Monday, September 28, 2015 (3:30 p.m. in Yost 102)
Title: Elastic Curves in Manifolds
Speaker: David Singer (Professor and Interim Chair, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: The bending energy of a curve in a (Riemannian) manifold is the integral of its squared geodesic curvature. Critical points of this functional are elastic...
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Monday, September 28, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Collective Dynamics in Ant Raids
Speaker: Shawn Ryan (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kent State University)
Abstract: I will present recent work developing a PDE/ODE model that captures collective motion in social insects, specifically army ants. A crucial part of everyday life for ants is raiding -- efficient identification...