March 21 - 22, 2015  
 

Schedule

Location (unless stated otherwise):
School of Engineering, Barus & Holley, Seminar Room 190

Saturday, March 21st

    9:00 - 9:30       Coffee and Breakfast (182 George Street, Room 110)

    9:45 - 10:20     Welcome by John Gemmer

    10:30 - 11:20    Tutorial Talk: Andrew Bernoff
       Clocks & Flocks: An Introduction to Synchronization & Collective Behavior

    11:30 - 12:20    Tutorial Talk: Chad Topaz
       The Discrete Conceit: Agent-Based Biological Aggregation Models

    12:30 - 2:00     Lunch

    2:00 - 2:50      Tutorial Talk: David Uminsky
       Localized patterns in non-local aggregation equations

    3:00 - 5:00      Math Slam

    6:00 - 7:30      Dinner


Sunday, March 22nd

    8:50 - 9:20       Coffee and Breakfast, 182 George Street, Room 110)

    9:30 - 10:20     Tutorial Talk: Chad Topaz
       Topology and Biology: Persistent Homology of Aggregation Models

    10:30 - 11:20    Tutorial Talk: Andrew Bernoff
       The Forms of Swarms: A Primer of Swarm Equilibria

    11:30 - 12:20    Research Talk: Martin Short
       Understanding patterns in urban crime - from agent based models to PDEs

    12:30 - 2:30     Lunch

    2:30 - 3:20      Research Talk: Scott McKinley
       Asymptotic Analysis of Intracellular Transport by Processive Molecular Motors

    3:30 - 4:50      Research Talk: Ravi Srinivasan
       Random thoughts on random walks: Networks, centrality measures, and tracking the spread of disease