WSU Analysis Seminar Spring 2019 and before
Time and Location: Wednesdays, from 4:10 - 5:00pm in room 5W of Neill Hall
Organizers:
Kevin R. Vixie (Fall 2013 - Spring 2018),
Enrique Alvarado (and Henry Riely) (Fall 2018 - Spring 2019)
Spring 2019
Jan 16: Somebody, Something
Fall 2018
Aug 29: Walter Rudin, Set Theory: Offspring of Analysis
Sep 5: Enrique Alvarado, Analyst’s Traveling Salesman Problem and Jones’ Beta numbers
Sep 12: Matt Duez, Space Without Points: the Fuzzy Sphere for Physics Students
Sep 19: Jakob Streipel, Filters and topology
Sep 26: Song-ping Zhu, TBA
Oct 3: Yufeng Cao, TBA
Oct 10: Xiongzhi Chen, TBA
Oct 17:
Oct 24: Zach Hilliard, TBA
Oct 31:
Nov 7: Adebo Sijuwade, TBA
Nov 14: Henry Riely, What is ... a square function?
Nov 21: Thanksgiving Vacation
Nov 28: Vlad Oles, TBA
Dec 5: Katrina Sabochick, TBA
Dec 12: Final Exam Week
Spring 2018
Jan 24: Yunfeng Hu and Henry Riely, A Second Order Differential Inequality; Sperner's Remarkable Lemma
Jan 31: Laramie Paxton, Henry Riely, and Enrique Alvarado, Three Short Pieces in Analysis
Feb 7: Kevin R. Vixie, Approximation, Cones, and The Implicit Function Theorem
Feb 14: Kevin R. Vixie, Median Shapes: A Guided Tour
Feb 21: Vlad Oles, Gromov-Hausdorff metric application to temporal networks
March 7: ((Cancelled))
March 21: Hong-Ming Yin, Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations
March 28: Jacob Streipel. An Introduction to Discrete Dynamical Systems
April 4: Steven Tomsovic, The unusual nature of the baker’s map: a paradigm of chaos
April 11: ((Cancelled due to Ostrom Lecture))
April 18: David Field, Stereological Characterization of Grain Boundaries and Triple Junctions in Polycrystals
April 25: Kevin R. Vixie and Enrique Alvarado, An Invitation to Varifolds + An Announcement
Fall 2017
Aug 30: Henry Riely, The Bellman function technique for proving sharp martingale inequalities
Sept 6: Yunfeng Hu, Concentration of Measure
Sept 13: Kevin R. Vixie, Concentration of Measure, Again -- With Pictures
Sept 20: Kevin R. Vixie and Enrique Alvarado, Why Learn Analysis + Seven Short Courses: An Invitation
Sept 27: (Cancelled)
Oct 4: Hong-Ming Yin, Optimal Control Problems in Partial Differential Equations
Oct 11: Charles Moore, On the Kakeya Set Problem
Oct 18: Laramie Paxton, Rademacher Functions and L^p Norms
Oct 25: Enrique Alvarado, Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Spaces
Nov 1: Adebo Sijuwade, Fractional Integral Operators and Exponential Integrability
Nov 8: Joseph Nakao, Solving for Exact Stationary Solutions of Shallow-water Waves
Nov 15: Matt Duez, The Leibniz-Clarke debate revisited
Nov 22: Thanksgiving Vacation
Nov 29: Yufeng Cao, Maximum Flow Algorithm for Total Variation Minimization
Dec 6: Fred Gittes, Falling Cats, Curvature and Gauge Theory
Dec 11-14: Short Course week
Monday, December 11th Location: Spark 339
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm Poincare Inequality on Varifolds Adebo Sijuwade
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm Singular Integrals I Laramie Paxton
- 4:45 - 5:45 pm Analysis on Graphs I Altansuren Tumurbaatar
Tuesday, December 12th Location: Spark 339
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm Singular Integrals II Laramie Paxton
- 2:15 - 4:15 pm A Rough Path Approach to Stochastic Differential Equations Kellan Toman
- 4:45 - 5:45 pm Analysis on Graphs II Altansuren Tumurbaatar
Wednesday, December 13th, CUE (Smith Center) 316
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm Functions of Bounded Variation I Enrique Alvarado
- 2:15 - 3:15 pm Singular Integrals III Laramie Paxton
- 3:45 - 5:45 pm Methods of Image Analysis Yufeng Cao
Thursday, December 14th, Location: Spark 335
- 10:00 - 11:30 am Concentration of Measure I Yunfeng Hu - 11:30 - 12:30 pm (((Lunch Break)))
- 12:30 - 2:00 pm Concentration of Measure II Yunfeng Hu
- 2:15 - 4:15 pm Functions of Bounded Variation II Enrique Alvarado
- 4:30 - 5:30 pm Singular Integrals IV Laramie Paxton
Spring 2017
Jan 11: Organizational Meeting
Jan 18: (University Closed)
Jan 25: Laramie Paxton: The Henstock Integral: A sequential approach
Feb 1: Yunfeng Hu, Small unions with large set of centers
Feb 8: Kevin R. Vixie, When Linear Approximations Work
Feb 15: Kevin R. Vixie, Favorite Analysis Problems: I
Feb 22: Matt Duez, Introduction to Numerical Relativity
Mar 1: Henry Riely, Different Notions of Summability - Regular, Cesaro, Abel: an exercise and discussion
Mar 8: Laramie Paxton: Constant Mean Curvature for Volume-constrained Perimeter Minimizer
Mar 15: Spring Break
Mar 22: Vlad Oles Fourier expansion of Boolean functions f: F_2^n to F_2
Mar 29: Adebo Sijuwade Riesz Potentials and an alternate proof of the fundamental GNS inequality
Apr 5: Yufeng Cao Medical Image Segmentation
Apr 12: Charles Katerba From Hyperbolic to Algebraic Geometry via Character Varieties
Apr 19: Jean Taylor, Everything you always wanted to know about soap bubbles 7:00 pm Location: TBA
Apr 20: Jean Taylor, How do complex crystals (including quasicrystals) grow?
Apr 26: Hossein Noorazar Opinion dynamics models based on interaction potentials with topic coupling
Fall 2016
Aug 31: Yunfeng Hu and Enrique Alvarado, A brief introduction to geometric measure theory: Part I
Sept 7: Kevin R. Vixie, Applications of analysis and geometric measure theory
Sept 14: Enrique Alvarado and Yunfeng Hu, A brief introduction to geometric measure theory: Part II
Sept 21: Yunfeng Hu, A Local Structure Theorem for Regular Median Currents
Sept 28: Igor Boglaev, Monotone numerical methods for nonlinear parabolic and integro-parabolic problems
Oct 5: Yusen Zhan, Variational Inequalities in Policy Search: The Non-Convex Case
Oct 12: Justin Marks, Matrix Manifold Means
Oct 19: Kevin R. Vixie,Open Problems and Conjectures in Geometric Analysis
Oct 26: Hong-Mong Yin, The Role of Critical Exponent in the Heat Equation with a Nonlinear Source
Nov 2: Henry Riely, The Chang-Wilson-Wolff Inequality
Nov 9: Fred Gittes, Electromagnetism is geometry
Nov 16: Hongbo Dong, Structure Properties for Affine Sparsity Constraints
Nov 23: Thanksgiving Vacation
Nov 30: Nikos Voulgarakis, (Cancelled)
Dec 7: Enrique Alvarado, A Lower Bound on the Reach of Flat Norm Minimizers
Dec 14: Final Exam Week
Spring 2016
Jan 13: Organizational Meeting
Jan 20: Thomas Cameron, Spectral Bounds for Unitary Matrix Polynomials
Jan 27: Matt Challacombe, Inverse Factorization in Complexity Science
Feb 3: Kazuo Yamazaki, Large Deviation Principle (LDP) for the Stochastic PDE in Fluid Mechanics
Feb 10: Kevin R. Vixie, Regular sets, Cubical Covers and Set Approximation
Feb 17: Alex Panchenko, Approximation of integrals, empirical measures, and optimal transport
Feb 24: Jim Cockreham, Entropy and Approximate Convexity
Mar 2: Frank Gao, A probabilistic characterization of negative definite functions
Mar 9: Cancelled
Mar 16: Spring Vacation!
Mar 23: Predrag Tosic, On Digraphs, Formal Transition Systems and Agent-based Modeling
Mar 30: Arpad Benyi, BMO, commutators and weights
Apr 6: Alex Panchenko, Boolean Gene Expression Networks
Apr 13: Yufeng Cao, L^1TV for image decomposition
Apr 20: Henry Riely, Random Walks and Martingales.
Apr 27: Sean McCurdy, A Rectifiable Reifenberg Theorem
Fall 2015
August 26: Organizational Meeting
Sept 2: Stan Swierczek, Introducing the method of characteristics with the 1-D traffic equation
Sept 9: Kevin R. Vixie, The Coarea Formula
Sept 16: Sheng-Chi Liu, Congruent Numbers
Sept 23: Kazuo Yamazaki, Ergodicity for the stochastic partial differential equations of fluid mechanics
Sept 30: Hong-Ming Yin, Poincare's Inequity and Its Application for Vector Fields.
Oct 7: Haijun Li, A Problem of Kolmogorov
Oct 14: Stephen Lewis, Local Set Approximation
Oct 21: Alex Panchenko, ((Cancelled))
Oct 28: Linh Nguyen, Mathematics of thermo- and photo-acoustic tomography
Nov 4: Yves Nievergelt, The probability that two samples on a convex curve have disjoint convex hulls
Nov 11: ((Veterans Day))
Nov 18: Yunfeng Hu, Differential Geometry of Curves in Lorentz-Minkowski space, Part I
Nov 25: ((Thanksgiving Break))
Dec 2: Enrique Alvarado, Differential Geometry of Curves in Lorentz-Minkowski space, Part II
Dec 9: Jayadev S. Athreya, Gap distributions and homogeneous dynamics
Spring 2015
January 21: Sharif Ibrahim, Marijuana and the Mathematics of Randomness
January 28: Kazuo Yamazaki, 3-D stochastic micropolar and magneto-micropolar fluid systems with non-Lipschitz multiplicative noise
February 4: Joshua Kaminsky, An Intuitive Characterization of Weak Convergence of Empirical Measure to Lebesgue Measure
February 11: Frank Gao, Compactness of q-hulls (q<=1) in Banach spaces of type p
February 18: David Wollkind, Nonlinear Stability Analysis of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection in an Aerosol Smoke-Gas Layer: Comparison of Theoretical Predictions with Laboratory Experimental Data
February 25: Sheng-Chi Liu, Kronecker limit formulae and their applications
March 4: Kevin R. Vixie, Shapes, Mean Shapes, Median Shapes and the Multiscale Flat Norm
March 11: Haijun Li, A World with Less Gaussian
March 18: SPRING BREAK
March 25: ((No Analysis Seminar -- Ostrom Lecture at 7:00))
April 1: Krishna Athreya, Coalescence in Branching Processes
April 8: Alex Panchenko, Nonlocal continuum models of particle systems
April 15: Linh Nguyen, Microlocal analysis and X-ray computed tomography
April 22: Yunfeng Hu, What about median of shapes?
April 29: Robert Mifflin, Generalized Gradients in Nonsmooth Analysis
Fall 2014
August 27: Kevin R. Vixie, Rectifiable Sets: characterizations and regularity
September 3: Sheng-Chi Liu, Riemann hypothesis and the distribution of prime numbers
September 10: Chuck Moore, The first digit law
September 17: Kazuo Yamazaki, Tools for PDE
September 24: Xueying Wang, Clustering in inhibitory neural networks
October 1: Joshua Kaminsky, Tangents in Metric Spaces
October 8: Haijun Li, Majorizing or Minorizing: A Theory of Inequalities
October 15: Bala Krishnamoorthy, Target enumeration using Euler integration
October 22: Elissa Schwartz, Modeling Equine Infectious Anemia Virus Infection: Virus Dynamics, Immune Control and Escape
October 29: David Wollkind, From Molecules to the Navier-Stokes Equations
November 5: Katarina Jegdic, Two-dimensional Riemann problems in gas dynamics
November 12: Frank Gao, Covering numbers of bounded convex functions on compact convex sets
November 19: Sharif Ibrahim, Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem: A game based proof
November 26: THANKSGIVING VACATION
December 3: Talk cancelled
December 10: Yunfeng Hu, How smooth is your convolution?
Moved to next semester: Kevin R. Vixie, Exploring Sard's Theorem
Spring 2014
January 22: Kevin R, Vixie, An Informal Introduction to the VC Dimension
January 29: David Wollkind, Nonlinear Stability Analyses of Turing Patterns for a Mussel-Algae Model
February 5: Joshua Kaminsky, Banach-Tarski, Banach-Tarski
February 12: David S. Watkins, Quantum Mechanics 101
February 19: Sheng-Chi Liu, Weyl sums and equidistributions in number theory
February 26: Xueying Wang, A Disease Threshold: the Basic Reproduction Number
March 5: Haijun Li, Choquet Integrals, Shapley's Value and Ellsberg's Paradox
March 12: Jared Aurentz, Polynomial Interpolation in the Complex Plane
March 19: Spring Vacation
March 26: David S. Watkins, Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics
April 2: Charles Moore, From Khintchine to Weiss and Beyond
April 9: Alex Khapalov, Multiplicative controllability for the reaction-diusion equation with target states admitting finitely many changes of sign
April 16: Yunfeng Hu, Hausdorff Estimation of Density Level Sets
April 23: Hossein Noorazar, Induced Dimension Reduction
April 30 Sharif Ibrahim, TBA
Fall 2013
August 28: Kevin R. Vixie, Geometry from Derivatives: from Edges to Tubes
September 4: Svetlana Lockwood, The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma
September 11: David Wollkind, A Model Equation for Singular Perturbations
September 18: Jared Aurentz, Laurent, Fourier and Chebyshev: A Roadmap to Chebyshev Polynomials
September 25: Sharif Ibrahim, The Simplicial Multiscale Flatnorm and Deformation Theorem
October 2: Charles Moore, Forward-backward Equations
October 9: Hong-Ming Yin, The Main Inequality in Vector Analysis
October 16: Haijun Li, From Hoeffding's Tail Inequality to Concentration of Measure
October 21-23: Predrag Tosic, Two-Player Non-Zero Sum Games and Models of Rational Behavior: Lessons from the Iterated Traveler’s Dilemma
October 28-30: Susanna Dann, Short Course on the Busemann-Petty Problem
November 6: Sheng-Chi Liu, Quantum Unique Ergodicity
November 13: Hongbo Dong: Efficient Representations of Polytopes and Convex Sets
November 20: Kevin R. Vixie: Compressed Sensing: an overview with some details
November 27: Thanksgiving Vacation
December 4: Alexander Panchenko: An Introduction to the Mathematical Analysis of the Irwing-Kirkwood Procedure