Seminars and Colloquia by Series

The Shape of Space

Series
Other Talks
Time
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 16:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Klaus 1443
Speaker
Frank Sottile – Texas A&M University

Please Note: An undergraduate-accessible talk.

In this talk, I will try to give you an idea of how mathematicians manage to say anything meaningful about higher-dimensional spaces, and relate this to the recent proof of the Poincare conjecture that won the Millennium Prize of the Clay Institute. Besides bringing your enquiring minds, at least 50% of the audience needs to bring a belt for those articles will play a key role in our discussion.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Emily Rogers – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
A discussion of the papers "Accurate SHAPE-directed RNA structure determination" by Deigan et al (2008) and "SHAPE-directed RNA secondary structure prediction" by Low and Weeks (2010).

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Will Perkins – Georgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Complete suboptimal folding of RNA and the stability of secondary structures" by Wuchty et al (1999).

Modern Aspects of Submodularity

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 09:20 for 8 hours (full day)
Location
Klaus 1116
Speaker
Tutorial lectures by Andreas Krause, Kazuo Murota and Jan Vondrak – ETH, University of Tokyo, and IBM
Workshop Theme: Submodular functions are discrete analogues of convex functions, arising in various fields of computer science and operations research. Since the seminal work of Jack Edmonds (1970), submodularity has long been recognized as a common structure of many efficiently solvable combinatorial optimization problems. Recent algorithmic developments in the past decade include combinatorial strongly polynomial algorithm for minimization, constant factor approximation algorithms for maximization, and efficient methods for learning submodular functions. In addition, submodular functions find novel applications in combinatorial auctions, machine learning, and social networks. This workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers from a variety of backgrounds for exchanging results, ideas, and problems on submodular optimization and its applications. The workshop will be held from March 19-22, 2012. For complete details and workshop program, please see the website.

Physics Colloquium - The Physics of How Viruses Make New Viruses

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Markus Nano Conference Rm. 1116
Speaker
Rob Phillips – Cal Tech
The viruses that infect bacteria have a hallowed position in the development of modern biology, and once inspired Max Delbruck refer to them as "the atom of biology". Recently, these viruses have become the subject of intensive physical investigation. Using single-molecule techniques, it is actually possible to watch these viruses in the act of packing and ejecting their DNA. This talk will begin with a general introduction to viruses and their life cycles and will then focus on simple physical arguments about the forces that attend viral DNA packaging and ejection, predictions about the ejection process and single-molecule measurements of ejection itself.

Karlovitz Lecture - From the Bees to the Birds Research Adventures

Series
Other Talks
Time
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 17:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Clough Commons, Room 144
Speaker
Dr. Bernd Heinrich – University of Vermont

Please Note: Booksigning to follow.

Author and biologist Bernd Heinrich will discuss his research into the biological mysteries of social insects and birds, including the seemingly illogical food-sharing behavior of ravens.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Shel Swenson – Georgia Tech
The paper "Complete probabilistic analysis of RNA shapes" (2006) by Voss, Giegerich, and Rehmsmeier will be discussed.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Shel Swenson – Georgia Tech
The paper "Abstract shapes of RNA" (2004) by Giegerich, Voss, and Rehmsmeier will be discussed.

Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Series
Other Talks
Time
Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 13:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Math and Science Center, Emory University
Speaker
Jacob Fox – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The 5th in a series of 9 mini-conferences features Jacob Fox as the prominent researcher who will give 2 fifty-minute lectures and 4 other outstanding researchers each giving one fifty-minute lecture. There will also be several 25-minute lectures by young researchers and graduate students. The lectures will begin at 1 PM on Saturday, February 25 and conclude at at noon on Sunday, February 26.To register, please send an email to rg@mathcs.emory.edu and for complete details, see the website. Registration is free.

4th Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium

Series
Other Talks
Time
Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 08:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Room S175, Coverdell Center, University of Georgia
Speaker
Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium – University of Georgia
The purpose of the GSC Symposium is to provide an opportunity for professors, postdocs, and graduate students in the Atlanta area to meet in an informal setting, to exchange ideas, and to highlight local scientific computing research. Certainly, the symposium is open to whole mathematics and computer sciences communities. Three previous meetings were held at Emory University (2009), Georgia Institute of Technology (2010), and Emory University (2011). The 2012 GSC Symposium will be held at the University of Georgia campus and is organized by Dept. of Mathematics, University of Georgia. The following researchers have agreed to give invited plenary lectures: David Bader, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michele Benzi, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University; Sung Ha Kang, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tianming Liu, Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Georgia; Andrew Sornborger, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Georgia. There will be two poster sessions. Anyone attending this symposium may present a poster. We especially encourage graduate students and postdocs to use this opportunity displaying their research results. Please register at the  website.

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