This seminar, usually given by an external speaker, is aimed at graduate students interested in computational and applied mathematics (CAM). Its purpose is to generate discussion among CAM faculty members, students, visitors, and postdocs. The presentation is 30 minutes long (12:20–12:50 pm) and usually offers a brief introduction to the CAM Colloquium talk in the afternoon. The seminar is followed by a discussions over lunch.
The schedule of speakers is below.
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
| 11 Jan 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 18 Jan 2013 | Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University, Mathematics | How to search for transition states/saddle points? |
| 25 Jan 2013 | Harvey Segur, University of Colorado Boulder, Applied Mathematics | Tsunamis |
| 1 Feb 2013 | Yuesheng Xu, Syracuse University | Fixed-Point Based Proximity Algorithms for Convex Optimization Problems in Signal and Image Processing |
| 8 Feb 2013 | James Adler, Tufts University Mathematics | Numerical Approximation of Asymptotically Disappearing Solutions of Maxwell's Equations |
| 15 Feb 2013 | Ovidiu Savin, Columbia Mathematics | An introduction to Monge-Ampere equations |
| 22 Feb 2013 | Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh | Gamma-Convergence and Minimizing Energies |
| 1 Mar 2013 | Ludmil Zikatanov, Penn State Math | Commuting Projections on Graphs and Two-Level Methods |
| 8 Mar 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 15 Mar 2013 | Dr. Zhenli Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Electrostatics in inhomogeneous media |
| 22 Mar 2013 | Chuan Xue, Ohio State University | Multiscale problems in biology |
| 29 Mar 2013 | Zhiqiang Cai, Purdue University, Mathematics Department | Introduction to A Posteriori Error Estimation |
| 5 Apr 2013 | Alexey Cheskidov, University of Illinois at Chicago | Introduction to the regularity problem for the 3D Navier-Stokes and related equations |
| 12 Apr 2013 | Zhiwu Lin, Georgia Tech Mathematics | Some puzzles about Couette flow |
| 19 Apr 2013 | David Gerard-Varet, Jussieu Paris, France | About D'Alembert's paradox in mathematical fluid mechanics |
| 26 Apr 2013 | Leszek Demkowicz, ICES, University of Texas Austin | Struggle with Discrete Stability and Convergence |
| 3 May 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 30 Aug 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 6 Sep 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 13 Sep 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 20 Sep 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 27 Sep 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 4 Oct 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 11 Oct 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 18 Oct 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 25 Oct 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 1 Nov 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 15 Nov 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 22 Nov 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 29 Nov 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 6 Dec 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 13 Dec 2013 | | To Be Announced |
| 20 Dec 2013 | | To Be Announced |