Math 410-01, Topics in Computational Mathematics Fall 2008

Instructors:

Course description:

Students will attend 13 talks on different topics of computational mathematics, and participate in electronic (blackboard) and in class discussions. Topics may include mathematical biology, computational dynamics, quantum computing, and optimization.

The course may lead to undergraduate research opportunities in the following semester and summer work sponsored by the NSF CSUMS grant at William and Mary: http://web.wm.edu/mathematics/CSUMS.php?&=&svr=www

Presentation schedule

• August 27. No meeting.
• September 3. Chi-Kwong Li (W&M): Eigenvalues of sum of matrices.
• September 10.
• September 19 (Friday). Sarah Day (W&M):
• September 24.
• September 29 (Monday). Rafael Frongillo (Berkeley).
• October 8.
• October 15.
• October 22.
• October 29.
• November 5. Leiba Rodman(W&M) Perturbation theory.
• November 14 (Friday). Konstantin Mischaikov (Rutgers).
• November 19.
• November 26. Thanksgiving.
• December 3.