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Creator:: Ghrist, Robert (University of Pennsylvania)
Created:: 2018-05-23
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: One of the major targets for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments is the precision mapping of CMB distortions due to the gravitational lensing effect of dark matter. Estimating this lensing is important for two reasons. First, lensing probes the nature of dark matter fluctuations in the sky. Second, lensing estimates can...
Creator:: Anderes, Ethan (University of California, Davis)
Created:: 2018-02-23
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: Some control problems are explicitly solved for bilinear evolution equations where the noise is a Gauss-Volterra process. The Gauss-Volterra noise processes are obtained from the integral of a Brownian motion with a suitable kernel function. These noise processes include fractional Brownian motions with Hurst parameter from (1/2, 1), Liouville f...
Creator:: Pasik-Duncan, Bozenna (University of Kansas)
Created:: 2018-05-11
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: Mean field game theory has been developed largely following two routes by different researchers. One route, called the direct approach, starts by solving a large-scale game and next derives a set of limiting equations. The second route is to apply mean field approximations and formalize a fixed point problem by obtaining the best response of a r...
Creator:: Huang, Minyi (Carleton University)
Created:: 2018-05-11
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: Lipids are natures liquid crystals, ridged rods with a charged head group. They spontaneously generate bilayer interfaces that are acted upon by surface proteins to produce the most dynamic of cellular organelles, the endoplasmic reticulum. The surface proteins alter the lipid-lipid interactions to induce elaborate morphological control, and to ...
Creator:: Promislow, Keith (Michigan State University)
Created:: 2018-03-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: In the first part of the talk I will overview our recent progress in chemical and biological sensors based on optical effects of liquid crystals. In addition to the optical changes caused by director realignment at the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOC) or biological analytes, we will also describe novel shape changing effects. One of ...
Creator:: Jakli, Antal (Kent State University)
Created:: 2018-02-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic condition characterized by the lack of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. The artificial pancreas is a system of devices which has the potential to act as a healthy pancreas, thereby alleviating the burdens of self-management of Type 1 Diabetes. While the physical components of the artificial pancreas -- t...
Creator:: Wei, Susan (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:: 2018-03-05
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers study not only the design of the interface but also the setting in which computing is embedded, the needs of people in various contexts, and the activities they engage in while using various forms of computing. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the variety of research methods used in the H...
Creator:: Zhu, Haiyi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:: 2018-03-05
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: We can improve the detection of targets and anomalies in a cluttered background by more effectively estimating that background. With a good estimate of what the target-free radiance or reflectance ought to be at a pixel, we have a point of comparison with what the measured value of that pixel actually happens to be. It is common to make this est...
Creator:: Theiler, James (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Created:: 2018-10-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04

Description:: We consider the problem of learning models of scattering that decomposes scene returns into a set of scattering centers with limited persistence by utilizing sparsity of scattering coefficients. We consider both mono-static and bi-static radar collection geometries along wide-angle trajectories. The resulting sparse model can be interrogated at ...
Creator:: Bouman, Charles (Purdue University)
Created:: 2018-10-23
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Last Updated:: 2019-02-04