Summer Term 2012

Alan Zinober (Sheffield)
A New Non-Classical Class of Optimal Variational Problems
Abstract

Ursula Martin (QMUL)
1377 questions and counting - what can we learn from online math?
Abstract

Oana Pocovnicu (Imperial College)
The integrable cubic Szegö equation on the real line 
Abstract 

Brian Sleeman (Leeds)
The Determination of an Obstacle from its Scattering Cross Section 

Distinguished Colloquium:
Mikhail Feldman (Wisconsin)
Shock Reflection, Free Boundary Problems and Degenerate Elliptic Equations
Further details

                   Autumn Term 2012

                        Autumn Term seminars will be listed hear as soon as they are arranged. 

         Spring Term 2012 

Georg Weiss (Düsseldorf)
On the singularities of a free boundary through Fourier expansion 

Abstract

Jennifer Scott (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Antibandwidth maximization: a graph colouring problem  

Kirill Cherednichenko (Cardiff)
Homogenisation in finite elasticity for composites with a high contrast in the vicinity
of rigid-body motions

Distinguished Colloquium:
Dmitri Vassiliev (UCL)
Problems in the spectral theory of differential operators
Further details

Johannes Zimmer (Bath)
From particles to diffusion: a new limit passage via entropy

23 February

Sebastian Reich (Potsdam)
Couplings and transport maps: From volume forms to Bayesian learning on
to weather prediction 

Please note:  this seminar takes place on Thursday, 3-4pm in Room 212.

Jose Rodrigo (Warwick)
Vortex lines for 3D Euler and sharp-fronts for SQG

Distinguished Colloquium:
Nick Trefethen (Oxford) 
Robust Padé approximation via SDV 
Further details

         Autumn Term 2011

11 October

Peter Janssen (ECMWF) 
Freak waves and probabilistic forecasting
Abstract

18 October

Sonia Fliss (Paris) 
Guided waves in periodic media with a line defect

25 October

Michiel van den Berg (Bristol)
Minimization of Dirichlet Eigenvalues 

01 November

Simon Arridge (UCL)
Inverse Problems in Optical Tomography

08 November

Arghir Zarnescu (Oxford) 
Mathematical problems of the Q-tensor theory of liquid crystals
Abstract 

15 November

Cho-Ho Chu (QMUL) 
Harmonic functions in infinite dimension
Abstract:  What is a harmonic function in an infinite dimensional space?

22 November

Danica Greetham (Reading)
Centrality in evolving networks

29 November 

Yulii Shikmurzaev (Birmingham) 
Modelling of free-surface flows through porous media

06 December

Raphael Hauser (Oxford) 
Progress towards loosely coupled parallelism in optimization
Abstract

         Summer Term 2011    

09 May

Peter Grindrod (Reading)
Evolving Networks 

2pm:  Marko Lindner (TU Chemnitz)
Finite Sections of Random Jacobi Operators

4pm:  Distinguished Colloquium:
Gilbert Strang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
Factoring Banded Matrices and Matrix Polynomials

         Spring Term 2011       

17 January

Lyonell Boulton (Heriot-Watt) 
On the limit of second order spectra and the eigenvalues of self-adjoint operators

24 January

Colin MacDonald (Oxford)
The numerical solution of partial differential equations on surfaces with the Closest Point Method

31 January

Distinguished Colloquium:
Jon Keating, FRS (Bristol)
Random Matrices and Number Theory

Marco Marletta (Cardiff)
Approximating the spectra of self-adjoint and dissipative operators

18 February

Distinguished Colloquium:
Wolfgang Wendland (Stuttgart)
Boundary integral equations, Trefftz elements, Levi functions

Alexander Pushnitski (King's College London)
Asymptotics of eigenvalue clusters of the perturbed Landau Hamiltonian 

Alexander Balinsky (Cardiff)
Variational PDE Models in Image Processing 

Igor Krasovsky (Brunel)
Toeplitz determinants and the Ising model 

Alexandre Girouard (Neuchatel)
Geometric control of the Steklov spectrum of a domain