Mar
6
Neutrinos: Window On the Universe
Description The observation that neutrinos change from one flavor to another as they propagate, or "neutrino oscillation", has been one of the most surprising results in particle physics in the last...
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Mar
5
The beta model for hypergraphs and its connection to some open discrete problems
Speaker Despina Stasi IIT Applied Mathematics Description We define and study the beta model for hypergraphs, an exponential family of probability distributions for hypergraphs, whose natural...
Mar
5
Armour & WISER Lecture on Next-Gen Manufacturing Technologies
Armour College of Engineering’s (ACE) Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (ChBE) and Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE)is co-sponsoring a lecture with...
Mar
5
Solid State Chain Reactions
Description For more than half a century it was assumed that the reaction of a solid explosive decomposition could be described by a simple Arrhenius kinetic law. Our research group of Solid State...
Mar
5
Reliable error estimation for cubature using Sobol' sequences
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
Mar
4
Layered Media Scattering: Fokas Integral Equations and Boundary Perturbation Methods
Description Abstract: In this talk we describe a class of Integral Equations to compute Dirichlet-Neumann operators for the Helmholtz equation on periodic domains inspired by the recent work of Fokas...
Mar
3
Nonlinear Evolution Equations Driven by Nonlocal Infinitesimal Generators and Their Probabilistic Interpretations
Speaker Wojbor Woyczynski Case Western Reserve University http://sites.google.com/a/case.edu/waw Description ABSTRACT: One of the motivations of our program was to develop an understanding of the...
Mar
3
Lagging Strand Synthesis: Half the DNA, Twice the Complexity
Description In eukaryotic nuclear DNA replication, one strand of DNA is synthesized continuously, but the other must be made as short Okazaki fragments that are later joined. The discontinuous process...
Mar
3
Homomorphism Problem and its Approximation Version
Description Several combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as a homomorphism problem. The homomorphism problem seeks for a structure-preserving mapping from an input relational...
Feb
27
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber and its Use in High Energy Physics
Description The liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is a detection technique that provides three-dimensional imaging of charged particle interactions with fine spatial resolution, ideal for...