 2018	A Path to Industry: Some things you can do today to succeed tomorrow	Tatiana Yarmola (J.P. Morgan AG)
April 13, 2018	A Field Guide to Data Science in the Wild	Dan Atkins (Optum)
March 23, 2018	Use of Quantitative Methods to Support Keytruda Dose Selection	Anna Kondic (Merck & Co, Inc.)
March 09, 2018	Industrial Analytics – a Balanced Approach	Girija Parthasarathy (Honeywell)
January 26, 2018	A Tour of Precision Agriculture with Drones, Remote Sensing, and Mathematics	Bryan Poling (Sentek Systems LLC)
January 23, 2018	Information session for grad students with Cargill and Target
January 19, 2018	Why Data Science Fails	Scott Ernst (When I Work)
December 01, 2017	Solving Nonlinear and Time-Dependent Equations for the Department of Energy	Carol Woodward (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
November 17, 2017	Mathematics Careers at the National Security Agency	Gail Letzter (National Security Agency)
November 10, 2017	Two Problems In Third-Party Logistics: Finding Customers, and Moving Their Freight Efficiently	Brian Kreeger (CH Robinson), Elena Yudovina (CH Robinson)
November 03, 2017	Graph Analytics for Bank Compliance	Christos Boutsidis (Goldman Sachs)
October 13, 2017	Utilizing Numerical Optimization to Improve the Utility of Data-Based Forecasting Models	Genetha Gray (Intel Corporation)
October 06, 2017	Neural net word embeddings: What was old is new again	Jeremy Bellay (Battelle)
September 29, 2017	Job Searching Steps 1 and 2: Strategies for Applying and Interviewing	Whitney Moore (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 15, 2017	SIAM Internship Panel
September 14, 2017	ExxonMobil networking event for Ph.D. students	Jeremy Bedard (ExxonMobil)
September 08, 2017	Applied Mathematics for Some Industrial Problems	Mouhacine Benosman (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories)

2016-2017
May 05, 2017	A Multivariate Hawkes process with Gaps in Observations	Triet Le (National Geospatial Intelligence Agency)
April 21, 2017	Taking Machine Learning to Production: A View From the Trenches	Yoni Acriche (eBay)
March 24, 2017	Machine Learning in Oil and Gas: Challenges and Opportunities	Niranjan Subrahmanya (ExxonMobil)
February 10, 2017	Startups and Machine Learning in the Wild	Josh Cutler (Deep Machine)
February 03, 2017	A Sheaf Theoretic Modeling and Composition Framework for Complex Systems of Systems: Application to the Traffic Collision Avoidance	Alberto Speranzon (Honeywell)
January 20, 2017	Exploring Citation Networks	Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson Reuters), Xin Shuai (Thomson Reuters)
December 09, 2016	Critical Node Analysis and Mitigation in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (Applications of Spectral Graph theory)	Soumitri Kolavennu (Honeywell)
December 02, 2016	High-dimensional Retail	Jesse Berwald (Target Corporation), Ryan Siskind (Target Corporation)
November 18, 2016	Practical Applications of Health Data	Arnaub Chatterjee (Merck & Co., Inc.)
November 11, 2016	Simulation and Computation Related Challenges for the Adoption of In Silico Medicine	Markus Reiterer (Medtronic)
October 28, 2016	Desirable Characteristics of a Mathematician in Industry: One Person's View	William Satzer (3M)
October 14, 2016	Things I’ve learned from 10 years in industry	Viktoria Averina (Boston Scientific)
October 04, 2016	Could a Theorem Light Our Lives?	Udayan Kanade (Oneirix Labs)
September 23, 2016	SIAM Internship Panel

2015-2016
April 29, 2016	Thriving Outside of Academia	Tyler Whitehouse (Quantitative Scientific Solutions, LLC)
April 22, 2016	Machine Learning for Materials Design	Adama Tandia (Corning Incorporated)
April 01, 2016	Technical and Scientific Challenges for Designing Bi-directional Bioelectrical Interfaces that Aim to Treat Neurological Disorders	Tim Denison (Medtronic)
March 25, 2016	Case Outcome Detection: Challenges and Methods	Thomas Vacek (Thomson Reuters)
March 11, 2016	Big Data Challenges Facing Digital Marketers	Lanhui Wang (MaxPoint)
March 04, 2016	Group-theoretic Algorithms for Matching Problems with Applications to Computer Vision	Deepti Pachauri (3M)
February 26, 2016	The Role of Mathematical Modeling and Optimization in Power Grid	Mihai Anitescu (Argonne National Laboratory)
February 19, 2016	Building the General-purpose Factory	Haldean Brown (Plethora)
February 12, 2016	Modeling and Analysis of Electric Power Systems Problems: Bridge the Gap Between Research and Industry	Dongbo Zhao (Eaton Corporation)
February 05, 2016	Advanced Healthcare Research and Analytics: Catching fraud, Removing Waste, Finding Providers, and Happy Consumers	Jason Haupt (UnitedHealth Group)
January 22, 2016	Interviewing Tips for Industry	Whitney Moore (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 11, 2015	Towards Lights Out Electronics Manufacturing	Jeff McAlvay (Tempo Automation)
December 04, 2015	Magnetic Refrigeration From Laboratory to Products	Steve Russek (Astronautics Corporation of America)
November 06, 2015	Structured Data and Learning: Data Science that Embraces Complex, Heterogeneous, Relational Data	Robert Nendorf (Allstate)
October 30, 2015	Mathematics at a 'Materials Company': How 3M Creates Advanced Technologies	Nitsan Ben-Gal (3M)
October 16, 2015	Mathematicians in Financial Services	Mrinal Raghupathi (USAA Asset Management Company)
October 09, 2015	Manufacturing at Internet Speeds: CAD/CAM Challenges in Rapid Manufacturing	Stefan Atev (Proto Labs, Inc.)
September 25, 2015	Effective Strategies for Your Job and Internship Search	Whitney Moore (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 17, 2015	SIAM Internship Panel

2014-2015
April 10, 2015	Building a Greener Future for Energy Consumption	Raya Horesh (IBM)
March 13, 2015	Navigating Inside the Human Body	Lev Koyrakh (Medtronic)
December 05, 2014	Three Gaps in Business Analytics	Earl Sun (Target Corporation)
November 07, 2014	Uncertainty Quantification in the Composites Industry: Designing Better Materials, Faster	Paul Patrone (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 31, 2014	Algorithms for Signal Matching in Durability Testing	Juan Garcia (MTS Systems Corporation)
October 10, 2014	What is the Depth Necessary …?	Benoit Couet (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
September 19, 2014	Regularization in the Real World	Eric Voth (St. Jude Medical)

2013-2014
May 16, 2014	On the Parametrization and Convergence Speed of Gauss-Newton Method for Nonlinear Inverse Problem	Lingyun Qiu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 04, 2014	Extracting Information from ECG Using Robust, Computationally Efficient Methods	Marina Brockway (VivaQuant)
February 28, 2014	Automating the Crash Test Planning Decision-Making Process	Daniel Reich (Ford Motor Company)
November 22, 2013	Estimation of Formation Shear and its Radial Profile from Sonic Dispersions in Well-Bonded Cased Boreholes	Jiaqi Yang (Schlumberger Cambridge Research)
October 25, 2013	Numerical Path-Integration Computation <br/><br/>of the Transport Properties of Polymers Nanoparticles and Complex Biological Structures	Jack Douglas (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
September 27, 2013	Emerging Industrial Applications for Large and Complex Control Systems	Yigang Wang (Eaton Corporation)

2012-2013
March 08, 2013	Applying Mathematical Models for Solid Tumor Growth in the Pharmaceutical Industry	Andrew Stein (Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research )
March 01, 2013	Estimation Methods for Space Situational Awareness	Aleksandar Zatezalo (Scientific Systems Company, Inc.)
February 15, 2013	Recent Developments in Finite-Element Ocean Modeling	Laurent White (Exxon Research and Engineering Company)
February 08, 2013	Industrial Problems Seminar, Mostafa Fatemi (Mayo Clinic)	Mostafa Fatemi (Mayo Clinic)
October 12, 2012	Some Challenges and Their Solutions for Implantable Medical Devices	Deepa Mahajan (Boston Scientific)
October 05, 2012	Geometric Design with Spline Convolution	Thomas Grandine (The Boeing Company)
September 14, 2012	Industrial Problems Seminar - Algorithms for Designing and Analyzing Next-Generation Energy and Aerospace Systems	Tuhin Sahai (United Technologies Corporation)

2011-2012
April 27, 2012	Compression approaches for reducing computational complexities of nonlinear inversion algorithms	Aria Abubakar (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
March 23, 2012	Computational Models and Stochastic Model Updating for the Design and Development of Recording Heads	Ajaykumar Rajasekharan (Seagate Technology)
February 24, 2012	Computing the Demagnetizing Field in Micromagnetics with Periodic Boundaries	Michael Donahue (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
December 02, 2011	Using POMDPs to Understand and Support Human Sequential Decision Making with Uncertainty	Brian Stankiewicz (3M)
November 11, 2011	Fast Multi-Scale Algorithms for Representation and Analysis of Data and Potential Applications	Linda Ness (Telcordia)
October 07, 2011	Statistics at Google Scale	Diane Lambert (Google Inc.)
September 23, 2011	Risk and Decision Analysis Research at IBM<br/><br/>	Bonnie Ray (Columbia University)

2010-2011
April 22, 2011	What Can We Learn From Software Failure Data	Veena Mendiratta (Alcatel-Lucent)
April 08, 2011	Learning on Manifolds	Fatih Porikli
March 25, 2011	Design Optimization in Automotive Industry	Ren-Jye Yang (Ford Motor Company)
March 04, 2011	Using LinkedIn to network your way to a job	Darren Kaltved (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 25, 2011	Role of Signals and Systems Theory in Solutions and Services Business	Lalit Mestha (Xerox Research Center, Webster)
February 11, 2011	Large Scale Information Extraction from the Web	Sathiya Keerthi (Yahoo! Inc.)
December 10, 2010	Asymptotically Optimal Safety Stuffing for Inventory Allocation in Display Advertising
November 12, 2010	A Perspective on the Use of Mathematics in Industry	Jeffrey Abell (General Motors Corporation)
October 29, 2010	Predictive Modeling of Mental States from fMRI Data	Irina Rish (IBM)
October 15, 2010	A Novel Approach to Tight Bouonds and Statistical Information of Rounding Errors	Ping Tak Tang (D. E. Shaw Research)
October 08, 2010	Challenges and Solutions in Clinical Image Analysis	Osama Masoud (ViTAL Images, Inc.)
September 17, 2010	Preparing Resumes and CV's for Industrial Positions	Darren Kaltved (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

2009-2010
May 07, 2010	Identifying and quantifying uncertainty in computational models	Genetha Gray (Sandia National Laboratories)
April 30, 2010	Optimal Chemical Spectroscopy	Anthony Kearsley (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
April 09, 2010	Applying Numerical Grid Generation to the Visualization of Complex Function Data	Bonita Saunders (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
March 26, 2010	Toward Optimal Transport Systems	Natalia Alexandrov (NASA Langley Research Center)
February 19, 2010	Mathematics at Work in Industrial Research and Development Laboratories<br/><br/>	Cristina Thomas (3M)
December 18, 2009	Research in Applied Mathematics at Schlumberger	Lalitha Venkataramanan (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
December 04, 2009	<br/><br/>Laser Ribbon Bond Loop Shape Prediction and Optimization<br/><br/><br/><br/>	J. Michael Gray (Medtronic)
October 23, 2009	Optimization algorithms for applications in industry	Todd Plantenga (Sandia National Laboratories)
September 11, 2009	Robust Portfolio Optimization Using a Cross Sectional Factor Model	Christopher Bemis (Whitebox Advisors)

2008-2009
May 01, 2009	Computational Challenges in Cancer Therapeutics	Paul Rejto (Pfizer Global R&D)
April 24, 2009	Computing Invariant Solutions of PDEs with Symmetries	Vanessa Lopez (IBM)
February 27, 2009	American Option Pricing Models and Obstacle Problems	Yongmin Zhang (NONE)
February 20, 2009	Simple Mathematics in Biomedical Applications	Viktoria Averina (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 06, 2009	Peridynamics: A Case Study for the Role of an Applied Mathematician at a National Lab	Richard Lehoucq (Sandia National Laboratories)
November 14, 2008	Image Registration with Applications in Medical Imaging Towards Drug Discovery and Development	Belma Dogdas (Merck & Co., Inc.)
October 17, 2008	Virtual Prototyping of Hearing Aids Using Numerical Modeling and Supercomputing	Thomas Burns (Starkey Laboratories)
October 03, 2008	Dealing with Stiffness in Low-Mach Number Flows	Caroline Gatti-Bono (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

2007-2008
April 11, 2008	Challenges for Numerical Analysis in Medical Device Industries	Michael Schendel (Medtronic)
April 04, 2008	Interaction of Lipid Bilayers with Inorganic Surfaces: Experiments to Modeling	Aravind Rammohan (Corning Incorporated)
February 15, 2008	Learning Classifiers for Computer Aided Diagnosis Using Local Correlations	Glenn Fung (Siemens Medical Solution)
November 30, 2007	Marketing Optimization	Balaji Gopalakrishnan (SAS Institute Inc.)
November 09, 2007	Networked Target Tracking Architectures	Randy Paffenroth (Numerica Corporation)
October 26, 2007	Modeling HCV antivirals	Jeffrey Saltzman (Merck & Co., Inc.)
September 28, 2007	Goldman Sachs: Career Opportunities for Quantitative Individuals	Mckay Hyde (Goldman, Sachs & Co. oHG)

2006-2007
May 04, 2007	Pattern Discovery in Bioinformatics	Laxmi Parida (IBM)
April 27, 2007	Tensor Decompositions, the MATLAB Tensor Toolbox, and Applications to Data Analysis	Tamara Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)
March 30, 2007	Downhole Analysis of Hydrocarbons	Mariya Ponomarenko (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
March 23, 2007	Optical Synthetic Aperture Imaging	Joe Buck (Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies )
February 02, 2007	Data Fusion in a UAV Surveillance System	Janet Keel (Lockheed Martin)
January 26, 2007	A Compact High Power Singlemode Microstructured Fiber Laser	Arash Mafi (Corning Incorporated)
October 20, 2006	Control Theory: Real World Application	Jae Lew (Eaton Corporation)
October 13, 2006	VaR Optimal Portfolios a Global Optimization Approach	Arun Verma (Bloomberg)
September 29, 2006	Fiber Products and Exceptional Sets	Charles Wampler (General Motors Corporation)

2005-2006
May 05, 2006	Shape and Manifold Modeling with Nullspaces	Matthew Brand (Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.)
April 28, 2006	An Introductory Survey to Zero-knowledge Proofs and their Applications	Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Telcordia)
April 21, 2006	Imaging and Inversion Algorithms Based on the Source-Type Integral Equation Formulations	Aria Abubakar (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
March 31, 2006	Algorithms for Digital Color Cameras	John Hamilton (Eastman Kodak Company)
March 24, 2006	Peter Massopust (Independent Consultant, Houston, Texas,<br/><br/>Mathematical Problems associated with a Class of Nondestructive Evaluations	Peter Massopust (Tuboscope Pipeline Services)
March 03, 2006	Imaging methods for surveillance	Vassilios Morellas
February 24, 2006	A General Purpose Segmentation Algorithm Using Analytically Evaluated Random Walks	Leo Grady (Siemens AG)
February 03, 2006	The mathematics of web information retrieval	Ruchira Datta (Google Inc.)
October 28, 2005	Robust Multi-Scale Morse Analysis for Scientific Data Analysis and Exploration	Valerio Pascucci (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
October 14, 2005	Groping in the Dark: The Past, Present, and Future of Automotive Night Vision	Jeff Remillard (Ford Motor Company)
October 07, 2005	Geometrical Complexity of Classification Problems	Tin Kam Ho (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
September 30, 2005	Graph Partitioning, Clustering with Qualitative Information, and<br/><br/>Grothendieck-type Inequalities	Assaf Naor (Microsoft Research)

2004-2005
May 06, 2005	Finite-Difference Simulation of Nanoscopic Devices	Geoffrey Burr (IBM)
April 29, 2005	Optimization and Approximation at AT&T Labs and Beyond	Howard Karloff (AT&T Laboratories - Research)
April 22, 2005	Big Physics in Small Spaces: Numerical Algorithms for Biological Flow at the Microscale	David Trebotich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
April 08, 2005	A Model for the Oxidative Ageing of Tires	Kevin Ellwood (Ford Motor Company)
April 01, 2005	Industrial Applications of Scene Change Detection Algorithms	Miroslav Trajkovic (Symbol Technologies)
March 25, 2005	Solid Modeling: Math at Work in Design	Jan Vandenbrande (The Boeing Company)
March 04, 2005	Medical Image Segmentation Using Deformable Models	Chenyang Xu (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.)
February 18, 2005	Selections from an Applied Mathematics Research Agenda for the Finance & Investments Industry	John Dodson (American Express)
January 28, 2005	Approximation of Functions by Artificial Neural Networks	Mariya Ponomarenko (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
January 21, 2005	Algebraic-Topological Formulation and Distributed Control of Packet-Switched Networks of General Topology	Yiju Chao (Morton Consulting Corporation)
December 10, 2004	Image Analysis as an Inverse Problem: Overview and Examples	Kevin Vixie (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
December 03, 2004	Adventures in Industrial Mathematics: Making Better Lenses for Making Computer Chips	Douglas Allan (Corning Incorporated)
November 12, 2004	Quantitative Promise of Vibro-acoustography and Vibrometry	James Greenleaf (Mayo Clinic)
October 29, 2004	Decreasing Blur and Increasing Resolution in Barcode Scanning	Todd Wittman (University of California, Los Angeles)
October 22, 2004	Several Problems of Interest to Lockheed Martin Tactical Systems	John Hoffman (Lockheed Martin)
October 15, 2004	Halftoning, Watermarking and Scheduling: Some Applications of the Error Diffusion Algorithm	Chai Wah Wu (IBM)
October 08, 2004	A Statistical Verification Methodology and its Applications	Pam Binns (Honeywell)
September 24, 2004	Stability of Linear Delay-Differential Equations	Viktoria Averina (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 17, 2004	An Introduction to Financial Correlation Products for Mathematicians	Blaise Morton (EBF & Associates)

2003-2004
April 30, 2004	How to Fit 100-Millon Transistors on a Thumbnail	Apo Sezginer (Invarium)
April 09, 2004	Modeling and Computational Challenges in Measuring Portfolio Credit Risk	William Morokoff (Moodys KMV)
April 02, 2004	Mathematical Models for Insurance Fraud Detection	Richard Derrig (Opal Intelligent Solutions)
March 26, 2004	Parameter Governors for Constrained Nonlinear Systems	Ilya Kolmanovsky (Ford Motor Company)
March 05, 2004	Intuitive Understanding of Grating-Coupled Radiation Using Green's Function Methods	Curt Flory (Agilent Technologies)
February 27, 2004	Matching Wavelets to Signals. Speckle Noise Filtering in a Laser Bar Code Scanner	Dariusz Madej (Symbol Technologies)
February 20, 2004	Modeling Buckled Developable Surfaces for Binder Design in Sheet Metal Forming	William Frey (General Motors Corporation)
January 30, 2004	Application of Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering to Critical Dimension Measurement and Control in Semiconductor Production	Daniel Wack (KLA - Tencor)
January 23, 2004	Open Algorithmical Problems in the Analysis of Integrated Circuits	Edward Keyes (Semiconductor Insights)
December 12, 2003	Modeling of a Natural Gas Pipeline Leak Sensor	Scott Shald (Coherent Technologies, Inc.)
December 05, 2003	Characterization, Modeling, and Donor Media Design for a Laser-Induced Thermal Imaging Process	Thomas Hoffend Jr. (3M)
October 31, 2003	Variational Methods, Implicit Representation & Visual Grouping	Nikos Paragios (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.)
October 17, 2003	Mathematical Programming and Multiaircraft Conflict Resolution	Dharmashankar Subramanian (Honeywell)
October 10, 2003	Challenges in Industrial Optimization � Technical or Otherwise	Indraneel Das (United Technologies Corporation)
September 26, 2003	Simulation of Extreme Events in Optical Communication System	Dipak Chowdhury (Corning Incorporated)
September 12, 2003	Applied Mathematics and Disk Drive Design	Robert Crone (Seagate Technology)

2002-2003
May 13, 2003	Cantelli's Lemma and the Estimation of Transaction Costs	Andrew Mullhaupt (SAC)
May 02, 2003	Impedance as a Diagnostic Tool for Studying Fuel Cells	Daniel Baker (General Motors Corporation)
April 25, 2003	Posterior Uncertainty in Decimated Wavelet Model Parameterizations	Nicholas Bennett (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
April 18, 2003	Diagnostic Ultrasound: Technology and Applications	Richard Chiao (General Electric Corp., Research and Development Center)
March 07, 2003	The Differentiation Index and Industrial Dynamic Simulation	Wade Martinson (Cargill, Inc.)
February 21, 2003	Cortical Surface Flattening Using Discrete Conformal Mapping with Minimal Metric Distortion	Lili Ju (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 07, 2003	Raman Amplified Optical Transport Systems	Lawrence Cowsar (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
January 31, 2003	The Evolution of Property-Casualty Insurance Liabilities	Stephen Mildenhall (Kemper Insurance Companies)
December 13, 2002	Mathematics Applied to Biological Systems in Drug Discovery - Ann E. DeWitt	Ann Dewitt (3M)
November 22, 2002	Photonic Crystals in Optical Communications - Mihail M. Sigalas (Agilent Technologies)	Michalis Sigalas (Agilent Technologies)
November 01, 2002	Wave Propagation in an Optical Fiber - Oleg Aleksandrov (University of Minnesota)
October 11, 2002	Statistics in New Product Development	Fred Hulting (General Mills)
October 04, 2002	Tracking in High Target Densities Using a First-Order Multitarget Moment Density	Ronald Mahler (Lockheed Martin)
September 27, 2002	2-Dim Guillotine Cutting Problem: 3 Different Approaches	Anton Leykin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

2001-2002
May 10, 2002	Mesoscale Modeling of Polymer Morphology - Miriam Freedman (MCIM Graduate Student)<br/><br/>
May 03, 2002	Minimax Optimization and Omnidirectional Dielectric Mirror	Grant Erdmann (US Air Force Research Laboratory)
April 26, 2002	Infectious Diseases Modeling at Dynamics Technology, Inc.	Richard Jordan (Dynamic Technologies)
April 19, 2002	A Simple ATM Backbone Network Reliability Model	Veena Mendiratta (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
March 29, 2002	Mathematical Problems Arising in Multi-Sensor Multi-Platform Precision Registration	Craig Poling (Lockheed Martin)
March 08, 2002	Stopping Light on a Defect	Michael Weinstein (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
February 22, 2002	Mathematical Modeling in Support of Service Level Agreements	Eric van den Berg (Telcordia)
February 08, 2002	Mathematics and Materials: The Role of Mathematics in a Materials Development Laboratory	Cristina Thomas (3M)
February 01, 2002	How Do We Perform Stochastic Reservoir Optimization?	Benoit Couet (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
January 25, 2002	Micromagnetic Modeling of Writing and Reading Processes in Magnetic Recording	Lei Wang (Seagate Technology)
December 07, 2001	Finding a Robust Design for Optical Components	David Misemer (3M)
November 30, 2001	On the Spectral Decomposition of Empirical Correlation Matrices Related to Term Structures	Carlos Tolmasky (Cargill, Inc.)
November 02, 2001	A New Class of Speech Signal Stochastic Models and Applications to Blind Source Separation Problems	Radu Balan (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.)
October 26, 2001	Screening for the Effect of a Potent New Anti-HIV Compound on HIV Infected Cells Using Oligonucleotide Arrays to Measure Gene Expression	Sanjive Qazi (Parker Hughes Cancer Institute)
October 19, 2001	Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical and Fluid Pressures in Chemical-Mechanical Polishing	Leonard Borucki (Motorola)
October 12, 2001	Implementing Value at Risk Using Scenario Simulations	Natalyia Kerbel (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 28, 2001	F. John's Ultrahyperbolic Equation and 3D Computed Tomography	Sarah Patch (General Electric Corp., Research and Development Center)
September 21, 2001	Global Positioning System and Its Applications	Fan Liu (Honeywell)

2000-2001
April 06, 2001	Content-Sensitive Fingerprinting and its Applications	Rafail Ostrovsky (Telcordia)
March 16, 2001	Curvilinear Tool Paths for Pocket Machining	Michael Bieterman (The Boeing Company)
March 09, 2001	A Look at Transient Sound and Vibration Problems in the Automotive Industry	David Scholl (Ford Motor Company)
March 02, 2001	Limiting Behavior of Networks and nonstandard Analysis	Javier Thayer (The Mitre Corporation)
February 23, 2001	A Brief Overview of Trust Region Interior Point Methods for Nonlinear Programming	Andrew Conn (IBM)
February 16, 2001	Medical Image Analyses	Marek Brejl (ViTAL Images, Inc.)
February 09, 2001	Advantages of a Wave Model of Cardiac Electrodynamics	Paul Belk (Medtronic)
December 08, 2000	Fiber Devices Drive the Optical Networking Revolution	Benjamin Eggleton (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
December 01, 2000	Circuit Modeling	Kevin Kerns (Synopsys - Europe)
November 10, 2000	Scoliosis and Modelling the Spine	Roy Adler (IBM)
October 27, 2000	Two-dimensional NMR inversion	Lalitha Venkataramanan (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
October 06, 2000	The Media of the last Millenium by David Goldberg	David Goldberg (Xerox Corporation)
September 29, 2000	Hierarchical Hybrid Control of Large Scale Multi-Agent Systems by Datta Godbole (MN65)	Datta Godbole (Honeywell)

1999-2000
May 05, 2000	Magnetorheological Fluids and Elastomers	John Ginder (Ford Motor Company)
April 28, 2000	3D Active Bidomain Model for Bipolar Stimulation	Shirley Min (Medtronic)
April 21, 2000	Geometry and the Commercial Airplane Business: Goals, Achievements, and Problems	David Ferguson (The Boeing Company)
April 14, 2000	Nonlinear Analysis and Design in Electrical Engineering (Applications of Dynamical Systems to Oscillator Theory and Design)	Michal Odyniec (HP (Hewlett-Packard))
March 24, 2000	Closed Curves in the Analysis and Segmentation of Images	Karvel Thornber (NEC Research Institute)
March 10, 2000	Modeling Seucriy Protocols	Javier Thayer (The Mitre Corporation)
February 18, 2000	Time-Varying Speckle Patterns, and Application to Laser Scanners	Sasa Kresic-Juric (Symbol Technologies)
February 04, 2000	Nonlinear m-Term Approximation	Peter Oswald (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
January 28, 2000	Inverse Transfer Function Techniques Applied to Laboratory-Based Vehicle Dynamics Simulations	Robin Tuluie (MTS Systems Corporation)
December 10, 1999	Coloring SONET Rings and Related Problems	Tamra Carpenter (Telcordia)
December 03, 1999	Gaussian Spectral Rules for Second Order Finite-difference Schemes	Vladimir Druskin (Schlumberger-Doll Research)

1998-1999
June 04, 1999	Optimal Control Technique for magnet Design in an NMR Well-Logging Tool	Bruno Luong (Schlumberger-Doll Research)
May 28, 1999	ISDP: Inverse Shape Design Procedure	Gary Strumolo (Ford Research)
April 16, 1999	Derivative Free Optimization Algorithm for Constrained Problems	Andrew Conn (IBM)
March 25, 1999	Background Detection of Lethal Arrhythmia by Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators	Milton Morris (Guidant Corporation)
March 19, 1999	Exploring the Mechanisms of Cardiac Defibrillation Via Mathematical Modeling	Matthew Fishler (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
March 05, 1999	Some Fluid Dynamics Problems in Ink Jet Printing	David Ross (Eastman Kodak Company)
February 19, 1999	Language Modeling for an Application of Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition	Joan Bachenko (Linguistic Technologies, Inc.)
February 05, 1999	Very Low Cost Video Wavelet Codec	Krasimir Kolarov (Interval Research Corporation)
December 04, 1998	Biotechnology from Bifurcation in a Box: Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry	Jeff Sachs (Independent Scientific Consultant)
November 20, 1998	Multiple Description Data Compression and Lattice Labeling