Applied Math Seminar Schedule
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh

2007-2008 Academic Year

All talks are on Wednesdays 3-4 pm in Thackeray 704 unless noted otherwise. If you have questions about the seminar schedule or would like to give a talk, please contact Anna Vainchtein (aav4@pitt.edu).

Spring 2008


Date
Speaker and title
January 16
Jonathan Rubin
The dynamics of mixed mode oscillations
January 23
SEMINAR CANCELLED
January 30
Angela Reynolds
Models of acute inflammation
February 6
 Silvia Daun
Parameter identifiability in a model of the acute inflammatory response
February 13
 Stuart Hastings
An introduction to the method of matched asymptotic expansions, with application to a model of Lagerstrom
February 20
 Stuart Hastings
A rigorous treatment of Lagerstrom's model problem in the theory of matched asymptotic expansions
February 27
 Bard Ermentrout
Canards, mixed mode oscillations, and clustering
March 5
Paolo Maremonti (University of Naples 2)
Navier-Stokes in aperture domains: existence with bounded flux and some qualitative properties
March 12
No seminar - Spring break
March 19
 Huiqiang Jiang
Uniqueness of stationary Gierer-Meinhardt system
March 26
 Cheng Ly
Spike Trains Statistics and Dynamics with Synaptic Input from any
Renewal Point Process: A Population Density Approach
April  2
 Brent Doiron
Correlations and coding in populations of spiking neurons
April 9
 Anna Vainchtein
Dynamics of phase mixtures
April 16

 Fall 2007

 
Date
Speaker and title
September 13
Xinfu Chen
Propagation of disturbance in an auto-catalysis system
September 20
Brent Doiron
Firing rate, correlations, and coding in populations of stochastic neurons
September 27
Bard Ermentrout
A model arising from the evolution of virulence
October 4 
Anna Vainchtein
Dynamics of steps along a phase boundary
October 11
CNA seminar at CMU, PPB 300, 1:30 pm
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion
The Cahn-Hilliard Equation with Degenerate Mobility
October 18
Joint seminar with Algebra, Combinatorics and Geometry group
Mark Dickinson
Determining Polyhedral Congruence or: When Good Dimension Counts Go Bad
October 25
Robert Berry
The Volatility Risk Premium in (International) Bond Markets
November 1
Xianpeng Hu
Global Weak Solutions to the Multi-Dimensional Equations of
Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Flows
November 8
Cheng Ly
Dimension Reduction Analysis in a Population Density
Approach to Neural Network Modeling
November 15
Huiqiang Jiang 
Steady states of van der Waals force driven thin film equations
November 22
NO SEMINAR: Thanksgiving Recess
November 29
Aushra Abouzeid
Circular thinking: variational and perturbation approaches to stochastic
synchrony in neural oscillators
 December 6
Ian Price
PDE model for the flocculation dynamics of bacteriae in suspension