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...
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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. volume, perimeter, average width, etc.) that are invariant...