Colloquium
- Event Description:Joseph F. Grcar, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryJohn von Neumann and the Origins of Scientific ComputingScientific computing as we understand it today began to be practiced
- Event Description:Juan G. Restrepo, Postdoc with Alain Karma at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern UniversityDynamics on complex networks: synchronization, percolation, and the dynamical importance of
- Event Description:Cleve Moler, Author of MATLAB and Founder of MathWorksEvolution of MATLABWe show how MATLAB has evolved over the last 25 years from a simple matrix calculator to a powerful technical computing environment. We demonstrate several
- Event Description:Bob Eisenberg, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology, Rush University Medical CenterIon Channels: Devices for Atomic Control of Molecular TransportProtein channels conduct ions through a narrow tunnel of fixed charge
- Event Description:Dongbin Xiu, Department of Earth And Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue UniversityEfficient methods for numerical simulations with uncertaintyMost of the research efforts in scientific computing so far have been in developing efficient
- Event Description:Webster Cash, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Scienes (APS), University of Colorado BoulderStruggling with the mathematics of diffraction and the search for life in the universeOur best hope of finding evidence of life in
- Event Description:Natasha Flyer, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe), NCARModeling simple atmospheric flows on the sphere using radial basis functionsSince the early 1990s, radial basis functions (RBFs) have been applied to
- Event Description:Sheldon Newhouse, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Scienes (APS), University of Colorado BoulderWhat we do and do not know about simple dynamical systemsIt is well-known that simple dynamical systems can have complicated
- Event Description:Bengt Fornberg, Department of Applied Mathematics, CU BoulderRadial basis functions for solving PDEs - some recent developmentsRadial basis functions (RBFs) originated in the 1970s as a method for interpolating scattered data. More
- Event Description:Nathan C. Thompson, CEO & Founder of Spectra Logic CorporationFrom Numerical Analysis to the Numerical BoardroomThis highly interactive presentation will trace the 24 year business history of Nathan Thompson from being one of