Colloquium-March 31, 2017

Friday, March 31, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Solution uncertainty quantification for differential equations Speaker: Oksana Chkrebtii (Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University) Abstract: When models are defined implicitly by systems of differential equations without a closed form solution, small local errors in finite-dimensional solution approximations can propagate into large deviations from...

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Colloquium-April 14, 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. Classical theorems in probability theory such as the...

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