Colloquium – Dr. Chiu-Yen Kao, Claremont McKenna College
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesShape Optimization Problems Involving Eigenvalues and Their Applications Since Lord Rayleigh conjectured that the disk should minimize the first Laplace-Dirichlet eigenvalue among all shapes of equal area more than a century ago, eigenvalue optimization problems have been active research topics with applications in various areas including mechanical vibration, electromagnetic cavities, photonic crystals, and population dynamics.
Pi Mu Epsilon Seminar
302 Gordon Palmer HallDr. Tim Ferguson - Basic Extremal Problems I will talk about extremal problems, which are one of my favorite things to research. These problems involve maximizing or minimizing certain quantities (sort of like optimization in Calculus I). Even though these problems can be difficult to solve and understand, they are often simple to state. I
Academic Continuity Exercise (ACE)
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.
Colloquium – Dr. Alexander Reznikov, Vanderbilt University
155 Gordon Palmer HallCovering 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.
Colloquium – Ming Yan, University of California, Los Angeles
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesParallel 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
MAA State Dinner
The UA Department of Mathematics will host the MAA Alabama State Dinner on February 6, 2015 and the annual meeting of the Alabama Association of College Teachers of Mathematics on February 7, 2015.
Alabama Association of College Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting
The UA Department of Mathematics will host the MAA Alabama State Dinner on February 6, 2015 and the annual meeting of the Alabama Association of College Teachers of Mathematics on February 7, 2015.
Yujiang Wu, Lanzhou University “Lopsided PMHSS method for Complex Systems”
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesLopsided 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 $\alpha$,
Pi Mu Epsilon Undergraduate Series – Dr. Claudia Mewes – Investigations of static and dynamic magnetization properties of spintronic materials
302 Gordon Palmer HallSpintronics 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
Colloquium – Veli Shakhmurov, Okan University
151 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesABSTRACT flyer - Shakhmurov