Partial Differential Equations and Applied Math Seminar


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PDE/Applied Math Seminar --- Schedule for Spring 2001

Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park

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.)

Feb. 8	The physics of travelling kinks in a perfectly flexible string Martin Schagerl, Vienna University of Technology & UMCP
Feb. 15	*Applied Math Colloquium* Modeling the Solidification of Non-Axisymmetric Dendrites Jeff McFadden, NIST
Feb. 22	Nematic elastomers as a model system for microstructure in solids Georg Dolzmann, UMCP
March 1	Complex fluids: liquid crystals, mixtures and polymeric materials Chun Liu, Penn State U.
March 8	Nonresonant Velocity Averaging for Vlasov-Maxwell Type Systems François Golse, University of Paris, 6 & ENS
March 15	A singular minimizer in two dimensional elasticity Xiaodong Yan, Courant Institute, NYU
April 5	On existence and description of blow-up for critical KdV Franck Merle, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris
April 6	*Math Colloquium* Recent progress on high dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations Fang-Hua Lin, Courant Institute, NYU Notice that this talk is at 3:00pm on Friday in rm3206
April 9	On Schrödinger Maps Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Notice that this talk is at 4:15pm on Monday in rm3206
April 12	*Applied Math Colloquium* Numerical Methods with Multi-level Physics Weinan E, Princeton University
April 20	*Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture* Shock Wave Theory Tai-Ping Liu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan & Stanford University Notice that this talk is at 3:00pm on Friday in rm3206
April 24	*Applied Math Colloquium* Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for elliptic problems: a general framework Franco Brezzi, Universita di Pavia, Italy Notice that this talk is at 3:30pm on Tuesday in rm3206
April 26	*Applied Math Colloquium* Vanishing viscosity approximations to systems of conservation laws Alberto Bressan, SISSA, Italy
May 3	Refined regularity for the blow-up set of semilinear heat equations Hatem Zaag, Courant Institute, NYU Notice that this talk will meet in rm1313 at the regular time
May 10	Transonic Shocks and Free-Boundary Problems Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
May 17	Mathematical Problems on Macroscopic Models for Semiconductors Ling Hsiao, Academia Sinica, China

Other seminars at College Park and in the Washington area

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: Feb. 20, 2001