Title: A Partially Hyperbolic Model for Plasma Physics: Deterministic and Stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsov Equation Abstract: Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation is the long-wave small-amplitude...

Title: Generalized Newton Methods for Variational Inequalities in PDE Problems Abstract: Variational inequalities in PDE systems emerge either directly from the physical properties of the...

Title: Data assimilation using multilevel Monte Carlo Abstract: For half a century computational scientists have been numerically simulating complex systems. Uncertainty is recently becoming a...

Statistics and Big Data at Google Join Senior Quantitative Analyst (and Lady Statistician) Tim Hesterberg, as he shares stories about how we use data, how we're experimenting to make improvements...

Title: Measuring reaction rate constants with optical biosensors Abstract: Many biochemical reactions involve a stream of chemical reactants flowing through a fluid-filled volume, over a...

Title: Critical angles between two convex cones Speaker: David Sossa, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile Abstract: In this talk we discuss the following problem:...

Title: Optimal sensor placement for Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by PDEs Abstract: When solving an inverse problem, we seek to reconstruct a model parameter, using experimental...

Title: The Navier-Stokes equations and self-similarity Abstract: In this talk we will introduce the Navier-Stokes equations, beginning with the contributions of Jean Leray in 1934.  We will...

Title: Mechanochemical Modeling of Cytoskeletal Network Dynamics Abstract: Cells of higher organisms contain a dynamically remodeling filamentous network, called cytoskeleton, comprised of...

Title: Particle representations for stochastic partial differential equations Abstract: Stochastic partial differential equations arise naturally as limits of finite systems of weighted...