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Academic continuity refers to the ability to carry out the daily work of teaching and administrating from a remote location. The Math Department is participating in this exercise today to prepare for situations such as bad weather which could keep faculty, staff and students away from campus. The office will reopen at 8:00 am tomorrow.

Covering Properties of Random Points How to build gas stations such that any given vehicle will have a station in a fixed distance? It turns out that if we do not do any math and just randomly place them, we will do an almost perfect job.

Parallel and distributed optimization Abstract: Due to the explosion in size and complexity of modern datasets, both the decentralized collection or storage of these datasets as well as accompanying parallel and distributed solution methods are either necessary or at least highly desirable. In this talk, I will introduce several ways to move from single threaded

Lopsided PMHSS method for Complex Systems Based on the preconditioned modified Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (PMHSS) iteration method, we introduce a lopsided PMHSS (LPMHSS) iteration method for solving a broad class of complex symmetric linear systems. The convergence properties of the LPMHSS method are analyzed, which show that, under a loose restriction on parameter $\alpha$,

Spintronics is a rapidly growing research field with many emerging technologies that aim to exploit the “spin” of the electron in addition to its electric charge. The design of new materials with specific properties optimized for a particular application is of paramount importance for widespread adoption of spintronic technologies. This requires an understanding of the fundamental mechanisms responsible for the magnetization

ABSTRACT flyer - Shakhmurov

Topic: Folds, Intersections, and Inflections:  Distinguishing Cylinders from Moebius Bands Abstract: On a smooth or polyhedral surface a strip neighborhood of a closed curve is either an orientable cylinder or a non-orientable Moebius band.  How can we distinguish which form it has by observing singular fold chains for projections to planes or self-intersection curves of

MINIMIZATION METHODS AND EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS FOR NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS The purpose of this lecture is to demonstrate the power of variational methods in the study of nonlinear partial differential equations to people working in other field of mathematics. The equations considered here are variational, namely there is an energy functional ˆ defined on certain Sobolev spaces, whose