Applied Mathematics Seminar Schedule
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh

Spring 2012

All talks are on Wednesdays in Thackeray 427 at 4 pm unless noted otherwise. If you would like to speak or have a question about the seminar, please contact Anna Vainchtein at aav4@pitt.edu.

 
Date
Speaker and title
January 11
Stefanos Folias
Bifurcations of spatially localized solutions in neural field equations
January 18
Robert Rosenbaum
Synaptic filtering with short term depression induced by stochastic vesicle dynamics
January 25
 Panos Kevrekidis, UMass at Amherst
Existence, Stability and Dynamics of Some Single- and Multi-Component Solitary Waves: From Theory to Experiments
abstract
February 1
 Bard Ermentrout
Weak & Slow
abstract
February 8
Anna Vainchtein
From discrete to continuum: kinetic relations and beyond
February 15
 Chris Jones
The role of term structure in optimal mortgage termination
February 22
 No seminar this week

February 29
 Tracy Stepien
Stretch-dependent proliferation in a one-dimensional elastic continuum model of cell layer migration
abstract
March 7
 No seminar this week, spring break
March 14
 Daniel Smith
The stability of actin network orientation patterns
March 21
 Eric Shea-Brown, University of Washington
Cooperative dynamics in neural circuits
abstract
March 28
 Jonathan Rubin
Tailoring inputs to achieve maximal outputs
April 4
 Carme Calderer, University of Minnesota
Modeling and analysis of polyelectrolyte gels
abstract
April 11
 Zachary Kilpatrick
Transitions and wandering in stochastic neural fields
April 18
Huiqiang Jiang
Point rupture solutions of an elliptic equation with singularity