Seminars for Spring 2009

Web-Scale Language Models and Data
Peter Norvig - Google
Monday, March 30, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Mathematical challenges in Next-Generation Aviation
Bruce Sawhill
Monday, April 6, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Reduced Modeling and Numerical Investigation of the Magnetorotational Instability
Keith Julien - Applied Mathematics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Monday, April 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Dynamics and Control of Formation Flying Satellites
Terry Alfriend - NPS Monterey
Monday, April 20, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Quantifying Connectivity in the Coastal Ocean
David Siegel - UC Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Institute for Computational Ear
Monday, April 27, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Gravity waves and tidal friction
Neil Balmforth - UBC
Monday, May 4, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Reproductive Ecology and Scientific Inference of Steepness, A Fundamental Metric of Population Dynamics and Strategic Fisheries Management
Marc Mangel - Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UCSC
Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Selective Genotyping and Phenotyping Strategies in a Complex Trait Context
Saunak Sen - Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Monday, May 18, 2009, 4:00 PM - Baskin Engineering Building, Room 330
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud

Statistical issues in the analysis of contingency tables
Adrian Dobra, Department of Statistics and Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, U
Monday, June 1, 2009, 4:00 PM - Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Hosted By Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud