College of Arts and Sciences
Date posted: March 20th, 2017
Friday, April 14, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Tales of Random Projections
Speaker: Kavita Ramanan (Professor of Applied Mathematics and Chair of the Graduate Program, Brown University)
Abstract: The interplay between geometry and probability in high-dimensional spaces is a fascinating subject of active research. …Read more.
Date posted: March 20th, 2017
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Remarks on the (B) conjecture
Speaker: Liran Rotem (Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota)
Abstract: The original (B) conjecture is a question regarding the Gaussian measure, asked by Banaszczyk and popularized by Latała. …Read more.
Date posted: March 20th, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 (2:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Modeling the appendix’s role in C. difficile infection
Speaker: Tejas Joshi (Case Western Reserve University)
Advisor: Wanda Strychalski (Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: The appendix has been hypothesized to defend the colon against C. …Read more.
Date posted: March 20th, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017 (11:00 a.m. in Yost 306)
Title: An inverse problem of cerebral hemodynamics in the Bayesian framework
Student: Jamie Prezioso
Advisors: Daniela Calvetti and Erkki Somersalo (Professors, Case Western Reserve University)
Committee Members: David Gurarie and Joseph LaManna
Abstract: The increased cerebral metabolic rate following neuronal activity triggers a rapid increase in cerebral blood flow (CBF), a phenomenon that is at the base of several functional imaging modalities, e.g., optical diffusion tomography and BOLD-fMRI. …Read more.
Date posted: March 20th, 2017
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 (4:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Fourier Based Method for Simultaneous Segmentation and Nonlinear Image Registration
Student: Thomas Atta-Fosu
Advisor: Weihong Guo (Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University)
Committee Members: Daniela Calvetti, Erkki Somersalo, Julia Dobrosotskaya, and Michael Lewicki
Abstract: Image segmentation and registration play active roles in machine vision and medical image analysis of historical data. …Read more.
Date posted: March 2nd, 2017
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 (1:30 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Dimension reduction for stochastic oscillators: Investigating competing generalizations of phase and isochrons
Speaker: Alexander Cao (Case Western Reserve University)
Advisor: Peter Thomas (Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: A stable, finite-period limit cycle in a deterministic system has a set of Poincaré sections with two properties: all trajectories with initial conditions on a given leaf (i) converge to a common trajectory on the limit cycle and (ii) pass through the same leaf after an interval equalling one period. …Read more.
Date posted: March 2nd, 2017
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: The affine surface area in Euclidean convex geometry and beyond
Speaker: Florian Besau (Postdoctoral Researcher, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Abstract: Loosely speaking we can describe Euclidean convex geometry as the study of “natural” functions on convex bodies (e.g. …Read more.
Date posted: February 23rd, 2017
CWRU alumnus Geoff Wedig was honored with an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement in a ceremony held on February 11, 2017. Wedig, who completed a BS in Mathematics and a BA English at CWRU in 1994 and an MS in Computer Engineering at UCLA in 1995, also worked at the university as a Senior Software Developer for 12 years before making a career change to computer animation in 2007. …Read more.
Date posted: February 20th, 2017
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Reconstructing polytopes from projections or sections
Speaker: Sergii Myroshnychenko (Graduate Student, Kent State University)
Abstract: We are going to discuss one of the open problems of geometric tomography about projections. …Read more.
Date posted: February 15th, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Cell-based modelling of epithelial tissue dynamics
Speaker: Alexander Fletcher (Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Sheffield)
Abstract: The dynamic behaviour of epithelial tissues plays a central role during development. …Read more.
Date posted: February 14th, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Dual curvature measures and the dual Minkowski problem
Speaker: Yiming Zhao (Adjunct Instructor, New York University)
Abstract: In this talk, dual curvature measures (see [Huang, Lutwak, Yang, Zhang; ACTA, 2016]) in the dual Brunn-Minkowski theory will be introduced. …Read more.
Date posted: January 31st, 2017
Friday, March 3, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: What does the average eigenvalue know about geometry, physics, or the complexity of a graph?
Speaker: Evans M. …Read more.