Events

Colloquium – Maria Laura delle Monache (Inria Grenoble – Rhône Alpes)

346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Topic:  Control of traffic flow: from ramp metering to autonomous vehicles Abstract: In this talk, we will consider different control frameworks for traffic flow. In particular, we will show the evolution of traffic control from classical strategies (for example ramp-metering) to more modern approaches using autonomous vehicles. We will introduce different ways to describe mathematically

Applied Math Seminar – Dang Nguyen, University of Alabama

346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Title: A Multi-scale Approach to  Limit Cycles with Random Perturbations Involving Fast Switching and Small Diffusion Abstract: This talk is devoted to multi-scale stochastic systems. The motivation is to treat limit cycles under random perturbations involving fast  random switching and small diffusion, which are represented by the use of two small parameters. Associated with the

Applied Math Seminar – Haomin Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology

346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Title: Optimal Transport on Finite Graphs with Applications Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the optimal transport theory on discrete spaces. Various recent developments related to free energy, Fokker-Planck equations, as well as Wasserstein distance on graphs will be presented, some of them are rather surprising. Applications in game theory and robotics will be

Applied Math Seminar – Shan Zhao, University of Alabama

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Title: An overview of numerical algorithms for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in biomolecular electrostatics Abstract: The Poisson-Boltzmann Equation (PBE) is a widely used implicit solvent model for the electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules. The numerical solution of the PBE is known to be challenging, due to the consideration of discontinuous coefficients, complex geometry of protein structures,

Applied Math Seminar – Husheng Li, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Title: Data Driven Quickest Change Detection: In the Spirit of Kullback, Kolmogorov and Shannon Abstract: Quickest change detection is to detect the unknown change of distribution of random process, which has a wide spectrum of applications in practice such as signal processing, financial data analysis and power grid operation, et al. In traditional quickest change

Applied Math Seminar – Wei Zhu, University of Alabama

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Title: A lower-order image denoising model for staircase reduction Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss a total-variation based lower-order image denoising model that is able to reduce the well-known staircasing phenomenon possessed by the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model. To minimize the proposed variational model, we employ augmented Lagrangian method (ALM). Convergence analysis is established for the

Applied Math Seminar – Qin Wang, University of Alabama

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Title: Sufficient dimension reduction for high dimensional data Abstract: The high dimensional data generated from modern scientific discoveries introduces unique challenges to statistical modeling. Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is a useful tool to bridge the gap through projection subspace recovery. In this study, a new formulation is proposed based on the Hellinger integral of order