Friday, October 9, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Uncertainty Quantification for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 Mission
Speaker: Amy Braverman (Principal Statistician, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
Hosted by Jenný Brynjarsdóttir
Abstract: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) was launched last July, and has been collecting data on carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's...
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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...