Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Will Perkins – Georgia Tech
We will continue discussing co-transcriptional RNA folding, and the potential for trap models to capture these dynamics.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Will Perkins – Georgia Tech
We will discuss how best to model and predict the co-transcriptional effects of RNA folding. That is, using the fact that the RNA molecule begins folding as the sequence is still being transcribed, can we find better predictions for the secondary structure? And what is a good mathematical model for the process?

Algebraic Geometry for Applications (IMA PI summer program; June 18th - July 6th)

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, June 18, 2012 - 09:30 for 8 hours (full day)
Location
Klaus 1116
Speaker
Greg Blekherman, Anton Leykin, and Josephine Yu – Georgia Tech
This is a summer school (June 18th - July 6th) in computational algebraic geometry intended for graduate students, however, everyone is welcome to attend. For details and schedule see aga.gatech.edu. The first day's schedule has been slightly altered; we will give introductory lectures at 9:30 (Anton Leykin -- Computer Algebra and Numerical Algebraic Geometry), 11:30 (Greg Blekherman -- Convexity), and 2:00 (Josephine Yu -- Tropical Geometry).

ACO/CS Theory Seminar - Solving maximum flows in O(nm) time, and less

Series
Other Talks
Time
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 13:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Klaus 1116W
Speaker
Jim Orlin – MIT Sloan Management
Over the past 30 years, researchers have developed successively faster algorithms for the maximum flow problem. The best strongly polynomial time algorithms have come very close to O(nm) time. Many researchers have conjectured that O(nm) time is the "true" worst case running time. We resolve the issue in two ways. First, we show how to solve the max flow problem in O(nm) time. Second, we show that the running time is even faster if m = O(n). In this case, the running time is O(n^2/log n).

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Martin Copenhaver – Georgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Modeling and automation of sequencing-based characterization of RNA structure" by Aviran et al (PNAS, 2011).

Southeast Geometry Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 08:30 for 8 hours (full day)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Southeast Geometry Seminar – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech

Please Note: The general public lecture will be presented by Jason Cantarella (University of Georgia) entitled The Square Peg Theorems or What does it mean to solve simultaneous equations? to take place in Klaus 1116 at 5:00PM

The Southeast Geometry Seminar is a series of semiannual one-day events focusing on geometric analysis. These events are hosted in rotation by the following institutions: The University of Alabama at Birmingham;  The Georgia Institute of Technology;  Emory University;  The University of Tennessee Knoxville.  The following five speakers will give presentations on topics that include geometric analysis, and related fields, such as partial differential equations, general relativity, and geometric topology. Jason Cantarella (University of Georgia);   Meredith Casey (The Georga Institute of Technology);  Kirk Lancaster (Wichita State University); Junfang Li ( University of Alabama at Birmingham)  Jason Parsley (Wake Forest University);

Graduate Student Probability Conference

Series
Other Talks
Time
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 08:30 for 8 hours (full day)
Location
Klaus 1116
Speaker
Probability Graduate Students – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech School of Mathematics will host the 6th Annual Graduate Student Probability Conference (GSPC) from April 27-29, 2012. The conference is open to all graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in probability. The two keynote speakers this year are: Professor Jean Bertoin, Universität Zürich; Professor Craig Tracy, University of California

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Will Perkins – Georgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "RNA folding with soft constraints: reconciliation of probing data and thermodynamic secondary structure prediction" by Washietl et al (NAR, 2012).

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Svetlana Poznanovik – Georgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Evaluation of the information content of RNA structure mapping data for secondary structure prediction" by Quarrier et al (RNA, 2010).

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