Mathematics of Life Sciences Seminar (MLSS) April 13, 2015

Monday, April 13, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Data-Driven Modeling of Living Fluids Speaker: M. Gregory Forest Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor Departments of Mathematics & Biomedical Engineering Director, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Abstract: I will talk about mathematical modeling of three fluid systems:  living yeast cells, living mammalian cells,...

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Analysis and Probability Seminar April 10, 2015

Friday, April 10, 2015 (1:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Banded Matrices and Fast Inverses Speaker: Gilbert Strang (Professor of Mathematics, MIT) Abstract: The inverse of a banded matrix A has a special form with low rank submatrices except at the main diagonal. That form comes directly from the Nullity Theorem. Then the inverse of that...

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