Research Conference
The Research Conference meets every Friday morning from 9:15-10:15 a.m. in Room 214 Mudd.
Fall 2008 Coordinator: Prof. Matias Courdurier
9/5/08
Matias Courdurier
"A Diffusion Approach to Model Photons in a Slightly Scattering Media:
What Can Be 'Seen'?"
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Thomas Pedersen
"Confinement of non-neutral plasmas in the CNT stellarator"
9/12/08
Mark Adams
"How to use a million cores for magnetically confined fusion plasmas
simulations"
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Rolf Krause
"Biomechanics and Non-convex Minimization - Multiscale Methods for
Non-linear Problems"
9/19/08: Special Time 9:45-10:15 AM (Breakfast at 9:30 AM)
Simon Billinge
"The Nanostructure Problem: There's plenty of room in the middle"
10/3/08
Adam Sobel
"What I did for my sabbatical: scientific tourism down under"
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Christian Groß, Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
"On the efficient and reliable solution of non-convex minimization problems"
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Thomas Dickopf, Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
"Stable information transfer between different discretizations using ideas from domain decomposition methods"
10/10/08
Chris Marianetti
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TBA
10/17/08
Aron Pinczuk
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Latha Venkataraman
"Attaching Alligator Clips to Single Molecules"
10/24/08
TBA
10/31/08
L.M. Polvani
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Michael Mauel
11/7/08
Richard Osgood
"Step up to the surface"
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TBA
11/14/08
David Keyes
"How the Falcon Sets to Fly"
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Guillaume Bal
11/21/08
James Im
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Chris Wiggins
11/28/08
No colloquium - University Holiday
12/5/08
Michael Weinstein
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William Bailey