July 16, 2008, "Introduction to Gaussian Processes, Modeling Icy Terrain with Gaussian Processes, and a Framework for Exploiting Periodic Data" Kyle Schmitt, MIT, 3pm [more info]
July 9, 2008, "Networks and Cybersecurity" Mine Altunay, Fermi Lab, 3pm [more info]
June 30, 2008, "Parallel Newton-Krylov Methods in Edge Plasma Modeling" Lois Curfman McInnes and Hong Zhang, MCS, 3pm [more info]
June 25, 2008, "Petascale Data Analysis" Sven Leyffer, MCS, 3pm [more info]
June 4, 2008, "Theoretical challenges in atomistic simulations of protein folding" Sanghyun Park, MCS, 3pm [more info]
May 28, 2008, "A Component Infrastructure for Performance and Power Modeling of Parallel Scientific Applications" Van Bui, 3pm [more info]
May 21, 2008, "Problems and Prospects for Reverse-Engineering Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels Production" David Tiede, CSE, 3pm [more info]
May 7, 2008, "Modeling Kinetic Physics of Raman Backscatter in Plasma" Ryan Lindberg, APS, 3pm [more info]
April 30, 2008, "Multilevel algorithms for linear ordering problems" Ilya Safro, MCS, 3pm [more info]
April 16, 2008, "Northwestern Numerical Analysis Day" Paul Fischer and Nick Trefethen, MCS and University of Oxford, 12 noon [more info]
April 2, 2008, "Jacobian accumulation with unit labeled edges" Andrew Lyons, MCS, 3pm [more info]
March 26, 2008, "Model Reduction for Optimization and Control" Oleg Roderick, Portland State University, 3pm [more info]
March 12, 2008, "Optimal Transition Paths to Cleaner Technology" Steve Kryukov, Northwestern University, 3pm [more info]
March 5, 2008, "Defeating Physical Security Devices" Roger G. Johnston, Vulnerability Assessment Team, Argonne, 3pm [more info]
February 27, 2008, " Reduced basis approximations and a posteriori error estimation: application to fracture analysis" Phuong Huynh, 3pm [more info]
February 21, 2008, "The Devils in the Details: Numerical Algorithms for Molecular Analysis and Design" Jaydeep Bardhan, MCS, 3pm [more info]
January 17, 2008, "Multi-Resolution-Analysis Scheme for Uncertainty Quantification
in Chemical Systems" Philippe Pebay, Sandia National Laboratories, 3pm [more info]
January 9, 2008, "BlueGene/P Input/Output" Rob Ross, MCS, 3pm [more info]
December 19, 2007, "Xmas Party" Santa Claus, Father Christmas, 3pm [more info]
December 12, 2007, "Quantum Electronic Structure using Directed Graphs" Ron Shepard, Chemistry Division, 3pm [more info]
December 5, 2007, "New Developments in Unstructured Multigrid" Matthew Knepley, MCS, 11AM *** EARLIER *** [more info]
November 28, 2007, "Fractional Order Modeling of the Bloch-Torrey Equation" Richard Magin, Department of Bioengineering, UIC, ** 10AM ** [more info]
November 21, 2007, "Calculation of Variable Phase Oscillatory Intervals" James Lyness, MCS, 3pm [more info]
November 7, 2007, "Benchmarking Derivative-Free Optimization Solvers" Jorge More, Director of LANS, 3pm [more info]
October 31, 2007, "Algebraic Multigrid" James Lottes, MCS, 3pm [more info]
October 17, 2007, "Implicit Methods, Semi-Implicit Methods, and Cheating" Paul Fischer, MCS, 2pm [more info]
October 3, 2007, "Mindstorm: Are You Smarter Than a Six-Year Old?" Richard Bradshaw, Max & Theodore Trefonides, MCS, 10:30 AM [more info]
September 26, 2007, "Argonne's Postdoc Program Demystified" Sven Leyffer, 10:30am [more info]
September 19, 2007, "Optimal Derivative Accumulation on Series-Parallel Dags" Andrew Lyons, 3pm [more info]
September 12, 2007, "Unconstrained Optimization in the Toolkit for Advanced Optimization" Todd Munson, MCS, 3pm [more info]
September 5, 2007, "Statistical Mechanics of Tempering Simulations" Sanghyun Park, MCS, 3pm [more info]
August 29, 2007, "Accelerator Modeling" Misun Min, MCS, 3pm [more info]
August 22, 2007, "X-Ray Solution Scattering of Proteins" Jay Bardhan, MCS, 3pm [more info]
August 15, 2007, "A systematic approach to automatically generate multiple semantically equivalent program versions" Sri Hari Krishna N., MCS, 3pm [more info]
August 8, 2007, "Heuristics for Integer Nonlinear Optimization" Kumar Abhishek, Lehigh, MCS, 3pm [more info]
August 6, 2007, "Effective Viscosity of Dilute Bacterial Suspensions" Brian Haines, Penn State, Department of Mathematics, 3pm [more info]
July 25, 2007, "Linear Combinations of Sparse Vectors" Duc Nguyen, MCS, 3pm [more info]
July 18, 2007, "Solving massively-distributed engineering problems using
nonlinear dynamics and multiscale techniques" Jianbo Gao, Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, 3pm [more info]
July 11, 2007, "SIMD Programming by Expansion" Jaewook Shin, MCS, 3pm [more info]
July 4, 2007, "Pool Party", 4pm [more info]
June 20, 2007, "Nonmonotone Filter Methods" Sven Leyffer, MCS, 10:30am [more info]
June 13, 2007, "Multiscale Approach to Self-Organization of Microtubules and Actin Filaments" Dmitry Karpeev, MCS, 3:00 pm [more info]
June 6, 2007, "Cone complementarity problems for the simulation of nonsmooth dynamics" Mihai Anitescu, MCS, 3pm [more info]
May 9, 2007, "A Climate Modeling Primer" Robert Jacob, MCS, 3:00 pm [more info]
May 7, 2007, "Explorations in the Characterization of Mathematical Handwriting" Bruce Char, Drexel University, 3:00 pm [more info]
May 2, 2007, "Cheaper Adjoints by Inversion" Jean Utke, MCS, 3:00 pm [more info]
April 25, 2007, "Strategies for an effective LDRD proposal" Paul Hovland, MCS, 3:00pm [more info]
April 18, 2007, "Computational challenges in state-of-the-art accelerator modeling" James Amundson, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 3:00pm [more info]
April 11, 2007, "Computer Simulation and Numerical Methods of Detail Atomic Physics Calculations for Various Applications" Vitali A Morozov, MCS, 3:00pm [more info]
April 4, 2007, "Aqua-planet experiments with a spectral element GCM" Stephen Thomas, NCAR, 3:00pm [more info]
March 21, 2007, "An algorithm for the approximate and fast solution of mixed" Jose Luis Morales, ITAM (on sabbatical at Northwestern), 3:00pm [more info]
March 6, 2007, "Extreme Protein Homology Search" Fred Stevens, Biosciences, 3:00pm [more info]
February 28, 2007, "Low Order Numerical Integration Techniques for Differential-Algebraic Equations" Dan Negrut, Wisconsin, 10:30am [more info]
February 7, 2007, "ZeptoOS, BG/P, and Petascale Machines" Pete Beackman, MCS, 3:00pm [more info]
January 17, 2007, " Local Topological Modification of Hexahedral Meshes Using Dual-Based Operations: Progress and Application" Tim Tautges, MCS, 3:00pm [more info]
January 3, 2007, " Hierarchical Coloring" Paul Hovland, MCS, 3:00pm [more info]