Monday, September 29, 2014 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Effective Properties and Collective Dynamics in Bacterial Suspensions
Speaker: Shawn D. Ryan (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mathematical Sciences / Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University)
Abstract: The study of collective motion in bacterial suspensions has been of significant recent interest. A simple PDE/ODE model for the suspension is...
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Friday, September 26, 2014 (12:45-1:45 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: The Surface Area Defect of the Euclidean Ball and a Polytope
Speaker: Steven Hoehner (Graduate Student, Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department)
Abstract: We want to approximate -- as closely as possible -- the surface of n-dimensional ball by a polytope with at most N vertices....