Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Courtesy Listing: Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses

Series
Other Talks
Time
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Klaus 2443
Speaker
Chris Rycroft – UC Berkeley and LBNL

Please Note: School of Computational Science and Engineering job candidate talk

Metallic glasses are a new type of alloy whose atoms have an amorphous arrangement in contrast to most metals. They have many favorable properties such as excellent wear resistance and high tensile strength, but are prone to breakage in some circumstances, depending on their method of preparation. The talk will describe the development of a quasi-static projection method within an Eulerian finite-difference framework, for simulating a new physical model of a metallic glass. The simulations are capable of resolving the multiple timescales that are involved, and provide an explanation of the experimentally observed differences in breakage strength, which may aid in the use of these materials in practical applications. The same Eulerian simulation framework can be adapted to address a variety of other problems, such as fluid-structure interaction, and the mechanical modeling of multicellular clusters.

Lincoln and Atlanta

Series
Other Talks
Time
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 16:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Clough Commons Auditorium
Speaker
Charlie Crawford – School of Mathematics, Alumnus

Please Note: Mr. Crawford grew up near Philadelphia and has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Tech. He served as an Air Force officer, retiring as a colonel in 1996. In addition to being a member of Georgia Battlefields Association and the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta, Charlie is a life member of the Civil War Trust.

Charlie Crawford, president of Georgia Battlefields Association, explores the significance of the fall of Atlanta to Lincoln's re-election as President and examines George Barnard's photographic documentation of the battlefields around Atlanta. Crawford will discuss how land that is now a part of Georgia Tech's campus was once the site of Confederate and Federal fortifications. As president of Georgia Battlefields Association, a non-profit battlefield preservation group, Mr. Crawford has made over 95 presentations and led over 35 tours relating to the Civil War in Georgia.

Algebraic statistics reading seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 17:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
organizational meeting – Georgia Tech

Please Note: From the publisher's website: "... The goal of these lectures is to introduce newcomers from the different camps to algebraic statistics. The introduction will be centered around the following three observations: many important statistical models correspond to algebraic or semi-algebraic sets of parameters; the geometry of these parameter spaces determines the behaviour of widely used statistical inference procedures; computational algebraic geometry can be used to study parameter spaces and other features of statistical models... "

This reading seminar may be of interest to both algebraists and statisticians; everyone is welcome to join. As the main text we will use "Lectures on algebraic statistics" by Drton, Sturmfels, and Sullivant: http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/applied+probability+and+statistics/bo...

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Christine Heitsch – Georgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Module networks: identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data" by Segal et al (2003).

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Christine Heitsch – Georgia Tech
A discussion of the papers "Getting started in probabilistic graphical models" by Airoldi (2007) and "Inferring cellular networks using probabilistic graphical models" by Friedman (2004).

Workshop on Internet Topology and Economics

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 09:00 for 8 hours (full day)
Location
Klaus 1116
Speaker
Workshop on Internet Topology and Economics – ARC, Yandex Corporation, Institute for Data and High Performance Computing
The workshop begins on November 12 with three 1-hour tutorial lectures and continues with morning and afternoon sessions until November 14. The aim of this workshop is to bring together these different communities from research (Internet Topology Measurement, Economics, Theoretical Computer Science, Network Science) and related industry (ISPs, Content Providers, CDNs etc.) to help narrow the gap between research and operational practice. See the complete program, list of speakers and register to attend.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Emily Rogers – Georgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Genetic network inference: from co-expression clustering to reverse engineering" by P. D'haeseleer, S. Liang, and R. Somogyi (Bioinformatics, 2000).

Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory VII

Series
Other Talks
Time
Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 13:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Emory University
Speaker
Featured Speaker Penny Haxell – University of Waterloo
Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, with support from the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation, are hosting a series of 9 mini-conferences from November 2010 - April 2013. The seventh in the series will be held at Emory University on November 3-4, 2012. This mini-conference's featured speaker is Dr. Penny Haxell, who will give two one-hour lectures. Additionally, there will be five one-hour talks and seven half-hour talks given by other invited speakers. See all titles, abstracts, and schedule.

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