RNA FOLDING PREDICTION REVISITED: 30 Years and Counting Christine Heitsch Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of Mathematics "A 1986 AMS article on "RNA folding prediction" outlined several major questions in this area of molecular biology, and advocated "the continued need for... Read More
Rhino Antipoaching Interdiction Patrol Planning via a Stackelberg Game Informed by a Stochastic Animal Movement Simulator Timothy Haas University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Lubar School of Business Associate Professor "A statistically validated model of animal spatial behavior allows ecologists to test hypotheses... Read More
Gravitational Waves Jolien Creighton University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Physics "I'll present a sketch of how gravitational waves are produced and how they are detected. I will use GW150914 - the first gravitational wave to be detected - as a... Read More
A Scalable Parallel Sparse Linear System Solver Ahmed H. Sameh Purdue University Department of Computer Science “Numerous computational science and engineering applications give rise to large sparse linear systems for which one needs approximate solutions that yield only modest relative... Read More
Strongly Nilpotent Matrices and a Generalization of a Theorem of Konstant Mark Colarusso University of South Alabama Assistant Professor of Mathematics “Consider the set of n x n complex, nilpotent matrices with the property that every submatrix in the top... Read More
Numerical Analysis of Matrix Rank Deficiency Zhonggang Zeng Northeastern Illinois University Professor of Mathematics “Rank deficient matrices are frequently encountered and often dreadful in scientific computing, but rarely elaborated in numerical analysis textbooks. Accurate solutions of problems involving such matrices... Read More
Auslander's Theorem for Permutation Actions on Noncommutative Algebras Jason Gaddis Miami University Assistant Professor of Mathematics “Let G be a small finite group acting linearly on a polynomial ring A over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. A famous... Read More