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GGAM Mini-conference (all afternoon)

GGAM Colloquium

Speaker: Alan Hastings, Bruno Nachtergaele, Shu-Hua Chen, Janko Gravner, Sharon Aviran, Steve Shkoller
Related Webpage: http://appliedmath.ucdavis.edu/blog/ggam-mini-conference-2018
Location: MSB
Start time: Thu, Feb 15 2018, 1:10PM

GGAM mini-conference: Thursday, February 15, all afternoon. There will be inspiring talks by GGAM faculty, a poster session, and a reception with Lunar New Year celebration.

1:10–1:30 Talk – Bruno Nachtergaele: Quantum States of Matter — Unravelling Hidden Structure

1:40–2:00 Talk – Shu-Hua Chen: Weather Application of Numerical Modeling

2:00–2:20 Talk – Steve Shkoller: PDE methods for numerical shock wave collision, contact discontinuity evolution, and noise removal

2:20–3:00 Coffee break / Poster Session

3:00–3:20 Talk – Janko Gravner: Long-range growth models

3:20–3:40 Talk – Sharon Aviran: patteRNA: transcriptome-wide search for functional RNA elements via structural data signatures

3:40–4:00 Talk – Alan Hastings: Spatio-temporal dynamics in ecology

4–6 GGAM Reception and Lunar New Year celebration (jointly with Dept. of Mathematics) – in MSB courtyard