Neurosurgery Thursday Residency Curriculum SeriesProvided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the UConn Health Department of Neurosurgery.

Write your memoirs to share in class. These can be short unrelated pieces or part of a larger work. New members are welcome.Facilitator: Cathy Belanger

Write your memoirs to share in class. These can be short unrelated pieces or part of a larger work. New members are welcome.Facilitator: Cathy Belanger

This workshop will guide participants in the development and implementation of effective community-campus partnerships.By the end of the workshop, participants will develop a list of partnership principles that fit the needs and work of their particular unit and discuss how to use the principles to navigate challenges in community-university partnerships.

It is written and performed by Angel Vazquez who was the artist-in-resident for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York (CUNY), and is a renowned actor, director, and playwright from Puerto Rico.

Join us for an engaging and structured dialogue led by Professors Mary Anne Amalaradjou and Peter Chen focused on effective mentoring of graduate students and fostering an inclusive academic environment. This session will highlight best practices that support the holistic development of mentees, both in their research endeavors and teaching responsibilities. Participants will explore strategies for building inclusive mentoring relationships, addressing the diverse needs of graduate students, and creating supportive, equitable environments that enhance student success. The discussion will be applicable across multiple contexts—from individual labs and research groups to departmental and institutional levels—providing actionable insights for faculty, postdocs, and academic leaders committed to cultivating a culture of inclusive excellence in graduate education.See more about all Timely Topics offered by The Graduate School. (https://grad.uconn.edu/timely-topics/) Please register (https://uconn.kualibuild.com/app/636957bead4b66cb6fe9611e/run) to receive a Webex link for this event.

I will discuss a model of elastic dislocations applicable to buried faults in the Earth's crust in between seismic events. The forward problem amounts to solving a non-standard transmission problem for a system of linear PDES in elastostatics, knowing the fault and how much the rock has slipped at the fault. The inverse problem consists in determining the geometry of the fault and the slip at the fault from surface measurements, which can be obtained from GPS and satellite data. While the direct problem is well posed, the inverse problem is generally ill-posed unless assumptions are made on the fault. I will present a uniqueness result for the inverse problem and an iterative reconstruction algorithm based on a distributed shape derivative, which measures the change in the rock displacement under infinitesimal movements of the fault and the slip. I will close with some simple numerical tests from synthetic data. If time permits, I will also discuss non-linear and non-local viscoelastic models for the fault dynamics. This is joint work with Andrea Aspri (University of Milan), Elena Beretta (NYU-Abu Dhabi), Maarten de Hoop (Rice University), and PhD student Arum Lee.