Postdoc Seminar

IMA Postdoc Seminars are given weekly throughout the fall and spring semesters. Postdocs present on a variety of mathematical topics that may be unrelated to the current annual program theme. IMA visitors and University of Minnesota faculty are also invited to present on subjects of interest. Titles, abstracts, and speakers for each seminar will be posted as available.

The 2016-2017 seminars are organized by Rohit Gupta and Shixu Meng of the University of Minnesota. Seminars take place Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

2016-2017
May 02, 2017	Soliton Dynamics in Broadband Nonlinear Waveguides and Soliton-like Behavior in Two-pulse Collisions in Linear Waveguides	Quan Nguyen (Vietnam National University)
April 04, 2017	Numerical Analysis of Nonlocal Fracture Models	Prashant Jha (Louisiana State University)
March 21, 2017	Nearly cloaking for the elasticity system with residual stress	Yi-Hsuan Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
March 07, 2017	Lattice Traveling Waves in Hamiltonian Systems and Energy Criteria for their Stability	Haitao Xu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 28, 2017	Analysis of Maxwell's Equations in Passive Layered Media	Robert Viator (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 21, 2017	An Eigensystem Approach to the Low-wavenumber Expansion of Willis' Effective Constitutive Relations in Periodic Media	Shixu Meng (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 06, 2016	Asymptotic Methods for the Transmission Eigenvalue Problem with Applications	Isaac Harris (Texas A & M University)
November 29, 2016	Interface Problems using the Unified Transform Method	Natalie Sheils (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 22, 2016	A Plane Wave Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Acoustic Scattering	Shelvean Kapita (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 15, 2016	Second Harmonic Imaging in Random Media	Wei Li (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 08, 2016	Sequential Experimental Design for Nonlinear Travel Time Tomography	Mark Hubenthal (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 18, 2016	Quantitative Bounds to Broadband Passive Cloaking in the Quasistatic Regime	Maxence Cassier (The University of Utah)
October 11, 2016	The Spectral Analysis of the Interior Transmission Eigenvalue Problem for Maxwell’s Equations in Inverse Scattering	Shixu Meng (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 04, 2016	Discrete Solitons and Discrete Vortices in (PT-symmetric) Nonlinear Schrodinger Lattices	Haitao Xu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 27, 2016	Prescribing a Finite Contrast Ratio for Opening Band-Gaps in 2-dimensional Periodic Media	Robert Viator (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

2015-2016
May 02, 2016	Uniqueness, Existence and Regularity of Solutions of Integro-PDE in Domains of R^n	Chenchen Mou (Georgia Institute of Technology)
April 27, 2016	Solution to the HJB Equation for LQR-Type Problems on Compact Connected Lie Groups	Rohit Gupta
April 15, 2016	Maximum Principle Satisfying High Order Direct Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Convection Diffusion Problems	Jue Yan (Iowa State University)
March 28, 2016	Controlling a Thermal Fluid: Theoretical and Computational Issues	Weiwei Hu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 07, 2016	Fast, Robust and Non-convex Subspace Recovery	Gilad Lerman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 15, 2016	Some Relationships Between the Information Theory and Convex Geometry	Arnaud Marsiglietti (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 08, 2016	Stochastic Models for Human Driving Behavior and Applications to Semi-autonomous Safety Systems	Daniel Hoehener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
February 01, 2016	On Optimal Low-rank Approximation of Non-negative Matrices	Christian Grussler (Lund University)
December 14, 2015	Arbitrage and Hedging Under Model Uncertainty	Zhou Zhou (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 07, 2015	ARock: Asynchronous Parallel Coordinate Update	Yangyang Xu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 30, 2015	Disturbance Attenuation in Mass Chains with Passive Interconnection	Kaoru Yamamoto (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 23, 2015	Modeling and Control of Collective Dynamics	Yongxin Chen (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 09, 2015	Speed vs Accuracy: Nervous Systems Tradeoffs Using Robust Control	Yorie Nakahira (California Institute of Technology)
October 26, 2015	A Unifying Framework for Robust Synchronisation in Multi-agent Systems	Sei Zhen Khong (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 12, 2015	Decentralised Stability Guarantees for Electrical Power Systems
October 05, 2015	Minimization Problems with a Polyconvex Type Constraint	Romeo Awi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

2014-2015
May 12, 2015	The MDS Conjecture	Ameera Chowdhury
May 05, 2015	The Brunn-Minkowski Inequality: Its Refinements and Extensions Part II	Arnaud Marsiglietti (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 21, 2015	On the Perimeter of a Convex Set	Galyna Livshyts (Kent State University)
April 07, 2015	The Frog Model on Trees	Tobias Johnson (University of Washington)
March 31, 2015	Avoiding Repetitions on the Plane	Barbara Pilat (Warsaw University of Technology)
March 24, 2015	Winding of Planar Stationary Gaussian Processes	Naomi Feldheim (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 10, 2015	Catalan Matroid Decompositions of Certain Positroids	Brendan Pawlowski (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 03, 2015	Probabilistic Symmetrization Inequalities from a Combinatorial Point of View	Jiange Li (University of Delaware)
February 17, 2015	Generating Random Graphs in Biased Maker-Breaker Games	Humberto Naves (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 10, 2015	A Bayesian Optimization Algorithm for Functionals: Application to Materials Modeling	Paul Patrone
February 03, 2015	Enumeration of Lozenge Tilings of a Hexagon with Holes on Boundary	Tri Lai (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
January 27, 2015	Localization in Infinite Dimensions	James Melbourne (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 09, 2014	Biclique Decomposition of Random Graphs	Hao Huang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 02, 2014	Zykov's Symmetrization for Multiple Graphs with an Application to Erdos' Conjecture on Pentagonal Edges	Zeinab Maleki (Isfahan University of Technology)
November 18, 2014	Bijections for Reduced Decompositions	Zachary Hamaker (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 04, 2014	Frozen Random Walk	Laura Florescu (New York University)
October 28, 2014	The Brunn-Minkowski Inequality - Its Refinements and Extensions	Arnaud Marsiglietti (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 14, 2014	Perfect Matchings in Dense Uniform Hypergraphs	Jie Han (Georgia State University)
October 07, 2014	Three Coloring the Discrete Torus or 3-States Anti-Ferromagnetic Potts Model in Zero Temperature	Ohad Feldheim (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 23, 2014	The Unconditional Case of the S-Inequality for Exponential Measure	Piotr Nayar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

2013-2014
May 13, 2014	A Multi-Time-Scale Analysis of Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks	Xingye Kan (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
May 06, 2014	The Vietoris-Rips Complex of the Circle	Henry Adams (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
May 05, 2014	On Hybrid SPLS-Elastic Net Feature Selection and Prediction: Application to Quality Assurance in Industrial Manufacturing Processes	Guy-vanie Miakonkana (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 22, 2014	Reduced-order Modeling of Complex Fluid Flows	Zhu Wang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 15, 2014	A Lattice Point Counting Problem relating to the Heisenberg Groups	Krystal Taylor (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
April 01, 2014	Intrinsic Volumes of Random Cubical Complexes	Matthew Wright (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 25, 2014	Universality of the Homotopy Interleaving Distance	Michael Lesnick (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 18, 2014	The Truth About How to Get a Job	Robert Ghrist (University of Pennsylvania)
March 11, 2014	Non-Compact Global Attractors and Infinite-Time Blow-Up	Nitsan Ben-Gal (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
February 25, 2014	An Algorithm in Computational Geometry and an Exploration in Computational Topology	Lori Ziegelmeier (Macalester College)
February 18, 2014	Keeping the TDA promise	Jose Perea (Duke University)
February 04, 2014	Ergodic Properties of Randomly Forced Flows	Juraj Foldes (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
December 03, 2013	Hadwiger and Lefschetz: Valuations on Simplicial Maps	Matthew Wright (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 21, 2013	Cohomological Waves	Yiqing Cai (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 12, 2013	Induced Matchings of Barcodes and the Algebraic Stability of Persistence	Michael Lesnick (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
November 05, 2013	An Exploration of Tipping Points From the Viewpoint of Persistent Topology	Jesse Berwald (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 22, 2013	Categorification of Reeb Graphs	Elizabeth Munch (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 15, 2013	Computing Singular Vectors with Random Noise	Ke Wang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
October 01, 2013	What is the Vietoris-Rips Complex for Evenly Spaced Points Around a Circle?	Henry Adams (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
September 24, 2013	Cellular Cosheaves	Amit Patel (Institute for Advanced Study)
February 12, 2013	Postdoc Seminar	Martina Hofmanova
February 05, 2013	Postdoc Seminar	Brendan Ames