The UC Merced chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is dedicated to enhancing the applied mathematics mission of the university and providing developmental opportunities to its students. Towards that end, we currently run the student-led SAMPLe (Some Applied Math for People to Learn) seminar and organize social events whenever possible.
2021 Spring Semester
Via Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/86992243731?pwd=cG03TDdSblUxMmx2M2ZiaHNVSHJ4UT09
(Meeting ID: 869 9224 3731, Passcode: 584861)
Time: Fridays at 2:30pm (otherwise announced)
Contact: Tucker Hartland <thartland@ucmerced.edu>
- Friday, February 5
Speaker: Anuj Bajaj (Wayne State University graduate student)
Title: Solving a continuous multifacility problem by DC algorithms - Friday, February 12
Speaker: Fabian Santiago
Title: Global Sensitivity Analysis of a Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in a University Setting - Friday, February 26
Speaker: Francois Blanchette
Title: How to prepare a scientific paper for publication [slides] - Friday, March 5, 2:30-3:30pm
Speaker: Jared Stewart
Title: Intro to Applied Math Challenge Event [flyer] [sign-up page] - Friday, March 12, 2:00-3:00pm
Special Event: Integration Bee [flyer]
Hosts: Jacky Alvarez and Tanya Tafolla - Friday, March 19
Speaker: Bjorn Larsen (California State University, Chico)
Talk: Dynamical Chaos in Stellar Evolution Models - Friday, April 2
Special Event: Applied Math Challenge Presentations
Host: Jared Stewart - Friday, April 9
Speaker: Nguyen-Truc-Dao Nguyen (Wayne State University)
Talk: Optimization of Controlled Constrained Sweeping Processes - Friday, April 23, 10:00-11:00am
Special Event: SIAM Visiting Lecture Program [flyer]
Speaker: Dr. Genetha Gray (Lead People Research Scientist at Salesforce)
Talk: Using math skills to build a career in data science - Friday, April 30, 2:00-3:00pm
Special Event: UC Merced Graduate Student Alumni Panel [flyer]
Host: Radoslav Vuchkov
Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/89997256456 - Wednesday, May 5, 1:30-3:00pm
Special Event: Computational Research Leadership Council Seminar Series [flyer]
Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Maupin (Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratory)
Talk: Calibration and propagation of model form error across experimental settings - Friday, May 7
Speaker: Matea Santiago
2020 Fall Semester
Via Zoom (email thartland@ucmerced.edu for link). Time: Friday at 2:30pm (otherwise announced)
- Friday, September 18
Speaker: Tucker Hartland
Title: Kick off meeting / short research talk - Friday, September 25
Speaker: Tanya Tafolla
Title: Data Oriented Design on CPUs & GPUs - Friday, October 9 (2pm-3pm)
Derivative Bee - Friday, October 16
Speaker: Isaac Quintanilla (UC Riverside graduate student)
Title: Time-Varying Coefficient Models for Longitudinal Data - Friday, October 23
SIAM Student Chapter Event: REU Discussion [flyer] [presentation slides] - Friday, October 30
Speakers: Darcy Brunk and Juan Valencia (Stanislaus Undergraduate Students)
Title: A Hypergraph-based Image Segmentation Algorithm - Friday, November 6 (2pm-3pm)
SIAM Student Chapter Event: Industry Careers and the Graduate School Experience [flyer] - Friday, November 13
Speaker: Radoslav Vuchkov
Title: Quasi-Newton methods governed by multiple secant equations for large-scale inverse problems - Friday, November 20
Speaker: Eunji Yoo
Title: Choices to make a 3D simulation run - Friday, December 4
Speaker: Valentin Dallerit
Title: High-Order Numerical Solutions to the Nonlinear Shallow-Water Equations on the Rotated Cubed-Sphere Grid
2020 Spring Semester
Room: ACS 362B, Time: Friday at 1:30pm (otherwise announced)
- Friday, Janunary 31
Speaker: Omar DeGuchy
Title: Deep Image Prior - Friday, February 7
Speaker: Jacky Alvarez
Title: Image Classification in Synthetic Aperture Radar using Reconstruction From Learned Inverse Scattering - Friday, February 14
Speaker: Phoebe Coy
Title: TBA - Friday, February 21
(Special Event) Graduate visitation weekend - Friday, February 28
Speaker: Maia Powell
Title: Who’s That Pokémon? - Friday, March 6
Speaker: Lori Lewis
Title: TBA - Friday, March 13 (1:30 - 3:30pm, SE2-102)
(Special Event) Integration Bee [flyer] ***canceled/postponed due to due to COVID-19 concerns*** - Friday, March 20
Speaker: Majerle Reeves
Title: TBA - Friday, April 3
Speaker: Radoslav Vuchkov
Title: TBA - Friday, April 10
Speaker: Ashley De Luna
Title: TBA - Friday, April 17
(Special Event) SIAM Student Chapter Conference - Friday, April 24
Speaker: Tucker Hartland
Title: TBA - Friday, May 1
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
2019 Fall Semester
Room: ACS 362B, Time: refreshments at 12:30pm and talk at 1:00pm (otherwise announced)
- Friday, August 30
(Special Event) lunch with alumnus Paul Tranquilli (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) - Friday, September 6
Speaker: Omar DeGuchy
Title: Introduction to UC Merced SIAM Chapter - Friday, September 13
Speaker: Alex Ho
Title: Image Disambiguation with Deep Neural Network - Thursday, September 26
(Special Event) Undergrad Panel [flyer]
12:00pm - 1:00pm, Granite Pass 103
Title: Panel Discussion on Applying to Graduate School - Friday, October 4
Speaker: Lori Lewis
Title: Using Live Script in MATLAB - Friday, October 11
Speaker: Eunji Yoo
Title: Flow around settling cube with boundary integral method - Friday, October 18
Speaker: Alex John Quijano
Title: Introduction to Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Applications - Thursday, October 24
(Special Event) Derivative Bee [flyer]
11:30am - 1:30pm, SE2 102 - Friday, November 1
Speaker: Jordan Collignon
Title: A Queueing Theory Application for College Students - Friday, November 8
(Special Event) - Friday, November 15
Speaker: Ali Heydari
Title: How to Super Resolve your Face 101 - Friday, November 22
Speaker: Kohl James (CSU Stanislaus)
Title: TBA - Friday, December 6
Speaker: Tucker Hartland
Title: TBA
2019 Spring Semester
Room: COB-1 276, Time: refreshments at 1:30pm and talk at 2:00pm (otherwise announced)
- Friday, February 8
Speaker: Alex John Quijano
Title: Is Romance Dead? Generating Poetry using Character-Level Recurrent Neural Networks - Friday, February 15
Speaker: Tucker Hartland
Title: Hierarchical Matrix Compression in PDE Constrained Optimization - Friday, March 1
Speaker: Omar DeGuchy
Title: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations - Friday, March 8 (COB-1 205, 1:30pm - 3pm)
Speaker: Changho Kim
Title: An Interesting Way to Combine Numbers - Friday, March 15
Speaker: Jacky Alvarez and Ashley De Luna
Title: Julia Sets - Friday, April 5
Speaker: Rado Vuchkov
Title: Preconditioning by limited memory quasi-Newton methods