Friday, February 6, 2015 (12:30 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Typical marginals of convex bodies
Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department)
Abstract: A recent theorem of Klartag asserts that if X is uniformly distributed in a high-dimensional isotropic convex body, then most linear functionals of X are approximately Gaussian in distribution. This phenomenon has connections...
Yearly Archives: 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Microscale propulsion in engineering and biology
Speaker: Henry Fu (Ralph E. Hoeper Assistant Professor of Engineering- University of Nevada at Reno)
Abstract: At the microscale, hydrodynamic constraints lead to nonintuitive features of propulsion for engineered as well as living systems. I begin by describing the characteristics...