Previous Conferences & Workshops

Sep
27
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

The Condition Number of a Random Matrix: From von Neumann-Goldstine to Spielman-Teng
Van Vu
11:15am|S-101

The condition number of a matrix is at the heart of numerical linear algebra. In the 1940s von-Neumann and Goldstine, motivated by the problem of inverting, posed the following question: (1) What is the condition number of a random matrix ? During...

Sep
22
2010

Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation (NLSE) with a Random Potential: Effective Noise and Scaling Theory
Shmuel Fishman
4:00pm|S-101

The NLSE is relevant for the explorations of Bose-Einstein Condensates and for Nonlinear Classical Optics. In presence of a random potential it can be used to study the competition between Anderson localization, that is characteristic of linear...