Week of March 30, 2025

Mon Mar 31, 2025
4:00pm to 5:00pm - RH 306 - Applied and Computational Mathematics
Sungha Yoon - (UCI)
Phase-field method for simulating the chemomechanical regulation of growing tumors

Mechanical forces and biochemical signaling networks play a crucial role in cell behavior in growing tissues. The nonlinear dynamics of tissue growth arises from complex interactions between cells and their surroundings. However, the role of chemomechanical regulation which governs the size, shape, and structure of multicellular tissues remains insufficiently understood. To investigate this, we develop a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model in the Eulerian framework to simulate nonlinear tissue growth in confined geometries. Our formulation integrates both elastic and chemical energies through an energy variational approach. Additionally, we implement an efficient finite difference based multigrid method with a special boundary treatment to incorporate applied forces. We confirm the validity of our phase-field model by demonstrating its convergence to an experimentally supported sharp-interface model. Furthermore, we examine how elastic forces, variations in tumor and host stiffness, and external forces influence the evolution of single and multifocal tumors in confined geometries.

Tue Apr 1, 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm - RH 440R - Dynamical Systems
Victor Kleptsyn - (CNRS, University of Rennes 1, France)
Generalization of the Baxendale Theorem

The famous Baxendale Theorem states that for a random dynamical system by diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold M^d, unless the system possesses a measure that is invariant under all the maps of the system (that is quite rare), there exists an ergodic stationary measure with strictly negative «volume» Lyapunov exponent 
\lambda_vol = \lambda_1+…+\lambda_d. 
My talk will be devoted to a recent joint result with V. P. H. Goverse, generalising this theorem to a non-invertible (and only piecewise-continuous) setting. Now, the upper bound for the volume Lyapunov exponent is logarithm of the average number of preimages of a point. In particular, once this number does not exceed 1 (``\mu-injectivity’’ by Brofferio, Oppelmeyer and Szarek), the volume Lyapunov exponent can again be claimed to be negative.

Wed Apr 2, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm - 510R Rowland Hall - Combinatorics and Probability
Stanislav Minsker - (USC)
Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

Is there a natural way to order data in dimension greater than one? The approach based on the notion of data depth, often associated with the name of John Tukey, is among the most popular. Tukey’s depth has found applications in robust statistics, the study of elections and social choice, and graph theory. We will give an introduction to the topic (with an emphasis on robust statistics), describe some remaining open questions as well as our recent progress towards the solutions.

 

This talk is based on the joint work with Yinan Shen.

Sat Apr 5, 2025
9:00am to 5:30pm - ISEB 1300 - Combinatorics and Probability
- (UCI)
Southern California Probability Symposium

The Southern California Probability Symposium will take place, Saturday,  April 5 here at UCI. It will start with a continental breakfast at 9:00 am in ISEB 1300 and run until 5:30pm. Here's a link to the symposium web page: https://scps.pstat.ucsb.edu/SCPS2025.html

 

Here is a list of speakers and times. 

9:45 - 10:30 Lutz Warnke (UCSD)

10:45 - 11:30 Sixian Jin (CSUSM)

(Lunch - by their own) 

1:15 - 2:00 Moritz Voss 

2:15 - 3:00 Pedro Teixeira (UCI)

(Coffee break)

3:45 - 4:30 Lily Reeves (CAL TECH)

4:45 - 5:30 Jun Yin (UCLA)