Annual Program Seminar

During each Annual Thematic Program, several seminars are offered. Talks will include graduate-level lectures as well as seminars covering various topics related to the theme.

Seminars for 2016-2017 will be held Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Lind Hall 305 unless otherwise noted.

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2016-2017
May 11, 2017	Eigenvalue Problems in Inverse Scattering Theory for Inhomogeneous Media	Fioralba Cakoni (Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey)
April 20, 2017	Nonparaxial Near-Nondiffracting Acclerating Optical Beams	Ting Zhou (Northeastern University)
April 13, 2017	Finite Element Methods for Simulation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on 2D Materials	Matthias Maier (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 12, 2017	Current Trends in Nonlinear Photonics	Alejandro Aceves (Southern Methodist University)
April 06, 2017	Dispersion Engineering through Localized Resonance	Robert Lipton (Louisiana State University)
March 30, 2017	Maximal Length Spectral Gaps for Helmholtz Operators	Braxton Osting (The University of Utah)
March 23, 2017	Spectrum of the Neumann-Poincare Operator for Domains with Corners	Eric Bonnetier (Université Grenoble-Alpes)
March 09, 2017	Inverse Source Problems for Wave Propagation	Peijun Li (Purdue University)
March 08, 2017	Computing Spectra Without Solving Eigenvalue Problems	Douglas Arnold (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 02, 2017	A Modification of Schiffer's Conjecture and a Proof Via Finite Elements	Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University)
February 23, 2017	Recursive Integral Eigenvalue Solver with Cayley Transformation	Jiguang Sun (Michigan Technological University)
February 09, 2017	Tutorial: 2D materials polaritons	Tony Low (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 08, 2017	Tutorial: 2D materials polaritons	Tony Low (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 07, 2017	Tutorial: 2D materials polaritons	Tony Low (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
January 19, 2017	Superlensing Using Hyperbolic Metamaterials	Eric Bonnetier (Université Grenoble-Alpes)
December 01, 2016	Toward a Theory of Broadband Absorption Suppression in Magnetic Composites	Aaron Welters (Florida Institute of Technology)
November 17, 2016	Stekloff Eigenvalues in Inverse Scattering	Peter Monk (University of Delaware)
November 16, 2016	The Theory of Field Patterns	Ornella Mattei (The University of Utah)
November 10, 2016	Field Control Through Manipulation of Surface Sources	Daniel Onofrei (University of Houston)
November 09, 2016	Uniqueness for an Inverse Problem in Electromagnetism with Partial Data	Brian Malcolm Brown (Cardiff University)
November 07, 2016	Virial Theorem and Eigenvalue Estimate of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations	Tai-Chia Lin (National Taiwan University)
October 27, 2016	Scattering and Field Enhancement of Subwavelength Slits	Junshan Lin (Auburn University)
October 26, 2016	Spectral Theory and Limiting Amplitude Principle for Maxwell’s Equations at the Interface of a Metamaterial	Maxence Cassier (The University of Utah)
October 20, 2016	Can one find all coherent structures of a nonlinear wave equation?	Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
October 19, 2016	Tutorial: Convolution Quadrature and Maxwell’s Equations	Peter Monk (University of Delaware)
October 17, 2016	Tutorial: Convolution Quadrature and Time Domain Integral Equations	Peter Monk (University of Delaware)
October 13, 2016	Bifurcations of Long-Lived (near) Relative Periodic Orbits in Coupled Nonlinear Waveguides	Roy Goodman (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
October 06, 2016	Analytic and Polynomial Materials	Graeme Milton (The University of Utah)
October 05, 2016	Tutorial on Plasmonics	Sang-Hyun Oh (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 30, 2016	Tutorial on Plasmonics	Sang-Hyun Oh (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 29, 2016	Fast Computation of 2D-Periodic Green Functions in 3D Near Cutoff Frequencies	Stephen Shipman (Louisiana State University)
September 28, 2016	Tutorial on Plasmonics	Sang-Hyun Oh (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 22, 2016	The Derivation and Justification of Modulation Equations for Optical Systems	C. Eugene Wayne (Boston University)

2015-2016
May 06, 2016	Adaptive Horizon Model Predictive Control	Arthur Krener (Naval Postgraduate School)
May 05, 2016	On Analysis and Control of Monotone Systems	Anders Rantzer (Lund University)
April 21, 2016	Lecture	Juan Cockburn (Rochester Institute of Technology)
April 07, 2016	Lecture	Yoichiro Mori (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 31, 2016	Transition Probabilities for Degenerate Diffusions Arising in Population Genetics	Camelia Pop (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 24, 2016	Inverse problems for the wave equation using mixed formulations and space-time finite elements	Nicolae Cindea (Blaise Pascal University)
February 25, 2016	Controllability of a Cochlea Model and Related Fluid Elastic Systems	Scott Hansen (Iowa State University)
February 18, 2016	Some Remarks on Controllability and Time Optimal Control for Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems	Marius Tucsnak (Université de Bordeaux I)
February 11, 2016	Effect of Dynamic Network's Topology on Performance and Stability	Yoonsoo Kim (Gyeongsang National University)
February 04, 2016	Using Approximations in Controller Synthesis for Systems Modelled by Partial Differential Equations	Kirsten Morris (University of Waterloo)
December 10, 2015	Non-smooth and Non-convex Optimization	Kazufumi Ito (North Carolina State University)
December 03, 2015	Variational Calculus, Sums of Squares and Moment Problems	Farhad Jafari (University of Wyoming)
November 12, 2015	Control and Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations on Graphs	Sergei Avdonin (University of Alaska)
November 11, 2015	Optimization in the Nervous System	Theoden Netoff (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 05, 2015	The Scope of Linear Matrix Inequality Techniques	J. William Helton (University of California, San Diego)
October 15, 2015	Mathematical Methods in the Control of Quantum Mechanical Systems	Domenico D'Alessandro (Iowa State University)
October 08, 2015	When MIMO Control Meets MIMO Communication	Li Qiu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
October 07, 2015	Nonlinear Systems Toolbox	Arthur Krener (Naval Postgraduate School)
October 06, 2015	Nonlinear Systems Toolbox	Arthur Krener (Naval Postgraduate School)
October 05, 2015	Nonlinear Systems Toolbox	Arthur Krener (Naval Postgraduate School)
September 24, 2015	Physical Network System Dynamics	Abraham Jan (Arjan) van der Schaft (Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen)
September 18, 2015	Elements of Sliding Mode Control Theory	Antonella Ferrara (Università di Pavia)
September 16, 2015	Elements of Sliding Mode Control Theory	Antonella Ferrara (Università di Pavia)
September 14, 2015	Elements of Sliding Mode Control Theory	Antonella Ferrara (Università di Pavia)

2014-2015
May 07, 2015	Vertex Index of Symmetric Convex Bodies	Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta)
April 23, 2015	Borell's Formula for a Riemannian Manifold	Joseph Lehec (Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine))
April 21, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Smoothing and Ergodicity of Markov Semigroups in Infinite Dimensions	Boguslaw Zegarlinski (Imperial College London)
April 09, 2015	Stein Couplings, Log Concavity and Concentration of Measure	Larry Goldstein (University of Southern California)
April 07, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Algebraic Structures on the Family of Convex Sets	Liran Rotem (Tel Aviv University)
April 02, 2015	Limit Theorems in Free Probability Theory	Gennadiy Chystyakov (Universität Bielefeld)
March 31, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Random Walks on High Dimensional Spheres: Spectral Gaps and Entropy Production	Eric Carlen (Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey )
March 26, 2015	Perfect Matchings and Random Determinants	Mark Rudelson (University of Michigan)
March 24, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: On a Loomis-Whitney Type Inequality for Permutationally Invariant Unconditional Convex Bodies	Piotr Nayar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 12, 2015	Asymptotic Approximations for Symmetric Functions and the Central Limit Theorem for Densities	Friedrich Götze (Universität Bielefeld)
March 10, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Approximation Complexity of Convex Bodies	Mark Rudelson (University of Michigan)
March 05, 2015	Kantorovitch Duality for General Transport Costs and Applications	Cyril Roberto (Université Paris Ouest)
March 03, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Optimal Concentration of Information for Log-Concave Distributions	Mokshay Madiman (University of Delaware)
February 19, 2015	Quantitative Uniform Convexity Bounds and their Application	Eric Carlen (Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey )
February 17, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Affine Invariant Points	Carsten Schuett (Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel)
February 12, 2015	Discrete Entropy Power Inequalities and Sperner Theory	Mokshay Madiman (University of Delaware)
February 10, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Approximation of Convex Bodies II	Elisabeth Werner (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 05, 2015	Between the Number of Edges and the Adjacency Matrix of a Graph	Eva Czabarka (University of South Carolina)
February 03, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: Approximation of Convex Bodies	Elisabeth Werner (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
January 29, 2015	An Introduction to the Normalized Laplacian	Steve Butler (Iowa State University)
January 27, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: How large is the norm of a random matrix? II	Ramon van Handel (Princeton University)
January 20, 2015	Asymptotic Analysis Seminar: How large is the norm of a random matrix?	Ramon van Handel (Princeton University)
December 04, 2014	On the Edit Distance in Graphs	Ryan Martin (Iowa State University)
November 20, 2014	Edge Colouring Multigraphs	Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo)
November 06, 2014	Poset-free Families of Subset	Jerrold Griggs (University of South Carolina)
November 05, 2014	Counting Connected Hypergraphs - Phase Transitions, Martingales and Branching Processes	Béla Bollobás (University of Cambridge)
October 30, 2014	Discrete Morse Theory from A Graph Matching Perspective	Patricia Hersh (North Carolina State University)
October 23, 2014	Fractional Subadditivity of Entropy and Applications	Prasad Tetali (Georgia Institute of Technology)
October 16, 2014	A Discrete Isodiametric Result: The Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem for Multisets	Zoltan Furedi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA))
October 09, 2014	Nordhaus-Gaddum Sum Problems for Tree-width and Colin de Verdière Parameters	Leslie Hogben (Iowa State University)
September 25, 2014	Infinite Geometric Graphs and Properties of Metrics	Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie University)
September 18, 2014	Measurable Equidecompositions via Combinatorics and Group Theory	Oleg Pikhurko (University of Warwick)

2013-2014
May 15, 2014	Introduction to Gröbner Bases	Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
May 07, 2014	Studying Recombination Pathways Using Band Surgeries	Mariel Vazquez (San Francisco State University)
April 23, 2014	Chromatic Homology and Graph Configuration Spaces	Radmila Sazdanović (North Carolina State University)
April 16, 2014	Topology and coding in neural networks
April 09, 2014	A-infinity Persistence	Aniceto Murillo (University of Málaga)
April 02, 2014	Random Linear Algebra and the Vanishing Threshold for Integer Homology	Matthew Kahle (The Ohio State University)
March 26, 2014	Necktie knots, formal languages and network security	Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
March 19, 2014	Multiparameter Persistent Homology for Shape Comparison: Continuous versus Discrete	Tomasz Kaczynski (University of Sherbrooke)
March 12, 2014	Homology-vanishing Theorems for Random Simplicial Complexes	Matthew Kahle (The Ohio State University)
February 26, 2014	Lipschitz Extensions and Higher-Order Metric Certificates	Vin de Silva (Pomona College)
February 19, 2014	Towards Utilizing Topological Data Analysis for Studying Machining Models	Firas Khasawneh (State University of New York Institute of Technology)
January 29, 2014	The Variational Bicomplex	Irina Kogan (North Carolina State University)
December 06, 2013	Persistence Modules and Category Theory	Vin de Silva (Pomona College)
December 04, 2013	Scheduling spaces in concurrency via directed topology	Martin Raussen (Aalborg University)
December 04, 2013	Persistence Modules and Category Theory	Vin de Silva (Pomona College)
November 20, 2013	Limit Theory for Random Cech Complexes	Yogeshwaran Dhandapani (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
November 18, 2013	Quantitative Homotopy Theory in Topological Data Analysis	Andrew Blumberg (The University of Texas at Austin)
November 13, 2013	Asymptotic topology and group actions	Greg Bell (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
November 13, 2013	Persistent Homology for Metric Measures Spaces, Hypothesis Testing, and Confidence Intervals	Andrew Blumberg (The University of Texas at Austin)
November 06, 2013	Some Properties of Clustering Methods	Facundo Mémoli (The Ohio State University)
October 25, 2013	Applications at the Interface of Polyhedral Products and Configurations Spaces	Frederick Cohen (University of Rochester)
October 23, 2013	Towards a Topos Bais for Persistent Homology	Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
October 23, 2013	A Primer on Configuration Spaces: Definitions, Examples, Fibrations, and Monodromy	Frederick Cohen (University of Rochester)
October 16, 2013	Beyond the Borsuk-Ulam/Dold theorem (in Combinatorial Geometry)	Pavle Blagojević (Freie Universität Berlin)
October 14, 2013	Persistent Holes in the Universe	Pratyush Pranav (Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen)
September 25, 2013	Topological Methods in the Analysis of Biological Data	F. Javier Arsuaga (San Francisco State University)
September 24, 2013	Persistent Homology and Applications	Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University)
September 18, 2013	The Structure of Persistence Modules	Vin de Silva (Pomona College)
September 18, 2013	Representing Large and Complex Data	Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University)

2012-2013
May 09, 2013	On invariant measures for Hamiltonian PDEs	Vladimir Sverak (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
May 02, 2013	Exponential separation between positive and sign-changing solutions of parabolic equations and its applications	Peter Polacik (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 25, 2013	Variational Method in the Study of Reaction-Diffusion Equations	Roger Lui (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
April 11, 2013	A Model of Electrodiffusion and Osmosis in Cells and Tissues	Yoichiro Mori (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 04, 2013	Existence, Stability and Dynamics of Solitary Waves and Vortices in Superfluids: From Theory to Experiments	Panayotis Kevrekidis (University of Massachusetts)
April 01, 2013	From Stochastic Interacting Particle Systems (IPS) Models to Lattice Differential Equations for Reaction-diffusion Processes	James Evans (Iowa State University)
March 28, 2013	On a Free Boundary Problem for the Curvature Flow with Driving Force	Hiroshi Matano (University of Tokyo)
March 07, 2013	Dichotomies (exponential and others) with applications	George Sell (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 28, 2013	Influence locally - affect globally: The case of Diffusion	Enrique Thomann (Oregon State University)
February 21, 2013	Convergence Results on methods for solving non-linear filtering problems	Xiaoying (Maggie) Han (Auburn University)
February 14, 2013	A sixth order Cahn-Hilliard type equation	Piotr Rybka (University of Warsaw)
February 07, 2013	Perturbation of Dynamical Systems Defined by Semilinear Parabolic Problems	Marcone Pereira (University of Sao Paulo)
January 31, 2013	Rough path analysis and multiple integrals	Yaozhong Hu (University of Kansas)
January 24, 2013	Recent Results in Mathematical Neuroscience and Nonlinear Systems of Fluid Dynamical Equations	Linghai Zhang (Lehigh University)
November 27, 2012	Invariant Gibbs measures for some 3D and 2D turbulence models	Hakima Bessaih (University of Wyoming)
November 20, 2012	Sobolev Differentiable Flows for Singular Stochastic Differential Equations	Salah-Eldin Mohammed (Southern Illinois University)
November 16, 2012	Floquet bundles for tridiagonal competitive-cooperative systems and applications	Yi Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)
November 15, 2012	The cascades route to chaos	Evelyn Sander (George Mason University)
November 08, 2012	Smoothness and Long-time Behavior of the Free Boundary in a Nonlinear Stefan Problem	Yihong Du (University of New England)
November 01, 2012	Hamiltonian identities for Elliptic PDEs and their applications	Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut)
October 18, 2012	Dissipative Quasi-Stable Systems: Theory and Applications	Igor Chueshov (Karazin Kharkov National University)
October 11, 2012	Some elementary properties of local minimizers of the Allen-Cahn energy	Giorgio Fusco (Università di L'Aquila)
October 04, 2012	Stochastic Cahn-Morral Systems	Thomas Wanner (George Mason University)

2011-2012
March 30, 2012	Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property	Felix Krahmer (Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen)
March 22, 2012	Two Tutorial Lectures on Machine Learning	Arindam Banerjee (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 21, 2012	An overview of current trends in high-dimensional statistical data analysis	Lan Wang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 20, 2012	Two Tutorial Lectures on Machine Learning	Arindam Banerjee (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 13, 2012	Compressed Sensing for Manifold Data	Mark Iwen (Duke University)
March 09, 2012	Two Lectures on Compressive Sensing: Restricted Isometry Properties of Random Matrices	Holger Rauhut (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
March 08, 2012	Two Lectures on Compressive Sensing: Structured Random Matrices in Compressive Sensing	Holger Rauhut (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
March 07, 2012	Greedy Approximations	Vladimir Temlyakov (University of South Carolina)
March 06, 2012	Greedy Approximations	Vladimir Temlyakov (University of South Carolina)
March 05, 2012	Greedy Approximations	Vladimir Temlyakov (University of South Carolina)
February 23, 2012	Metric Entropy and Applications	Wenbo Li (University of Delaware)
February 22, 2012	Metric Entropy and Applications	Wenbo Li (University of Delaware)
February 21, 2012	Metric Entropy and Applications	Wenbo Li (University of Delaware)
February 20, 2012	Metric Entropy and Applications	Wenbo Li (University of Delaware)
November 29, 2011	Extremal Lipschitz functions on isoperimetric spaces	Dainius Dzindzalieta (Vilnius State University)
November 09, 2011	An algebraic view of topological problems: solvers and graphs	Luke Olson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
November 03, 2011	P vs. NP problem: Efficient computation, internet security, and the limits to human knowledge	Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study)
October 19, 2011	Topology, Graphs, and Data	Isabel Darcy (The University of Iowa)
October 12, 2011	Computing Semantic Clusters by Semantic Mirroring and Spectral Graph Partitioning	Lars Eldén (Linköping University)
October 11, 2011	Information passing and collective animal behavior	Naomi Leonard (Princeton University)
October 05, 2011	Solute uptake in vessels with oscillatory walls	Leonardo Espin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 23, 2011	An excursion into Banach space theory	Carsten Schuett (Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel)
September 16, 2011	Oriented skein relation for knot Floer homology and a biological application	Candice Price (The University of Iowa)

2009-2010
January 21, 2010	Tag Team Tutorials: Transport & Mixing in Incompressible Fluid Flows	Charles Doering (University of Michigan), Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
November 18, 2009	Turbulence transition in shear flows: what can we learn from pipe flow?	Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
November 11, 2009	Are viscoelastic flows under control or out of control?	Michael Renardy (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
November 04, 2009	On spider-man and film casting: the mathematics of free liquid fibers and films in elongation	Thomas Hagen (University of Memphis)
October 21, 2009	Transition in inertialess flows of viscoelastic fluids: the role of uncertainty	Mihailo Jovanovic (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 07, 2009	The generalized hydrodynamic theory - transient elasticity and other examples	Harald Pleiner (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)
September 30, 2009	Transport and collective dynamics in suspensions of swimming microorganisms	Michael Graham (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
September 23, 2009	Stirring and mixing: Topology, optimization, and walls	Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

2008-2009
May 22, 2009	Adiabatic switching for degenerate ground states	Gabriel Stoltz (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées (ENPC))
May 14, 2009	Adaptive methods for efficient sampling. Applications in molecular dynamics	Tony Lelievre (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees)
May 13, 2009	Non-ergodicity of the Nosé-Hoover dynamics	Frédéric Legoll (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées)
April 01, 2009	Stochastic interacting particle systems models for reaction-diffusion systems: Non-linear kinetics, steady-state bifurcations (phase transitions), reaction fronts	James Evans (Iowa State University)
February 25, 2009	Effective dynamics using conditional expectations	Frédéric Legoll (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées)
February 18, 2009	The ground state energy of atoms: Functionals of the one-particle-reduced density matrix and their relation to the full Schrödinger equation	Heinz Siedentop (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
February 13, 2009	Surface effect on the quantum size energy levels in semiconductor nanocrystals	Alexander Efros (Naval Research Laboratory)
February 05, 2009	Fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in asymmetric harmonic traps	Xavier Blanc (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie))
January 28, 2009	Computational strategy options in tackling a problem of molecular excited state dynamics	Maurizio Persico (Università di Pisa)
December 03, 2008	Stability of traveling waves in quasi-linear hyperbolic systems with relaxation and diffusion	Tong Li (The University of Iowa)
November 12, 2008	Fermi contact interactions evaluated from hidden relations in the Schrödinger equation	Daniel Chipman (University of Notre Dame)
October 15, 2008	New efficient algorithms for a general blood tissue transport-metabolism model and stiff differential equations	Dexuan Xie (University of Wisconsin)
October 08, 2008	A view of outstanding problems in density functional theory	Steven Valone (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2007-2008
June 18, 2008	Single cell mechanics: Mechanics of membranes and cytoskeletal networks	Dirk Hartmann (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
June 10, 2008	The micromechanics of 3d collagen gels	Andrew Stein (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
June 04, 2008	Review and discussion of IMA workshop: Quantitative approaches to cell motility and chemotaxis	Timothy Newman (Arizona State University), Hans Othmer (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
May 21, 2008	Anomalous diffusion, tumor growth and random walk models	Sergei Fedotov (University of Manchester)
May 14, 2008	Some mathematical issues arising in single and multiple target SELEX	Howard Levine (Iowa State University)
May 07, 2008	Modeling the genome-wide transient response to stimuli in yeast: adaptation through integral feedback	Claudio Altafini (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS))
April 16, 2008	Size and shape of polymers	Eric Rawdon (University of St. Thomas)
April 09, 2008	Recent advances and challenges in deterministic global optimization	Christodoulos Floudas (Princeton University)
April 02, 2008	From neurons to neural networks	Jeff Knisley (East Tennessee State University)
March 26, 2008	Modeling fibrin gel formation: Continuous to discrete	Robert Guy (University of California)
March 19, 2008	Stochastic mathematical and computational models in microbiology (continued)	Peter Kramer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
February 27, 2008	Stochastic mathematical and computational models in microbiology	Peter Kramer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
February 20, 2008	Mapping evolutionary pathways of HIV-1 drug resistance using conditional selection pressure	Christopher Lee (University of California, Los Angeles)
February 13, 2008	Why is the microtubule lattice helical?	Imre Jánosi (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE))
February 06, 2008	Three topics in the mathematics of molecular and cellular biology	Roger Lui (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
January 30, 2008	Combinatorial rigidity and the molecular conjecture	Brigitte Servatius (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
January 23, 2008	Analyzing the protein-protein interaction network	Robert Jernigan (Iowa State University)
January 09, 2008	The solution of the distance geometry problem for protein modeling	Zhijun Wu (Iowa State University)
December 12, 2007	Topological analysis of DNA-protein complexes	Soojeong Kim (The University of Iowa)
December 05, 2007	The solution of the boundary-value problems for the simulation of transitions of protein conformations	Zhijun Wu (Iowa State University)
November 28, 2007	Graphical invariants and topological indices as biomolecular descriptors	Debra Knisley (East Tennessee State University)
November 14, 2007	Defining functional distance using manifold embeddings of gene ontology annotations	Gilad Lerman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 07, 2007	Strong fluctuations and cycling in biological systems	Timothy Newman (Arizona State University)
October 26, 2007	Modeling DNA unknotting by type II topoisomerases	Mariel Vazquez (San Francisco State University)
October 24, 2007	The role of anionic residues on the salt dependence of the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases to tRNA: A Poisson-Boltzmann analysis	Marcia Fenley (Florida State University)
October 17, 2007	RNA Folding Energy Landscapes in mRNA splicing	Shi-Jie Chen (University of Missouri)
October 10, 2007	Combinatorics of RNA secondary structures	Christine Heitsch (Georgia Institute of Technology)
October 03, 2007	The shape of knots	Kenneth Millett (University of California)
September 26, 2007	Quantitative analysis of radiation induced chromosome aberrations	F. Javier Arsuaga (San Francisco State University)
September 12, 2007	Revisiting the salt dependence of the drug-DNA association process: A Poisson-Boltzmann analysis	Marcia Fenley (Florida State University)

2006-2007
June 20, 2007	IMA program on applications of algebraic geometry	Frank Sottile (Texas A & M University)
June 06, 2007	A symbolic approach to sparse elimination	Gabriela Jeronimo (University of Buenos Aires)
May 23, 2007	On the Newton polytope of specialized resultants	Ioannis Emiris (National University of Athens)
May 16, 2007	Average volume, curvatures, and Euler characteristic of random real algebraic varieties	Peter Bürgisser (Universität Paderborn)
May 15, 2007	Discriminants, dual varieties and toric geometry	Sandra Di Rocco (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
May 09, 2007	Schubert combinatorics and geometry	Alexander Yong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
May 02, 2007	A homological obstruction to weak order on trees	Patricia Hersh (Indiana University)
April 26, 2007	Random polynomial systems and balanced metrics on toric varieties	J. Maurice Rojas (Texas A & M University)
April 25, 2007	On sparse polynomial systems, mixed volumes and condition numbers	Gregorio Malajovich (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
April 11, 2007	Combinatorial complexity in o-minimal geometry	Saugata Basu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
April 04, 2007	Optimal fewnomial bounds from Gale dual polynomial systems	Frank Sottile (Texas A & M University)
March 28, 2007	Algebraic geometry of Gaussian Bayesian networks	Seth Sullivant (Harvard University)
March 21, 2007	Symmetries in SDP-based relaxations for constrained polynomial optimization	Thorsten Theobald (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
March 14, 2007	Counting monomials	Mordechai Katzman (University of Sheffield)
February 28, 2007	Moving frames in classical invariant theory and computer vision	Peter Olver (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 21, 2007	Rational and algebraic invariants of a group action	Evelyne Hubert (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA))
February 14, 2007	Statistical formulation of issues associated with multi-way contingency tables and the links to algebraic geometry	Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie-Mellon University)
February 07, 2007	An introduction to algebraic statistics	Serkan Hosten (San Francisco State University)
January 31, 2007	SDP and LP-relaxations in polynomial optimization: The power of real algebraic geometry	Jean Lasserre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
January 24, 2007	Moments of positivity	Mihai Putinar (University of California)
January 10, 2007	Algorithms in algebraic analysis	Anton Leykin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 13, 2006	Some algorithmic aspects of local cohomology	Gennady Lyubeznik (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 06, 2006	Gröbner walks and Scarf homotopies	Niels Lauritzen (Aarhus University)
November 29, 2006	Tropical discriminants	Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires)
November 20, 2006	Computations in classical invariant theory of binary forms	Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 15, 2006	On approximate triangular decompositions in dimension zero	Wenyuan Wu (University of Western Ontario)
November 15, 2006	Tropical celestial mechanics	Richard Moeckel (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 13, 2006	Complexity measures	Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky)
November 08, 2006	Excess intersection theory and homotopy continuation methods	Sorin Popescu (The State University of New York)
November 02, 2006	Computer assisted mathematics: Tools and tactics for solving hard problems	Daniel Lichtblau (Wolfram Research, Inc.)
November 01, 2006	Equations and degenerations of the moduli space of genus zero stable curves with n marked points	Diane Maclagan (Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey )
October 18, 2006	A numerical approach toward approximate algebraic computation	Zhonggang Zeng (Northeastern Illinois University)
October 11, 2006	Examples of exact results from inexact methods	Chris Peterson (Colorado State University)
October 04, 2006	An experimental approach to numerical Godeaux surfaces	Frank-Olaf Schreyer (Universität des Saarlandes)
September 27, 2006	Approximating singular solutions of polynomial systems	Anton Leykin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 25, 2006	Assymptotic ideal theory and parametrized rational varieties	David Eisenbud (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
September 25, 2006	Semigraphoids, permutohedra, and mice	Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley)
September 13, 2006	Solving polynomial systems by homotopy continuation	Andrew Sommese (University of Notre Dame)

2005-2006
October 24, 2005	Tutorial on visualization techniques appropriate for imaging data	Rachael Brady (Duke University)
October 13, 2005	Seismic Imaging using Wavefield Extrapolation	Gary Margrave (University of Calgary)
October 10, 2005	Post-beamforming Volterra Filter for Ultrasound Pulse-Echo Imaging	Emad Ebbini (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 03, 2005	Potential Applications of Implicit Processing to Optical Tomography	Alan Thomas (Clemson University)