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Related (non-CSCS) Seminars and Workshops:
"Solutions for Reducing Energy Consumption and Pollutant Emissions from the Road Transportation Sector"
SMART Distinguiushed Speaker Series
Tuesday, Sept 23, 6PM
335 West Hall
Dr. Tiago Farias, Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
On September 23 join Dr. Tiago Farias to discuss the key solutions available for reducing fuel consumption and pollutant emissions from road transportation, including alternative fuels, new propulsion systems (such as hybrids, plug ins or fuel cells), mobility management and behaviour change. Available technologies and promising future solutions will be compared from a full life cycle perspective, and examples of results obtained at ITS – Lisbon using numerical simulators and a PEMS (Portable Emission Measurement System) laboratory will be presented. SMART member Professor Jonathan Levine will moderate. Thanks to the National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics program, the event is open to the public and free of charge.
Henry R. Luce Lectures on Complex Systems
Time: 1:10 PM on Friday, May 23
Location: Connable Recital Hall.
Speakers and topics follow:
1:10 Peter Erdi: Intro
1:15 Jennifer Watkins '05, Los Alamos National Laboratory): Collective
decision making: from Kalamazoo to Los Alamos
1:45 Brian Castellani (Kent State University): Sociology and Complexity
Science
2:15 Frank Severance (Western Michigan University Electrical Engineering):
Complex Systems from the Next Door. Extracting Order from Complexity: A
Bayesean Approach to Neural Biology
2:45 Break - Refreshments
3:00 Chris Klausmeier (Michigan State University/Kellogg Biological Station): Complexity and Ecology
3:30 Vaibhav Diwadkar (Wayne State University): Cognitive Neuroscience and
Schizophrenia
Special AIM Seminars:
Presented by Mac Hyman
Mac Hyman is the past president of the Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the leader of the Mathematical Modeling
and Analysis Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his BS
from Tulane University and his PhD from the Courant Institute of
Mathematics Sciences at NYU. His research interests include
mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamical systems, and the numerical
solution of differential equations.
1)
"The Role of Mathematical Sciences in Science Based Simulations."
December 6, 3:10-4PM
3088 East Hall
ABSTRACT: The mathematical and computational sciences are increasingly important in scientific and plicy decisions on energy, water, health, climate, and teh conomy. Mathematical models, based on the underlying physical models, can help the scientific and political communities understand and evaluate the potential effectiveness of different approaches in these complex problems.
Today's scientific world is experiencing a paradigm shift where the
sophistication of mathematical models, the accuracy and efficiency of
numerical algorithms, the robustness of computer software, and the power
of computation have become so great that numerical simulations are now
considered a third pillar, along with theory and experiment, in the
triad of tools used for scientific discovery. The rate of advances in
these fields, and our ability to simulate complex physical systems, will
increasingly be the limiting factors in our ability to solve many of our
most pressing scientific challenges. I will describe recent advances in
mathematical models, numerical algorithms, software, and hardware that
have allowed computer simulations of complex multidisciplinary problems
to have unprecedented impact in guiding scientific discoveries.
2)
Good Choices for Great Careers in the Mathematical Sciences.
December 7, 12:10-1PM
B844 East Hall
ABSTRACT: Students and young faculty members are at a critical point in
their careers and are making choices that will impact them for a
lifetime. I will use the experiences of scientists who have had great
careers to identify universal distinguishing traits of good career
choices that can guild decisions in education, choice of profession, and
job opportunities to increase your chances of having a great career with
long-term sustained accomplishments.
3)
New Approaches to Mathematical Models for the Spread of Epidemics
December 7, 3:10-4PM
1084 East Hall
ABSTRACT: Mathematical models based on the underlying transmission
mechanisms of the disease can help the medical/scientific community
understand and anticipate the spread of an epidemic and evaluate the
potential effectiveness of different approaches for bringing an epidemic
under control. The primary goal of our modeling effort is to understand
the spread of infectious diseases and
to estimate and subsequently predict the impact of control measures on
their spread.
Modeling can reduce the uncertainty of the estimates of disease
prevalence and aid in the development of scientific understanding of the
mechanisms of the disease and of the epidemic. It can also estimate the
benefits and the costs of projected interventions and project the
requirements that an epidemic will place on the health care system.
Thus, the modeling techniques can join with biological, epidemiological,
behavioral, and social science studies to produce better projections and
better understanding of the epidemic I will describe a flexible,
stochastic agent-based decision simulation model for understanding the
spread of a disease within a major city and compare it with a class of
deterministic differential equation models.
"Physics-Based Multi-Cell Modeling of Biological Development using the GGH Model and CompuCell3D--Application, Technology and Open Problems"
James A. Glazier (Biocomplexity Insitute and Dapartment of Physics, Indiana University)
4PM Monday December 3rd
340 West Hall
Announced by Biophysics and Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM)
"From Microscopic to Macroscopic - Mechanics Underlying Epileptic Seizures", May 8-10, 2007 in Forum Hall (4th Floor of Palmer Commons), University of Michigan's Central Campus.
The talks will be open to the public. However, if you will be attending
the talks, please be sure to register to help the local organizers
adequately prepare coffee breaks and discussions. You can simply
register by clicking on the following link:
http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2007/Epi/regi.html
For the workshop homepage for program and other details click here:
http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2007/Epi/index.html
Sponsors:
Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Medical School
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School
Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Office of Vice President, Dean for Research, University of Michigan
Medical School
Updated January 9, 2007
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