Events

Wofoo Public Lecture in Mathematics

• Prof. Tianxin Cai, Zhejiang University, Modern Mathematics and Modern Arts, (photo) February 18, 2009
• Dr. Alena Solcova, Czech Technical University, Prague, What Mathematics is Hidden Behind the Astronomical Clock of Prague?, (photo) February 22, 2008

Distinguished Applied Mathematics Lecture Series

• Prof. Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University, Mathematical Models of Competing Phytoplankton Species for Light in a Water Column, May 13, 2013
• Prof. Zuowei Shen, National University of Singapore, Image Restoration: Wavelet Frame Approach, Total Variation and Beyond, (photo) December 11, 2012
• Prof. An-min Li, Sichuan University, The Extremal Kahler Metrics on Toric Manifolds, February 14, 2012
• Prof. Boju Jiang, Peking University, 一個幾何公式的故事 —— 從扭轉、絞擰到基因、藤蔓、太陽爆發, November 25, 2011
• Prof. Xian-Tu He, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Nonlinear evolution of ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability, April 12, 2010
• Prof. Weiyue Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Recent Progresses on Schrodinger Flows, March 29, 2010
• Prof. Lin Qun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, High Accuracy Analysis of Finite Element Methods with applications for convection-diffusion problems, March 9, 2010
• Prof. Vidar Thomée, Chalmers University of Technology, Maximum-Principles in Parabolic Finite Element Problems, February 2, 2010
• 項武義, 美國柏克萊加州大學, 千古之謎與幾何、天文、物理兩千年, December 1, 2009 (First and Second Lectures) and December 3, 2009 (Third Lecture)
• Prof. Liqun Qi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Higher Order Positive Semi-Definite Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Space Tensor Conic Programming, October 16, 2009
• Prof. Yinyu Ye, Stanford University, A Unified Framework for Dynamic Pari-Mutuel Information Market Design: A Case of On-Line Optimization, June 24, 2009
• Prof. Tatsien Li, Fudan University, Applied Partial Differential Equations in Electrical Well-Loggings, December 7, 2007
• Prof. Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington, High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods and Applications to Tsunami Modeling, June 25, 2007
• Prof. Zhiming Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Intersection Between Probability and Other Branches of Mathematics and Sciences, December 18, 2006
• Prof. Stanley Osher, UCLA, Bregman Iteration, Inverse Scale Space, Cartoon/Texture Decomposition, Recovery of Signal from "Noise" and Other New Techniques in PDE Based Image Restoration, October 13, 2006
• Prof. Philippe G. Ciarlet, City University of Hong Kong, A Quick Introduction to Differential Geometry and to Some of Its Applications, April 7, 2006
• Prof. Zhong-ci Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Low Order Quadrilateral Finite Elements for Reissner-Mindlin Plate Model, January 13, 2006
• Prof. Harald Niederreiter, National University of Singapore, A guided tour of quasi-Monte Carlo methods, June 17, 2005
• Prof. Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland, Numerical Algorithms: from Small Scale Dynamics to Large Scale Phenomena, June 2, 2005
• Prof. Tony Chan, UCLA, Combining PDEs and Wavelets in Image Processing, April 15, 2005
• Prof. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Cluster Computing: You've Come A Long Way In A Short Time, December 14, 2004
• Prof. Rahul Mukerjee, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, On the Existence of Orthogonal Arrays, May 25, 2004
• Prof. Peter Hall, Australian National University, Locating Lines Among Scatted Points, March 16, 2004
• Prof. Thomas F. Coleman, Cornell University, Computational Optimization Problems in Practical Finance, December 4, 2003
• Prof. Gene H. Golub, Stanford University, Matrix Computations: Past, Present and Future, December 9, 2002
• Prof. K. C. Chang, Peking University, Heat Method in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations, November 19, 2002

Conferences and Workshops

• The Third International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, 8-12 December, 2008.
• International Workshop on Numerical Analysis and Computational Methods for Functional Differential and Integral Equations, 3-6 December, 2007.
• The State of Mathematics Research and Doing Postgraduate Research in Germany, 4:00-5:30pm, December 16, 2005.
• The 2nd International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations & The First East Asia SIAM Symposium, December 12-16, 2005.
• Summer Research and Working Group on Large Scale Computations for Fluid Dynamics, May 20 - August 20, 2005.
• International Conference on Statistics in Honour of Professor Kai-Tai Fang's 65th Birthday, June 20 - 24, 2005.
• A Workershop on Adaptive Method, Theory and Application, Peking University, June 20 - August 20, 2005.
• Canada-China Workshop on Industrial Mathematics, May 23 - 26, 2005.
• Opening Ceremony, May 10, 2004. (Photo)
• Workshop on Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, May 7, 2004. (Photo)
• The Second Workshop on Multiscale Modeling and Computation, Aug 15-16, 2003.
• International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, December 12-15, 2002. Selected papers have been published in the American Mathematical Society's Contemporary Mathematics Series.

Colloquium

• Prof. Tien-yien Li, Michigan State University, Solving Polynomial Systems by the Homotopy Continuation Method, June 1, 2, 8, 9, 10 & 13, 2011
• Prof. Uri Ascher, University of British Columbia, Fast Gradient Descent, Artificial Time Integration, and Applications to Image and Surface Reconstruction, May 22, 2009
• Prof. Jianya Liu, Shandong University, Two Millennium Problems: RH and BSDC, May 12, 2009