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Alex Figotin
Fri May 3, 2013
4:00 pm
We study the energy dissipation features of systems comprised of two components one of which is highly lossy and the other lossless. One of the principal results is that all the eigenmodes of any such system split into two distinct classes, high-loss and low-loss,according to their dissipative properties. Interestingly, this splitting is...
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Dan Knopf
Thu May 2, 2013
4:00 pm
We report on recent and ongoing work with Zhou Gang and I.M.
Sigal in which we prove that all MCF neckpinches are asymptotically
rotationally symmetric. Combined with recent work of other authors, this
represents strong evidence in favor of the conjecture that MCF solutions
originating from generic initial data are constrained to one of exactly...
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Victor Klepstyn
Thu May 2, 2013
1:00 pm
My talk will be devoted to a (quick and very brief) introduction to the domino tilings (intensively studied during the last fifty years), the subject that is very simple in the origin, while giving almost immediately very beautiful images. My goal will be to explain (roughly), where does the "arctic circle" effect in tilings come...
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Michael Rael
Thu May 2, 2013
11:00 am
Advisor: Michael Cranston
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William Yessen
Wed May 1, 2013
4:00 pm
Advisor: Anton Gorodetski
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Janek Wehr
Tue Apr 30, 2013
11:00 am
I will describe a circle of results on the Smoluchowski-Kramers limit in
systems of stochastic differential equations. Some of them were directly
motivated by experiments, others suggest further laboratory work. In each
case we identify a noise-induced drift which significantly changes the
observed properties of the system. ...
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Lin Lin
Mon Apr 29, 2013
4:00 pm
Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT) is the most widely used electronic structure theory for condensed matter systems. The standard method for solving KSDFT requires solving N eigenvectors for an O(N) * O(N) Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian matrix, with N being the number of electrons in the system. The computational cost for such...
