Whiting School of Engineering


Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics


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Seminars

The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the Whiting School of Engineering on the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University hosts a weekly colloquium on Thursdays at 1:30 PM on the third floor of Whitehead Hall, Room 304. (Followed by refreshments at 2:30 PM in Room 301.)

Seminars are held in 304 Whitehead Hall unless otherwise noted. Here are directions to the Homewood Campus and to Whitehead Hall. You can subscribe to email announcements of our seminars.

 

Seminars Schedule for Spring 2012

Thursday, February 2 2012
Ed Scheinerman (Johns Hopkins University)
The Implict Representations of Graphs Conjecture

 

Thursday, February 9 2012
Cancelled

 

Tuesday, February 14
Amitabh Basu (University of California, Davis)
Corner Polyhedra and Maximal Lattice-free Convex Bodies : A Fresh Geometric Approach to Cutting Plane theory

 

Thursday, February 16 2012
Anke van Zuylen (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
The Subtour LP for the Traveling Salesman Problem

 

Tuesday, February 21 2012
Gwen Spencer (Cornell University)
Optimally Fragmenting Graphs Against Stochastically-located Threats: Containing Wildfire, Invasive Species, and Epidemics

 

Thursday, February 23 2012
Rico Zenklusen (MIT)
Tackling Hard Combinatorial Optimization Problems via Negatively Correlated Rounding

 

Tuesday, February 28 2012
Sergey Nadtochiy (Oxford-Man Institute)

 

Thursday, March 1 2012
James Primbs (Stanford University)
Portfolio Optimization under Transaction Costs via Linear-Quadratic and Receding Horizon Methods

 

Tuesday, March 6 2012
Stephan Sturm (Princeton University)
From Smile Wings to Market Risk Measures

 

Thursday, March 8 2012

 

Thursday, March 15 2012

 

Thursday, March 22 2012
Spring Break

No Seminar

 

Thursday, March 29 2012
Sri Sarma (Johns Hopkins University

 

Thursday, April 5 2012
Frank Curtis (Lehigh University)

 

Thursday, April 12 2012 & Friday, April 13 2012
The Duncan Lectures 2012
Gerard Ben Arous (New York University)

 

Thursday, April 19 2012
Dan Ullman (George Washington University)


Thursday, April 26 2012


Thursday, May 2 2012
Jim Fill (Johns Hopkins University)