Math Department
Applied Math Seminar – Shibin Dai, University of Alabama
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Mean field models for thin film droplet coarsening Abstract: A thin liquid film coating a solid substrate is unstable and the late stage morphology is essentially quasiequilibrium droplets connected
Applied Math Seminar – Brendan Ames, University of Alabama
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Exact clustering by semidefinite programming under the heterogeneous planted cluster model. Abstract: Clustering, or the sorting of data into groups of similar items, is a fundamental task in machine
Applied Math Seminar – Yuhui Chen, University of Alabama
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Bayesian Nonparametric Models and Its Applications Abstract: Polya tree priors are random probability measures that are easily centered at standard parametric families, such as the normal. As such, they
Analysis Seminar – Christoph Fischbacher, University of Alabama at Birmingham
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Area Laws for the Entanglement in the XXZ spin chain Abstract: The question on how to rigorously define and prove Many-Body-Localization (MBL) phenomena has attracted significant interest over the recent years. In
Applied Math Seminar – Shibin Dai, University of Alabama
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Degenerate Diffusion in Phase Separations Abstract: Phase separations are widely observed phenomena in materials science. One model of phase separation is the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a smooth double-well potential,
Analysis Seminar – Joe Renzi, University of Alabama
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Two-sided Mullins-Sekerka flow does not preserve convexity, after Uwe F. Mayer Abstract: The (two-sided) Mullins-Sekerka model is a nonlocal evolution model for closed hypersurfaces, which was originally proposed as a
Analysis Seminar – Tim Ferguson, University of Alabama
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesColloquium – Ken Ono, Emory University
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTopic: Polya’s Program for the Riemann Hypothesis and Related Problems Abstract: In 1927 Polya proved that the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to the hyperbolicity of Jensen polynomials for Riemann’s Xi-function.