Sep
7
How to play the one-lie Renyi-Ulam game
Event Topic Discrete Applied Math Seminar
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Sep
7
Partitioning and Connectivity
Description Abstract: The most famous and useful characterization of k-connected graphs is Menger's Theorem, but there is another, very nice but little-known characterization of a wholly different...
May
1
Complementarity Constraints: Recent Advances in Computation and Modeling
Speaker Mihai AnitescuArgonne National Laboratory, Division of Mathematical and Computer Scienceshttp://www.mcs.anl.gov/~anitescu/ Description Complementarity constraints are a very versatile modeling...
Apr
26
A random walk through numerical integration, Riesz configurations and low discrepancy sequences on rectifiable sets
SpeakerStephen Damelin IMA University of Minnesotahttp://www.ima.umn.edu/~damelin/ Description Many practical problems in elasticity, vibration, etc., when modeled mathematically, reduce to the matrix...
Apr
21
Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Invariant Measures
SpeakerMichael G RoecknerPurdue Universityhttp://www.stat.purdue.edu/people/faculty/roeckner Description We shall first review the connection between ordinary stochastic differential equations (SODE)...
Apr
14
Solutions for Semilinear Elliptic Equations via Morse Theory
Description The speaker will discuss the main ideas of applying infinite dimensional Morse Theory to find nontrivial solutions for semilinear elliptic boundary value problems.
Apr
11
Intensity approach versus hazard process approach to modeling of credit risk
Description Work with T. Bielecki, Y. LeCam , M Rutkowski We study the different models of credit risk and we present some cases where the hazard process approach is more efficient than the intensity...
Apr
10
Dependence Modeling with Archimedean Copulas
Description Archimedean copulas have proven to be remarkably useful for modeling dependence in a variety of settings. In this talk we will survey important aspects of the theory of Archimedean copulas...