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# MSCS Seminar Calendar

Monday January 24, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Packing and locomotion with friction
Silas Alben (U Michigan)
4:00 PM in Zoom
We discuss two problems dealing with the motions of thin deformable bodies under frictional forces. In the first problem, elastic filaments are confined within slowly-shrinking circular boundaries. The filaments undergo deformations that are a mixture of spiraling and bifurcations, primarily the former with small friction and the latter with large friction. With zero friction, a simple model predicts that the maximum curvature and the total elastic energy scale as the wall radius to the -3/2 and -2 powers respectively. With nonzero friction, the elastic energy follows a similar scaling but with a prefactor up to 8 times larger, due to delayering and bending with a range of small curvatures. The second problem examines models of snakes as thin filaments that deform and locomote due to friction. We examine optimal motions of two-link, three-link, and smooth bodies with a variety of friction coefficients. With large friction transverse to the snake, the optimal motion is a retrograde traveling wave with amplitude scaling as the friction coefficient the -1/4 power. With zero transverse friction, a triangular direct wave is optimal. Between these extremes we find a variety of local optima including standing waves (or ratcheting motions).
Wednesday January 26, 2022
Commutative Algebra Seminar
Partial Trace Ideals and Berger's Conjecture
Sarasij Maitra (University of Virginia)
3:00 PM in Zoom
We shall define an invariant that helps in obtaining information regarding the torsion submodule of a finitely generated rank one module over a one-dimensional Noetherian local domain. We shall briefly go through some properties of this and see how this can be applied to a long-standing conjecture of R. Berger concerning the module of differentials over an analytic $k$-algebra. If time permits, then we shall also state and prove an explicit computation of the invariant in this case.
Monday January 31, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Evelyn Richman (UIC)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO

Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Evelyn Richman (UIC)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
Monday February 7, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Paolo Piersanti (Indiana U)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
Monday February 14, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Anuj Kumar (UC Santa Cruz)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
Monday February 21, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Yu Gu (University of Maryland)
4:00 PM in Zoom
Monday February 28, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Brian Seguin (Loyola U)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
Wednesday March 2, 2022
Statistics and Data Science Seminar
TBA
Yumou Qiu (Iowa State University )
4:00 PM in Zoom
Monday March 7, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Daesung Kim (UIUC)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
TBA
Wednesday March 9, 2022
Statistics and Data Science Seminar
TBA
Alexander Petersen (Brigham Young University)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
Monday March 14, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
TBA
Wednesday March 16, 2022
Commutative Algebra Seminar
TBA
Jiamin LI (UIC)
3:00 PM in Zoom

Commutative Algebra Seminar
TBA
Jiamin LI (UIC)
3:00 PM in Zoom
Friday March 18, 2022
Departmental Colloquium
TBA
3:00 PM in 636 SEO
Wednesday March 30, 2022
Commutative Algebra Seminar
TBA
Jason McCullough (Iowa State University)
3:00 PM in Zoom

Statistics and Data Science Seminar
TBA
Peijun Sang (University of Waterloo)
4:00 PM in Zoom
Friday April 8, 2022
Departmental Colloquium
TBA
Shiv Karunakaran (Michigan State University)
3:00 PM in Zoom
Wednesday April 13, 2022
Statistics and Data Science Seminar
TBA
Yong Zeng (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
4:00 PM in Zoom
Monday April 18, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Oussama Landoulsi (Florida International University)
4:00 PM in Zoom
Wednesday April 20, 2022
Statistics and Data Science Seminar
TBA
Linglong Kong (University of Alberta)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
Monday September 19, 2022
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar
TBA
Andrej Zlatos (UC San Diego)
4:00 PM in 636 SEO
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