Fall 2011----Spring 2012


Student Chapter Seminar Series (32)


Time:  5:00-6:00 p.m. 11/15/2011
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker:     Dr. Pawel Pralat
             Ryerson University, Toronto

Title: Sparse Graphs are Not Flammable

 


Fall 2011----Spring 2012


Student Chapter Seminar Series (31)


Time:  4:30-5:30 p.m. 09/21/2011
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker:     Xing Peng
             University of South Carolina

Title:    Monochromatic 4-term arithmetic progressions in 2-colorings of Z_{n}

 


Fall 2010----Spring 2011


Student Chapter Seminar Series (30)


Time:  11:00-12:00 a.m. 04/26/2011
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker:     Dr. Benjamin Berkels
             University of South Carolina

Title: Cartoon Extraction Based on Anisotropic Image Classification

 


Fall 2010----Spring 2011


Student Chapter Seminar Series (29)


Time:  3:30-4:30pm, 03/28/2011
Place:  LeConte 412
 
Speaker:     Dr. Brian Straughan
             Durham University, UK

Title: Modeling Binge Drinking

 


Fall 2010----Spring 2011


Student Chapter Seminar Series (28)


Time:  3:00-4:00pm, 02/24/2011
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker:     Steve Harris
             Savannah River Project

Title: Statistical Sampling for in-Service Inspection of High-Level Liquid Waste Tanks at the Savannah River Site

 


Fall 2010----Spring 2011


Student Chapter Seminar Series (27)


Time:  11:15-12:15 12/3/2010 (Friday)
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker:     Paisa Seeluangsawat
             Department of Mathematics
             University of South Carolina

Title:   A Graduate Student's Life in Numerical Computation

 


Fall 2010----Spring 2011


Student Chapter Seminar Series (26)


Time:  3:00-4:00pm, 10/01/2010 (Friday) 
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker:     Wei-Tian Li
             Department of Mathematics
             University of South Carolina

Title:   Diamond-Free Families


Fall 2009----Spring 2010


Student Chapter Seminar Series (25)


Time:  1:00-2:00pm, 04/23/2010 (Friday) 
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker:     Kamala Diefenthaler
             Department of Mathematics
             University of South Carolina

Title:   Utilization of Adaptive Methods for Domain Subdivision

 

Student Chapter Seminar Series (24)


Time:  3:30-4:30pm, 03/26/2010 (Friday) 
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker:     Xiao Xiao
             Department of Mathematics
             University of South Carolina

Title:  Over-relaxation Lloyd method for computing centroidal Voronoi tessellations

 

Student Chapter Seminar Series (23)


Time:  3:30-4:30pm, 02/04/2010 (Thursday) 
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker:     Yiting Yang         
             Department of Mathematics
             University of South Carolina

Title:  A theorem on Randic index and diameter of a graph 

Student Chapter Seminar Series (22)


Time:   3:30pm Tuesday, Nov 10st 2009
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Prof.Alexander Yankovsky
         
             Marine Science Program, Department of Geological Sciences
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: Large-scale edge waves generated by hurricane landfall


Fall 2008----Spring 2009


Student Chapter Seminar Series (21)


Time:   4:00pm Wednesday, Apr 1st 2009
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Xing Peng
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: On Meyniel’s conjecture of the cop number

Student Chapter Seminar Series (20)


Time:   12:20pm Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Entao Liu
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: Compressive Sensing and Greedy Algorithms

Student Chapter Seminar Series (19)


Time:   3:30pm Tuesday, OCT 7, 2008
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Li Tian
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: A Posteriori Error Estimates for Finite Volume Approximation of Elliptic Equations on General Surfaces


Fall 2007----Spring 2008


Student Chapter Seminar Series (18)


Time:   12:00 pm Friday, Mar 28, 2008
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Yiting Yang
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: Some new results on genome rearrangements

Student Chapter Seminar Series (17)


Time:   12:10 pm Friday, Feb 22, 2007
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Kelly Jordan
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: The Necklace Poset is a Symmetric Chain Order

Student Chapter Seminar Series (16)


Time:   12:20 pm Friday, Oct 26, 2007
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Francisco Blanco-Silva
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet

Student Chapter special Lecture


Time:   3:30pm Thursday, Oct 4, 2007
 
Place:   LeConte 412
 
Speaker: Xiangqiang Wang
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              Florida State University

Title: Phase field method and its applications to biological microstructures


Fall 2006----Spring 2007


Student Chapter Seminar Series (15)


Time:   12:00 pm Friday, May 4, 2007
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Luke Owens
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
              University of South Carolina

Title: A W-Cycle Algorithm for a Weakly Over-penalized Interior Penalty Method

Student Chapter Seminar Series (14)


Time:   2:00 pm Tuesday, February 13, 2007
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: John Chrispell and Jason Howell
         
             Department of Mathematical Sciences
 
              Clemson University

Title: Finite Element Approximation of Partial Differential Equations Using \texttt{FreeFem++}

Student Chapter Seminar Series (13)


Time:   3:30 pm Wednesday, February 7, 2007
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Dr. Peter Binev
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             University of South Carolina

Title: Adaptive Strategies in Finite Element Methods

Special Lecture


Time:   1:30 pm Thursday, October 26, 2006
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Professor John Burkardt
         
             School of Computational Science
 
              Florida State University

Title: Turning Data into Information with the SVD


Fall 2005----Spring 2006


End of Semester Get Together


Dr. Fengyan Li and Kening Wang from the Department of Mathematics will discuss their recent experience in successful job searches.  
 
Time:   3:00 pm Tuesday, April 25, 2006
 
Place:   LeConte 312

Special Lecture


Time:   3:30 pm Tuesday, April 18, 2006
 
Place:   LeConte 412
 
Speaker: Professor Tim kelley
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             North Carolina State University

Title: The Pseudo-Transient Continuation Method for Solving Nonlinear Equations

Student Chapter Seminar Series (12)


Time:   3:30 pm Thursday, February 14, 2006
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Kening Wang
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             University of South Carolina

Title: Domain Decomposition Algorithms for C^0 Interior Penalty Methods for Fourth Order Problems

Student Chapter Seminar Series (11)


Time:   3:30 pm Thursday, January 19, 2006
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Dr. Fengyan Li
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             University of South Carolina

Title: New Numerical Methods for Maxwell Equations

Distinguished lecture in Scientific Computing


Time:   3:30pm Thursday, December 1, 2005
 
Place:   LeConte 412
 
Speaker: Prof. Joseph E. Pasciak
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             Texas A&M University

Title: Analysis of a Finite PML Approximation for the Three Dimensional Time-Harmonic Maxwell and Acoustic Scattering Problems

Student Chapter Seminar Series (10)


Time:   3:30 Thursday, Novermber 17, 2005
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Dr. Laszlo Szekely
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             University of South Carolina

Title: Complexities of the Phylogeny Reconstruction Problem

Student Chapter Seminar Series (9)


Time:   3:30 Tuesday, October 18, 2005
 
Place:   LeConte 412
 
Speaker: Dr. Shaowen Xu
         
             College of Engineering & Information Technology
 
             University of South Carolina

Title: Atomistic modeling of nano-multilayered composites

Student Chapter Seminar Series (8)


Time:   3:30 Thursday, September 22, 2005
 
Place:   LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Dr. Lili Ju
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             University of South Carolina

Title: Adaptive Weighted Least Squares Conformal Mapping and Cortical Surface Flattening


Fall 2004----Spring 2005


Student Research Competition


    A research competition for the student members of the chapter were
held in spring 2005. Participants were required to submit an abstract
(up to five pages) summarizing their research together with supporting
documents (reprints and preprints).The competition was judged by two
faculty members of the chapter, Dr.Lili Ju and Dr. Lincoln Lu, both from
the Department of Mathematics. The winners were announced at the end
of semester get-together on April 22, 2005.

Student Chapter Seminar Series (7)


Time:  3:30 pm, Tuesday, April 5, 2005
 
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker: Yabing Ding
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             University of South Carolina

Title: A multiscale ELLAM scheme for advection equations

Presentations by External Speakers (2)


Time:  5:45 pm, Monday, March 28, 2005
 
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker: Jennifer Ryan
         
             Householder fellow in scientific computing
 
             Oak Ridge National Lab

Title: My postdoc at Oak Ridge National Lab

Logo Cometition


    There was a competition for for the design of a logo for the chapter.
There were three submissions and the winning design was announced on
February 28, 2004 at a get-together where the new officers were introduced.

SIAM Southeast Atlantic Section Meeting


    The chapter organized a trip to the SIAM Southeast Altantic Section Meeting
in Charleston(March 25-26,2005).Ten members participated and the chapter
supported one student who gave a presentation in the special session for SIAM
Student Chapters.

Student Chapter Seminar Series (6)


Time:  3:30 pm, Tuesday, February 15, 2005
 
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker: Hua Wang
         
             Department of Mathematics
 
             University of South Carolina

Title:  Wiener  Index and the Number of Subtrees

Abstract:
 Abstract

Presentations by External Speakers (1)


Time:  2:30 pm, Tuesday, February 4, 2005
 
Place:  SWGN Ic01
 
Speaker: Jack Dongarra
         
             University of Tennessee and
 
             Oak Ridge National Lab

Title: Supercomputers and clusters and Grids, Oh My!

Abstract:
  Abstract

Student Chapter Seminar Series (5)

Time:  4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 17, 2004
 
Place:  LeConte 303B
 
Speaker:  Xiteng Liu
         
                   Department of Mathematics
 
                   University of South Carolina

Title:  Wavelet, Approximation & Image Compression

Abstract:
 Abstract

Prosper Workshop


Time: 10:10 pm, Tuesday, November 13, 2004
Place:  LeConte 303B
 
    Dr.Liyeng Sung(Dpartment of Mathematics) conducted a workshop
on Proper---a LaTeX document class that can generate pdf files for elec-
tronic presentations.

Student Chapter Seminar Series (4)


Time:  4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 3, 2004
 
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker:  Dr. Lincoln, Lu
         
                   Department of Mathematics
 
                   University of South Carolina

Title:  Guessing secrets

Abstract:  Abstract


Student Chapter Seminar Series (3)

Time:  4:30 pm, Wednesday, October 20, 2004
 
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker:  Teresa Jin
         
                   Department of Mathematics
 
                   University of South Carolina

Title:  Real number graph labeling

Student Chapter Seminar Series (2)

Time:  6:00 pm, Wednesday, September 22, 2004
 
Place:  LeConte 405
 
Speaker:  Yong Zhang
         
                   Department of Computer Science
 
                   University of South Carolina

Title:  Quantum algorithms for a set of group-theretic problems


Student Chapter Seminar Series (1)

Time:  2:00 pm, Friday, July 2, 2004
 
Place:  LeConte 312
 
Speaker:  Xiaoming Chen
         
                   Department of Chemical Engineering
 
                   University of South Carolina

Title:  High performance computing for predicting properties of heterogeneous composites


Kick-off Lecture

Time:  7:00 pm, Monday, January 26, 2004
 
Place:  LeConte 412
 
Speaker:  David E.Keyes

                   Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics

         
                   Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
 
                   Columbia University

Title:  How many computers fit on the head of a pin?