The focus of this seminar is various methods in scientific computing, the analysis of their convergence properties and computational efficiency, and their adaptation to specific applications.

The seminar meets Mondays, 1:25-2:15 pm, in 406 Gates Hall.

Date	Speaker and Title
Aug 28	Vera Babenko (Math, Ithaca College) A generalized approach to the numerical analysis of set-valued and fuzzy-valued functions
Sep 11	Anil Damle (Computer Science, Cornell University) Robust and efficient multi-way spectral clustering
Sep 18	Austin Benson (Computer Science, Cornell University) Higher-order spectral graph clustering with motifs
Sep 25	David Bindel (Computer Science, Cornell University) Stochastic LA for scaling GPs
Oct 02	Kyle Wilson (Math and CS, Washington College) Towards Characterizing Local Minima in an SO(3) Synchronization Problem
Oct 16	Yudong Chen (ORIE, Cornell University) Exponential error rates of semidefinite programming for block models
Oct 23	David Kammer (CEE, Cornell University) Cohesive approach to modeling friction
Oct 30	Cecile Piret (Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University) The Fast Radial Basis Functions Orthogonal Gradients (RBF-OGr) method for solving PDEs on arbitrary surfaces
Nov 06	Heather Wilber (CAM, Cornell University) On the singular values of matrices with high displacement rank
	Mandy Xia (Computer Science, Cornell University) A Full Wave-based BRDF Generator
Nov 13	Nicolas Boulle (CAM, Cornell University) Deflation continuation with symmetry groups
	Kun Dong (CAM, Cornell University) Density fitting through centroidal voronoi tessellation
Nov 20	Sebastian Ament (Computer Science, Cornell University) Algorithms for the Phase-Mapping Problem in Materials Science
	David Eriksson (CAM, Cornell University) On solving systems of equations with block Kronecker structure
Nov 27	Marc Gilles and Alex Vladimirsky (CAM and Math, Cornell University) Adversarial path planning
Dec 04	Henk Dijkstra (Utrecht)