Smith Colloquium
Spring 2021
COVID-19 Update: During the Spring 2021 the Smith Colloquium will be held on-line on Thursdays at 4:00 pm.
We cordially invite everyone interested in mathematics to attend.
Please contact Yannan Shen or Agnieszka Międlar for arrangements.
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| Date | Speaker, Title | Local host |
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| February 4 | Organization Meeting |
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| February 11 | Joonha Park (KU) Sequential-proposal Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with mass scaling for multimodal target distributions Abstract |
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| February 18 | Dionyssis Mantzavinos (KU) A universal method for evolution partial differential equations posed in domains with a boundary Abstract |
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| February 25 | ||
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| March 11 | ||
| March 18 | Chenyang Xu (Princeton University) Algebraic K-stability theory— one new theme connecting two old fields Abstract |
Y. Jiang |
| March 25 | Zhenghan Wang (University of California Santa Barbara) Mathematics of topological quantum computing Abstract |
Y. Jiang |
| April 1 | Xiang Xu (Old Dominion University) Blowup rate estimates of a singular potential in the Landau-de Gennes theory for liquid crystals Abstract |
G. Chen |
| April 8 | Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology) Energetic Variational Approaches in Active Materials Abstract |
J. Feng |
| April 15 | Grey Ballard (Wake Forest University) Computing Tensor Decompositions using Parallel Algorithms Abstract |
A. Miedlar |
| April 22 | Ioana Banicescu (Mississippi State University) Robust Scheduling of Scientific Applications in Parallel and Distributed Environments Abstract |
B. Pasik-Duncan |
| April 29 | Yiwei Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology) Variational Lagrangian schemes to generalized diffusions, gradient flows and beyond: A discrete energetic variational approach Abstract |
G. Chen |
| May 6 | Hong Qian (University of Washington) Statistical Laws and Logics of Thermodynamic Behavior of Complex Systems Abstract |
J. Feng |
