Applied Mathematics Seminar Archives

Date Speakers
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 11:00
An Epidemic Model with Pathogen Tolerance and Trade-Off
Sabrina Streipert
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, April 15, 2024 - 11:00
Supersonic Fronts and Pulses in a Lattice with Hardening-Softening Interactions
Anna Vainchtein
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, April 8, 2024 - 11:00
Virtual Insights into Pain: Agent-Based Modeling of Neural Activity in the Amygdala
Rachael Miller Neilan
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 11:00
Models of Dopamine-Modulated Corticostriatal Plasticity
Baram Sosis
Monday, March 25, 2024 - 11:00
Cellular Mechanisms for the Stimulus-Evoked Quenching of Neuronal Variability
Chengcheng Huang
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 11:00
Growth Dynamic of Tumor-Inhabiting Bacteria
Motasem El Gamel
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 11:00
Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Behavior
Feng Fu
Dartmouth College
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 11:00
Role of Stochastic Fluctuations and Climate Heterogeneity in Vegetation Patterns of Mesic Savannas
Jonathan Touboul
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 11:00
Activity Patterns in a Two-Timescale Neural Ring
Jonathan Rubin
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Patterns of Life: Mathematical Exploration of Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Shawn Ryan
Cleveland State University
Monday, April 10, 2023 - 12:00 to 12:45
Effects of molecular noise on bacterial size control
Andrew Mugler
Department of Astronomy & Physics, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:00 to 10:45
Modulation of information flow in cortical circuits
Chengcheng Huang
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, March 27, 2023 - 12:00 to 12:45
Accuracy of deterministic vs. stochastic modeling of Ca2+-dependent vesicle release
Victor Matveev
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 12:00 to 12:45
Traveling wave solutions to the free boundary Navier-Stokes equations
Ian Tice
Carnegie Mellon University
Monday, March 13, 2023 - 12:00 to 12:45
Controlling Chaos
John Parker
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 12:00
Sensitivity to control signals in triphasic rhythmic neural systems
Jonathan Rubin
Monday, February 20, 2023 - 12:00
Understanding price and wealth dynamics with the help of asset flow models.
David Swigon
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, February 13, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
Square Root Identities for the Harvested Beverton–Holt Model
Sabrina Streipert
Monday, February 6, 2023 - 12:00
The simplest pattern forming system
Bard Ermentrout
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 13:00
Dynamics of DNA knots and links in ionized fluid
Abby Pekoske
University of Pittsburgh, Mathematics Department
Friday, April 10, 2020 - 13:00
Digging through DiRT: Investigating how Trap Recharge Time Influences the Statistics of Particle Diffusion
Gregory Handy
University of Pittsburgh, Mathematics Department
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 13:00
Type III Neuronal Dynamics in a Hybrid Nonlinear Model
Jonathan Rubin
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 13:00
The Persistence of Emerging Pathogens
Todd Parsons
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Probabilités Statistique et Modélisation
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 13:00
NETLAND: Visualization of the geometry and dynamics of Hidden Unit Space
Paul Munro
University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 13:00
Studying a 2D Logistic Map
Derek Orr
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 13:00
Higher Order Phase Models
G. Bard Ermentrout
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 13:00
Flying snakes, attracting manifolds, and the trajectory divergence rate
Gary Nave
University of Colorado Boulder, BioFrontiers Institute
Monday, April 2, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
Sequences, topology, and inferring the dimension of a sensory space from neural responses
Vladimir Itskov
The Pennsylvania State University
Monday, March 19, 2018 - 14:00
A New Frame for Phase Space Analysis
Benjamin Letson
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, March 12, 2018 - 14:00
Solitary waves in an FPU lattice with second-neighbor interactions
Anna Vainchtein
University of Pittsburgh
Monday, February 26, 2018 - 14:00
Model-dependent and model-independent control of biological network models
Jorge Gómez Tejeda Zañudo
Penn State, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Monday, February 12, 2018 - 14:00
Periodically forced phase oscillators
G. Bard Ermentrout
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, December 1, 2017 - 12:00
Random Graph Modeling of Key Predistribution Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks
Osman Yağan
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, November 17, 2017 - 12:00
Flexibility, Adaptability and Pareto Efficiency in Manufacturing Operations
Hoda Bidkhori
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, November 10, 2017 - 12:00
Two strategies to estimate synaptic conductances under nonlinear effects.
Catalina Vich Llompart
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Friday, October 27, 2017 - 12:00
Exact approaches for finding maximum quasi-cliques and dense clusters/subgraphs
Oleg Prokopyev
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 12:00
Population Level Phase Resetting Curves
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 6, 2017 - 12:00
Chaos, spike-adding, and mixed-mode oscillations in a nonlinear neuronal model with resets
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 29, 2017 - 13:00
Decoupling Approximation Design Using Operator Norms
Cornel Sultan
VirginiaTech
Friday, September 22, 2017 - 13:00
Cross-frequency Oscillation in Mean Field Dynamics of Delay-coupled Modified Theta Neurons and its Corresponding Spiking Dynamics
Akao Akihiko
The University of Tokyo
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 11:00 to 12:00
A nonlocal system modelling the spread of epidemics on networks
Elisabeth Logak
University of Cergy-Pontoise
Friday, May 6, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:45
Emergence and bifurcations of nonstationary states in the anharmonic oscillator chains
Yuli Starosvetsky
Technion
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Existence and uniqueness of traveling waves in a nonlocal singular equation
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Taking the (female pelvic) Floor to Talk about Continuum Mechanics
Raffaella De Vita
Virginia Tech
Friday, April 1, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Robustness of solutions of the inverse problem for linear dynamical systems with uncertain data
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, March 25, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
The space and time of neural variability
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Solitary waves in a lattice with competing interactions
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
A modeling framework for an epidemic with multiple modes of transmission on a dynamic network
Karly Jacobsen
Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Second-Order Necessary Conditions in Locally Lipschitz Scalar Optimization with Inequality Constraints
Elena Constantin
University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Asymptotic phase for stochastic limit cycles
Peter Thomas
Case Western Reserve University
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Bayesian Parameter Estimation and Inference Across Scales
Margaret Callahan
Case Western Reserve University
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Strategies to maximize anti-phase burst lengths in networks with reciprocal inhibition
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Surface reconstruction of stratified solitary water waves from pressure data on the bed
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 12:00 to 12:50
Error estimates for inverse problems matching statistical moments in random elliptic PDEs
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, December 11, 2015 - 10:00
Elasticity with Disarrangements
David Owen
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, December 4, 2015 - 10:00
A closer look at the inverse problem for dynamical systems with uncertain data
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 10:00
Heteroclinic orbits for travelling kinks in differential, difference, and nonlocal wave equations
Dmitry Pelinovsky
McMaster University
Friday, November 13, 2015 - 10:00
Energy exchange, localization and transfer in nonlinear oscillatory chains and nanostructures (resonance non-stationary dynamics)
Leonid Manevitch
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 10:00
Material Groupoids in Remodeling and Aging
Marcelo Epstein
University of Calgary
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 10:00
Propagating Waves as a Cortical Mechanism of Direction-Selectivity in V1 Motion Cells
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 10:00
Modeling of Nonbonded Interactions in Graphene and Carbon Nanostructures
Dmitry Golovaty
University of Akron
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 10:00
Modeling of Nonbonded Interactions in Graphene and Carbon Nanostructures
Dmitry Golovaty
University of Akron
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 10:00
Enumerating Graphs with Prescribed Degree Sequences to Arbitrary Orders of Accuracy
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 10:00
Systems with a continuum of attractors and their relationship to neuronal integrators
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 2, 2015 - 10:00
Interactions of solitary modes in models of bacterial chemotaxis
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 10:00
Spatio-temporal patterns in the Wilson-Cowan Equations
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 10:00
Pursuit and Very Small Swarms
University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 11:00
Multi-scale analysis of highly nonlinear regimes emerging in the inertially coupled locally resonant structure
Prof. Yuli Starosvetsky
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
Optimal coding, invariance, noise and heterogeneity in an ON/OFF sensory pathway
Andre Longtin
University of Ottawa
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 12:00
Existence of Traveling Pulses for some Neural networks
Friday, April 3, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
Evolutionary Dynamics in Random Environments
Kamran Kaveh
University of Minnesota
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of Mixed-Mode Dynamics in Pituitary Cells
Theo Vo
Boston University
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
"Nonlinear waves in locally resonant granular chains"
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, March 6, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
Vortex Dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Bifurcations, Chaotic Dynamics and Experimental Observations
Panayotis Kevrekidis
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
A Neuronal Network Model for Context-Dependent Perceptual Decision on Ambiguous Sound Comparison
Chengcheng Huang
New York University, Courant Institute
Friday, February 20, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
Averaging, folded singularities, and torus canards in bursting/spiking transitions
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 12:00
Information Routing in Networks and Contructing Graphs
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
Dynamics of chains of mixed oscillatory & excitable elements
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, January 23, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00
On solitary waves in diatomic lattices
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
Evaluating the effects of hypoxia on coastal fish
Rachael Neilan
Duquesne University
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
Dynamics of a Nonsmooth Conceptual Climate Model
Anna Barry
University of Minnesota
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
Locally contractive dynamics and bursting
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
Synchronizing with flexible frequencies
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
Evolutionary Dynamics of Tumour Heterogeniety
Kamran Kaveh
University of Waterloo
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
Formation of stable attractors in finite size networks of stochastic neurons
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 15:00 to 16:00
Stochastic dynamics of neural synapses in health and disease
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 12:00 to 13:00
Mathematical and computational models of fluid-structure interaction with applications to hemodynamics
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 15:00 to 16:00
Solitary waves in a non-integrable FPU lattice
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 15:00 to 16:00
Kinetics of a twinning step
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 15:00
Dynamics of price and wealth in asset flow models
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 15:00 to 16:00
Population dynamics of the modified theta model
University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 15:00
Balanced networks in space
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 15:00 to 16:00
Unexpected Chaos in a Neural Model