Seminars and Colloquiums
for the week of September 17, 2007
Speakers:
Dr. Petr Plechac, Monday
Dr. David Anderson, Tuesday
Dr. Carl Sundberg, Wednesday
Dr. Robert Daverman, Thursday
Dr. Nagiza Samatova, NC State and ORNL, Thursday
Monday, September 17
DE/APPLIED AND COMPUTATIONAL MATH SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35-4:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309A
SPEAKER: Dr. Petr Plechac
TITLE: Introduction to Sparse Grid Approximations for PDEs
Tuesday, September 18
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 2:10-3p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309a
SPEAKER: Dr. David Anderson
TITLE: The D + M Construction
Wednesday, September 19
Analysis Seminar
TIME: 3:40-4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 209a
SPEAKER: Dr. Carl Sundberg (joint work with Dr. Stefan Richter)
TITLE: Model theory for commuting tuples of operators, II
Thursday, September 20
TOPOLOGY-GEOMETRY SEMINAR M669
TIME: 12:40 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
ROOM: R in DO 501 (Daugherty)
SPEAKER: Dr. Robert Daverman
TITLE: Gluing Crumpled Cubes
COLLOQUIUM
TIME: 3:40 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 214
SPEAKER: Dr. Nagiza Samatova, NC State and ORNL
Title: Towards Uncovering Simplicity from Complexity: Finding the Dots, Connecting the Dots, Understanding the Dots in Petascale Data
Abstract: Biological systems, such as living cells, are inherently complex. This complexity arises from the selective and nonlinear interconnections of functionally diverse components to produce coherent behavior. Computational modeling and simulation that reproduce and predict such behavior form the Holy Grail of systems biology. The key challenge is to reveal underlying simplicity from biological complexity. Unlike the four Maxwell's equations describing all the electro-magnetic phenomena, the fundamental rules (simplicity) that quantify the low dimensional behavior of biological systems are yet to be discovered. The promising approach aims to interrelate emerging disparate and noisy "omics" observations by relying on mathematics, computer science, information technology, and computing.
Info: Dr. Samatova has a PhD in mathematics from Moscow and an MS in computer science from UT. She is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at NC State with a joint position at ORNL and is a member of JICS, the Joint Institute of Computational Science.
Refreshments will be served in the Common Room at 3:15 p.m.
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