Jan
28
IIT Stuart SPEAK
Practice your English conversation skills with native-English speakers and learn more about American culture at the same time at SPEAK weekly sessions offered this semester. You can attend as many or...
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Jan
28
A Structured Grid Method for the Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Equation from Computational Cardiology
Description The monodomain equation in computational cardiology, which describes the electrical activity of the heart, is a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equation. In this talk, I will...
Jan
28
Applications of Set Optimization to Finance
SpeakerZachary FeinsteinPrinceton Universityhttp://princeton.academia.edu/zfeinstein Description Abstract: Set optimization is a generalization of vector optimization which can be formulated in a...
Jan
27
Development of Sonic Hedgehog as an ED Therapy
Description Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects ~ 50% of men aged 40 to 70 and has a high impact on men’s health and quality of life. Current treatments are ineffective in the difficult to treat...
Jan
23
Searching for dark matter with bubble chambers
Description The COUPP Collaboration (recently renamed PICO, after merging with the Canadian PICASSO experiment) uses bubble chambers to search for dark matter particles. Unlike the bubble chambers of...
Jan
22
Chicago Council on Science and Technology presents: The Order of Crystallography
Crystallography, or the science of how matter is arranged, has been around for a long time—the birth of X-ray crystallography was 100 years ago. Using the science of visualizing molecules in 3D has...
Jan
22
Event Reminder: Chicago Council on Science and Technology presents: The Order of Crystallography
Crystallography, or the science of how matter is arranged, has been around for a long time—the birth of X-ray crystallography was 100 years ago. Using the science of visualizing molecules in 3D has...
Jan
22
Multilevel Quasi-Monte Carlo
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
Jan
21
Event: January 21, 2014 – Hermann Hall – 39th Annual Chicago Regional Bridge Building Contest
The 39th Annual Chicago Regional Bridge Building Contest takes place at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 in the Hermann Hall Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Mechanical, Materials, and...
Jan
21
The Noise Effect on PDE
Event Topic Stochastic & Multiscale Modeling and Computation