Research Interaction Teams for Fall 2007

• Selected Topics of Mathematical Statistics,
  • Abram Kagan,
  • 3:30 Tuesdays in Room 1313.
• Topics in Time Series Analysis
  • Ben Kedem,
  • Monday at 6:30 PM, in room 1311, Math Building.
• Statistics of High-Dimensional Data
  • Eric Slud
  • Fridays at 11am.
• Logic Seminar
  • David Kueker
  • Chris Laskowski
  • John Goodrick
  • Ken Lopez-Escobar
• Norbert Wiener Center for Applied Harmonic Analysis, (John Benedetto, Director).
  • Title: Diffusion wavelets
  • Organizers: Wojciech Czaja, Ioannis Konstantinidis, Kasso Okoudjou
  • Meeting: Tuesdays from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in Math 1308.
  • Wiki page.
• Experiments in Geometry.
  • Bill Goldman.
  • This RIT is suspended until Fall 2008 when Dr. Goldman returns from sabbatical.
• Applications of Partial Differential Equations
  • Director: Stuart Antman.
  • Organizational meeting: Friday 7 September in Room 2300 at 2pm.
• Biologically-inspired computation,
  • James Reggia,
• Kinetics and fluctuations of complex crystal surfaces
  • Dionisios Margetis
  • Theodore L. Einstein
  • Thanos Tzavaras
  • Website: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dio/RIT/Crystals/
  • Thursdays 5-6pm (Room: 1308)
• Genome sequencing - getting better sequences and analyzing them
  • James Yorke (prof)
  • Aleksey Zimin (postdoc)
  • Poorani Subramanian (grad student)
• Numerical Methods for PDE
  • Andrea Bonito
  • Ricardo Nochetto
  • Monday 4:30 -- 5:30, Math 1313
• Dynamical Systems
  • Dmitry Dolgopyat
  • Paul Wright .
  • Nick Long .
  • Tuesdays 2pm, Math 1310.
  • This semester is geared towards a survey of dynamical systems with emphasis on the work of several new faculty members.
• Parallel algorithms on the XMT machine
  • Organizer: Uzi Vishkin
  • Activities:
    • Implementation of parrallel algorithms on the XMT machine and optimization.
    • Evaluation of their actual performance.
    • Evaluation of benefice of parallel algorithms to various other fields (physics, biology, etc.)
  • Meeting: Tuesday 4:45PM to 5:45 in AVW 2120