Interdisciplinary Computational Seminars

Fall 2005 - Spring 2006

These graduate student-oriented seminars provide a forum to present and learn about computationally-oriented research occurring in many different disciplines. Interaction is encouraged with an emphasis on sharing ideas and obtaining feedback regarding issues arising at any stage of the computational pipeline, from applications through models and methods to scalable parallel and distributed computing, storage and visualization. To make these talks accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience of researchers, no prior knowledge of the specific discipline area will be assumed by the speakers.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!

Spring 2006 Schedule

	February 13	Adaptive Ocean Sampling: Optimal Use of Mobile Sensors to Study Physical and Biological Dynamics Naomi Leonard, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
	February 20	Computational Techniques for Stochastic Source-to-Dose Modeling of Human Exposures Sastry Isukapalli, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), UMDNJ-RW Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University
	February 27	The Difference Between Genetic Regulatory Networks and the WWW Structures Yoram Louzoun, Math Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel
	March 6	Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups Iain Couzin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
	March 13	Visualization with Contextual Emphasis in Scientific Data Michael Burns, Computer Science, Princeton University
	March 20	No Seminar --- Spring Break
	March 27	An Elastic Rod Model for Anguilliform Swimming Tyler McMillen, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
	April 3	Transport, Mixing and Coherent Structures in Chaotic Flows Francois Lekien, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
	April 10	**CANCELED** Design of High Resolution and Adaptive Methods for Partial Differential Equations Phil Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	April 17	Computation, Machine Learning and BioMarker Discovery in High-Throughput Proteomics Daniel Fasulo, Project Manager, Siemens Corporate Research
	April 24	**CANCELED** Descriptions of Electrons Beyond Density Functional Theory Emily Carter, MAE and PACM, Princeton University
	May 1	Tracking Thoughts with Functional MRI Ken Norman, Department of Psychology, Princeton University

Fall 2005 Schedule

	September 19	Computational Analysis and Design of DNA Devices  Niles Pierce, Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
	September  26	Scalability and Relevance in an Internet-scale Persistent Search System Erich Schmidt, Computer Science, Princeton University
	October 3	No Seminar
	October 10	Computational methods for optimizing interparticle interactions using inverse methods Mikael Rechtsman, Department of Physics, Princeton University
	October 17	Aggregating Human Expertise & Regression in Sensor Networks: Applications for Alternating Projection Algorithms Joel Predd, EE, Princeton University
	October 24	Materials Properties from ab-initio Simulations: Recent Progress, New challenges and Open issues Guilia Galli, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Davis and Quantum Simulations Group Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	October 31	No Seminar
	November 7	Computing the Future of Biomedicine Chris Johnson, Computer Science, University of Utah
	November 14	Automatic Generation of Data-Processing Tools Yitzhak Mandelbaum and David Walker, Computer Science, Princeton University
	November 21	Visual Display of Diffusion Tensor Fields Gordon Kindlmann, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging at Brigham and Women's Hospital
	November 28	Free Energy of Nearly Jammed Hard-Particle Systems and the Glass Transition Aleksandar Donev, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
	December 5	Likelihood Inference for Discretely Sampled Diffusions Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Director, Bendheim Ctr.  for Finance,  Dept. of Economics Princeton University
	December 12	Computational methods for high-dimensional dynamic programs for discrete resource allocation Warren Powell & Hugo Simao, The Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, ORFE, Princeton

 

PICASso "Successes" Seminar