PDE/Applied
Math Seminar --- Schedule for Fall 2000 and Winter 2001
Talks are Thursdays at 3:30 pm
in room 3206 MTH (the Math department
colloquium room) unless noted otherwise.
If you want to receive e-mail announcements of talks please contact
Sijue Wu(sijue@math.umd.edu ).
(Click here for previous
semesters' schedules .)
Sept. 7
Applied Math Colloquium
Singular
structures in fluids, plasmas and nonlinear optics
Rainier Grauer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sept. 14
Surface
Instability of Stressed Solids
Jerome Colin, University of Poitiers, france & UMCP
Sept. 20
Finite
time blow up of complex valued, spatially periodic solutions of the KdV
equation
Fred Weissler, Universite Paris Nord
This talk is on Wednesday at 3pm in room 3206 MTH
Sept. 28
On
the Navier Stokes' Equations for Compressible Reacting Flow with
Large
Discontinuous Initial Data
Konstantina Trivisa, UMCP
Oct. 5
Singular
pseudodifferential operators, symmetrizers, and shocks
Mark Williams, UNC, Chapel Hill
Oct. 12
Estimates
for the Wave Equation with a Potential
John Stalker, Princeton University
Oct. 19
Applied Math Colloquium
Solving
Einstein's Equations on the Grid: Using Supercomputers to Collapse Gravitational
Waves, Collide Black Holes
Ed Seidel, Max-Planck Institut, Germany
Oct. 26
Existence
Results for Some Polymeric Flows
Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute, NYU
Nov. 2
Applied Math Colloquium
Microlocal
measures and their use in partial differential equations
Luc Tartar, Carnegie-Mellon University
Nov. 9
Non-existence
of truly solitary waves in water with small surface tension
Shu-Ming Sun, Virginia Tech.
Nov. 15
Applied Math Colloquium
High
Resolution Methods with Unresolved Small Scales
Eitan Tadmor, UCLA.
This talk is on Wendesday at 2pm in room 3206 MTH
Nov. 16
Stability
Results for Elastic Rods
Kathleen Hoffman, UMBC
Nov. 30
Electromagnetic
scattering by a homogeneous chiral obstacle in a chiral environment
Georgios Kostakis, UMCP
Dec. 7
Applied Math Colloquium
Current
Induced Step Dynamics and Pattern Formation on Crystal Surfaces
John Weeks, UMCP
Jan. 11
Applied Math Colloquium
Theory and Applications of a New Coupled Atmospheric Model
Lance Leslie, Univ. of New South Wales
Jan. 18
Applied Math Colloquium
The
Density Matrix Renormalization Group
Steve White, UC Irvine
How to reach the Math Department by
car or by
Metro or from
Airports
Special accomodations for individuals with disabilities can be made
by calling in advance (301) 405-5048. It would be appreciated if we are
notified at least one week in advance.
For further information contact S. Wu at sijue@math.umd.edu .
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