GGAM Mini-Conference - January 2012

The 7th Annual GGAM Mini-Conference will convene on Saturday, January 21, 2012. According to this year's conference coordinator, James Bremer, and GGAM Chair, Naoki Saito, the conference manifests what GGAM itself is all about. This will be a coming together between faculty, across campus, and our students, in order to facilitate fruitful collaborations. In an informal forum, faculty will describe their research interests, giving students an opportunity to experience the broad directions available to them in applied mathematics. And though the conference may be called "GGAM", our Math students are certainly encouraged to attend as well.

Do note that all first and second year students can receive 1 unit of credit if they officially register for this year's mini-conference. The CRN number to register is #40270.

The next GGAM mini-conference will be held on Saturday, January 21, 2012, in room 1147 of the Mathematical Sciences Building. Below is a list of speakers and their topic.

Start Time	Speaker	Department	Title
9:30-9:45	Welcome and Introduction
9:45-10:15	Dan Romik	Math and Applied Math	Random Sorting Networks and Exclusion Processes
10:15-10:45	Sam Walcott	Math and Applied Math	Using Math (Integro-PDEs and Solution Approximations) to Understand Muscle Contractions
10:45-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30	Albert Fannjiang	Math and Applied Math	Fourier Phase Retrieval and Imaging
11:30-12:00	Tim Lewis	Math and Applied Math	The Neural Mechanisms of Coordinated Locomotion
12:00-12:30	Niels Jensen	Applied Science	Nonlinear Dynamics of Driven-Damped Pendulum Equations: It's Still a Relevant System
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:00	John Owens	Electrical and Computer Engineering	GPUs, Programmable Graphics, and Beyond?
2:00-2:30	Qing Zhao	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Stochastic Learning and Optimization in Dynamic Systems
2:30-3:00	Bob Guy	Math and Applied Math	Low Reynolds Number Swimming in Mixtures
3:00 - 3:15	Coffee Break
3:15-3:45	John Hunter	Math and Applied Math	Surface Waves
3:45 - 4:15	Matthias Koeppe	Math and Applied Math	Discrete and Mixed-Integer Optimization
4:15	Adjourn

Dinner to follow in room 1147 of the Mathematical Sciences Building. RSVPs from invited guests are due to Perry Gee (studentservices@math.ucdavis.edu) no later than 2:00p on Friday, December 23, 2011.