Seminar Series

Fall 2022 - IAM Seminar Series

Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Topic/Title
September 8	Prof. Greg Chini, Director, Integrated Applied Mathematics Program.	Annual Meeting: IAM Graduate students and IAM Faculty and Staff.
September 22	Dr. Kim Lowell, Research Scientist, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), and Affiliate Research Professor, Earth Systems Research Center.	Extracting Shallow-Water Bathymetry from LiDAR Point Clouds Using Data Analytics
October 6	To be announced	To be announced
October 20	Dr. Ben Montemuro, IAM Alum, class of 2020	To be announced
November 3	Prof. Kai Germaschewski, IAM Program, Physics and Astronomy	To be announced
November 17	To be announced	To be announced

Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Topic/Title
January 27	Prof. Easton White, Biological Sciences, UNH	Modeling socio-ecological dynamics in the face of disturbances
February 10	Prof. Rob Phillips, Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology, California Institute of Technology.	A Language Whose Characters are Triangles.
Friday, March 4	Prof. Gwynn Elfring, The University of British Columbia. (Joint seminar with Mechanical Engineering).	The hydrodynamic of active matter in inhomogeneous environments.
March 10	Prof. John Gibson, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNH.	Fluids and Dynamical Systems
March 24	Prof. Scott Field, UMass Dartmouth.	Learning high-fidelity gravitational wave models from numerical relativity data.
April 7	Prof. Daniel Zuckerman, Oregon Health & Science University.	Weighted Ensemble in biocomputation and beyond: A simple, powerful splitting algorithm for rare events and dynamics.
April 21	Prof. Mahadevan, Harvard University.	Folds, cuts and isometries: art and science

Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Topic/Title
September 2	Prof. Greg Chini, Director, Integrated Applied Mathematics Program	IAM Program Graduate Orientation
September 9	Dr. Laszlo Kindrat (IAM alum), Senior Software Engineer, Luminous Computing	A gentle introduction to machine learning compilers.
September 23	Dr. Markus Deserno, Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University via Zoom.	Curvature rigidity of asymmetric and differentially stressed membrane.
October 7	Dr. Mark E. Tuckerman, Prof. of Chemistry & Mathematics, New York University, via Zoom.	Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Molecular and Atomic Crystals.
October 21	Prof. Alessandro Laio, Full Professor in Statistical and Biological Physics at SISSA, Triestevia, Italy, via Zoom	Identifying informative distance measures in high-dimensional feature spaces
November 4	Dr. Francois Foucart, Assoc. Prof., IAM and Physics	Numerical simulations of neutron star mergers
December 2	Prof. Alan Lindsay, Assoc. Prof. Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame.	Mathematics of diffusive signaling with applications to chemoreception and nuclear scaling

Thursdays, 1230 -130 pm EST (unless otherwise stated)

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Topic/Title
February 18	Prof. Baron Peters, W.H. and J.G. Lycan Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.	Multiscale Modeling Techniques for the Kinetics of Polymer Upcycling.
March 4	Dr. Duncan Hewitt, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at University College London (UCL).	"Mud Swimming”: The Mechanics of Locomotion through a Visco-plastic Fluid.
March 18	Prof. Jeetain Mittal, Ruth H. and Sam Madrid Endowed Chair Professor of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, Lehigh University	Molecular organization in biology: What can computer simulations teach us?
April 29	Prof. Marek Petrik, Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire.	Robust Algorithms for Bayesian Batch Reinforcement Learning.