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LOS ALAMOS DAYS 2007
FEBRUARY 9-10, 2007
Friday, February 9
(All talks will be held in Cesar Chavez 200)
8:30-9:00 Refreshments
Morning Session I Chair: TBA
9:00-9:25 Sheree LeVarge (UA): "Modeling a
phenotypic oscillation in a population of fish"
abstract
9:25-9:50 Pavel Lushnikov (UNM): "Critical
self-similar collapse of bacterial colonies"
abstract
9:50-10:00 Break
10:00-10:25 Joel Miller (LANL): "Predicting the size
and probability of epidemics in populations with heterogeneous infectivity
and susceptibility"
abstract
10:25-10:50 Gerardo Chowell-Puente (LANL):
"Quantifying the Transmissibility of Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza"
abstract
10:50-11:00 Break
Morning Session II Chair: TBA
11:00-11:25 Rebecca Vandiver (UA): "Elastic Growth in Biology" abstract11:25-11:50 Jared Barber (UA): "Modeling Viscoelastic Red Blood Cell-like Membranes in Two Dimensions" abstract
11:50-1:30 Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session I Chair: TBA
1:35-2:00 Joe Stover (UA): "A Monotone,
Multi-Particle Contact Process for Invasive Species"
abstract
2:00-2:25 Marco Laumanns (ASU): "Monte-Carlo
Estimation of s-t Reliability in Acyclic Networks
" abstract
2:25-2:35 Break
Afternoon Session II Chair: TBA
2:35-3:00 Alexey Sukhinin (UNM): "Intense light propagation in air" abstract3:00-3:25 Antonio Rubio (ASU):"Radially traveling waves in modulated rotating convection" abstract
3:30-4:00 Pre-colloquium refreshments (Math Building, Room 401N)
4:00-5:00 APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM - Mac Hyman
(LANL):
"Using Mathematical Models to Gain Insight into
Understanding and Controlling the Spread of Epidemics"
(Math
Building, Room 501)
abstract
6:00 Dinner at Guadalajara Grill (located on the southwest
corner of Prince and Campbell)
Saturday, February 10
(All talks will be held in Cesar Chavez Room 200)
8:30-9:00 Refreshments
Morning Session I Chair: TBA
9:00-9:25 Colm Connaughton (LANL): "Some
Remarks on the Establishment of the Kolmogorov-Zakharov Cascade in 3-Wave
Turbulence" abstract
9:25-9:50 Jian-Zhou Zhu (LANL): "Quasiscaling
Analyses of Turbulence"
abstract
9:50-10:00 Break
Morning Session II Chair: TBA
10:00-10:25 Mohit Adhikari (UNM): "Transition Layers in A Singularly Perturbed Differential-Delay Equation" abstract10:25-10:50 Slim Ibrahim (ASU): "Instability results for super-critical nonlinear wave and Schrodinger equations" abstract
10:50-11:15 Robert Erdmann (UA): "Investigations of Flow in Random Porous Media" abstract
11:15-1:00 Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session I Chair: TBA
1:00-1:25 Sabir Umarov (UNM): "On some recent
results regarding the limit theorems in non-extensive statistical
mechanics" abstract
1:25-1:50 Ronald Chen (UNM): "Introduction to Hermite
Methods" abstract
1:50-2:00 Break
Afternoon Session II Chair: TBA
2:00-2:25 Cory Hauck (LANL): "Convex Duality in Entropy-Based Moment Closures" abstract2:25-2:50 Luis Garcia Naranjo (UA): "Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian aspects of mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints" abstract
2:50-3:00 Break
3:00-3:25 Rodrigo Platte (ASU): "A hybrid Fourier-Chebyshev pseudospectral method for nonperiodic time-dependent problems" abstract
3:25-3:50 Eric Gehrig (ASU): "Control Systems and the Combinatorics of Words" abstract