PDE/Applied
Math Seminar --- Schedule for Spring 2004
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
Georg Dolzmann(dolzmann@math.umd.edu ).
(Click here for previous
semesters' schedules .)
Feb. 5
Fourth order equations for image processing
John Greer ,
Duke University
Feb. 12
Schaeffer-Shearer's Case I and II -- existence of viscous profiles
Fumioki Asakura, Osaka
Feb. 19
JOINT CSCAMM/Applied Mathematics/PDE Seminar in the CSCAMM seminar room
Bifurcation and Stability of Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Shouhong Wang ,
Indiana University
Feb. 26
Stochastic Cahn-Hilliard Dynamics
Thomas Wanner ,
George Mason University
March 4
The dynamics of spiking: First passage time problems and simple model
neurons
Todd Troyer ,
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
March 5
Douglis Lecture
Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Dissipation
Constantine Dafermos , Brown University
March 11
Hyperbolic chemotaxis model
Hyung Ju Hwang, Duke University
March 18
Joint Harmonic Analysis/Applied Mathematics/PDE Seminar
A multiscale image representation using hierarchical $(BV,L^2)$
decompositions
Eitan Tadmor Department of Mathematics
and CSCAMM
March 25
Spring Break -- the seminar does not meet!
April 1
Microphase Separation of Diblock Copolymers
Rustum Choksi ,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
April 8
Absolute instability of standing pulses
Björn Sandstede ,
Ohio State University
April 15
The normalized mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds
Alex Freire ,
University of Tennessee and NSF
April 22
Effective, closed equations describing the flow of blood in
compliant vessels
Suncica Canic, University of Houston
April 29
Multiple scale behaviors in thin elastic sheets
Shankar Venkataramani ,
University of Chicago
May 6
Joint Numerical Analysis/PDE and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Selection, mutation: adaptive dynamics
Benoît Perthame ,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
May 7
Aziz Lecture
Mathematical models for cell motion
Benoît Perthame ,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
May 15
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 G. Dolzmann
at dolzmann@math.umd.edu .
PDE/Applied Math seminar
Last updated: September 27, 2001