The University of Michigan Student AIM Seminar |
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Meetings are held on Wednesday afternoons from 3-4 PM in 3096 EH.
Abstracts for the talks are posted below when they become available.
Date |
Name |
Topic |
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January 30, 2008 |
Open Room |
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February 6, 2008 |
Open Room |
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February 13, 2008 |
Open Room |
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February 20, 2008 |
Open Room |
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February 27, 2008 |
Spring Break |
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March 5, 2008 |
Open Room |
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March 12, 2008 |
Jared Whitehead |
The Dam Problem and its Dam Consequences |
March 19, 2008 |
Arvind Baskaran |
Crystal Growth : An Excuse to do Math |
March 26, 2008 |
Geri Izbicki |
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April 2, 2008 |
Henry Boateng |
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April 9, 2008 |
Open Room |
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During times when the topic is "Open Room", the room is reserved for AIM students to congregate.
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ABSTRACTS
This part of the site will be updated once abstracts are submitted to me. You can email me your abstract here.
March 12 - Jared Whitehead, "The Dam Problem and its Dam Consequences"
Abstract: The shallow water equations are one example of a hyperbolic PDE that are found in nature.
In particular they may be used to model the effective flow of a river after a dam
breaks. We will determine the solution in this specific instance, and show how the shock
is carried downstream.
March 19 - Arvind Baskaran, "Crystal Growth : An Excuse to do Math"
Abstract: I will use crystal growth as an excuse to talk about some techniques used to study this
problem. I will use the first few minutes defining the free energy for this system, then spend half of the remaining time talking about Kinetic Monte Carlo as a tool to understand the dynamics based on the free energy. Then I will use the remaining time to talk about a continuum approach to study the same.