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PDE/Applied Math Seminar --- Schedule for Spring 2004

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 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  
 


How to reach the Math Department by car and public transportation

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