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PDE/Applied Math Seminar

Schedule for Spring 2006

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. 2	Optimal bounds on coarsening rates: an energy landscape argument Felix Otto (Bonn)
Feb. 3	Aziz Lecture Multiscale analysis in micromagnetics Felix Otto (Bonn)
Feb. 9	The Entropy Condition for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Michael Westdickenberg (Bonn)
Feb. 16	February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center (The PDE/Appl. Math. Seminar does not meet this week)
Feb. 23	Some recent results on stability of collisionless plasmas Zhiwu Lin (Courant Institute)
March 9	Finite energy solvability of 3d div-curl boundary value problems Giles Auchmuty (NSF and Houston)
March 16	Perturbing optimally for chaotic mixing Sanjeeva Balasuriya (Sydney)
March 23	Spring Break - The seminar does not meet!
March 30	Numerical investigations of electric-field-induced transitions in cholesteric liquid crystal films Chuck Gartland (Kent State)
April 6	Homogenization of advection-diffusion equation with small diffusivity Dmitry Dolgopyat (Maryland)
April 13	postponed Vera Mikyoung Hur
April 20	Derivation of particle, string and membrane motions from Born-Infeld electromagnetism Yann Brenier
April 21	Aziz Lecture String integration of some MHD equations Yann Brenier
April 27	Analysis of some interface and free surface problems Daniel Coutand (Davis)
May 4	On BV estimates for p-system with frictional damping Ronghua Pan (Georgia Tech)
May 9	Joint PDE/Appl. Math. and Numerical Analysis Seminar An adaptive method for Hamilton-Jacobi equations Bernardo Cockburn (Minneapolis)

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.