Submitted by jlongwor on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 9:36am.
Nov 30 2009 - 4:00pm
Nov 30 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Doug McLean
Location:
MS 569
In this talk, I will give some examples of discussions which are approachable with the general public's degree of knowledge yet thought provoking, counter intuitive, and good cocktail party conversation.
Submitted by jlongwor on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 8:30am.
Nov 2 2009 - 4:00pm
Nov 2 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Yuval Sanders
Location:
MS 569
I will demonstrate the positive-definite matrix analogy to positive real numbers by presenting the polar decomposition. I hope then to discuss Choi's theorem on completelypositive maps and mention its relevance to quantum information theory.
Submitted by jlongwor on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 2:26pm.
Oct 19 2009 - 4:00pm
Oct 19 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Professor Ray Ogden, FRS (University of Glasgow)
Location:
MS 569
In this talk we study an archetypal problem in which both non-uniqueness and non-smoothness of solution arise, namely the finite deformation plane strain problem of azimuthal shear of a circular cylindrical tube of incompressible transversely isotropic elastic material.
Submitted by jlongwor on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 4:00pm.
Oct 5 2009 - 4:00pm
Oct 5 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Cliff Kitchen
Location:
MS 569
An overview of particle filtering will be given including background material, motivation, implementation of the algorithm and some examples of applications.
