Department of Mathematics
Applied Mathematics Seminar 2009-2010

Wayne State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

All talks are held Wednesdays at 1:00 PM in 1285 FAB, unless otherwise noted.
Contact Paul Chow for more information.

All seminars
Colloquium
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Fall 2009

Date

Speaker and Title

Oct. 7:

Professor Fatih Celiker; Wayne State University
Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for Timoshenko beams

Oct. 14: Dr. Yumin Wang; WSU and York University
Quantile Hedging for Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefits
Oct. 21: P. L. Chow; WSU
Unbounded Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Ito Equations

Nov. 4:

Alexander Korostelev; Wayne State University
Change-point Problems in Higher-dimensional Dynamical Systems
Nov. 11: Rafail Khasminskii, Wayne State University
Method of Lyapunov Functions for Analysis of Extinction and Explosion in Markov Chains

Fall 2008

Date

Speaker and Title

Sep. 24:

Professor Le Yi Wang; Wayne State University
Joint Applied Mathematics and Probability/Statistics Seminar: System Identification with Quantized Observations

Oct. 15:

Mr. Son Luu Nguyen; Wayne State University
Joint Applied Mathematics and Probability/Statistics Seminar: Asymptotic Properties of Hybrid Random Processes Modulated by Markov Chains

Oct. 22:

Professor Fengxin Chen; University of Texas at San Antonio and Michigan State University
Applied Mathemematics Seminar: Traveling Waves for Nonlocal Evolution Equations

Oct. 29:

Dr. David Field; General Motors
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Manufacturing, robotics and computational geometry

Oct. 31: 1pm

Professor Qing Zhang; University of Georgia
Special Joint Applied Mathematics and Probability/Statistics Seminar: Trading a mean-reverting asset: Buy low and sell high

Nov. 5:

Dr. Mbagne Faly Mbengue; Oakland University
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Models for Nonlinear Dynamic Beams with or without Damage

Nov. 12:

Dr. Reza Kamaly; Necessity & Chance
Joint Applied Mathematics and Probability/Statistics Seminar: Numerical Methods for an Option Pricing Model

Nov. 12: 2pm

Professor Alexander Korostelev; Wayne State University
Joint Applied Mathematics and Probability/Statistics Seminar: Detection of Slightly Expressed Changes in Random Enviroment

Nov. 19:

Professor Emre Celebi; Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Numerical Approximations in Color Image Processing

Dec. 3:

Professor Fatih Celiker; Wayne State University
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Optimal Convergence of High Order Streamline-diffusion Methods for Singularly-perturbed Problems

Winter 2009

Date

Speaker and Title

Feb. 25:

Professor Ziqing Xie, Hunan Normal University
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Two New Numerical Methods for Solving Semilinear Elliptic Equations

March 4:

Professor Nicolai Krylov; University of Minnesota
Joint Applied Mathematics and Probability Seminar: On the regularity properties of conditional densities for partially observable uniformly nondegenerate diffusion processes with Lipschitz coefficients

March 25: 1pm

Dr. Dean Carlson; Mathematical Review
Joint PDE and Applied Mathematics Seminar: An equivalent problem approach to absolute extrema for calculus of variations problems with differential constraints

March 25: 2pm

Prof. Tong Sun: Bowling Green State University
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Numerical Smoothing, Instead of Numerical Stability

April 8:

Dr. Lijian Jiang: IMA, University of Minnesota
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Quasi-global multiscale finite elements and their applications in heterogeneous porous media

April 15:

Prof. Bernardo Cockburn: University of Minnesota
Applied Mathematics Seminar: A new analysis technique for the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for second-order elliptic problems

May 13: 1pm

Professor Annika Lang: University of Mannheim, Germany
Joint Applied Mathematics Probab./Statist. Seminar: Almost convergence of discrete-time solutions to some stochastic PDEs and their applications in heterogeneous porous media

May 13: 2pm

Professor Andrea Barth: CMA, University of Oslo, Norway and Univ. Mannheim, Germany
Joint Applied Mathematics Probab./Statist. Seminar: A Finite Element Method for stochastic PDEs driven by Lévy Noise