Departmental Colloquia

Departmental Colloquia 2013

Date Title Speaker & Institution Venue
29 Apr 2013 Towards a Broader View of Theory of Computing Prof. Narendra Karmarkar
Scientific Advisor in High Performance Computing, Govt. of India
B6605
23 Apr 2013 The Stochastics of Diagnostic and Threat Detection Tests Prof. Nozer Darabsha Singpurwalla
City University of Hong Kong
B6605
19 Mar 2013 Continuum Models for Dislocation Structure, Energy and Dynamics of Dislocation Arrays and Low Angle Grain Boundaries Prof. Yang Xiang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
B6605
5 Mar 2013 The Life and the Work of André Louis Cholesky Prof. Claude Brezinski
University of Lille, France
B6605
19 Feb 2013 Interconnected Balance Sheets, Market Liquidity, and the Amplification Effect in a Financial System Prof. Nan Chen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
B6605
29 Jan 2013 Understanding Metastability in Gene Expression Prof. Tiejun Li
Peking University, PRC
B6605
14 Jan 2013 Robust and Stochastic Behavior for Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Development Prof. Qing Nie
University of California, USA
Y5111

Departmental Colloquia 2012

Date Title Speaker & Institution Venue
28 Nov 2012 Global Entropy Solutions to the Compressible Euler Equations in Transonic Flows Prof. Meng-Kai Hong
National Central University, Taiwan
B6605
6 Nov 2012 A Change-of-Variable Approach to Conditional Monte Carlo Prof. Guangwu Liu
City University of Hong Kong
Y5402
31 Oct 2012 The Staggered Discontinuous Galerkin Method Dr. Eric Chung
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Y5110
17 Oct 2012 Stability and Convergence Analysis of the Nonlinear Epitaxial Growth Model without Slope Selection Dr. Zhonghua Qiao
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
B6605
3 Oct 2012 Matrix Decomposition and Moving Object Detection Prof. Xin Li
University of Central Florida, USA
B6605
19 Sep 2012 Partial Expansion of a Lipschitz Domain Dr. Frederick W. F. Qiu
City University of Hong Kong
B6605

Departmental Colloquia 2011

Date Title Speaker & Institution Venue
22 Nov 2011 Matrix Techniques in Quantum Information Science Research Prof. Chi Kwong Li
College of William and Mary & HKUST
Y5110
4 Nov 2011 Partition Function Differences and the Anti-Telescoping Method Prof. George E. Andrews
Penn State University, USA
B4302
28 Sep 2011 Recent Progress on Elliptic Homogenization Problems Prof. Zhongwei Shen
University of Kentucky and IMS, CUHK
B6605
29 Mar 2011 Stationary Stokes and Navier-Stokes Equations Prof. Chérif Amrouche
University of Pau, France
B6605
15 Mar 2011 On a Problem posed by Steve Smale Prof. Peter Buergisser
University of Paderborn, Germany
B6605
01 Mar 2011 Optimal Adaptive Sampling Recovery Prof. Dinh Dung
Vietnam National University, Vietnam
B6605
15 Feb 2011 On the Pullback Equation Prof. Bernard Dacorogna
Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland
B6605
18 Jan 2011 Finding Solutions with Small Support
(with Subtitle: How L1-Approximation Promotes Sparsity)
Prof. Allan Pinkus
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
B6605
04 Jan 2011 Wiener's Lemma and Nonlinear Sampling Theory Prof. Qiyu Sun
University of Central Florida, USA
B6605

Departmental Colloquia 2010

Date Title Speaker & Institution Venue
01 Dec 2010 Duality Mappings in Sobolev Spaces with Variable Exponents Prof. George Dinca
University of Bucharest, Romania
B6605
17 Nov 2010 Distributing Points on the Sphere Mr. Diego Armentano
Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
B6605
03 Nov 2010 Finite Element Approximations in Electronic Structure Calculations Prof. Aihui Zhou
Chinese Academy Sciences, PRC
B6605
31 Mar 2010 Optimal Numerical Approximation of Piecewise-smooth Functions on R Prof. Leszek Plaskota
University of Warsaw
B6605
17 Mar 2010 Asymptotics of Optimal Configurations on the Sphere: from smale's Problem 7 to Best Packing Prof. Douglas P Hardin
Vanderbilt University
Y4701
03 Mar 2010 Nonstandard Kernels and Their Applications Prof. Robert Schaback
University of Goettingen
B6605
03 Feb 2010 R. William Gosper and his Identities Prof. Mourad E. H. Ismail
City University of Hong Kong
B6605
13 Jan 2010 Spectral Methods for Learning High Dimensional Data Dr. Lorenzo Rosasco
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Universita' di Genova
B6605