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Event: March 2 Exact geometric approach to the discretization of fluid-structure interactions and the dynamics of tubes conveying fluid

Event Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Vakhtang Poutkaradze (University of Alberta) Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Math/Seminars  

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Event: Feb. 23 Fun numerical problems in subsurface flow modeling

Event Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017 Location: 126 Clements Hall Time: 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) SMU/UTD SIAM Student Chapter Distinguished Lecture, by Margot Gerritsen (Stanford University). Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Math/Seminars

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Dedman College senior Patricia Nance featured in SMU Magazine

SMU Magazine Originally Posted: Spring 2017 Dedman College senior Patricia Nance, a chemistry and math major, has been developing a new polymer for breast implants to reduce infections for women who get reconstructive surgery after breast cancer. For Nance, this research is personal and has a purpose: to benefit women like her grandmother. Read more […]

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A robust and efficient adaptive multigrid solver for the optimal control of phase field formulations of geometric evolution laws

Event Date: January 20, 2017   Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30 (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Anotida Madzvamuse (University of Sussex). Link for more information: https://wiki.smu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=115179645 Contact: A. J. Meir,  ajmeir@smu.edu    

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Event 12/7: A DG approach to poroelasticity, with applications to edema formation in tissue

Event Date: December 7, 2016 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30 (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk)   Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Travis Thompson (Rice University) Link for more information: https://wiki.smu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=108036103 Contact: A. J. Meir at  ajmeir@smu.edu

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Numerical analysis of the Galerkin and weak Galerkin method for the Helmholtz equation with high wave number

Event date: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30pm Featured Speaker: Dr. Zhimin Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University and the Beijing Center for Computational Science Abstract: We study convergence property of the weak Galerkin method of fixed degree p and supercovergence property of the linear finite element method for the Helmholtz problem with […]

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Department of Mathematics Research Colloquium: Efficient time-domain DG methods for wave propagation

Event Date: October 26, 2016 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30 (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Jesse Chan (Rice University) Link for more information: https://wiki.smu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=105578503 Contact: A. J. Meir

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Event: Dynamics of Clean Foams, October 19

Event Date: October 19, 2016 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30 (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Dynamics of Clean Foams. A Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Stephen Davis (Northwestern University.) For more information: https://wiki.smu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=104267878 Or contact: A. J. Meir

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SMU-trained physicist who bolstered Big Bang theory dies at 84

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: August 31, 2016 James Cronin, a Southern Methodist University graduate who shared a Nobel Prize for explaining why the universe survived the Big Bang, died last Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 84. His death was confirmed by the University of Chicago, where he was a professor emeritus. No cause was given. […]

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SMU Students Propose Innovation Community For Ex-Fraternity House

Innovate Originally Posted: May 4, 2016 COMMUNITY WOULD FOCUS ON SPURRING IDEAS Ingenuity is not limited to the hours of 9 to 5. Providing a space where students can live and cultivate new ideas at any time of day is the driving force behind a pilot project being proposed by a group of students at […]