The ACM seminar provides a regular venue for presenting and discussing topics such as numerical analysis, scientific computing, modeling, simulation and visualization. The seminar also hosts regular group meetings and special presentations associated with the NSF-funded RTG program Computation- and Data-Enabled Science (CADES).
Faculty, students and researchers are welcome to attend and present.
Meetings will be held in FHM 462, the large conference room in our department, unless specifically indicated otherwise. Unless specifically stated otherwise, the seminar meeting time will be Fridays at 10:30am.
Notification of upcoming presentations, including Zoom links when relevant, will be sent as calendar invitations to those on our mailing list. To subscribe, click here.
Organizer: Prof. Jeffrey Ovall (jovall@pdx.edu)
Current Seminar Schedule: Spring 2026
April 10 (10:30am): Sergei Pilyugin, University of Florida
Title: Modeling microbial kinetics in a chemostat: some background and applications to bio-clogging
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the basic theory of microbial growth in a chemostat, a laboratory device used for continuous growth of microbial cultures, review the history of relevant experimental and theoretical results, and then discuss the recent theoretical developments related to the chemostats with biofilm growth with both constant and variable volume that may help to better understand the problem of bio-clogging.
April 17 (10:30am): RTG Group Meeting
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May 1 (10:30am): TBA
May 8 (10:30am): RTG Group Meeting
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May 15 (10:30am): Mike Schmidt, Sandia National Laboratory
May 22 (10:30am): TBA
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May 29 (10:30am): Kirill Voronin, Nvidia
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June 5 (10:30am): RTG Group Meeting
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Dates for Fall 2026
October 2
October 9
October 16
October 23
October 30
November 6
November 13
November 20
December 4