Fall 2025 - IAM Seminar Series
Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 4 | Prof. Greg Chini - IAM Director | IAM Graduate Orientation |
| Sept 11 | Prof. Samuel Carton, Computer Science Dept., UNH | “Preference Learning from Physics-Based Feedback: Tuning Language Models to Design BCC/B2 Superalloys” |
| Oct 2 | Becca Thomases, Professor & Chair, Mathematical Sciences, Smith College. | “A Period-Doubling Route to Chaos in Viscoelastic Fluids” |
| Oct 30 | Dr. Brian Miles, Senior Research Project Engineer, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping. | TBA |
| Nov 13 | Prof. Michael Hagan, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University. | TBA |
Spring 2025 - IAM Seminar Series
Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 7 (Kings N101 - 1-2 pm) | Prof. Abigail Plummer, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University. | "Fracture, instability, and phase transitions via constrained expansion" |
| March 6 | Prof. Colin Meyer, Engineering, Thayer School, Dartmouth Engineering. | "Glacier sliding controlled by subglacial water flow" |
| March 27 | Dr. Toby Adkins, Research Scientist, Theory Department, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). | “Electron heating in helicity-barrier-mediated turbulence” |
| April 10 | Prof. Pascale Garaud, Chair, Department of Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz. | "Regimes of stratified turbulence across parameter space: from asymptotic analysis to DNS" |
Fall 2024 - IAM Seminar Series
Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 5 | Prof. Greg Chini, IAM Director | IAM Graduate Orientation |
| September 19 | Prof. Marko Knezevic, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNH | "Compact representation of orientation distributions and constitutive modeling based on generalized spherical harmonics" |
| October 3 | Prof. Jeff Oishi, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UNH | "Linear Dynamics of Moist Convection" |
| October 17 | Dr. Ryan Elliott, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota. | "The wild complexity born from a simple nonlinearity, and how to tame it: A reprise of the "beam on an elastic foundation"" |
| October 31 | Dr. Nicholas (Nick) Moore, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Colgate University | "The Formation of Karst Pinnacles" |
| November 14 | Dr. Keaton Burns, Research Scientist, Department of Mathematics, MIT. | "Solving PDEs exactly over Polynomials" |
Spring 2024 - IAM Seminar Series
Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 29 | Mr. Remil Mushthaq, UNH Mechanical Engineering PhD student. | "Baroclinic Acoustic Streaming." |
| March 7 | Prof. Sophie Coulson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, UNH. | "Predicting and Observing Geophysical Patterns of Sea Level Change." |
| March 28 | Dr. David Hosking, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Center For Theoretical Science, Princeton University. | "Metastability of stratified magnetohydrodynamic equilibria and their relaxation." |
| April 11 | Dr. Laszlo Kindrat, IAM Alum, Class of 2019 | "AI Compiler Engineer." |
| May 2 | Professor Aditya Khair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. | "Nonlinear electrophoresis of colloidal particles." |
Fall 2023 - IAM Seminar Series
Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 31 | Prof. Greg Chini, Director, Integrated Applied Mathematics Program, UNH. | Graduate Orientation. |
| September 14 | Dr. Qi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, UNH. | "Statistical Inference for Multi-Step and Heterogeneous Causal Effects." |
| October 5 | Dr. Jané Kondev, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University. | "The Scale Invariant Cell." |
| October 26 | Dr. Benjamin Chandran, Professor of Physics and Astronomy; IAM, UNH. | "Microtearing Modes and Heat Loss in Tokamaks." |
| November 30 | Dr. John Parker, Postdoctoral Associate," Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, and IAM Alum, class of 2021. | "Data-Driven Dynamical Modeling of a Neuronal Output Nucleus Integrating Multiple Pathways." |
Spring 2023 - IAM Seminar Series
Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST in Kingsbury Hall, S145 (unless otherwise stated)
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 20 | Dr. Brandon Montemuro, IAM Alum, class of 2020 | SubZero: Explicit Representation of the Floe Life Cycle with a new Discrete Element Sea Ice Model |
| November 3 | Prof. Kai Germaschewski, IAM Program, Physics and Astronomy | Exascale Whole-Device Modeling of Fusion Devices: Porting the GENE Gyrokinetic Microturbulence Code to GPU |
Spring 2022 - IAM Seminar Series
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 |
Fall 2021 - IAM Seminar Series
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 |
Spring 2021 - IAM Seminar Series
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. |
