Seminars and Colloquia by Series

What is the Shortest Distance between Two Points? Well, Maybe That's Not the Right Question.

Series
Other Talks
Time
Friday, July 15, 2016 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Kaye Husbands Fealing, Chair and ProfessorSchool of Public Policy, Georgia Tech
At a recent leadership training workshop, where chairs, deans and provosts engaged in "Vegas Rules" discussions about how to develop talent in staff and ourselves, I was asked the question-What was the thing that I enjoyed most during my childhood? Of course I responded: Solving math problems fast! But how does that relate to my research on pricing strategies in the automotive industry, technological aspirations in the developing-country context, earnings and employment differentials by race/ethnicity and gender in various market sectors, and return on investment in food safety research? The answers to this question will be the focus of this talk. The key takeaways will be that pathways meander, enjoy scientific explorations, and the quickest pathway to the crown of one's career is not necessarily the most fulfilling.

Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium

Series
Other Talks
Time
Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 09:00 for 8 hours (full day)
Location
Mathematics and Science Center, Emory University
Speaker
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The Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium (GSCS) is a forum for professors, postdocs, graduate students and other researchers in Georgia to meet in an informal setting, to exchange ideas, and to highlight local scientific computing research. The symposium has been held every year since 2009 and is open to the entire research community. This year, the symposium will be held at Emory University. The format of the day-long symposium is a set of invited presentations, poster sessions and a poster blitz, and plenty of time to network with other attendees. Invited speakers include: Michele Benzi, Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University; Steven Hamilton, Radiation Transport Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Alexandra Smirnova, Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University; Phanish Suryanarayana, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Molei Tao, Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Qing Zhang, Mathematics, University of Georgia. Poster sessions will be held during the lunch and afternoon breaks.

The Driverless Car Revolution

Series
Other Talks
Time
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 13:30 for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
Location
John and Joyce Caddell Building Flex Space
Speaker
S. Rutt BridgesGeorgia Tech, Geosciences, Alumni

Convergence of gradient flows and scaling limit for particle systems

Series
Other Talks
Time
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 13:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Max FathiDepartment of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
In this talk, I will explain how the gradient flow structure of reversible Markov chains (that was discovered by Maas and Mielke independently in 2011) and the Sandier-Serfaty approach to convergence of gradient flows can be combined to study scaling limits for interacting particle systems on lattices. The exposition will be focused on the case of the simple exclusion process on the discrete torus. Joint work with Marielle Simon (INRIA Lille).

Oral exam

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, February 15, 2016 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 270
Speaker
John DeverGa. Tech
Topics: local Hausdorff dimension, local Hausdorff measure, diffusion on compact metric spaces, prospective further research.

Joseph Ford Commemorative Colloquium - Synchronization in Populations of Chemical Oscillators - Quorum Sensing, Phase Clusters and Chimera

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 15:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Howey L3
Speaker
Kenneth ShowalterWest Virginia University

Please Note: Hosted by Roman Grigoriev, School of Physics

We have studied large, heterogeneous populations of discrete chemical oscillators (~100,000) to characterize two different types of density-dependent transitions to synchronized behavior, a gradual Kuramoto synchronization and a sudden quorum sensing synchronization. We also describe the formation of phase clusters, where each cluster has the same frequency but is phase shifted with respect to other clusters, giving rise to a global signal that is more complex than that of the individual oscillators. Finally, we describe experimental and modeling studies of chimera states and their relation to other synchronization states in populations of coupled chemical oscillators.

Entropy power inequality for Renyi entropy

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 11:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Sergey BobkovUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis
We will discuss an extension of the entropy power inequality in terms of the Renyi entropy to sums of independent random vectors (with densities). Joint work with G. Chistyakov.

ALS - Coloring and girth

Series
Other Talks
Time
Sunday, November 15, 2015 - 09:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Noga AlonTel Aviv University and IAS, Princeton

Please Note: Second featured lecture in the Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory mini-conference

The study of graphs with high girth and high chromatic number had a profound influence on the history of Combinatrics and Graph Theory, and led to the development of sophisticated methods involving tools from probability, topology, number theory, algebra and combinatorics. I will discuss the topic focusing on a recent new explicit construction of graphs (and hypergraphs) of high girth and high chromatic number, in joint work with Kostochka, Reiniger, West and Zhu.

ALS - Non-constructive combinatorics

Series
Other Talks
Time
Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 13:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Noga AlonTel Aviv University and IAS, Princeton

Please Note: First featured lecture in the Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory mini-conference

I will describe several old and new applications of topological and algebraic methods in the derivation of combinatorial results. In all of them the proofs provide no efficient solutions for the corresponding algorithmic problems.

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