Smith Colloquium Spring 2021
Talks will be held remotely by Zoom on Thursdays at 4:00 pm (Central Time.)
We cordially invite everyone interested in mathematics to attend.
Please contact Yannan Shen or Agnieszka Miedlar for arrangements.
| Date | Speaker, Title | Local Host |
|---|---|---|
| February 4 | Organization Meeting | |
| February 11 | Joonha Park (KU) Sequential-proposal Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Mass Scaling for Multimodal Target Distributions | |
| February 18 | Dionyssis Mantzavinos (KU) A Universal Method for Evolution Partial Differential Equations Posed in Domains with a Boundary | |
| February 25 | ||
| March 4 | ||
| March 11 | ||
| March 18 | Chenyang Xu (Princeton University) Algebraic K-stability Theory—One New Theme Connecting Two Old Fields | Y. Jiang |
| March 25 | Zhenghan Wang (University of California Santa Barbara) Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computing | 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 | G. Chen |
| April 8 | Chun Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology) Energetic Variational Approaches in Active Materials | J. Feng |
| April 15 | Grey Ballard (Wake Forest University) Computing Tensor Decompositions using Parallel Algorithms | A. Miedlar |
| April 22 | Ioana Banicescu (Mississippi State University) Robust Scheduling of Scientific Applications in Parallel and Distributed Environments | 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 | G. Chen |
| May 6 | Hong Qian (University of Washington) Statistical Laws and Logics of Thermodynamic Behavior of Complex Systems | J. Feng |