Monday, November 23, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Joint Colloquium/Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar
Title: Collective dynamics: modeling, analysis and simulations
Speaker: Marie-Therese Wolfram (Senior Research Scientist, Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics)
Hosted by Alethea Barbaro
Abstract: Collective dynamics refer to the coordinated behavior of large groups of individuals. They can be observed in animal groups, pedestrian...
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Monday, October 12, 2015 (3:30 p.m. in Yost 102)
Title: Elastic Rods
Speaker: David Singer (Professor and Interim Chair, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: We generalize the notion of Euler elastic curve to Kirchhoff elastic rods. We determine the closed solutions of the rod equation in Euclidean space and discuss integrability.