Title:  Automating and Stabilizing the Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method for Nonlinear Model Reduction

Abstract:  The Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM) is a technique for model reduction of nonlinear dynamical systems.  It is based upon a modification to proper orthogonal decomposition which is designed to reduce the computational complexity for evaluating reduced order nonlinear terms.  The DEIM approach is based upon an interpolatory projection and only requires evaluation of a few selected components of the original nonlinear term.  Thus, implementation of the reduced order nonlinear term requires a new code to be derived from the original code for evaluating the nonlinearity.  I will describe a methodology for automatically deriving a code for the reduced order nonlinearity directly from the original nonlinear code.  Although DEIM has been effective on some very difficult problems, it can under certain conditions introduce instabilities in the reduced model.  I will present a problem that has proved helpful in developing a method for stabilizing DEIM reduced models.

Film viewing of The Murder of Emmett Till followed by a panel discussion. 

Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy. 

Sessions all day Thursday, Friday & Saturday in the UK Student Center with scholars and students from around the world.

TITLE: Square roots of divergence form operators on L^p spaces

ABSTRACT: An abstract is available online at
http://www.ms.uky.edu/~kott/PDEseminarf13/Haller-Dintelmann.pdf

"Davis Bottom: Rare History, Valuable Lives" reveals the fascinating history of a working-class neighborhood established in Lexington after the Civil War. Davis Bottom is one of about a dozen ethnic enclaves settled primarily by African-American families who migrated to Lexington from the 1860s to the 1890s in search of jobs, security and opportunity. 

The documentary is part of the Kentucky Archaeology and Heritage Series, produced by Voyageur Media Group, Inc. for the Kentucky Archaeological Survey and the Kentucky Heritage Council. The series is distributed by Kentucky Educational Television (KET) to viewers, teachers and students throughout the state. Wednesday's advance screening, part of the first-ever Kentucky Archaeology Month activities, is free and open to the public.

The UK Appalachian Center, Appalachian Studies, and the Graduate Appalachian Research Community (GARC) seek to promote interdisciplinary dialogue on issues in Appalachia. We are proud to follow up our first four successful symposia with the 2014 UK Appalachian Research Symposium and Arts Showcase.

Invisible War (2011), an Academy Award-nominated documentary, will be shown for free this Saturday morning, April 20, 2013,  at 10 AM at the Kentucky Theater.  This film documents the lives of women and men who have been sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military.  Several of the survivors have roots in Kentucky, and some of them will be at the screening to answer questions.  Come out, see the film, hear their stories.

Sponsored by UK Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, English, History, WRD (Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media), American Studies and the Center for research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW)

A celebration of Kate Black's contributions as an Appalachian Studies Archivist and Scholar

Everyone is invited to the English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Conference! 

8:00am - 8:45am Coffee & Pastry Welcome
8:45am - 10:00am Session 1: "Reading the Dickensian City"
10:15am - 11:30am Session 2A. "Examining Trauma: Representations in Film, Poetry, and Visual Literature"
Session 2B. “Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem”
11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch at the Boone Center
1:00pm - 2:00pm Keynote, Dr. Leah Bayens - "The Consilience of Ecological Agrarianism" - Niles Gallery
2:15pm - 3:30pm Session 3: "Minds, Memories, and Publics, Medieval and Early Modern"
3:45pm - 5:00pm Session 4: "Stardom"

Post-conference pizza and drinks will be held at Pazzo's -- all are welcome!
 

Matt Wray, a sociologist from Temple University, has been researching suicide across the United States.

From 2006-2008, Dr. Wray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University and this talk is related to his work in medical sociology and public health on suicide. He is also well-known for his scholarship on whiteness and class relations. His books include Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (Duke University Press, 2006), The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (coedited, Duke University Press, 2001), Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (coedited, New York University Press, 1998), and White Trash: Race and Class in America (coedited, Routledge, 1997). He has published recent articles on suicide in the U.S. in Social Science Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, and the Annual Review of Sociology.

Matt Wray examines health disparities among different regional populations in the U.S., particularly focusing on the widening gap in health and lifespan between white Appalachian residents and white U.S. residents overall. In his upcoming talk, he will raise the role of stereotyping and stigma as a factor in the population health disparities between regions and will explore the possibility of addressing this in health and social science research without furthering stigmatization and stereotyping of the Appalachian region.