PDE/Applied
Math Seminar --- Schedule for Spring 2000
Talks are Mondays at 4:15 pm
in room 3206 MTH (the Math department
colloquium room) unless noted otherwise. (Previously talks were Thursdays.)
If you want to receive e-mail announcements of talks please contact
Sijue Wu(sijue@math.umd.edu ).
(Click here for previous
semesters' schedules .)
Jan. 31
Hyperbolic
conservation laws
Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern University
Feb. 7
Microstructure
and nonconvex variational problems
Georg Dolzmann, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
Feb. 10
Riemann
problem of viscous conservation laws
Shih-Hsien Yu, Osaka University, Japan
This seminar is on Thursday at 3:30pm in ROOM 3206 MATH
Feb. 14
Applied Math Colloquium
Laminar
and turbulent energy dissipation in a shear layer with suction
Charles R. Doering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Feb. 28
Unique
continuation for elliptic equations with nonsmooth coefficients
Herbert Koch, University of Heidelberg, Germany
March 9
Global
Weak Solutions to A Shallow Water Equation
Zhouping Xin, Courant Institute, NYU & Chinese University,
HongKong
This seminar is on Thursday at 3:30pm in ROOM 3206 MATH
March 16
Applied Math Colloquium
A
Parallel Method for Time-Discretization of Parabolic Problems Based on
Laplace
Transformation and Quadrature
Vidar Thomée, Chalmers University of Technology &
Göteborg University
This seminar is on Thursday at 3:30pm in ROOM 3206 MATH
March 20
Stability
of Modulated Fronts for the Swift-Hohenberg Equation
Guido Schneider , Universität Bayreuth, Germany
This talk is on Monday at 3:30pm in ROOM 1310 MATH
March 27
The higher order nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the
evolution of deep water waves
Constance M. Schober, Old Dominion University
March 31
Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture
Effective
Hamiltonians
Lawrence C. Evans, University of California, Berkeley
This seminar is on Friday at 3:00pm in ROOM 3206 MATH
April 3
A
priori estimates for two classes of fully nonlinear equations
without convexity
Yu Yuan, University of Texas, Austin
April 10
A
new method for using nodal finite elements in Maxwell computations for
domains
with
non-convex corners.
Monique Dauge, Universite de Rennes 1, France
April 20
From
Boltzmann equations
to Fluid Mechanics equations
Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute, NYU
This seminar is on Thursday at 3:30pm in ROOM 1311 MATH
April 24
Smoothing effects for the
Schrödinger evolution
Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
May 1
Finite
Element Methods for Nonconvex Minimisation Problems
and
an Application in Material Science
Carsten Carstensen, University of Kiel, Germany
May 12-13
A conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Stuart Antman
Applications
of Nonlinear Analysis
May 15
Transient Pattern Formation in the Cahn-Hilliard Model
Tom Wanner, UMBC
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 .
PDE/Applied Math seminar
Last modified: March 6, 2000