Applied Math Seminars

Winter 2024

This term, the applied math seminars will take place on Fridays from 2:45pm to 3:45pm in STEM 464.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
February 9 Omar Cayley University of Ottawa A proposed numerical method for the 3-dimensional wave equation
March 1 Christina Cobbold University of Glasgow The role of individuals in determining the impacts of changing environments on population dynamics
March 15 Jason Bramburger Concordia University Transferability of Graph Neural Networks using Graphons
March 15 Blaise Bourdin McMaster University Phase-field models of fracture
March 22 Harry Gaebler Ecometrix Modelling for Mine Water and Environmental Management
April 5 Jordan Barrett Toronto Metropolitan University Hypergraph simpliciality
May 10 Sarah Wyse University of British Columbia Okanagan The Role of Committed Minorities in Climate Change Action: Qualitative Insights from a Social-Climate Model

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Fall 2023

This term, the applied math seminars will take place on Fridays from 2pm to 3pm in STEM 664.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
September 22 Frithjof Lutscher University of Ottawa Some random and not so random aspects of bifurcations and transients
September 28 Frank Hilker University of Osnabrueck Semi-discrete population models with variable harvest timing: When is it best to harvest a population?
September 29 Nataliia Monina University of Ottawa Preliminary results on Non-commutative Optimal Transport for semi-definite positive matrices
October 6 Augusto Gerolin University of Ottawa Matrix and Operator Scaling
October 13 André Garon Polytechnique Montréal Transfinite Interpolations and Eulerian/Lagrangian Dynamics
November 3 Félix Kwok Wing Hong Université Laval Parallel-in-time integration
November 10 Serge Prudhomme Polytechnique Montréal Accurate Approximations of Boundary-Value Problems using Multi-level Neural Networks
November 17 Maria Teresa Chiri Queen's University Optimal Control of Moving Sets
December 1 Emma Lagracie Université de Bordeaux A coupled surface heart-torso model for the inverse problem of cardiac electrophysiology
December 8 Victor LeBlanc University of Ottawa Rotational symmetry and rotating waves in IDEs
December 15 Danial Saadatmand Brock University Scattering and collision of solitons and solitary waves in nonlinear Klein-Gordon Models



Winter 2023

This term, the Applied Math (AM) seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 1pm to 2pm in STEM 664 and will be time-sharing with the Machine Learning (ML) Seminar.

Date Type Speaker Affiliation Title
January 9 ML Ziqiao Wang University of Ottawa Information-Theoretic Analysis of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
January 23 AM James G. McDonald University of Ottawa Maximum-Entropy Moment Methods for Rarefied Gases, Multiphase Flows, and Other Applications
February 13 AM Ionut Farcas UT Austin Context-aware learning of low-fidelity models for multi-fidelity uncertainty quantification
March 6 AM Christopher Henderson University of Arizona The shape defect function and stability of traveling waves
March 13 AM Aram-Alexandre Pooladian New York University Introduction to Statistical Optimal Transport
March 20 ML Andre Wibisono Yale University Sampling with Langevin Algorithms in Continuous and Discrete Times
March 27 AM Olga Vasilyeva Memorial University of Newfoundland Phase-plane analysis of steady states of a spruce budworm model with advection
April 3 ML Vincent Létourneau University of Ottawa Spectral graph theory and graph representation learning
April 10 AM Farshad Shirani Georgia Institute of Technology Competition, Phenotypic Adaptation, and the Evolution of a Species' Range

Fall 2022

This term, the applied math seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 3pm to 4pm in STEM 364.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
September 7 Stacey Smith? University of Ottawa Modelling the ability of mass drug administration to interrupt soil-transmitted helminth transmission: Community-based deworming in Kenya as a case study
September 21 Kirill Korolev Boston University Universality classes in traveling waves modeled by stochastic reaction-diffusion equations
October 12 Emmanuel Lorin Carleton University Schwarz Waveform Relaxation-Learning for Evolution PDE
October 19 Afroditi Talidou University of Ottawa Myelination as a modulator of axonal conduction and neural communication
November 2 Adolfo Vargas-Jimenez University of Ottawa A general condition for uniqueness in the Multi-marginal optimal transport
November 9 Francesca Bernardi Worcester Polytechnic Institute Diffusion two ways: How domain geometry affects passive diffusion at the microscale
November 16 Sabrina Streipert University of Pittsburgh Derivation of Discrete Population Models and their Analysis using the Augmented Phase Portrait
November 23 Tyler Meadows Queen's University Self-cycling fermentation with multiple resources
November 30 Rebeccas Tyson UBC Kelowna TBD

Winter 2022

This term, the applied math seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 2pm to 3pm on Zoom (link provided by email and in the bulletin).

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
January 19 Soeren Bartels University of Freiburg Error estimates for nonconforming and discontinuous discretizations of nonsmooth problems via convex duality
February 2 Sara Clifton St. Olaf College Understanding complex social systems using minimal mathematical models
February 16 Frank Hilker University of Osnabrueck Threshold-based harvest strategies in difference equation models
March 2 Stéphanie Portet University of Manitoba Intracellular transport of intermediate filaments
March 16 Iraj Yadegari University of Ottawa The herd immunity threshold must be updated for multi-vaccine strategies and multiple variants
March 30 Simone Brugiapaglia Concordia University The curse of dimensionality and the blessings of sparsity and Monte Carlo sampling: From polynomial approximation to deep learning in high dimensions
April 6 Oliver Tse TU Eindhoven Pulse-based Variational Quantum Optimal Control for hybrid quantum computing
April 13 Florian Gunsilius University of Michigan Matching for causal effects via multimarginal optimal transport

Fall 2021

This term, the applied math seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 1pm to 2pm on Zoom (link provided by email and in the bulletin).

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
November 3 Stacey Smith? University of Ottawa Using non-smooth models to determine thresholds for microbial pest management
November 17 Erica Rutter University of California, Merced Mathematically Modeling COVID-19 on College Campuses
November 24 Chengjun Sun Kunming University of Science and Technology Effect of media-induced modification of travel rates on disease transmission in a multiple patch setting
December 8 Sergei Petrovskii University of Leicester Catastrophes, extinctions, and long transients in the plankton-oxygen dynamics under the climate change