Math Modeling Seminar From Japan to Amazonia - Computational Stories from the Complexity Lab
Math Modeling Seminar
From Japan to Amazonia: Computational Stories from the Complexity Lab
Dr. Nishant Malik
Assistant Professor
School of Mathematical Sciences, RIT
You may attend this lecture in person at 2305 Gosnell Hall or virtually via Zoom.
If you’d like to attend virtually, you may register here for Zoom link.
Abstract:
Through short computational stories, this talk will introduce the research we are carrying out in our student-centered research group: The Complexity Lab.
The first story will be about landslides and cherry blossoms in Japan and how we combine geometric and topological methods with machine learning to classify landslides and changing patterns of cherry blossoms dynamics.
We will move to South Asia for the second story and present an algorithm that uses networks and graphs to predict summer monsoon rainfall. We will follow this story with a sequel set in South America. Using similar mathematical techniques as in the prequel, we will identify changes in the connectivity of the Amazon rainforest to the rest of the climate system.
The next set of tales will be brief, where we will introduce new equation-free methods to predict the temporal evolution of chaotic systems and techniques to build mathematical models entirely from data. We will end with a picture story, presenting visualizations of the US political economy.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Malik did his Ph.D. work at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany under renowned mathematical physicist Juergen Kurths. Subsequently, the Physical Society of Berlin awarded the Carl Ramsauer Prize for 2012 to his Ph.D. work. Before joining RIT, he worked at Dartmouth College and UNC-Chapel Hill as a postdoc. Dr. Malik has a wide range of research interests within the data-driven analysis and mathematical modeling of complex systems. In his research, he employs tools from network science, theory of nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, and applied statistics and enjoys working on mathematical problems across natural and social science disciplines. Read more here.
Intended Audience:
Undergraduates, graduates, and experts. Those with interest in the topic.
The Math Modeling Seminar will recur each week throughout the semester on the same day and time. Find out more about upcoming speakers on the Mathematical Modeling Seminar Series webpage.
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