Research Interaction Teams for Fall 2008

• Topics in Time Series Analysis
  • Ben Kedem,
  • Monday at 6:00 PM -7:00 PM, MATH 1311.
  • First meeting: September 15; Ben Kedem will speak.
• Statistics of Survival Analysis,
  • Eric Slud
  • Intended audience: Math/Stat/AMSC grad students who have some STAT background (equiv. to Stat 700)
    plus some familiarity with Survival Analysis topics.
  • Tentative time: Th 9:30-10:45
  • Regular PLACE and time are still to be arranged, but the organizational meeting will be held at MTH 2400, 9:30am.
• Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems
  • Howard Elman
  • Introduction to the numerical solution of bifurcation.
    Readings will examine types of bifurcation and numerical techniques for identifying bifurcations
    and the behavior of solutions of nonlinear problems that depend on parameters.
• Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab, UMIACS
  • Doug Oard
  • Louiqa Raschid (organizer)
  • Click here for the website.
• CANCER DYNAMICS (AMSC 689, Section 3502)
  • Organizers:
    • Doron Levy (Math/CSCAMM), dlevy@math.umd.edu
    • Wolfgang Losert (Physics/IPST/IREAP), wlosert@umd.edu
  • Time: Wednesdays at 4pm
  • First meeting: September 10, 2008
  • Location: CSCAMM Seminar Room (CSIC Building #406)
  • This new RIT is part of an initiative to encourage a dialogue between cancer researchers from the National Cancer Institute
    and Scientists and engineers from the University of Maryland.
    The RIT will feature guest speakers from the NCI.
    Confirmed speakers include:
    • Dr. David Lenvens, Head, Gene Regulation Section, NCI/NIH
    • Dr. Petr Kalab, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, NCI/NIH
    • Dr. Jim McNally, Director, Flourescence Imaging Facility, NCI/NIH
    • Dr. Lee Helman, Head, Molecular Oncology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI/NIH
  • Students that are potentially interested in Cancer Research are encouraged to attend the RIT.
    Credit for this course can be obtained by studying and presenting a paper on a topic agreed on with one of the organizers.
    Cancer research provides many exciting research opportunities in math, physics, biology, and related fields.
    Listening to talks from leading experts is a wonderful way to get acquainted with the field.
  • More details can be found on the new Cancer Dynamics Group Webpage: http://www.cancer.umd.edu
• Mathematical Finance
  • Dilip Madan
  • Michael Fu
• Applied PDE
  • Organizers:
    • Stuart Antman (ssa@math)
    • Sandra Cerrai (cerrai@math)
    • David Levermore (lvrmr@math)
    • Konstantina Trivisa (trivisa@math)
    • Athanasios Tzavaras (tzvaras@math)
  • 4pm Wednesdays MATH 1308.
• Frame Theoretic Methodology for Spectral Doman Dimension Reduction
  • J. J. Benedetto and W. Czaja
  • Thursdays 1-2:30, MTH 2213
• Multispectral Retinal Imaging and Mapping of Naturally Occurring Fluorophore and Chromophore Distributions
  • W. Czaja
  • Tuesdays 10-11:30, MTH 1310