Special Analysis and Probability Seminar- November 12, 2015

Thursday, November 12, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 335) Title: Stability of some geometric inequalities and their application to the rate of convergence of Steiner, Minkowski and Blaschke symmetrization Speaker: Alex Segal (Tel Aviv University) Abstract: We will discuss the stability of the Brunn-Minkowski, Knesser-Suss and the isoperimetric inequalities and show (using a similar...

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Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar (MLSS)- November 16, 2015

Monday, November 16, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Do marine organisms hedge their bets?  or  A tragic tale of a diffusion approximation gone astray, with hope for redemption Speaker: Robin Snyder (Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: Many coastal marine organisms have a juvenile stage in which larvae drift...

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