Graduate Student Seminar

Location

Fine Arts : 215

Date & Time

February 28, 2018, 11:00 am12:00 pm

Description

Session ChairIris Gauran
DiscussantDr. Bedrich Sousedik

Speaker 1: Nadeesri Wijekoon
Title
A New Joint Distribution for data with a Continuous Component and an Observable Binary Component
Abstract
In longitudinal studies of health care areas, subjects may not be able to respond to questions over the time due to various reasons.  Therefore, researches might have to rely on the answer of another person (proxy) who's related to the subject. There are different methods exist analyzing these types of data. However, it is always better to consider a framework where both subject data and proxy data include in the analyses.  In this presentation, we are introducing a joint model which accommodates both self and proxy data coming from different sources. Further, we will introduce *“R shiny” *applet which we can use to generate data from the above joint distribution.

Speaker 2: Randy Price
Title
Overview of time-stepping algorithms for the Navier-Stokes equations
Abstract
In this talk we will go over some of the more popular time-stepping algorithms for the Navier-Stokes equations. I will discuss the pros and cons of each algorithm and try to give some insight into how the algorithms came about.