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Event Topic Discrete Applied Math Seminar

Stochastic PDE's with space-time white noise and their applications to fixed income market

Mathematical modeling and simulation of texture evolution

Diffuse Interfaces and Gamma-Convergence For Segmentation

An Anisotropic Sparse Grid Stochastic Collocation Method for Partial Differential Equations with Random Input Data

Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications: An Overview and Recent Developments

Description The sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methodology recently emerged in the fields of statistics and engineering has shown a great promise in solving a large class of highly complex inference and...

Reduced Decompositions and Permutation Patterns

SpeakerBridget Tenner Massachusetts Institute of Technologyhttp://math.depaul.edu/bridget/ Description Billey, Jockusch, and Stanley characterized 321-avoiding permutations by a property of their...

The Majority Decision Function for Trees (Part 2 of 2)

Description Abstract: Kenneth May in 1952 proved a classical theorem characterizing simple majority rule for two alternatives. Surprising recent work has employed this type of axiomatic approach for...

Compatibility-Based Clustering of Phylogenetic Data Sets

SpeakerDavid Fernandez-BacaIowa State Universityhttp://www.cs.iastate.edu/~fernande/ Description The treatment of conflict within data sets is among the most debated questions in phylogenetics, and it...

String Graphs and their complexity (Part 2 of 2)

Speaker Marcus Schaefer DePaul University, Chicago http://ovid.cs.depaul.edu Description A string graph is the intersection graph of a set of Jordan curves in the plane. Each curve is represented by a...